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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 8, 2005
Aberdeen in Pounds 265m Deal for Deutsche Bank Arm
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Aberdeen Asset Management's assets under management are set to treble after it clinched a pounds 265m deal to buy Deutsche Bank's struggling UK fund management arm. Aberdeen is funding the deal through a pounds 215m rights issue fully underwritten by...
Acambis in Talks to Buy US Vaccines Business
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Acambis, the biotech company best known for its smallpox vaccine, is negotiating a transforming acquisition of the vaccines business of the US pharmaceuticals group Baxter International. A deal would bring the loss-making Acambis about $150m (pounds...
Al-Qa'ida Says It Killed Egyptian for Being 'Ambassador of Infidels'
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Al-Qa'ida in Iraq claimed it had killed the top Egyptian envoy in the country, kidnapped in Baghdad last Saturday, saying he represented a 'tyrannical' government, 'Jews and crusaders'. The claim said: 'We, al-Qa'ida in Iraq, announce that the judgement...
Arroyo Asks Cabinet to Resign but Says She Will Stay
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the beleaguered Philippine President, has said she will not step down but asked her cabinet to resign to give her the freedom to push her economic reform agenda. Ms Arroyo, who has been under mounting pressure to resign over...
At Times like This, Everyone Is Self-Centered
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The first I heard was when my neighbour Althea dropped by, at about half nine. 'There's been a big explosion at Liverpool Street,' she said, so we rushed to switch on BBC News 24. What the broadcasters told us was soothing and plausible. A power surge...
Bank Stays Calm, City Panics ; Interest Rates Kept on Hold W Shares Fall Sharply but Regain Ground W Pound Hits 18-Month Low
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The Bank of England held its nerve yesterday in the face of the terrorist outages in London by refusing to be panicked into cutting interest rates. But in the financial markets the reaction was more jittery, with the FTSE 100 index falling 4 per cent...
Books: A Race against the Clock ; Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J M Barrie by Lisa Chaney HUTCHINSON Pounds 20 (402Pp) Pounds 18 (Free P&p) from 0870 079 8897
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James Barrie made more money than any writer on record. At the height of his achievements, with several plays running at any one time, his annual income was staggering. As was his fame: at his death in 1937 the nation fell into mourning; in Kirriemuir,...
BOOKS: A Week in Books
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The Grand March of history has trudged back into fashion. Sometimes (as in Hyde Park during Live 8) the vast gathering for progress now takes the form of a gentle bopping on the spot. Sometimes (as in Edinburgh) the old tramp down city streets survives....
Books: BOOK OF A LIFETIME ; HOWARDS END E M FORSTER
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When I made a list of the novels that I felt had been important in my development as a writer, I was a little surprised to find that so many of them centred on a house: the vast, sparkling halls of Mansfield Park, the brutalised arcades of wartime Brideshead,...
Books: Elementary, My Dear Barnes ; Julian Barnes's New Novel Resurrects Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Real-Life Mystery. He Talks to ROBERT HANKS about History, Speculation " and Sex
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Every writer of fiction must identify to a degree with his narrators, whether first-person, omniscient or unreliable. It's occurred to me that Julian Barnes may feel some particular kinship with the narrator of the first chapter of his A History of the...
Books: Flesh and Spirit in Siberia ; the People's Act of Love by James Meek CANONGATE Pounds 12.99 (391Pp) Pounds 11.99 (Free P&p) from 0870 079 8897
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Let's keep a sense of proportion. This novel isn't Tolstoy, and it certainly isn't Kafka. (Have those responsible for the jacket puffs ever read Kafka?) But it is an ambitious work, authentically Russian-flavoured, and unusual both by virtue of its subject...
Books: Flight from the Crone with Cream Liqueur ; Swallowing Grandma by Kate Long PICADOR Pounds 12.99 (307Pp) Pounds 11.99 (Free P&p) from 0870 079 8897
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Novels about bright Northern girls battling with their families before escaping through academic success are almost a sub-genre. Atkinson, Byatt, Drabble, Forster, Gardam, Mantel, Winterson " they march across our literary landscape towards a New Jerusalem....
