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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 March 3, 2009
Admiral Sails Ahead despite Market Trend
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Market Report ADMIRAL bucked the market trend last night, gaining 2.3 per cent or 20p to 875p as investors bought in ahead of the insurers full- year results.The stock was one of only four blue-chips to close in the black as the FTSE 100 struck new lows....
A Lesson in Drinking from the Scots
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When the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group sits down with government ministers tomorrow morning it wont be very long, one assumes, before the conversation turns to Scottish beer. And it wont be the qualities of Orkney Skullsplitter or Arran Blonde that...
Am I Too Old for the Bank to Finance My Business?
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ADVENTURES IN MICRO-BUSINESS Professor Russell Smith answers your queries, and profiles a small business facing a big challenge Q At 59, am I too old for the banks to consider lending money to my new business venture?A Not at all. A recent Business Link...
Amlin: The Best of a Good Insurance Bunch
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Investment Column Our view: BuyShare price: 350.75p (+7.75p)When The Independent polled a series of professional investors at the start of the year, one of the most popular names picked out as a potential winner in 2009 was Lloyds insurance group Amlin.With...
A Recession Can Be a Good Time to Start Your Own Business
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Analysis As in previous recessions, new businesses are being seen as a way out of the downturn. People being made redundant or not able to find jobs are urged to, in effect, create their own work by starting their own businesses.This is not necessarily...
Are Shark Attacks on the Rise, and Can Anything Be Done about Them?
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The big question Why are we asking this now?There has been a spate of shark attacks on bathers swimming in Sydney, the most recent occurring on Sunday when a 15-year-old boy was badly injured. He became the third shark-attack victim in as many weeks....
As the World Sees It
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Christianity and crisisNEW YORK TIMESTalk about the economy is everywhere, and the same things are being said. Were in a deep hole. We may not be able to dig ourselves out. We are underwater. Our assets are overwhelmed by our debts, which keep growing....
Benitez Call to Arms Lost in Pit of Despair
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Liverpool manager tries, and fails, to be positive in time for visit of Sunderland No title once again and, with the new fight for second spot with Chelsea apparently beginning tonight, no Fernando Torres. Little wonder Rafael Benitez looked glum yesterday...
Benitez Call to Arms Lost in Pit of Despair
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Liverpool manager tries, and fails, to be positive in time for visit of Sunderland No title once again and, with the new fight for second spot with Chelsea apparently beginning tonight, no Fernando Torres. Little wonder Rafael Benitez looked glum yesterday...
Benitez Call to Arms Lost in Pit of Despair
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Liverpool manager tries, and fails, to be positive in time for visit of Sunderland No title once again and, with the new fight for second spot with Chelsea apparently beginning tonight, no Fernando Torres. Little wonder Rafael Benitez looked glum yesterday...
Big Ideas Create Little of Interest
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VISUAL ARTS RONI HORN Tate Modern, London ** Tate Modern is currently hosting two exhibitions on its fourth floor. At the eastern end, film clips show us scenes of turbulence the flourish of bayonets, the teeming of people. These raw images are announcing...
Bridge
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A game that looked doomed, given the layout, was successfully brought home courtesy of not one, but two endplays. The hand is from the final of the United States Bridge Championship, with the victorious team gaining the right to represent North America...
Brown Takes Gift to Obama and Hopes for Finance Pact
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Pen holder made of same wood as President's desk symbolises 'historic ties' GORDON BROWN will attempt to win the backing of the worlds most powerful man today for his blueprint to rescue the global economy from the worst recession for half a century.Mr...
Care Returns to Domestic Duty
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RUGBY UNION THE England scrum-half Danny Care, whose needless charge on Irelands Marcus Horan earned the player a yellow card and incurred manager Martin Johnsons wrath, has been released to Harlequins for the coming weekend.Care is one of 17 red-rose...
Care Returns to Domestic Duty
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RUGBY UNION THE England scrum-half Danny Care, whose needless charge on Irelands Marcus Horan earned the player a yellow card and incurred manager Martin Johnsons wrath, has been released to Harlequins for the coming weekend.Care is one of 17 red-rose...
