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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 September 18, 2006
Aid with These Strings Is Close to Murder
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Which gathering of smart-suited, smart-minded men will lead to the largest amount of death this week? The answer seems obvious. Later today, foreign ministers from the African Union will meet at the United Nations in New York. Their job is to decide...
A Lone Voice in Favour of Plumbers
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Once again it is my duty to defend some maligned groups in our society, victims of prejudice, overheated anecdote, and, I regret to say, media stereotyping. Dogged readers will doubtless remember vividly my passionate plea for the plumber earlier this...
A Night of Gaiety under Nelson's Gaze ; First Night THE SCISSOR SISTERS Trafalgar Square LONDON
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The fact that New York's Scissor Sisters can fill Trafalgar Square and still, relatively speaking, not get arrested back home should be a matter of some national pride. It's hard to imagine, after all, a more extravagantly, entertainingly, even movingly...
ARE YOU AN ETHICAL SHOPPER? ; Products with Principles A New Guidebook Shows Consumers with a Conscience How to Embrace Saintly Brands - and Shun the Sinners
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Everything we buy, from bananas to perfume, makes a difference somewhere, whether to an old woman drawing water from a well in India or to a battery chicken in Norfolk. Pulling one product from the shelf rather than another can alter the lives of people...
Arts: Flights of Fantasy ; A New Exhibition Shows the Mind of a True Genius at Work. Tom Lubbock Takes a Leaf or Two out of the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
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All the great minds are at our service. The pantheon offers top tips. There is a book called The Leadership Secrets of Jesus (though, if what they say is true, he had one big leadership secret that is strictly non-transferable). There's also a book called...
Arts: The Rite Stuff ; Stravinsky's Dogged, Driving Rhythms Scandalised Ballet Audiences on Their Debut - but Have Inspired Generations of Dancers
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As the autumn dance season starts, it brings a wealth of Stravinsky to British stages. The Royal Ballet opens with the Violin Concerto choreographed by Balanchine' Birmingham Royal Ballet is touring Apollo, Pulcinella and The Firebird, with another all-...
As US Power Recedes, Europe Should Fill the Gap
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Influence is slowly shifting from the US to Europe so far as the Middle Eastisconcerned. Europe has a superior ability to talk to Iran. The presence of substantial numbers of European peacekeeping troops in Lebanon brings with it an increased standing....
Betbrokers Is a Good Bet to Start Trading on AIM Next Month ; Small Talk
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Despite the dark clouds hanging over the online gaming industry, Betbrokers is still determined to make it on to the Alternative Investment Market. Today the group will formally unveil its float plans along with the appointment of Eddie Jordan, the former...
Book of the Week ; Ali, Pel, Lillee and Me by Brian Viner (Simon & Schuster, Pounds 14.99)
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As 1973 drew to a close, a South-port schoolboy carefully filled out the "forward engagements" section of his new diary. One date he noted was "Frazier v Ali, 28 Jan 74." When he looked through his diaries to research "Ali, Pel, Lillee and Me", Brian...
Bridge
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Although there are plenty of points between the North and South hands, there are also four losers, on this deal from the final of the Mixed Pairs at the 2006 World Championships. North opened the bidding with One Club, South responded One Heart, and...
Brown Hints at Further Interest Rate Rises ; IMF AND WORLD BANK MEETING
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Gordon Brown yesterday put homeowners and businesses on alert for fresh rises in interest rates as he hailed the Government's success in fuelling growth and boosting employment. The Chancellor delivered a strong hint that he will use November's pre-Bud-get...
Bullish Iran Calls for a Fresh Start with Britain
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Iran's leaders are calling for a new relationship with Britain, at a time when Tehran's international clout has been strengthened by events in Lebanon and Iraq. "We are now at a new beginning," said Iran's new ambassador to London, Rasoul Movahedian....
Campbell Launches Green Taxation Offensive ; LIB DEMS IN BRIGHTON
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Sir Menzies Campbell made the environment the Liberal Democrats' biggest ever single-issue campaign yesterday as he put the battle over the party's commitment to a dramatic shift towards "green" taxation at the heart of his struggle with Labour and the...
