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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 February 3, 2007
1. Closing the Transfer Window Leaves Us in Better Shape to Shut Relegation Trapdoor ; What I've Learnt This Week
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I'm so relieved the transfer window has shut. Not just because I've kept the players I wanted to keep, but because I got fed up of being inundated by every Tom, Dick and Harry agent trying to interest me in The Best Player in the World. Every one, they...
48 HOURS IN NEW YORK ; It's the Perfect Time to Shop for Bargains in the Big Apple. Spend the Money You Save on Exploring the City That Never Sleeps, Says Cathy Packe
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WHY GO NOW? The weak dollar makes New York excellent value at the end of the sales, and recent mild weather in the city has left many stores with surplus winter items they are desperate to offload, so there is even more choice than normal. TOUCH DOWN...
Actions Speak Louder for GE Money ; SAVE & SPEND
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Can a leopard change its spots? GE Money, the UK financial services company owned by the giant US conglomerate General Electric, would like you to think so. For years, the company kept a low profile, but when it did make the headlines, it was almost...
After 90 Days, 23,000 Miles and 10 Matches.At Long Last England Defeat Australia ; CRICKET
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ENGLAND 292-7 AUSTRALIA 200-9 England win by 92 runs England had spent 90 days on this vast continent and travelled more than 23,000 miles attempting to get the better of their greatest cricketing rivals before yesterday when, under the floodlights...
A Listening Royal Awaits the Result of Her Political Experiment ; EUROPE
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In a hall in which ice-skaters leapt and pirouetted in the 1968 winter Olympics, Segolene Royal is fighting for her political life. She is sitting in the audience and taking notes. Speaker after speaker, all young, some eloquent, some hardly audible,...
All Eyes on Detroit City While the Great Divide Widens over Who Will Wear Hurdling's Crown ; on Racing
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The 2007 Cheltenham Festival has suddenly found its emotional register. At Leopardstown last Sunday, a vintage performance from Hardy Eustace demonstrated conclusively that he retains the prowess, after that vulnerable hiatus last year, to win a third...
'All of a Sudden You Have Something That Rocks You' ; Past Glories and Future Ambitions in Football Pale in Comparison with Raising a Child with Down's Syndrome. Lee Carsley Tells Andy Hunter of an Inspiring Life outside the Game ++ the Premiership Interview
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The importance of delivering victory in a derby will never be lost on Lee Carsley. Three years after the goal that brought Everton a first triumph in five seasons over Liverpool his autograph remains in demand for a photograph that captured the euphoria...
A London Particular ; the Weasel
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'Apologies for the queue, but it means we have a smash hit on our hands," announced Dulwich Picture Gallery director Ian Dejardin at the packed launch of the Canaletto in England exhibition. "I'm worried if the toilets will hold out." Evidently, a similar...
An Offally Big Adventure ; Back to the Future with a New Twist on Classic Recipes. by Mark Hix. Photographs by Jason Lowe ++ Because Sweetbreads Have Such a Delicate Taste, They're Really Well Suited to All Types of Cooking
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Why does most of the nation turn their noses up at offal? It amazes me that people can't bring themselves to order veal sweetbreads, but they won't think twice about ordering calves' liver. I reckon that most of us actually like the taste of offal; it's...
Antony Worrall Thompson ; 'I'd like to Journey across the Arctic by Sled with a Group of Huskies'
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First holiday memory? Worthing. We couldn't afford a lot when I was young so we stayed in a pokey hotel. It was very windy and rainy, with waves crashing on the shore, but it was quite exciting. Best holiday? Jamaica is a beautiful place. I've been...
A Painter of Energy and Ferocity ; HOME
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He is a great figure painter, but it is the human head which is his primary concern. He uses the same sitters over and over again at his studio in north London, just a handful at any one time. Familiarity is very important to him. Any brash whiff of...
Ashton Fast Tracks Morgan the Sports Car Full-Back into the Fray ; SIX NATIONS
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Brian Ashton openly admitted that the team he picked for this afternoon's Calcutta Cup match with Scotland had no history. It may never get the chance to create any as it turns out, for it has already changed. Iain Balshaw's groin injury, suffered in...