Chess
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The Veselin Topalov vs Gata Kamsky match came to its conclusion in Sofia on Thursday in victory for Topalov after the dramatic final game below.As early as game 2, it had become apparent that Kamsky faced not just one enemy in this match but two: in...
Chinese Art Dealer Exacts Revenge over Bronzes
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A wealthy Chinese art collector announced yesterday that he had sabotaged the auction of bronze rat and rabbit heads that were sold for $31m (28m) in Paris last week despite furious objections by Beijing.Cai Mingchao revealed that he was the anonymous...
Cinema Ouagadougou
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Forget Cannes, Venice and Berlin - if you're passionate about film, Burkina Faso is the place to go, writes Katrina Manson Sitting next to David Ouasali brings out how much local African cinema means to its viewers, who often dont speak the languages...
Classical
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MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA / VANSKA Barbican Hall, London **** Osmo Vanska is clearly a very good thing for Minnesota. You can sense when an orchestra is raising its game, pushing its boundaries, and playing to the limit of its possibilities. That was the...
Clean Pair of Heels
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Dwain Chambers is drug-free and faster than ever. He tells Simon Turnbull of his aim to challenge Usain Bolt Dwain Chambers is not the first London character to head to Turin looking for gold. It was in the northern Italian city that Michael Caine, in...
Clean Pair of Heels
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Dwain Chambers is drug-free and faster than ever. He tells Simon Turnbull of his aim to challenge Usain Bolt Dwain Chambers is not the first London character to head to Turin looking for gold. It was in the northern Italian city that Michael Caine, in...
Cook Can't Hide England Faults
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ENGLAND 600-6dec & 233-2 WEST INDIES 749-9 dec WHATEVER happened to England yesterday they were being confronted with a bitter truth. They had to fight diligently to save the fourth Test and with it the series against the West Indies a series that barely...
Cook Can't Hide England Faults ENGLAND 600-6d & 279-2d WEST INDIES 749-9 Dec Match Draw
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IN salvaging a draw from the fourth Test yesterday, England were confronted with a bitter truth. They came to the West Indies barely a month ago expecting and expected to win the series at a canter.That estimation needed a readjustment at the first time...
Corpus Christi Stripped of Their 'University Challenge' Title
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Most popular series in years ends in controversy after contestant breaks rules RECORD AUDIENCES followed, last night, by a final, savage twist of controversy when the BBC dramatically stripped the winners of University Challenge of their title and...
Credit Crisis Diary
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Morgan Stanley loses its nerve at the lastFull credit to Morgan Stanley, whose Asian analysts were the first to predict that HSBC would launch a substantial rights issue while cutting its dividend. The analysts were ridiculed for the suggestion when...
Credit Suisse Calls for a Strategic Rethink at Marks & Spencer
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Marks & Spencer came under fire yesterday from analysts who are sceptical about the strategy pursued by its executive chairman, Sir Stuart Rose, in recent years, and argued that the beleaguered company is suffering from its own misjudgements as much...
Desperate Bid to Save Gardens from Killer Fungus
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Government acts to counter threat to trees It is the greatest threat to Britains trees since Dutch elm disease 40 years ago, and a major campaign will be launched today to stamp out the killer fungus phytophthora.Two forms of the disease, from the same...
Don't Believe the Greenwash
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So you drive a Prius, eat organic and boycott anything made in China - but will that help to fight climate change? Simon Usborne faces the facts many ecologists would rather ignore CUTE ANIMALS WILL HAVE TO DIEYou may not have come across the Bewicks...
Elegant, Mature and Back on Track
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POP JOSS STONE Oran Mor, Glasgow *** Joss Stone has a particular habit thats either sweetly endearing or hugely annoying, depending on your point of view. When shes onstage and she addresses her crowd, straightforward conversational sentences come out...
From Rural Saga to Cruel Slaughter
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The Tuesday Book GUERNICA By Dave Boling PICADOR, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 After his mother dies in childbed, and his father swiftly follows with a mortally broken heart, Justo Ansotegui...