Books: New Winds of Change ; the State of Africa by Martin Meredith FREE PRESS Pounds 20 (768Pp) Pounds 18 (Free P&p) from 0870 079 8897
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In the time it takes to watch an all-day pop concert in Hyde Park, anyone looking for an understanding of Africa's problems can and should read Martin Meredith's authoritative analysis of the post- independence continent. The writer, who is as even-handed...
Books: The Ancestor of All Activists ; the Life and Adventures of William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams HARPERCOLLINS Pounds 20 (333Pp) Pounds 18 (Free P&p) from 0870 079 8897
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He wrote a grammar book, brought the American elm to England, became the first anti-potato campaigner, opposed birth control, and wrote some of the greatest journalism in the language. William Cobbett was one of the first champions of working people...
Books: The Sacred Slaughterers ; Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult by Mike Dash GRANTA Pounds 20 (356Pp) Pounds 18 (Free P&p) from 0870 079 8897
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Thug is an Anglo-Indian word referring to a cult of wandering highwaymen, adept in the art of strangulation by a piece of material no more than 1m in length. This organised, ruthless, swift and elusive fraternity was active in India for nearly two centuries...
Bridge
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We have at our club a large and muscular player. Fortunately for South and East, he is of a gentle disposition. South opened 1NT (15-17) and North jumped to Three No-Trumps. West led the queen of diamonds, and declarer could see that, despite a combined...
Centrica Gets Revenge on Cazenove
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Centrica yesterday dropped JP Morgan Cazenove and ABN Amro's Hoare Govett as corporate brokers. The gas and electricity utility said it replaced them with Goldman Sachs and UBS. Cazenove " Britain's biggest broker and stockbroker to the Queen " is already...
Charterhouse Buys Washroom Group for Pounds 600m
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Charterhouse Capital Partners, the private-equity firm, bought the British washroom services company PHS Group yesterday for pounds 600m. Stuart Simpson, a founding partner of Charterhouse, said: 'PHS has successfully grown into one of the UK's leading...
Chess
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After the inevitable early scrum, the first serious leader to emerge at the European Championships in Warsaw was the Swiss Vadim Milov, who went clear with the excellent game below against the Polish No 1 Michal Krasenkow. Milov's lead lasted only one...
Classical: EAST NEUK FESTIVAL Various Venues FIFE HHHH
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A series of eight chamber and medium-scale orchestral concerts may seem small fry in the great sea of British arts festivals, but the first East Neuk Festival, in Fife, showed unique potential. It is a perfect location with some stunning settings " hardy...
Cultural Life: Johnny Marr, Musician
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Books There are a lot of books in the house and an extensive bookcase in the bedroom, so I usually have two or three going at once; very rarely fiction. The best thing I've read recently is The Fourth Way by Peter Ouspensky; it's a study and guide to...
Dance: A Fusion of Many Worlds ; ZERO DEGREES Sadler's Wells LONDON
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At first there are the figures, two life-size facsimiles of the dancers Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, created by the sculptor Antony Gormley. Then there is language, spoken by the dancers sitting cross-legged on stage. Delivered simultaneously,...
Don't Count Your Proverbs before They're Hatched
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Today, as my parting gift before I go on holidays, I am bringing you another helping of Albanian proverbs. If you haven't met them before, Albanian proverbs are very different from ours. Ours are dry and common sense. Look before you leap. Don't count...
Don't Trash It, Rehash It ; Instead of Adding to Landfill Sites, Thousands of People Are Swapping Their Unwanted Goods Online. Jini Reddy Reports
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Some of us wanting to get rid of junk that's gathering dust will fill up a charity collection bag, and leave it outside the front door. But usually we don't give much thought to the fate of our clutter once it has been carted off. We're simply relieved...
Endangered Wildlife under Threat from Duke's Plan to Drill for Gas
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One of Britain's richest landowners plans to boost his family fortune by drilling for gas in an area of outstanding natural beauty in the heart of Surrey's protected heathlands. The Duke of Northumberland, worth pounds 300m last year, has leased land...