A Sign of Rising Confidence ; LEADING ARTICLE
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Political progress in Northern Ireland has tended to be fitful and slow. The decision by Sinn Fein last weekend to recognise the police was a significant step. But it does not mean that agreement on power-sharing is just around the corner. There will...
AUERBACH & THE ART OF PAINTING ; Frank Auerbach Has Finally Found Himself in the Limelight after Half a Century's Quiet Dedication to His Work. Louise Jury Looks Back at His Career ++ A Reclusive Genius
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He rarely gives interviews, avoids the art world party circuit and has lived and worked in the same small north London studio without a telephone for the best part of half a century. But despite the efforts of Frank Auerbach to avoid the spotlight, Sotheby's...
BA Apologises over [Pound]80m Cost of Cabin Crew Chaos ; BUSINESS
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Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways, apologised to customers yesterday for the disruption caused by this week's aborted cabin crew strike and warned shareholders that it would cost the airline [pound]80m. The apology came as BA announced...
Bankruptcies Hit Record Level as Consumer Debt Reaches Crisis Point ; Personal Insolvencies Top 100,000 for First Time ++ Court Orders for Repossessions Up 22 per Cent
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The number of people going bust smashed through the 100,000 mark last year, throwing the spotlight on Britain's worsening consumer debt crisis. Personal insolvencies in England and Wales totalled 107,288, the highest since records began in 1960, according...
Barton's Chance to Show He Has Write Stuff for England ; FOOTBALL
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He has made his name as a literary critic, now Joey Barton has to prove himself as an international footballer. The pugnacious midfielder was named in the England squad yesterday despite his biting criticism of players' autobiographies and will now get...
Britain's Gambling Law: A Terrible Mess ; OUTLOOK
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Manchester was this week named as the surprise choice for Britain's first supercasino. Locations were also named for a further 16 large and small casinos. Yet celebration among the anointed cannot cover up for the fact that the new gambling legislation...
Btw ; HOME
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Spare a thought for the citizens of Muncie, Indiana (pop 66,500), for they've a lot to put up with. In a new CBS reality TV show, five celebrities will be trained by the Muncie cops to be "reserve police officers". LaToya Jackson, sister of Michael (and...
Bush Stands Alone in His Refusal to Take Heed ; GLOBAL WARMING
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The Bush administration - out of touch with much of the world and much of the nation over climate change - has been put under even greater pressure to take action to deal with global warming as a result of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's...
Business 'Wizard' to Cast Anfield Spell ; FOOTBALL
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If Tom Hicks can do for Liverpool what he did for George W Bush, fans of the club might yet come to embrace American ownership. First Hicks made Bush rich, a multimillionaire, in fact. Then he helped to make him President of the United States. He has...
Buy-to-Let Boom Muffled as Costs Creep above Rents ; Lenders Are Allowing Landlords to Take More Risks, but This Should Be a Warning, Says David Prosser
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Some warning signs are too obvious to ignore. Remember Imogen Thomas, the former Miss Wales, from the last series of Big Brother? Thomas has subsequently ploughed her earnings from modelling sessions into a portfolio of buy-to-let investment properties...
'Can We Rent a Cottage - and Take a Pony?' ; INDEPENDENT TRAVELLER
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We're thinking of renting a Q cottage over Easter somewhere in the South-west. Sounds straightforward, but my daughter would like to take her pony with us to ride while we're there. Do you know of any rental properties with stables? D West, via e-mail...
Carbon Dioxide Rate Is at Highest Level for 650,000 Years ; GLOBAL WARMING
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Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at their highest levels for at least 650,000 years and this rise began with the birth of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)....
Carol Vorderman, Writer, TV Presenter & Mathematician ; My Secret Life
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PA Born in Bedford in 1960, Carol Vorderman took up a place at Cambridge University at the age of 17. In 1982, she became the first woman on Channel 4, as co-presenter of Countdown, a job she still holds. She was appointed MBE in 2000. Her book Super...