German Car Firm 'Used Hair from Auschwitz'
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Rolls of textiles made by Schaeffler 'contain hair from 40,000 death camp inmates' One of the pillars of German industry, the giant but debt- crippled Schaeffler car parts supplier, was accused yesterday of using hair shorn from at least 40,000 Auschwitz...
Go Native Can Aid Meade's Recovery
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RACING WHILE IT has long been feared that Cheltenham might one day condemn Noel Meade to some kind of sanatorium, it was not supposed to happen like this. Meade goes into hospital today for a back operation, and even a man whose bittersweet Festival...
Go Native Can Aid Meade's Recovery
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RACING WHILE IT has long been feared that Cheltenham might one day condemn Noel Meade to some kind of sanatorium, it was not supposed to happen like this. Meade goes into hospital today for a back operation, and even a man whose bittersweet Festival...
Go Native Can Aid Meade's Recovery
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RACING WHILE IT has long been feared that Cheltenham might one day condemn Noel Meade to some kind of sanatorium, it was not supposed to happen like this. Meade goes into hospital today for a back operation, and even a man whose bittersweet Festival...
Good Schools and Bad Policy
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LEADING ARTICLE IT IS only a year since the Government unveiled a bold new policy on secondary school admissions. Local councils were given the ability to allocate places to over-subscribed schools through a lottery system.This was intended to counteract...
Great Ape
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Kafka's tale of a monkey morphing into a human is coming to the stage. Alice Jones watches spellbound as Kathryn Hunter gets into character In a white-walled rehearsal studio in Waterloo, Kathryn Hunter muse to Peter Brook and Mike Leigh, artistic associate...
Hiddink to Copy United Blueprint for Success
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FOOTBALL Manager calls for Chelsea to start thinking ahead if they are to close gap at top 'I don't know if people are scared of him. I was not' Guus Hiddink admitted yesterday that Manchester United had left the rest of the Premier League behind and...
Hiddink to Copy United Blueprint for Success
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FOOTBALL Manager calls for Chelsea to start thinking ahead if they are to close gap at top 'I don't know if people are scared of him. I was not' Guus Hiddink admitted yesterday that Manchester United had left the rest of the Premier League behind and...
Hiddink to Copy United Blueprint for Success
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Guus Hiddink admitted yesterday that Manchester United had left the rest of the Premier League behind and Chelsea would have to copy Sir Alex Ferguson's strategies if they were to have any hope of competing with them in the future. The Dutchman said...
How Generation Y Can Transform Companies
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Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World By Don Tapscott McGraw-Hill, Pounds 15.99 The world in which Don Tapscott wrote this book was rather different from the one in which it has appeared. A couple of years back, Britain, Western...
How the Smell of Rotten Eggs Makes Men Randy
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Scientists take eight transsexuals and a whiff of hydrogen sulphide to begin making an alternative to Viagra A MALODOROUS gas behind the smell of rotting eggs has been found to play a key role in giving men erections. Scientists believe the discovery...
How United Downloaded Victory out of Left Field
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Baseball pioneered iPod tactic for technological coup in Carling Cup shoot-out MANCHESTER UNITED copied from baseball the idea of using an iPod to give Ben Foster tips on which way Tottenhams players would take their penalties in Sundays Carling Cup...
How United Downloaded Victory out of Left Field
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Baseball pioneered iPod tactic for technological coup in Carling Cup shoot-out MANCHESTER UNITED copied from baseball the idea of using an iPod to give Ben Foster tips on which way Tottenhams players would take their penalties in Sundays Carling Cup...
How United Downloaded Victory out of Left Field
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Baseball pioneered iPod tactic for technological coup in Carling Cup shoot-out MANCHESTER UNITED copied from baseball the idea of using an iPod to give Ben Foster tips on which way Tottenhams players would take their penalties in Sundays Carling Cup...
How Your Office Makes You Sick
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From long hours at your desk to keyboards that harbour more germs than loo seats - working life can be a real health hazard. Rob Sharp offers survival tips Vertebrae-skewing chairs, Mr Angry for a boss, an air- conditioning unit thats a ticking time-bomb...