Femme Fatale Breaks Cover in Baugur Case
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Further light was shed on the nature of the investigation into Jon Asgeir Johannesson, Baugur's chief executive facing fraud charges, by a prosecution witness yesterday. Jonina Benediktsdottir, the ex-girlfriend of Jon Asgeir's father, Johannes, has...
Film: Build His Praises High ; as the NFT Celebrates Robert Mitchum's Career, GEOFFREY MACNAB Recalls a Star Who Was the Epitome of Laid-Back Style
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'It's a sin for an actor to get rich'; 'I just do it for the money'; 'In 26 years, all I've changed is my underwear'; 'I've played everything except midgets and women'. Leaf through the old interviews with Robert Mitchum and these are the remarks that...
Film: Mr Orange Lightens Up ; Tim Roth Made His Reputation by Playing a Series of Hard Cases. JAMES MOTTRAM Meets the Man Who Once Personified the Inarticulate Outsider
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Tim Roth may be a 44-year-old family man with an Oscar nomination on his CV, but there's still something quite punky about him. As a teenager he could be found in Camden's infamous venue, The Music Machine, shouting 'kill the hippies'. Today, wearing...
Film: NEW RELEASES - A Real Disaster Movie ; Overnight (15) Tony Montana & Mark Brian Smith (82 Mins) Iiii8; STARRING Troy Duffy
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The frustrations of the wannabe Hollywood player go at least as far back as William Holden's failing writer in Sunset Boulevard, and, more recently, they've been the mainspring of some fine comedies. Think of Steve Buscemi as the indie director trying...
FRIDAY LAW REPORT: Insufficient Evidence of Direct Sexual Contact ; 8 JULY 2005 Re D (Children: Contact Order) ([2005] EWCA Civ 825) Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Clarke and Sir William Aldous) 6 July 2005
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Findings by the judge in care and adoption proceedings that the father had had direct sexual contact with his children were not supported by the evidence. The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of a father against findings in care proceedings that he...
G8 Fence Guarded by Armed Police as Security Increases
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Anti-G8 protesters and police were in a tense stand-off yesterday as groups of demonstrators probed the outer defence perimeter of the Gleneagles Hotel. Riot police were called in after a small number of demonstrators were spotted next to the fence at...
In New York, We Know How You Feel
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It was hard yesterday in New York to watch the news coming in from London. Our hearts were suddenly one with yours, never mind that we are so far away. Because we know how it is with you at the moment. We also have a fairly good idea how it will be for...
Insurance Losses Capped by Scheme
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The insurance industry was assessing last night the financial cost of the terrorist attacks that rocked central London. Pool Re, the government-backed insurance scheme set up to cover terrorism claims, is likely to pick up the tab for the damage to the...
It's Time to Go on a Low-Carbon Diet ; the G8 Summit Is Due to Release Its Final Communiqu on Climate Change Today, but Unless It Recommends Rationing Carbon Emissions, Argues Mayer Hillman, It's Not Worth the Paper It's Written On
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Last summer, substantial extracts from the newly published book How We Can Save the Planet (Penguin Books), which I wrote with Tina Fawcett, were featured in The Independent Review. All that has happened since then reinforces its emphatic conclusions....
Karadzic's Son Seized by Troops in Bid to Find Bosnian Serb Leader
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Nato troops in Bosnia have detained Aleksandar 'Sasa' Karadzic, the son of one of the most wanted war crimes suspects, Radovan Karadzic. Aleksandar, 32, was arrested yesterday at his home in Pale, the Bosnian Serb wartime stronghold close to Sarajevo....
LAST NIGHT'S TV: Like Watching Grass Grow ; Ground Force " a Garden for Africa '05 BBC1 Trauma Africa BBC1 My Fair Kerry ITV1
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My new theory about prime-time television is that you are not expected to watch it at all, not in the sense of devoting attention to what is happening on screen. Obviously, the broadcasters want you to have it on, but they're not assuming you'll use...