Channel 4 Drops Plans to Run Series on Masturbation ; HOME
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Channel 4 executives must have thought a week of programmes dedicated to the subject of masturbation was a daring fulfilment of its creative remit. Announced in July last year, the series of documentaries was to feature a behind the scenes look at a...
CHECKING BACK INTO THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA ; Once They Were America's Top-Selling Band, and Then They Broke Up amid Stories of Sex, Drugs and Musical Differences. but Now the Eagles Are Back in the Recording Studio. by Andrew Gumbel ++ Sounds of the Seventies
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They love the Eagles in Winslow, Arizona. They love them because the band took the trouble to memorialise their town - which, since the arrival of the interstate highways and the demise of the old roadstop culture of Route 66, had become a dusty, half-forgotten...
Chemistry Class ; Restaurants
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Just to give you a head's-up, guys; today's review is going to be, like, really casual. Just sit back and relax! OK, I'm gonna sling a few adjectives around, and maybe, I dunno, just kind of come up with a few opinions, but, hey, whatever, don't rush...
Chess ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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About the same time as the 114th New Zealand Championship in Wanganui, won by 16-year-old Wang Puchen, another event was taking place right next door at the Australian Open in Canberra; interestingly (perhaps an indication of a wider trend?), it too...
CONTINUATION: 'We Need Wilkinson Firing Fully for the Trip to Dublin Later This Month' ; RUGBY UNION
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up in that tradition; it's where I come from as a rugby man. When I see those names on a team-sheet, I'm happy. A lot has been said and written about Jonny's sudden return to England colours. Well, there's a surprise. Three years and more after our World...
Cornwall of the North ; with Its Picturesque Harbour and Pretty Little Cottages, Skagen, a Fishing Village at the Top of Denmark, Wouldn't Look out of Place on the Cornish Coast, Says Matt Carroll
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This was not what I had expected at all. Standing here, on a beautiful white-sand peninsula bordered by inky blue sea, I was completely bowled over. In part this was caused by the ferocious wind whipping across the beach, but mainly my surprise was due...
Darlington - the Only Town in England Where Prices Are Down ; HOME
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The railway town of Darlington is hardly bereft of assets. Locals adore Train, the memorable David Mach brick sculpture of a locomotive entering a tunnel which sits alongside the A66, close to the historic Stockton to Darlington line. The Rhythm n'Brews...
Delegation of Labour MPs May Tell PM to Go ; POLITICS
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A delegation of senior Labour MPs may tell Tony Blair to stand down quickly if there is no let-up to the damage being inflicted on the Government by the "cash for honours" affair. Some senior ministers want a group of "men in grey suits" from the back...
Diplomatic Row Delays Inquest into Iraq Death ; HOME
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Almost four years after a British soldier was killed by American forces his family were told that they would have to endure yet another delay before hearing the full details because of wrangling between the US and UK governments. The delay is the latest...
Directors' Dealings ; View from the City
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TESCO Shares in Tesco, which already owns nearly a third of the UK grocery market, have hit record highs recently as it continues its rapid expansion plans. Non-executive director Harald Einsmann, who has been a member of the board since 1999, has snapped...
Double Vision ; Gilbert and George Have Been Inseparable - in Life and Art - for the Past 40 Years. What Makes Them Tick? Here, the Original Odd Couple of Scatology Reveal All to Deborah Ross. Portrait by Jamie-James Medina
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Gilbert and George are charming, adorable, generous and such fun. If it's an act, then I fall for it hook, line and sinker. Or, given their famed, scatological obsession, maybe that should be hook, line and floater. Whichever, I am with them for much...
Familiarity Breeds Content for Wales' Scarlets Duo ; Dwayne Peel Tells James Corrigan How He Has Emerged from Stephen Jones' Shadow to Build a Formidable Partnership for Club and Country
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Dwayne Peel is confused and a quick scan through Wales' recent back issues confirms he has every right to be. In one headline he is hailed as the best scrum-half in the world and, in seemingly the very next, he should only be second choice for his country....
Farewell Grandstand.Now When Did I Last Watch It in Full? ; SPORT ON TV
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It was clever of the BBC to end Grandstand the week before the Six Nations. Talk about burying bad news: nobody will notice until the middle of March, and then it's spring and summer, when no one watches anyway unless there's something big on. They marked...