Chess
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The 16th World Senior Championship is underway in Arvier in Italy and continues until 22 September. As ever, this annual event for players over 60 contains quite a mixed field, but the top is impressive, with nine grandmasters and 12 IMs and the list...
Chirac's Greatest Achievement: Saving 9,000 Lives ; Our Man in Paris
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Something strange is happening on the roads of France. French motorists are no longer killing themselves, and one another, as zealously as they used to. If the present startling trend continues, French roads will be safer than British roads within the...
Church Schools Accused of Back-Door Selection
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Church schools are taking in far fewer pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds than other schools and more than their share of bright pupils, according to the most detailed research published on admissions. The study, which covered all primary and secondary...
Classical
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VIENNA PO/ GERGIEV Barbican LONDON **** Valery Gergiev may be the hottest conducting property around these days, but, for better or worse, he's still a "fasten your seatbelt and hang on" man. The Barbican, beginning its 2006/7 Great Performers programme,...
Coup for Topshop as Kate Moss Set to Be Its Star Designer
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She has posed for 14 advertising campaigns this season and remains the most talked-about supermodel in the world. And although she was watching, rather than modelling in, yesterday's Topshop fashion show, what Kate Moss is going to do next still managed...
DEADLY HARVEST ; Lebanese Villagers Must Risk Death in Fields 'Flooded' with More Than a Million Israeli Cluster Bombs - or Leave Crops to Rot
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The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more. The casualty figures will rise sharply...
Decentralised Energy Is Cool for Generations of the 21st-Century ; Giant Poluting 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, and Other Countries in Europes Have Proved That It Works
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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 ton of coal a day and generating 22.8 million ton of carbon dioxide a year. Yet most...
Democrats Use Bush as Face of Mid-Term Campaign
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President George Bush has already cemented a central role for himself in political advertisements for the upcoming congressional elections - but he is appearing in those of the Democratic candidates rather than his Republican colleagues. Many Republican...
Did You Know about Charles Kennedy's Drinking? and Could You Still Kill a Man with a Single Blow? ; You Ask the Questions. Lord Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, Former Lib Dem Leader
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Did you know Charles Kennedy had a drink problem? IAN LINTON GLASGOW These things are difficult to judge. When does someone drink quite heavily and when does it become a problem? People should be given the opportunity to try to tackle these problems...
Does a Solar Century Await Us?
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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,...
Dozens of New Species Found in Underwater Wonderland ; 'Mind-Blowing' Discovery off Coast of Papua Hailed as Greater Even Than the Barrier Reef. Terry Kirby Reports
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Dozens of exotic new fish and corals have been discovered in a spectacular Indonesian seascape which scientists have hailed as a "species factory" - possibly the richest marine environment in the world. The barely-explored Bird's Head Seascape, off the...
Farming and Food Industries Are Damaging 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: From Rock to Runway ; Todd Lynn Is Responsible for Marilyn Mansoris Ghoulish Stage Look. but His First Catwalk Collection Is Shockingly Classy Says Susie Rushton
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Bromley. For a commuter town, if's pretty rock'n'roll. David Bowie went to art college and married Angie there, the Clash drummer Top-per Headon was born there, and, in the late 1970s, the so- called "Bromley Contingent" of punk devotees included Siouxie...
Fashion & Style: Light Fantastic ; from Marc Jacobs to Calvin Klein, the New York Shows Were All about the Bright and Breezy Look
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If there is one word that sums up the latest New York collections, it is "light". As in, the gossamer-weight swathes of pale-blue silk gazar that furled around one of Marc Jacobs' models and the glistering effect of his sack-shaped holograph-dot skirts....
Football:Adams' Sympathy Is No Solace for Blackwell
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COVENTRYCITY 1 LEEDS UNITED 0 The mounting pressure on Kevin Blackwell and Leeds United reached a new intensity on Saturday at the Ricoh Stadium where a resultant outbreak of speculation and sympathy eclipsed all that had passed before. Leeds' defeat...
Football: Adebayor Strikes Late to Dispel Rumours of Arsenal's Demise
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MANCHESTER UNITED 0 ARSENAL 1 A team in transition? There were two at Old Trafford yesterday, and as the Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, celebrated in front of his side's support in a manner reminiscent of their championship triumph on the same ground...