HSBC Rues Household Deal as It Raises Pounds 12.5bn
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Bank writes off $10.6bn and shuts US sub-prime unit HSBC finally admitted that its $15bn (11bn) acquisition of the sub-prime lender Household was a mistake yesterday as it launched a 12.5bn UK record rights issue to shore up its balance sheet against...
HSBC's Blockbuster Rights Further Rattles Skittish Investors
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Outlook So that wasnt so difficult, was it? After years of denial, HSBC has admitted that the acquisition of the US sub-prime lender Household was a mistake and put the business into run-off. That Household was a blunder was obvious to everyone else...
'I Decided Not to Eat the Sad, Rubbery Food I Was Given'
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A piece bemoaning poor food and service in some British restaurants brought an impassioned response from our readers Well, I certainly got a strong reaction to my piece last week. Dozens of readers agree with me that too many places serve up over- priced...
If We Go Down the Road of Protectionism, Disaster Awaits
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Podium TRADE has become another casualty of the global economic crisis. The slump in demand and the difficulties to access trade finance have led to a significant contraction of the world trade. According the current estimates, world trade will contract...
In a City Divided by Past and Present Charlton Proves Constant Who Unites
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Sir Bobby Charlton was an apprehensive 15-year-old when he arrived in Manchester. He stepped off the train at Exchange Station in an ankle-length pea-green raincoat into which his mother Cissie had assured him he would one day grow.She was right, and...
In a City Divided by Past and Present Charlton Proves Constant Who Unites
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Sir Bobby Charlton was an apprehensive 15-year-old when he arrived in Manchester. He stepped off the train at Exchange Station in an ankle-length pea-green raincoat into which his mother Cissie had assured him he would one day grow.She was right, and...
In a City Divided by Past and Present Charlton Proves Constant Who Unites
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Sir Bobby Charlton was an apprehensive 15-year-old when he arrived in Manchester. He stepped off the train at Exchange Station in an ankle-length pea-green raincoat into which his mother Cissie had assured him he would one day grow.She was right, and...
Insurance Giant AIG Posts Worst Loss in US Corporate History
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THE US TREASURY joined with the Federal Reserve yesterday in unveiling a new package of assistance measures to AIG, the insurance goliath, including an additional $30bn (21bn) in loans, as the company reported losses in the fourth quarter of 2008 totalling...
Israeli Advancements in Technology Benefit Us All
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Analysis For a relatively small country, it would be fair to say that Israel punches above its weight in science. Some of its research organisations, such as the Weizmann Institute and the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, are acknowledged worldwide...
'It Gave Us Hope'
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Aged five, Annabel Freyberg's daughter was diagnosed with a rare and deadly cancer. Amid the fear, the family drew comfort from finding themselves at the cutting edge of medical research Information comes at you thick and fast when your child is seriously...
'I Think Our Naivety May Have Helped Us'
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PROFILE ME AND MY PARTNER Henry Braham and Glynis Murray work in the film industry - but launched Good Oil in 2004 after stumbling across hemp seed oil's nutty taste and nutritional benefits. Today, the company has a turnover of Pounds 1m Henry BrahamGlynis,...
Last Man Standing?
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When Ukip won 2.7 million votes it vowed to become the third force in British politics. Ben Russell on a party in meltdown What a difference five years make. The morning after the previous European elections, the UK Independence Party (Ukip) was emerging...
Lord Dearing
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Civil servant whose 1997 report paved the way for the introduction of university tuition fees Lord Dearing, who has died aged 78, helped shape Britains education system, functioning not as a politician or civil servant but as a deus ex machina, summoned...
Markets Dive as World Economy Reels from the Financial Crisis
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FTSE 100 hits lowest level since Iraq war WORLD STOCK markets have suffered yet another day of dramatic sell-offs, with share prices in the UK plunging more than 5 per cent after a slew of dire economic reports and more turmoil in banking and financial...
Minister Murdered Wife Who Uncovered His Affair
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Body of BBC make-up artist dumped in woodland by cheating husbandA SPIRITUALIST minister who killed his wife when she discovered his infidelity has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years after being found guilty of murder.David Chenery-Wickens, 52, killed...