Farrell Faces Toughest Step in Painful Journey across the Great Divide ; A League Legend Makes His Debut for England's Union Team Today. Dave Hadfield, Rugby League Correspondent, Looks Back on a Remarkable Career in the 13-Man Code
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There have been plenty of cases of rugby union players being fast- tracked into international rugby league. Billy Boston was famously selected for a tour to Australia after just six games, but when Andy Farrell runs out for England against Scotland today...
Farrell's Unexpected Sidestep Would Have Knocked Even Statto off Balance ; ON SATURDAY
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It is always a pleasure to bump into the well-known betting pundit Angus "Statto" Loughran, as I have a couple of times recently, first at Ludlow races and a few weeks later in a snaking queue at Gatwick Airport. Since Angus spends about seven-eighths...
FINAL WARNING ; According to Yesterday's UN Report, the World Will Be a Much Hotter Place by 2100. This Will Be the Impact
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+2.4 CORAL REEFS ALMOST EXTINCT In North America, a new dust-bowl brings deserts to life in the high plains states, centred on Nebraska, but also wipes out agriculture and cattle ranching as sand dunes appear across five US states, from Texas in the...
Fine and Dandy ; Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Didn't Always Get the Decor Right on 'Changing Rooms' but He Certainly Did When It Came to His Family Home. He Gives Guy Adams an Exclusive Tour of His London Townhouse. Photography by Philip Sinden
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Amazingly, TV's own Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen neglects to blindfold me before I cross the threshold of his family home in Greenwich, south-east London. This really won't do. If Changing Rooms has taught us anything, it is that interiors should be observed...
Fisher's 'Quiver-Free Zone' Keeps Tiger at Bay ; SPORT / GOLF
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Ross Fisher is living the dream - in fact he is driving, chipping and putting it. A second successive 65 yesterday took him two shots clear of Ernie Els, four ahead of the group in third and five in front of Tiger Woods. It is that last fact which is...
FIVE BEST HOTELS FOR WINE LOVERS ; the Top Places to Live and Breathe Your Favourite Tipple - as Well as Taste It. by Kitty Melrose
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Hotel Marques de Riscal Spain Architect Frank Gehry, famous for the Guggenheim in Bilbao, designed this hotel. Opened in September in Rioja wine country, it adjoins the 150-year-old Riscal winery. It's show-stopping stuff, starting with the swirls of...
Food & Drink Notes ; SATURDAY MAGAZINE
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School holidays "Holidays for people who love food," it says on the front of On the Menu. For once the hype rings true. These are holidays first and foremost, with the cooking-school element taken seriously, but not dominating. Enlisting names like Rosemary...
Former It Girl Set to Make [Pound]90m from Sale of Her Jimmy Choos ; HOME
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In the days before her shoes became a required fashion accessory for A-list celebrities from Sarah Jessica Parker to Julia Roberts and Beyonce Knowles, Tamara Mellon observed that "at the end of the day, the person who has the money has the control"....
Four Children among the 17 Dead as Gaza Fire Fights Rage ; WORLD
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Buildings in Gaza's two main universities were set on fire yesterday in a major escalation of infighting which health officials said killed at least 17 Palestinians - including four children - and left more than 200 wounded. Armed men mounted flying...
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI ; Opera Composer of Extraordinary Popularity and Founder of the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto
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Gian Carlo Menotti was one of the most successful opera composers of the mid-20th century. He had an inborn sense of the theatre, inheriting the tradition of Puccini, with an intuitive feel for character and drama, which served him faultlessly in a fusion...
Gibson: From Requiem to Mass Profits ; Henry Juszkiewicz Bought Gibson for $5M in 1986. It Now Sells Guitars to the Tune of $500M a Year. James Moore Meets Its Boss in Cannes ++ A Day in the Life of
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8am Henry Juszkiewicz wakes up groggy and jet-lagged in Cannes, where he is attending the Midem music trade show. Sleep is hard to come by when you're booked into a room on the first floor of the Martinez, the "rock 'n' roll party hotel" and Juszkiewicz...