Football: Adebayor Strikes Late to Dispel Rumours of Arsenal's Demise ; PREMIERSHIP
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MANCHESTER UNITED 0 ARSENAL 1 The paymasters of Sky had christened this Grand Slam Sunday but, ultimately, it was Reality Check Sunday for Arsene Wenger and, in particular, Sir Alex Ferguson as Arsenal secured their first Premiership victory of the season...
Football: Adebayor Strikes Late to Dispel Rumours of Arsenal's Demise ; PREMIERSHIP United Pay the Price of Believing Own Hype
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Sir Alex Ferguson was teetering on the edge of generosity before the game when he described an apparently broken Arsenal as a team "in transition". But no doubt he was revising that assessment long before the end of the humiliating defeat for a Manchester...
Football: Beckham Comes off the Bench to Seal Real Victory
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REALMADRID 2 REAL SOCIEDAD 0 David Beckham came out fighting last night after being dropped from Real Madrid's first team. The former England captain looked on as his replacement, Jose Antonio Reyes, played a starring role in his place and scored a sensational...
Football: Boothroyd Still Confident as Watford Show Spirit ; PREMIERSHIP
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WATFORD 0 ASTON VILLA 0 Watford are still seeking their first Premiership victory since promotion and their estimable manager Aidy Boothroyd, it seems, could not be happier. Having seen his men earn only their second point of the campaign with a second-half...
Football:Chopra Cuts Down Critics in Cardiff's Defiant Show ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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CARDIFF CITY 4 LUTON TOWN 1 The streets of Cardiff are, metaphorically at least, littered with the critics' corpses. Quite how many there were denigrating their club's early season form, and quite how hostile their condemnation, is hard to quantify,...
Football: Coppell Admits to Being 'Wide-Eyed' at Reading's Start ; PRIMIERSHIP
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SHEFFIELD UNITED 1 READING 2 Watching Reading's increasingly desperately attempts to repel wave after wave of late Sheffield United attacks on Saturday, it was hard to believe this was the same team who could - probably should - have been at least four...
Football: Drogba's Classic Inspires Chelsea but Ballack Red Spoils the Party ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHELSEA 1 LIVERPOOL 0 From his place in the Stamford Bridge stands yesterday, Tiger Woods might have expected to witness as much rivalry and bad feeling as he would anticipate over next weekend at the K Club. But the great feud between Rafael Benitez...
Football: Drogba Shows Chelsea Style but Ballack Sees Red as Feud Ends ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHELSEA 1 LIVERPOOL 0 From his place in the Stamford Bridge stands yesterday, Tiger Woods might have expected to witness as much rivalry and bad feeling as he would anticipate over next weekend at the K Club. But the great feud between Rafael Benitez...
Football: Hargreaves Injury Opens England Door for Carrick
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It was the news that the the England manager, Steve McClaren, surely feared most: Owen Hargreaves confirmed yesterday that he has broken the fibula in his left leg. The Bayern Munich midfielder - England's best performer at the World Cup by some distance...
Football: Incitement Row Hits Roeder's Return as Hammers Fall Apart ; PREMIERSHIP
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WEST HAM UNITED 0 NEWCASTLE UNITED 2 This was the sweetest of victories for Glenn Roeder on his first return to West Ham United after being sacked three years ago - but one that provoked the bitterest of responses. There was also a worrying injury to...
Football: Johnson Shows Worth but Everton Fail to Live Up to Hype ; PRIMIERSHIP
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EVERTON 2 WIGAN ATHLETIC 2 They were selling Andrew Johnson by the pound outside Goodison Park, his image superimposed on facsimile pounds 20 notes. The cost was a fraction of the nominal face value, which proved apt as inside the ground Everton were...
Football: Killen Double Sparks the Fury of le Guen ; SCOTLAND
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The Rangers manager, Paul Le Guen, accused his players of a lack of fight after losing 2-1 to Hibernian yesterday and has demanded an improvement before they take on Celtic on Saturday. He was furious as they slumped to their first defeat since he took...
Football: Lee Plays Up Role as Former Villan but Blues Steal Point ; CHAMPIONSHIP
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BIRMINGHAM CITY 2 IPSWICH TOWN 2 As a former Aston Villa player, Alan Lee was always likely to turn the air blue at Birmingham. He did not disappoint, scoring for Ipswich and having running feuds with Bruno N'Gotty and a referee's assistant. So it was...