Misfit Bentley on Hit-List as Spurs Plan Summer Clear-Out
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The Pounds 15m midfielder could be the highest-profile casualty in Redknapp's attempt to bring balance to his squad. By Jason Burt Down in the mixed zone at Wembley Stadium the area beside the dressing rooms where sometimes reluctant players briefly...
Misfit Bentley on Hit-List as Spurs Plan Summer Clear-Out
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The Pounds 15m midfielder could be the highest-profile casualty in Redknapp's attempt to bring balance to his squad. By Jason Burt Down in the mixed zone at Wembley Stadium the area beside the dressing rooms where sometimes reluctant players briefly...
Misfit Bentley on Hit-List as Spurs Plan Summer Clear-Out
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The Pounds 15m midfielder could be the highest-profile casualty in Redknapp's attempt to bring balance to his squad. By Jason Burt Down in the mixed zone at Wembley Stadium the area beside the dressing rooms where sometimes reluctant players briefly...
Mr Brown Must Close the Gap between Rhetoric and Reality
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LEADING ARTICLE The Prime Minister's trip to Washington offers him hope of salvation Whenever British prime ministers travel to Washington they inevitably take with them a suitcase packed with cliches about the special relationship. Doubtless, Gordon...
Nation on the Brink of Bankruptcy
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Ukraine is so broke the nation is expecting to be cut off this week for failing to pay the gas bill, reports Mary Dejevsky from Kiev When the United States sneezed, Old Europes banks caught a heavy cold, and New Europes mini-tiger economies have succumbed,...
Nature Notebook
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Lured from my den by a scent of springIts not only bears and things which hibernate. I dont know about you, but I seem to undergo a hibernation of sorts through the months of December, January and February: one inside my head. I mean that I find Outside...
News in Brief
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Season of the switchThe price comparison and switching site uSwitch.com has launched a service to help Britains estimated 4.7 million small businesses obtain a better deal on energy. The move is in response to growing numbers of calls from SMEs keen...
Opinion Is the Only Thing That Can Curb Drinking
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Analysis After smoking, is drink the next target for social prohibition? The signs are there. And not just in Britain, where the image of the drunken yob has become part of folklore.In Australia the government has launched a fierce campaign on the theme...
Pandora
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Labour line up Prezza in new charm offensiveTIME WAS when John Prescott was considered the Labour partys foremost electoral liability.Who can forget the last campaign in 2005 when he reportedly told one young local reporter to bugger off, not to mention...
Peter Hubbard
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Lives Remembered Peter Slingsby Hubbard died in Mexico on 3 December 2008. An inspired writer and pioneering teacher, his endless patience encouraged students and friends across an enormous range of interests, from tennis, photography, and cuisine, to...
President Shot Dead in Palace as Rebel Troops Take Revenge
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Violence leaves 'no one in charge' of Guinea Bissau Army chief assassinated in bomb blast THE TINY West African nation of Guinea Bissau was a country with no one in charge last night, after the President and army chief of staff were murdered within...
Proteas Crushed by Fiery Johnson
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AUSTRALIA 466 & 207 S AFRICA 220 & 291 Australia won by 162 runs After HOURS of intense effort on a grudging surface the Australians secured a handsome victory by 162 runs over notoriously slow-starting opponents punished for their poor play on the opening...
Proteas Crushed by Fiery Johnson
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AUSTRALIA 466 & 207 S AFRICA 220 & 291 Australia won by 162 runs AFTER HOURS of intense effort on a grudging surface the Australians secured a handsome victory by 162 runs over notoriously slow-starting opponents punished for their poor play on the opening...
Ramdin's Coming of Age Fuels Windies Revival
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Comment IT wasnt in the script for the West Indies to be ahead in the series entering the last Test. England appeared to regard this as simply an uncomplicated warm-up for the real challenge of the Ashes series against Australia in the summer.The West...
Ramdin's Coming of Age Fuels Windies Revival
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Comment IT wasnt in the script for the West Indies to be ahead in the series entering the last Test. England appeared to regard this as simply an uncomplicated warm-up for the real challenge of the Ashes series against Australia in the summer.The West...