Heat Still on after Cooling-Off Cancellation ; QUESTIONS OF CASH
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I took out a Lloyds TSB graduate loan insurance policy, which turned out not to be worth the paper it was written on. I had an operation in April, the day before my job ended, and was signed-off for six weeks. I then found the policy did not cover me,...
How to Buy Burgundy ; Wine
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Last week I sang the praises of the 2005 burgundy vintage; this week I'm offering a guide on how to get hold of it. The cautionary note on the table at O W Loeb's January burgundy tasting was referring not to the quality but the availability. Buyers...
If Exceptions Can Be Made for the Very Rich, Do the Same for the Very Poor ; NEWS
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Funny old Tony Blair. Even now, bogged down as he is in the detritus of his decade-long premiership, he's still quite clearly convinced that he's got plenty more to do. He was resigned to, rather than chastened by, the fact that his interviewer yesterday...
Imagine the Scene When Sol Kerzner Comes Face to Face with a Typical Beswick Urchin ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
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So the supercasino is going to regenerate Manchester. Funny word to use, regeneration, for what will happen when people start shooting their own and other punters' brains out in the car park. "Regeneration", suggesting spiritual rebirth, revival, restoration...
Investors Strike a Light for Imperial Takeover ; MARKET REPORT
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City punters made a huge amount of money betting on a bid for Sainsbury's last week. When the news of private equity interest in the supermarkets group arrived yesterday morning, many cashed in their chips and then went hunting the market for the next...
Italy Spot Chance to Upset French Applecart ; SIX NATIONS
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The France coach Bernard Laporte has twin aims as the Six Nations kicks off here: "To win matches and take a look at the maximum number of players." Italy's objective, as always, is a win; just a win. Plus ca change? An awful lot would change with an...
I Tried to File My Tax Return - Honest I Did ; PRIVATE INVESTOR
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Not a great week. This year, for the first time in the past, say, five, I failed to file my tax return on time. By "on time" I mean the deadline that expired last Wednesday evening. I had everything ready to go online: P60, bits of paper about dividends,...
It's Now or Never for Manning the Nearly Man ; the Indianapolis Quarterback Has Set Records but, Nick Halling Writes, Super Bowl XLI Will Decide Whether He Can Shake off a Reputation as a 'Choker'
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Few players have mastered the art of playing quarterback quite like Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts. In a sport obsessed with statistics, Manning's body of work bears comparison with any of the legends of yesteryear. In nine seasons, he has...
Jason Isaacs ; How Do I Look? ++ Actor, 43
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I love wearing my Paris Hilton wig to play Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter. For the new film [ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to be released later in the year], it's had a total makeover. Last time it was a lot more Chantelle, but now it's...
Jenas Must Gamble on Lennon's Crosses ; Gerry Francis Talking Tactics: Tottenham V Manchester United ++ Having Just Lost the Carling Cup Semi-Final to Arsenal, Tottenham Face Another Big Game - without the Injured Ledley King and the Suspended Mido - When the League Leaders Visit White Hart Lane Tomorrow
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You have to get wide, get in behind United and get crosses in. This is why Aaron Lennon, who missed Wednesday's game, will be so important because not only does he do this, he holds the ball and gives the defence a rest. The midfielders, especially Jermaine...
JOSH OF ALL TRADES ; Multi-Talented Wasp Has His Buzz Back Thanks to the New England Regime and a Break from the Game. All He Needs Now Is a Settled Position in the England Side by Chris Hewett, Rugby Union Correspondent ++ the Saturday Interview
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Josh Lewsey is an unusually multifaceted character by modern rugby standards: a graduate in physiology and biochemistry, a former soldier, a free spirit whose idea of getting away from it all is a very long trek in the very high Karakoram mountains of...
Keep Sight of the Bigger Bond Picture ; SECRETS OF SUCCESS
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For a reminder of how fickle and volatile market expectations can be, look no further than the changing expectations about the course of bond prices and bond yields this year. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, which was...