Leading Article: TERROR IN LONDON: We Must Not Allow This Atrocity to Undermine Our Open Society
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The terrorist attack all had expected finally came to London yesterday, to the shock of everyone. Just as the city was still glowing from the success of its bid for the 2012 Olympics, and the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was leading the opening...
Letter: Defeat the Enemy, but Hold on to the Vision of a Better World
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Sir: When 9/11 happened I was living in Boston. I was woken up on that bright morning by a phone call from my parents in London asking 'Are you all right? Please tell us you are not in New York!' Several minutes later, I switched on the TV just in time...
Lord's Match in Doubt as Blasts Leave Sport with Moral Dilemma
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England's one-day cricket international against Australia at Lord's on Sunday is in doubt following yesterday's bomb blasts in London. The England and Wales Cricket Board will hold urgent discussions today with the MCC, the Metropolitan Police and other...
MARKET REPORT: Stagecoach Resilient in Face of Terrorist Attacks
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Share prices lurched downwards at 9.57am yesterday, when it became clear there had been more than one 'incident' on London's Underground. They lurched downwards again at 10.17am when the first newsflashes came through indicating an explosion on a bus...
My Life in a Column: What Is So Wonderful about Meercats Is That They Have a Truly Egalitarian Society
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I didn't expect to be crying today. I didn't expect to be afraid. My London, my beautiful city, my home, has been filled with an evil fear. These atrocities are unforgivable, but that's all I'm going to say, the show must go on. Old witch, shall we try...
NEW RELEASES: Charlotte Church Tissues and Issues SONY BMG Ii888
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It was revealing to hear Charlotte Church all but damning Joss Stone with faint praise on some TV show the other day, explaining how her own forthcoming album would feature a whole range of styles, compared to Joss's singular approach (good as that was)....
Notes from a Shaken City ; Has Life in the Capital Changed for Ever? or Can Londoners Take It in Their Stride? Eight Writers Share Their Responses to the Atrocities
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WILL SELF, NOVELIST On 11 September 2001, shortly after the plane had crashed into the first of the Twin Towers, my wife and I got back from lunch with our infant son and put on the rolling-news channel. She was instantly gripped by the unfolding events...
OBITUARY: ED MCBAIN ; Master of the Police Procedural in the '87Th Precinct' Novels
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The writer who became better known as Evan Hunter and world- famous as Ed McBain once admitted that as Salvatore Lombino, the name he was born with, it would have been difficult to make any kind of headway in the world of American paperback publishing...
OBITUARY: JOHN JACKSON ; Mountaineer and Outdoor Educationist
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John Jackson was a member of the British expedition that in May 1955 made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga, at 28,169ft (8,586m) the third highest mountain in the world, which rises in ethereal splendour north of Darjeeling. His love of the Himalaya...
Opera: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD Almeida Theatre LONDON HHHH
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Veterans of bedtime-story duty have had many, many chances to think about the subtexts to Little Red Riding Hood. Paranoid delusions, child abuse, gerontophilia " we've been there. So it is a relief, both in George Aperghis and Stephen Jeffreys' short...
Outlook: Now Shell Dances to Russia's Tune Too
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BP has taken the direct route into Russia, buying a half stake in the country's second biggest oil company TNK, with all the risks and rewards which that entails. Shell, on the other hand, has opted for the more cautious, piecemeal approach of acquiring...
Outlook: The Terrorists Can Try Their Damnedest, but the Bank of England, for One, Won't Be Moved
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It is only possible to speculate on how the terrorist attacks played during yesterday's meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, as agitated officials brought news of the horrors unfolding outside. By the time the meeting closed, it...
POP: RILO KILEY Koko LONDON HHHH
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Fted by critics and adored by a small but growing band of devotees, Rilo Kiley have spent seven years inching towards a breakthrough. At last, the signs are there: this show had to be moved from the modestly sized Scala to the 1,800-capacity Koko to...
Rap Shooting Trial Collapses over Police's Failure to Release Papers
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A mistrial has been declared in the wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of the murdered rap star Notorious B.I.G. The rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was shot dead as he left a party in Los Angeles in 1997. He had been with...