Football: LuaLua Grabs Glory While Campbell Marshalls Defence ; PREMIERSHIP
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CHARLTON ATHLETIC 0 PORTSMOUTH 1 Yet to taste defeat after five games, or even to concede a goal, Harry Redknapp sat on top of the Premiership on Saturday evening and enjoyed the view. Not even the prospect of another kind of Panorama, as created by...
Football: McCarthy Cleans Up for Blackburn amid City Waste ; PRIMIERSHIP
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BLACKBURN ROVERS 4 MANCHESTER CITY 2 A stuttering start to the season was compounded when an injury- time equaliser conceded in Salzburg last Thursday made Blackburn's progress in the Uefa Cup less certain but at least their Premiership campaign is up...
Football: Mourinho and Benitez Shake Hands as Motor-Drives Whirr ; PREMIERSHIP
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For a team game football produces a plethora of individual rivalries. They were everywhere at Stamford Bridge yesterday. In the dugout, on the pitch, even in the same dressing-room. We would not wish it any other way. Mano-a-mano encounters are the lifeblood...
Football: Mourinho and Benitez Shake Hands as Motor-Drives Whirr ; PREMIERSHIP
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For a team game football produces a plethora of individual rivalries. They were everywhere at Stamford Bridge yesterday. In the dugout, on the pitch, even in the same dressing room. We would not wish it any other way. Mano-a-mano encounters are the lifeblood...
Football: Pizarro Strike Helps Roma Stay on Pace with Palermo at Top ; EUROPE
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Roma and Palermo maintained their winning starts to the Serie A season yesterday to leave them as joint leaders after two games. The Chilean midfielder David Pizarro scored his first league goal for Roma in their 3-1 victory at Siena with Brazilian Rodrigo...
Football: Redknapp Set to Take Legal Action against the BBC ; PREMIERSHIP
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The Portsmouth manager, Harry Redknapp, is confident that the makers of BBC's Panorama are about to score an own-goal. He warned he is ready to take legal action after being due to feature in the programme called "Football's Dirty Secrets", scheduled...
Football: 'Sorry' the Easiest Word in Keane's Caring New World
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SUNDERLAND 1 LEICESTER CITY 1 Sorry always seemed to be the hardest word for Roy Keane the player, but as a manager continuing to dismantle an unduly harsh one- dimensional image, he has adopted a new mantra, mea culpa. Just a matter of weeks after Alex...
Football: Spurs Natives Become Restless after Crafty Fulham Increase Jol's Distress ; PREMIERSHIP
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TOTTENHAMHOTSPUR 0 FULHAM 0 It sounded more like mur-murings of discontent than a genuinely serious round of booing at the end of this disjointed, fragmented contest. But make no mistake, the natives are definitely getting restless. This was supposed...
Football: Woodgate Coup Brings Class to Boro's Back Line ; PREMIERSHIP
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BOLTON WANDERERS 0 MIDDLESBROUGH 0 It is too early even to begin to judge whether Gareth Southgate will make a successful manager but if the eye for an inspirational signing is one measure of his potential then the former Eng-land defender clearly has...
Get Switched on to Domestic Efficiency
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Since 1999, the UK has seen a six 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...
Globalisation Requires the Greater Good to Be Put First
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Few of us can claim to be completely independent. With the exception of the odd hermit, we are social animals. Our social lives are often informal: meeting friends, going out for dinner or popping down to the pub. On other occasions, there's a bit more...
Golf: Casey on High after the Ideal Ryder Cup Rehearsal
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In winning the HSBC World Match Play in record fashion Paul Casey made risible any worries that a succession of long36-holes matches this week could hamper European chances at the wildly anticipated Ryder Cup. A combination of fine play and remarkable...
Golf: The Ryder Cup Is Huge and Believe It, We Want It Back' ; an E-Mail Conversation With. Jim Furyk
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What did you make of your first HSBC World Match Play event last week? Obviously I didn't enjoy getting beat in the first round, but I sure enjoyed Wentworth and this great competition. I'd heard a lot about the HSBC World Match Play. It's been around...