Liverpool Seek Derby Joy to Stay in Title Race ; FOOTBALL
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This week's Arab strop and the impending arrival of a Texan fundraiser for George W Bush may have distracted from the third tumultuous event at Anfield this week, but they also compound a sense that the 205th Merseyside derby represents the last the...
Losing the Plots ; Urban Gardener
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The plight of Manor Gardens Allotments, which face destruction to make way for a footpath within the 2012 Olympic complex, makes the story of David and Goliath look quite tame by comparison. Land that was granted to the allotment association in perpetuity...
Marley Resort Opening Delayed ; News ++ the Best Deals, the Latest Hot Spots and What's New in Travel
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The family of the late Bob Marley has postponed the opening of a luxury resort that celebrates the reggae superstar. The musician's daughter, Stephanie Marley, has told The Independent Traveller that work on a "world-class luxury beachfront resort and...
Mekong Meander ; Lucy Gillmore Takes a Slow Boat Down One of the World's Great Rivers, and Discovers That Life along Its Banks Drifts along at the Same Gentle Pace as the Languid Water
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If I could only sweat around my toenails I'd hotfoot it down to the river as fast as my sturdy thighs could take me, too. And if four hours sleep a night, most of that standing up, was all I could snatch, I guarantee I'd be far tetchier about it as well....
MELANIE CLORE ; My Week ++ the Co-Chairman Worldwide of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Department Prepares for Next Week's Auction
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Monday The beginning of an exciting week at Sotheby's and potentially the biggest week of auctions ever to be held in London. For months we have been putting together our major Impressionist and modern art sales, and this is the final week before the...
MGR MARTIN MOLYNEUX ; Vice-Rector of the Beda College
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Martin Molyneux was responsible for the formation of a generation of Roman Catholic priests. He taught for 18 years at the Beda College in Rome, latterly, from 1976 to 1986, as Vice-Rector with some 60-70 seminarians in his charge. His intellectual rigour...
'Most People Expect Opera Singers to Be Enormous. We're Not' ; the 5-Minute Interview ++ Lesley Garrett ++ Soprano Singer
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Lesley Garrett, 51, who is currently starring as Mother Abbess in 'The Sound of Music', has a new album, 'When I Fall in Love', out on Universal on Monday. My new album is... A celebration of the love I have for those most close to me. All the different...
Murdering the 'Orient Express' ; THE MAN WHO PAYS HIS WAY
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Paris in June is usually a delight but on the second Friday of that month this year, one location in the French capital will be a sad place: the handsome Gare de l'Est. This is the neo-classical railway terminus that serves Champagne, Lorraine, Alsace...
Mutiny Brews as Blair's Defiance Threatens to Shipwreck Labour ; THE WEEK IN POLITICS
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After Neil Kinnock stood down as Labour leader in 1992, Margaret Thatcher, who defeated him in two general elections, told him: "History will be kind to you." Two years earlier, people had said the same to her when she was forced out by her own MPs and...
'My Pension Is Set to Fall Short When I Retire' ; WEALTH CHECK
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Stephen Fitzgerald retired three years ago and expects his 62- year-old wife Linda will follow suit later this year. The couple are concerned about whether their retirement income will cover their outgoings once Linda stops work. The good news is that...
North Sea Gas and Oil Boom Threatens Dolphins ; HOME
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Marine conservationists have called for permanent protection of one of the UK's most important colonies of dolphins which is being threatened by a boom in North Sea oil and gas exploration. Bottlenose dolphins have been living in and around the Moray...
Now It Is Up to the World's Political Leaders to Deliver More Than Hot Air ; LEADING ARTICLE
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, unveiled in Paris yesterday, is humanity's loudest warning yet of the catastrophe that is threatening to overtake us. The report makes the link between human behaviour and global warming...
O'Sullivan Plays Down Talk of an Irish Title March ; SIX NATIONS
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Time was when Ireland were dead certs to win in Cardiff - or Wembley, for that matter. They managed to win away in this fixture in nine out of 10 meetings, and the 10th was a draw. Wales put that dreadful streak behind them in 2005 with a win that sealed...