ROCK & POP: Back to the Future ; the Raveonettes Tell KEVIN HARLEY Why the Best of Music's Back- Catalogue Keeps Them Moving Forward
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If there's one thing we know about The Raveonettes, a band who sound both of the moment and straight out of 1955, it's that they love their pop history. Happily, pop history loves them back, as their new single, a California-dreamy take on girl-band...
ROCK & POP: Can't Buy Me, Love? ; Pop-Music Merchandising " from Energy Drinks to Dolls " Is Bigger Business Than Ever before. FIONA STURGES Finds out Why
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I remember, as if it were yesterday, the day in 1986 that I bought my first rock T-shirt. The band was The Smiths, though the face on it was Oscar Wilde's, one of Morrissey's heroes. By wearing it I was not only pledging my allegiance to a group, I was...
ROCK & POP: The Minister of Cool ; after Four Decades of Taking His Country's Music around the World, Gilberto Gil Is Making His Mark on the Brazilian Political Stage. by PHIL MEADLEY
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Gilberto Gil must be one of the coolest government ministers on the planet. Three years ago, after 40 years of iconic superstardom, he accepted the position of Brazil's Minister of Culture from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. These days, music takes...
ROCK & POP: The Story of Our Success ; They Were One of Glastonbury's Highlights, but Their Debut Album Isn't Even out Yet. CHARLOTTE CRIPPS Meets Editors
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If you'd mentioned Editors six months ago, anybody would have thought you were talking about newspapers, not an indie band. But now they've played at Glastonbury and the Wireless Festival, their third single, 'Blood', is out on Monday and their debut...
Shell Moves Deeper into Russia with Gazprom Swap
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Shell signalled its determination to expand further into the Russian oil industry yesterday by signing a multi-billion dollar deal to swap assets with the state-owned gas producer Gazprom. The agreement, signed in London by the Shell chief executive...
Talking Jazz
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Last weekend Oscar Peterson received a Lifetime Achievement gong at the BBC Radio Jazz Awards. The great OP is without the second of his long-term double bassists, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, who died aged 58 in April, and, judging by his last album,...
Television's Class Struggle ; Will Television Ever Stop Caricaturing the Working Classes? MICHAEL COLLINS, Winner of the Orwell Prize, Examines the Uphill Struggle for Small-Screen Realism
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By way of an appetiser to the current BBC series A Portrait of Britain, its presenter, David Dimbleby, introduced a clip from his first television appearance, 50 years earlier, as the Lake District provided the setting for both programmes. The previous...
TERROR IN LONDON: ALDGATE EAST 'Smoke Poured into the Carriage, but We Couldn't Break the Windows'
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At 8.50am, Manjit Dhanjal was sitting on a packed Circle Line train between Aldgate East and Liverpool Street station, on her way to work in the City. 'There were a few sparks and I thought it was just a power surge,' Miss Dhanjal, 26, said. 'Then I...
TERROR IN LONDON: Burns, Fractures and Head Injuries That Will Cause Lifelong Disabilities
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The injuries suffered by victims of the attacks were typical of explosions and will in some cases cause lifelong disability, doctors said. They include burns, smoke inhalation, fractures, head injuries and internal injuries caused by the sheer physical...
TERROR IN LONDON: CHAOS IN THE CAPITAL: Day of Disaster the Emergency Planners Hoped Would Never Come
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The moment that London's emergency planners had long dreaded came moments before 9am. As news reached Scotland Yard of a second explosion in five minutes on a Tube train, it became obvious that the terrorist attack they feared inevitable was under way....
TERROR IN LONDON: CHAOS IN THE CAPITAL: How an Everyday Journey for City Workers Became a Nightmare
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London's already creaking transport system collapsed following yesterday's blasts, with severe delays and cancellations crippling the Tube, trains and buses. Motorists were stuck in traffic jams as Londoners fled the city and anyone wishing to travel...