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. Renewables 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...
Hewitt: No Limit to Private Sector's Role in the NHS ; POLITICS
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Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, has said there should be no limit to the involvement of the private sector in the NHS. Ms Hewitt's remarks risk exacerbating a threatened strike by health unions angry over the award of a contract for the delivery...
Historic Deal on Gibraltar Will Open Up Colony and Boost Trade
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Britain and Spain are set to sign a historic deal over Gibraltar which will end decades of enmity over the tiny Mediterranean colony.Geoff Hoon, Europe minister' the Spanish Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos, and Peter Caru-ana, Gibraltar's First...
Horse Racing: Teofilo Topples Emperor to Head Guineas Betting
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Mass was abruptly cancelled in a Mayo village yesterday when the priest got hold of a ticket to see the county's Gaelic footballers seek their first All-Ireland Championship in half a century. That was his story, anyhow, but it would have taken a man...
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...
Hung Parliament Beckons as Tories Lead by Four Points ; POLITICS
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The Conservatives enter the party conference season with a four- point lead over Labour, according to the latest "poll of polls" for The Independent. David Cameron has cemented his party's lead over Labour, but he is not yet doing well enough to be confident...
Hung Parliament Beckons as Tories Lead by Four Points ; POLITICS
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The Conservatives enter the party conference season with a four- point lead over Labour, according to the latest "poll of polls" for The Independent. Although David Cameron has cemented his party's lead over Labour, he is not yet doing well enough to...
I'd Blush as She Explained Why It Was Important to Be Having Good Orgasms ; My Mentor Jane Johnson on Marje Proops
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To a 26-year-old just getting used to the newsroom of a national paper, meeting the legendary Marje Proops was nerve-racking. I had just been made women's editor of the Minor and one of my tasks was to assist Marje in running the Minor Bride of the Year...
If the World's in Your Pocket, Then What's Left to Watch on Your TV? ; THE INTERVIEWNICK ROBINSON
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Imagine this: by 2020 we will be able to carry every word every written, every picture or video ever taken and every music track every recorded - in fact the entire world's content - on a small device in our pocket. That's when scientists recently estimated...
Industrial Countries Have a Moral Responsibility to Lead'
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Human-induced climate change has already 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...
INSIDE STORY: Now Back to You, Tetsuya ; News Anchors Are the Faces of National Television like No Other - as the Interest in Katie Couric's Elevation at CBS Makes Clear. So Who Are the Global Stars of the Autocue?
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1. CHINA: LI ZIMENG, 28 Programme: News Relay, China Central Television (CCTV) Audience: 160 million Li Zimeng caused a sensation when she and Kang Hui made their debut on China's state-run broadcaster CCTV in June on the channel's half-hour evening...
Investors Hope Growth Is in Store at Debenhams ; SHARES AND MARKETS THE WEEK AHEAD
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Debenhams updates the City for the first time since its float today and the department store group is expected to come up with an encouraging statement. Analysts are hoping it will unveil solid growth both in sales and profit margins. Should it disappoint,...
It's Time to Outlaw These Ruthless Killers ; DEADLY HARVEST
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I was in Lebanon in July 2005 on a trip to document the residual problem from cluster bombs used in 1978 and 1982. Unexploded cluster munitions were still claiming lives more than two decades after that conflict. I recently returned from another trip...
Kanya King ; MY LIFE IN MEDIA
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Kanya King, in her 30s, is the CEO of the Mobo Organisation. She worked her way up from a television researcher and a booker for Radio 2 to being the driving force behind one of Britain's most successful music awards. The annual Mobos - which take place...
Leading Article: Innovative Policies in Search of a Leader ; LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
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The Liberal Democrats meet this week at a potentially decisive point in their history as the third force in British politics. Their conference sets key tests, both for the party itself and - critically - for its new leader, Sir Menzies Campbell. How...
Leading Article: Religion and Respect in the Global Village ; POPE BENEDICT XVI
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The notion that a single paragraph of a Papal address to a group of German academics would be winging its way around the world with potentially devastating consequences might once have been the stuff of fiction. But the episode of the Danish cartoons...