Please Spare Me the Word 'Terrorist' ; EDITORIAL & OPINION
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So it was back to terror, terror, terror this week. The "terrorist" Hizbollah was trying to destroy the "democratically elected government" of Fouad Siniora in Lebanon. The "terrorist" Hamas government cannot rule Palestine. Iranian "terrorists" in Iraq...
Polanski to Bring Best-Seller on Last Days of Pompeii to the Big Screen ; NEWS
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Roman Polanski has signed a multimillion-pound deal to direct the movie adaptation of Robert Harris's bestselling novel Pompeii. It is the biggest project yet for the Oscar-winning director, whose previous films include Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and...
Premiership Weekend Team News ; Football
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Liverpool v Everton Today 12.45pm. Last season: 3-1. TV: Live PPV; Highlights BBC1 10.15pm Tickets: Sold out Liverpool Form: WWWWW Leading scorer: Kuyt 9. Subs from: Dudek, Fowler, Zenden, Arbeloa, Gonzalez, Pennant, Sissoko. Injured: Garcia (knee,...
Private Equity Tilts at Sainsbury. That's Good for Shareholders, but What about the Company? ; OUTLOOK
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Shares in J Sainsbury haven't been as high as they got to yesterday since the tail end of the 1990s. Yet it wasn't the com- pany's recovery story which finally put them there, but confirmation, after a week of increasingly fevered speculation, that a...
Private-Equity Trio Mull [Pound]10bn Takeover Bid for Sainsbury's ; BUSINESS
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Three private-equity firms revealed they are mulling a [pound]10bn bid for J Sainsbury yesterday, putting a rocket under shares in the supermarket group and other retailers. KKR, CVC Capital and Blackstone said they were at the "preliminary stages of...
Property Boom Helps Shankill Road to Forget the Troubles ; HOME
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For decades, the only way to spark interest in houses on Belfast's Shankill Road was to paint sectarian murals on the walls amid the economic stagnation of the Troubles. Jayne Farrell did not have any time yesterday to think about the past. She was too...
Put Your Debt Nightmare to Bed at Last ; the Latest Government Figures Show People Are Losing Control of Their Debts. David Prosser Explains the Solutions
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The Department of Trade & Industry's statement yesterday that individual insolvencies rocketed again in the final quarter of 2007 should not have surprised many people. There has been growing concern that borrowing in the UK has got out of hand - and...
Sell Half When the Going's Good for a Risk-Free Ride ; NO PAIN, NO GAIN
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The No Pain, No Gain portfolio has made further headway since my pre-Christmas update. The profit on the [pound]200,000 investment now exceeds [pound]110,000, with around half-a-dozen constituents scoring reasonable gains. The only changes are the removal...
Serie A Suspended after Police Officer Dies in Riot ; ITALY
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Football in Italy has been indefinitely suspended after a police officer was killed last night during serious trouble at the Sicilian derby between Catania and Palermo. The policeman, named as Filippo Raciti, was 38. According to reports, he was struck...
Shift Swap and Helicopter Ride Lift Deveronvale's Cup Hopes ; SCOTLAND
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In scenes more reminiscent of James Bond than Match of the Day, a key player for non-League Deveronvale was helicoptered off the North Sea oil rig where he works yesterday after arranging a deal to get time off to play in today's Scottish Cup fourth-round...
SIENNA MILLER ; the Saturday Profile ++ Girl about Town
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It was not, so far as I could see, in the Financial Times. But for the rest of the papers there was not much doubt about the story of the week. It was not the alleged threat to kill Muslims in the British Army. Or the relentless cash for peerages row....
Soldier in Court Martial for Refusing to Serve in Iraq ; WORLD
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Along with many Americans, Lt Ehren Watada considered joining the army in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. He signed up shortly after the US invasion of Iraq, expressing "a desire to protect our country". But when he learnt he was to be deployed to...
St Helens Set for Giants Test ; RUGBY LEAGUE
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St Helens begin the defence of their Super League title at Huddersfield tonight with their coach warning that keeping the trophy will be harder than winning it. This fixture has been extracted from round three of the competition because Saints will be...