TERROR IN LONDON: Clarke Set to Rush through Emergency Arrest Powers
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Ministers are expected to rush through measures to arrest and detain suspects accused of acts associated with terrorism as an immediate reaction to yesterday's bombings. A draft Bill outlined in the Queen's Speech in May set out plans to create offences...
TERROR IN LONDON: Commuters Fight through Travel Chaos: THE LONG JOURNEY HOME ; for Millions, It Was Neither Business as Usual nor Business Entirely Suspended. Instead, a Day of Distracted Work Gave Way to an Evening of Transport Meltdown. John Walsh Found the City Streets Packed with Stressed, Frustrated but Surprisingly Stoical Commuters
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Many people's eyes were fixed on one building after 9am, yesterday. Canary Wharf Tower stood stolidly gleaming in the fitful sunshine as though advertising itself as the largest available target to anyone with a grudge against the British people. The...
TERROR IN LONDON: Dozens Die in Worst Attack since Second World War
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Like millions of other Londoners, Michael Henning began his daily Tube journey to work yesterday with the confetti from the joyous Olympic celebrations of the day before still strewn about the streets of the capital. Heading from Kensington to his offices...
TERROR IN LONDON: EDGWARE ROAD: Darkness, Soot and Silence. and Then Screaming
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It was another mundane morning commute for Circle Line passengers, until at 9.17 at Edgware Road station their west-bound Tube train was shattered by an explosion that ripped metal apart and reduced windows to shards of flying glass. The occupants were...
TERROR IN LONDON: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS: 'I Saw Bodies on the Track ... It Was So Horrific'
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HEATHER BARNETT, 29, WITNESSED THE EDGWARE ROAD AND TAVISTOCK SQUARE BLASTS ON HER WAY TO WORK IN FARRINGDON: I was on the Hammersmith and City line, pulling into Edgware Road station, when I heard a bang. It must have been on one of the other trains....
TERROR IN LONDON: EYEWITNESS: 'I Saw Bodies on the Track ... It Was So Horrific'
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HEATHER BARNETT, 29, WITNESSED THE EDGWARE ROAD AND TAVISTOCK SQUARE BOMBS ON HER WAY TO WORK IN FARRINGDON: I was on the Hammersmith and City Line, pulling into Edgware Road station, when I heard a bang. It must have been on one of the other trains....
TERROR IN LONDON:Forced to Close
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n THEATRE All West End shows were cancelled last night, including Billy Elliott (right), Les Misrables, and Phantom of the Opera. The National Theatre called off performances on the Olivier and Lyttelton stages. The Barbican also cancelled its events....
TERROR IN LONDON: G8 MEETING AT GLENEAGLES: 'This Is a Very Sad Day, but We Will Hold True to the British Way of Life'
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A defiant Tony Blair returned to Gleneagles last night to chair the G8 Summit after declaring that the British way of life would not be changed by the terrorist attacks. Although he did not mention al-Qa'ida by name, the Prime Minister identified the...
Terror in London: Germany
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Germany stepped up security on public transport and around British and American embassies in an immediate response to the London attacks as police called on the government to impose tougher measures to combat the terrorist threat. Demanding tighter controls...
TERROR IN LONDON: How the Journey to Work Turned into a Nightmare
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London's already creaking transport system collapsed following yesterday's blasts, with severe delays and cancellations crippling the Tube, trains and buses. Motorists were stuck in traffic jams as Londoners fled the city and anyone wishing to travel...
TERROR IN LONDON: HUNT FOR THE BOMBERS: Suicide Bomber May Have Caused Explosion That Ripped Apart Bus
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The timing of the bombings, on the opening day of the G8 Summit, and the coordinated devastation they caused, appears to be a resounding propaganda coup for al-Qa'ida and its supporters. For the police and the security services it was a severe failure...
TERROR IN LONDON: HUNT FOR THE KILLERS: Briefcase Bombs and Possible Suicide Attack Point to Al-Qa'ida
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The timing of the bombings, on the opening day of the G8 Summit, and the co-ordinated devastation they caused, appears to be a resounding propaganda coup for al-Qa'ida and its supporters. For the police and the security services it was a severe failure...