Letter: Alpine Snows Besmirched as Climate Crisis Approaches
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Sir: It is black not yellow snow that is causing the greatest damage to western Europe's highest peak, Mont Blanc. While John Lichfield was correct to highlight litter and other problems left by human activity on the snows of this famous mountain (14...
Low Offer for Tote May Open Up Sale
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A racing industry consortium has made a formal offer to buy the Tote, the state-owned bookmaker, for less than the pounds 400m the Government was looking for. The move sparked speculation that the Government could open up the sale to other bidders. The...
Murdoch Has Decided on His Man, and for Now It's Got to Be Gordon
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Gordon Brown is every bit as fixated on the Press as Tony Blair. Like the Prime Minister, he cultivates proprietors, editors and political journalists, and is just as sensitive to stinging criticism. In the past couple of weeks, as his forces moved against...
'My Brother Says Bringing Our Dogs to a Christening Is Eccentric. and Naming Your Baby after a DJ Isn't?' ; Days like Those
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Matthew is shaking his head and muttering over a kipper and a cup of tea. Not that there is anything thing new in that. He has been shaking his head and muttering for much of his life. And it's unlikely that the kipper is bothering him unduly. It'll...
My Week in Media: David Rowan
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Last week I watched... Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm planning to write into the contract of every journalist at The Jewish Chronicle that they have to watch it, as it defines a certain Jewish sense of humour based on embarrassment and schadenfreude....
Neo-Nazis Capture Seats in Merkel's Home State
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Neo-Nazis dealt an embarrassing political blow to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday after winning parliamentary seats in her eastern home state for the first time since the country's reunification in 1990. The overtly racist National Democratic...
Newton's Apple Tree Bears Fresh Fruit
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We all know the Isaac Newton story - about how an apple fell on his head, and he got thinking about things and therefore discovered gravity - but what if it had gone wrong? What if the apple had given rise to a completely different train of thought?...
Nipper Takes on the Mighty Amazon ; BRANDING HMV GROUP How Do You Turn Two Such Powerful High-Street Brands as HMV and Waterstone's into a Major Presence Online? the Man to Whom the Task Has Fallen Talks to Ian Burrell
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Noving content from one environment to another without devaluing the end product is a conundrum at the forefront of Alan Giles's mind. Giles has had to reboot his new-media strategy in order to safeguard the future of the HMV Group, of which he has been...
Northern, Arsey, Confrontational ; Nick Robinson, the BBC's Political Editor, Is Happy to Declare That He Is Al of These Things - with the Result That in the Hectic Year since He Stepped into Andrew Marr's Shoes, He Has Made as Big an Impression. He Talks To
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Gucci," says BBC political editor Nick Robintion taking off his immense, heavy-framed bottle-tops, then lifting them up towards his eyes. "They are Gucci." He makes the name of the Italian fashion house sound as if it is a manufacturer of advanced microscopic...
Obituaries: ANN RICHARDS ; Feminist Governor of Texas
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Iattended just one Ann Richards political event. It was in Houston in October 1994, when she was running for a second term as Governor of Texas. She spoke for about 20 minutes, but devoted half that time to a wonderful story about a Chicago barber who...
Obituaries: RAYMOND BAXTER ; Old-School BBC Commentator and Presenter of 'Tomorrow's World'
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With a long background in reporting on motoring and aviation, the Spitfire pilot turned broadcaster Raymond Baxter brought to Tomorrow's World an enthusiasm for science and technology that he communicated to television viewers in calm, measured tones...
OBITUARIES: SILVIU BRUCAN ; Romanian Envoy and Dissident
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When Silviu Brucan spoke up in support of workers' protests against conditions in President Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania in 1987, his voice carried a defiant message in a country where dissent had been almost completely silenced. Brucan's challenge was...
On-Site CHP Plants Save Us 4.5m Tons of of Carbon a Year
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More than 60 per cent of every ton of coal and every cubic metre of natural gas consumed in the UK's main power stations is wasted. This is because while producing electricity, these gas-and steam turbine-based schemes generate vast quantities of high-quality...
Party Would Repeal 'Illiberal Laws' ; LIB DEMS IN BRIGHTON
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A great Repeal Act should be passed to slice away "a generation of illiberal legislation", Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, will declare today. He will launch a campaign to identify obsolete and unnecessary legislation, pledging...