Storms in Florida Kill 19 and Leave State in Ruins ; WORLD
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A string of violent thunderstorms and at least one tornado tore through central Florida early yesterday morning, causing widespread devastation to homes, apartment complexes and trailer parks and leaving at least 19 people dead, many of whom were sleeping...
Supermarkets Discover Shoppers Hate Excess Packaging as Waste Campaign Gathers Force ; HOME
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Supermarkets have detected considerable annoyance among their customers about excessive packaging, as The Independent's campaign against waste gathers support from politicians and stores. Research by three of the coun-try's biggest chains, Tesco, Marks...
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO INDIA'S GOLDEN TRIANGLE ; Busy Street Life, Tranquil Havens, Culture Shocks and Architectural Splendours Await Those Who Take the Classic Introduction to This Vast and Varied Country, Says Matthew Teller
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WHAT IS THE 'GOLDEN TRIANGLE'? India's Golden Triangle comprises the three most visited cities in the country's north-west - Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, which are all connected to each other by good road and rail links. On the map, these form a roughly equilateral...
The Hellish Vision of Life on a Hotter Planet ; GLOBAL WARMING
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Buried within the newly released IPCC report is an apocalyptic warning: if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, global warming by the end of the century could total 6.4C. The scientists don't say so explicitly, but a rise in temperatures...
THE INSIDER ; A Weekly Guide to Spending
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FURNITURE Neat storage trick Sliderobes offers a solution to clutter-filled homes with its new Stratta range. Behind sliding doors are stylish fitted wardrobes that can include drawers, shelves, hanging space, and racks for shoes and ties. The interior...
THE MAN WHO SWUNG THE SIXTIES ; as the Wild Child of Fashion Photography, Jim Lee Challenged Taboos with a Bold New Visual Language in Which Anything Went. Now His Grand, Narrative Style Is Back in Vogue Once More. on the Eve of a New London Show, He Recalls Some of His Favourite Assignments. Introduction by Peter York
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Jim Lee's father could have been an actor - or a king - for all Jim knew as a child in Trinidad, or later when his father went off each morning from the Regency lodge in Surrey to an office somewhere in Whitehall. He was actually a Cold War spymaster;...
The President Who Claims He Can Cure Aids on Mondays ; WORLD
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The smallest country in Africa is this morning playing host to one of the longest queues on the continent, as hundreds of people line up for miracle cures for asthma and Aids, promised by the Gambian President. Scientists have reacted with horror to...
The Secret Mortgage Trap That Costs You Thousands ; SAVE & SPEND
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More than a sixth of all mortgage lenders are still calculating interest charges in an outdated method that adds thousands of pounds to the cost of their loans, research published today shows. Moneyfacts, the personal finance data analyst, said 20 mortgage...
These Gay Hoteliers Prove That We Live in Strange Times ; Richard Ingrams' Week
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One thing that may have puzzled people about the gay adoption controversy was how a new law about discrimination in the provision of "goods and services" could be applied to something like the adoption of children. It was explained for me, to some extent,...
The Shipping News ; PsychoGeography
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A call comes from David, last heard of - in this column - squelching through the glutinous mud of the Jurassic Coast, at Charmouth, in Dorset. "How's it hanging, mate?" I say, cheerily. "Got a new BMW motorbike yet?" "No, not yet," he replies, "but I...
The TALK of Football ; What They're Saying about This Weekend's Games
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Arsene Wenger Arsenal manager On goalkeeper Jens Lehmann (right). [Manuel] Almunia is doing very well but so is Lehmann, which is why he will come back this weekend. Almunia has put him under pressure, so that is good, but Lehmann can deal with that....
The Temperature Is Rising - and Humans Are to Blame ; GLOBAL WARMING
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It's a pretty grim conclusion: greenhouse gas reduction targets being talked about to stop climate change will not now avoid potentially catastrophic rises in global average temperatures, yesterday's report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
The World Has Stopped - and I Want to Get off ; Thrifty Living
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LOOKING BACK, it was one of those grounding-type moments. In that the movement of the globe itself slowly seemed to lose velocity then grind to a halt. There have been a few similarly gripping incidents like this in my life: when the long William Morris...