TERROR IN LONDON: INTERNATIONAL REACTION: 'These Acts Cut Us All to the Core'
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European Union 'A terrible event can happen at any time. We cannot let down our guard. We are working every day, and in a co-ordinated way in all the EU countries. Unfortunately there are times when one cannot prevent [a terrorist attack].' Javier Solana,...
Terror in London: Italy
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The increasingly unpopular deployment of Italian troops in Iraq by the government of Silvio Berlusconi has left Italians nervous since the terrorist attack on a Madrid train in March last year in which 191 people died. Now the London blasts could cost...
TERROR IN LONDON: 'I Thought We Were All Going to Die. I Was Waiting for a Fire'
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Zeyned Basci escaped from her packed Tube train bloodied and shaken after a blast ripped it apart hundreds of feet underground. Ms Basci, 21, of Edmonton, who works for Barclays Bank, was on the Piccadilly Line and the train had just pulled out of King's...
TERROR IN LONDON: KING'S CROSS: For Hours, Convoys of Ambulances Took Away the Victims
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There was a blinding red flash and the lights blacked out. Within seconds, passengers on the packed Piccadilly Line Tube heading south from King's Cross to Russell Square were choking in thick, black smoke. It was 8.56am. Twenty-one passengers were dead...
Terror in London: London under Attack: The Blitz
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Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were; that the upper lip is more often wobbly than stiff. And then you get something like this. I was in my...
Terror in London: London under Attack: The Ira Campaign
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We've been here before. Thirty years ago, London was the target of a sustained and vicious terror bombing campaign, the perpetrators at that time being the Provisional IRA. Beginning in 1973, it was a period of atrocities in which many Londoners died:...
TERROR IN LONDON: MEDICAL RESPONSE: Many Patients Were in Floods of Tears, Shaking with Deep Shock
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The first sign staff at St Mary's hospital, Paddington, had that July 7 was going to be an exceptional day was when they received a text message at 9.26am that read: 'Major incident at St Mary's " please attend.' It was part of the NHS's long-rehearsed...
TERROR IN LONDON: MUSLIM REACTION: Muslims Told Not to Travel as Retaliation Fears Grow
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Karim Mohammed has spent two years developing an air of multi- cultural harmony at his Lebanese Halal restaurant on Edgware Road but, in the eerie aftermath of the explosions, he feared it might be in ruins. 'Everyone is subdued and people are wondering...
TERROR IN LONDON: My City, My Faith, Both Abused
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On Wednesday I was at the pretty St Mary's church in Primrose Hill, giving a talk as part of a series: Visions and Values: Tales from a Globalised World. We were elated; our London had won against impressive competition to get the 2012 Olympic Games....
TERROR IN LONDON: OLYMPICS: City Can Still Deliver Safe Games, Says IOC Chief
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Leaders of London's successful Olympic bid conceded yesterday that no city could completely protect itself from terrorist activity after the bomb attacks in London. 'I'm totally distraught,' said the bid chief executive Keith Mills. 'This goes to underline...
TERROR IN LONDON: Predicted Bomb Attacks Reveal Intelligence Gaps on Al-Qa'ida
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It was the attack Britain's police and intelligence chiefs had been predicting, and dreading. Despite spending millions of pounds on counter-terrorism, having some of the world's most advanced surveillance equipment, and a nation supposedly on high alert,...
TERROR IN LONDON: Psychological Trauma May Last for Years
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Survivors of yesterday's bomb blasts are likely to experience widespread and long-term psychological trauma. Femi Oyebode, head of psychiatry at Birmingham University, said there were three stages in a person's response to a trauma such as a bomb blast...
TERROR IN LONDON: REACTION: 'It Isn't Ideology, It's an Attempt at Mass Murder'
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KEN LIVINGSTONE, MAYOR OF LONDON: I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class...
TERROR IN LONDON: Rush-Hour Bomb Attacks Kill Dozens and Injure 700
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Like millions of other Londoners, Michael Henning began his daily Tube journey to work yesterday with the confetti from the joyous Olympic celebrations of the day before still strewn about the streets of the capital. Heading from Kensington to his offices...