'People Spend More on Hairdressing Than Feeding Themselves Properly' ; the 5-Minute Interview Tom Aikens Chef
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Tom Aikens, 35, opens his new restaurant, Tom's Kitchen, in London next month. My new restaurant is... A very unusual concept. We're doing seven days breakfast, lunch and dinner. The food is simple home style. We're cooking comfort food, traditional...
Peugeot Explores Malaysian Partnership
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Peugeot, Europe's second biggest car manufacturer, is working on a far-reaching partnership agreement with the Malaysian car maker Proton designed to increase its presence in the Far East market. The two companies signed a letter of intent over the weekend...
Phadia Sale to Deepen Concerns over Private Equity Debt
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An impending pounds 1bn-plus sale of the world's biggest allergy testing company looks certain to further fuel concerns that the private equity industry is prepared to heap ever-greater debt on companies in its pursuit of higher returns. Phadia, known...
Poor Countries Will Face Crisis They Did Not Help to Create ; Government Must Act Now to Help Avoid This Great Continental Upheaval
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Global warming is driving increasingly severe extreme weather events. In the week of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, California announced cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, and British politicians lined up to be linked...
Pope's Apology Fails to Placate Muslims
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Pope Benedict XVI has used his first public appearance since returning to Italy from Germany to try to defuse the crisis that has overtaken him since he quoted a Byzantine emperor who described Islam as "evil and inhuman". Speaking to pilgrims from the...
Pope's Apology Fails to Placate Muslims as Violence Goes On
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Pope Benedict XVI has used his first public appearance since returning to Italy from Germany to try to defuse the crisis that has overtaken him since he quoted a Byzantine emperor who describing Islam as "evil and inhuman". Speaking to pilgrims from...
Previews: These Sitters Make for Very Fetching Art ; Visual Arts
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GAINSBOROUGH'S DOGS Gainsborough's House SUDBURY Some grand 18th-century portraits of dogs, painted by Thomas Gainsborough, are going on show at the artist's birthplace in Suffolk. '"Gainsborough's dogs' is not a theme that has been tackled on its own...
Private Sector's Involvement in the NHS Has No Limit, Says Hewitt ; POLITICS
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Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary, has said there should be no limit to the involvement of the private sector in the NHS. Ms Hewitt's remarks risk exacerbating a threatened strike by health unions angry over the award of a contract for the delivery...
Ready to Wear
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There is, finally, a reassuring nip in the air that whispers the fact that autumn is upon us. This is, of course, very good news for those who bow down at the altar of fashion. Summer clothes are all well and good (there is a certain art to buying a...
Reviews: A Glittering, Gritty Interweaving of Characters Struggling with Life ; the Monday Book
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ALLIGATOR By Lisa Moore VIRAGO, pounds 10.99. Order (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897 Off the dark, brooding coast of Newfoundland an Inuit man is found dead in his room in St John's, a young woman makes a desperate bid to save the pine martens, and a Russian...
Reviews: Cheer Up, It's the End of the World ; the Weekend's TV
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THE DOOMSDAY CODE SAT CHANNEL 4 ANGEL CAKE FRI BBC1 SPOOKS SUN BBC1 Life would be so much easier if the end of the world really was nigh. Those letters from the endowment people, telling you that they've mismanaged your money so badly that you should...
Reviews: Sketchy but Brilliant Boy ; Pop
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BADLY DRAWN BOY Arts Theatre LONDON **** Anti-smokers, beware. Mel Smith may have given up cigars to play Churchill in Edinburgh, to placate the anti-smoking lobby, but Badly Drawn Boy will take a lot more persuading. Bolton's most effective one-man...
Reviews: Theatre
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THEALCHEMIST National Theatre: Olivier LONDON **** We live in the age of the supposedly miracle makeover and all the misplaced faith and quackery that that entails. The gullible believe that they can solve the problems of existence via a wonder diet...
Reviews: You Write the Reviews
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MARY BARTON Royal Exchange Theatre MANCHESTER *** Rona Munro's script is a clever adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of Manchester life in the "hungry 1840s", though it is, by necessity, condensed. The opening scene encapsulates a number of events:...