Terror in London: Russia
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Russia has been forced to live with the grim reality of terrorism since 1994, when Moscow first sent its troops into the southern republic of Chechnya to quell separatist sentiment there. Since then Chechen extremists have consistently targeted ordinary...
TERROR IN LONDON: TAVISTOCK SQUARE: 'I Watched as the Anxious Man on the Bus Kept Going into His Bag'
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As the rich and powerful gathered to talk politics and money amid the splendour of the Gleneagles Hotel, life on board the No 30 bus from London's Hackney to Marble Arch went on much as it always did. People stared out of the bus windows. Drivers nosing...
TERROR IN LONDON: 'Terrorists Will Never Destroy What We Hold Dear'
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The text of Tony Blair's speech on the London explosions at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles: 'I'm just going to make a short statement to you on the terrible events that have happened in London earlier today. And I hope you understand that at present we...
TERROR IN LONDON: THE ECONOMY: Shock Hits Markets around the World
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It is a blow to London, a blow to Britain, and also a blow to the entire world economy. The tragic human consequences of the terrorist attack should, in any reasonable sense of values, stand far ahead of the economic ones. But there is some economic...
TERROR IN LONDON: THE PRIME MINISTER: Triumph Turns to Tragedy for Blair Whose Legacy Now Has Darker Hue
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Since the 9/11 attacks in America, Tony Blair has repeatedly spoken about the chilling warnings in intelligence reports about the terrorist threat in Britain. It has not been an easy argument to make, given the Government's wholly discredited use of...
TERROR IN LONDON: The Reality of This Barbaric Bombing
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'If you bomb our cities,' Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, 'we will bomb yours.' There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush's 'war on terror' and his...
TERROR IN LONDON: Those Responsible for Dealing with Terror Must Be Given the Powers to Do So
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An appalling attack takes place and we look to the politicians for leadership, explanation and resolve. Yesterday, the rolling news channels switched from the bleak pictures of London in the aftermath of a terrorist attack to the House of Commons for...
TERROR IN LONDON: Travel Today
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TUBE Most of London Underground network is expected to run normally today after overnight security checks on stations and trains. It is thought, however, that there could be disruption on the northern part of the Circle line and stretches of the Metropolitan...
TERROR IN LONDON: TRAVEL: Tourist Industry Prepares for Surge in Cancellations
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The aftermath of the murderous attack that the London Mayor and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police had predicted will have a lasting impact on the capital's economy, of which tourism is an important part. Although yesterday's attack was not...
TERROR IN LONDON: UNITED STATES: 'Each of Our Countries Has Experience of Terrorism' ; All of the G8 Nations Have Been Targeted by Extremists over the Years, from the Attack on the World Trade Centre in New York to the Beslan School Siege in Which 172 Children Were Killed
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The apparently co-ordinated bombings in London have come as a stark reminder to Americans that terrorists are capable of striking anywhere in Europe, and presumably in the mainland US. Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security Secretary, said yesterday...
Theatre: Bickering as an Art Form ; PRIVATE LIVES / MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Theatre Royal BATH HHH
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Peter Hall has had the bright idea of running Private Lives and Much Ado About Nothing in rep during his third summer season in Bath. They make enjoyably suggestive sparring partners. Both focus on witty, bickering couples who can't be together for five...
THE CHARTS: Books
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HARDBACK FICTION 1 Cross Bones Kathy Reichs (William Heinemann) pounds 17.99 2 The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella (Bantam) pounds 16.99 3 Eleven on Top Janet Evanovich (Headline) pounds 14.99 4 Arthur & George Julian Barnes (Cape) pounds 17.99...
The Charts: Film
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UNITED KINGDOM 1 (-) War of the Worlds (US) Steven Spielberg pounds 8,644,787 2 (1) Batman Begins (US) Christopher Nolan pounds 1,370,100 3 (2) Mr & Mrs Smith (US) Doug Liman pounds 727,703 4 (3) Star Wars: Episode III... (US) George Lucas pounds...