Rescue Our Record Shops!
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Indie stores everywhere are closing - but we can still save them, says Elisa Bray Many of my teenage days were spent in Camden, at tiny, sweaty gigs or in independent record-shops. As a ritual, before gigs we would amble into the little shops along the...
Right on the Tipping Point
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Last Night's Television REVENGE OF THE BINMEN CHANNEL 4 GROW YOUR OWN DRUGS BBC2 Last Thursday I was driving along the A4440 outside Worcester when someone in the car in front of me tossed a carton out of the window. Since we were both travelling at...
Science Museum Accused over Links to Israel
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Protesters claim it is promoting universities that aided recent military assault on Gaza Science Museum takes a hardline stance against 'political protesters'Science Museum to proceed with exhibition despite political protest The Science Museum, one...
Scotland to End 'Pocket Money' Prices for Drink
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SNP plans crackdown on happy hours and new minimum price for alcohol SCOTLAND WILL enter a new age of temperance under radical plans aimed at curbing endemic drinking in a country with some of the worst alcohol abuse rates in the world.Ministers unveiled...
Shares Crash as Savers Raid Pounds 8bn from Accounts
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The pressure of an intensifying recession saw British companies and households launch an 8bn raid on their savings in January, according to the figures from the Bank of England.As stock markets round the world slumped to record lows yesterday, with the...
Society Pages
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Hit & Run... If a girls already got her own successful fashion line, contemporary art gallery, billionaire boyfriend and knockout good looks, what else could she possibly wish for? The editorship of a glossy magazine, of course. Dasha Zhukova, 27, girlfriend...
Teenager Placed with Family Raped Toddler
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Britain in brief COURTS A teenage sex offender placed in the care of a family as part of a scheme run by his local social services raped their two- year-old son and sexually assaulted their nine-year-old daughter. The 18-year-old, who was taken in by...
Theatre
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ISFAHAN CALLING Old Red Lion, London ** You never like to give too much away when there are thriller elements involved, but to disclose fully what happens in Philip de Gouveias new play about a covert propaganda exercise in the desert would be as futile...
The Bank's Pounds 200bn Gamble
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The Bank of England will this week announce its intention to flood the economy with 'helicopter money', its latest attempt to tackle the recession. Sean O'Grady reports What is quantitative easing?It is economists jargon for what is more colloquially...
The BNP Is Mining a Rich Seam in Our Former Coalfields
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NEWARK in Nottinghamshire likes to claim that it is the birthplace of British democracy. It was here that the English Civil War climaxed, and that King Charles was handed over to the Scottish Army, and to eventual execution.This small, attractive market...
The No-Food Diet
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Fasting for one day each month unlocks a world of health benefits and can add years to your life. Hugh Wilson explains the science of starvation - and puts his willpower to the test Starvation, youd think, is never a good idea, and subjecting yourself...
The Ten Best Rock Biographies
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The DirtTOMMY LEE, MICK MARS, VINCE NEIL AND NIKKI SIXX WITH NEIL STRAUSS7Dirt details in the most explicit and graphic detail the antics of the cock-rock metallers Mtley Cre. With first-hand tales from the band members, it offers a voyeuristic glance...
Thinking outside the Box
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PROFILE Nicolas Bouve, head of the renowned chocolatiers Godiva, tells Virginia Matthews why he feels bullish despite the gloom As early Easter treats go, a tooth-friendly chocolate designed to be eaten before bed, a brainpower-enhancing chocolate enriched...
Tony Osborne
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Composer and arranger who worked with Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland and Eartha Kitt Tony Osborne was devoted to making music. He was a talented trumpeter and pianist but he made his mark as a gifted arranger on many successful singles and albums during...
Tories Most Trusted with Economy
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THE CONSERVATIVES have overtaken Labour as the party that is most trusted to handle the economic crisis, according to a poll for The Independent.The ComRes survey suggests David Cameron is winning over former Liberal Democrat supporters as he builds...
Two Leaders Intent on Mutual Benefit
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You have to hand it to the army of Conservative-supporting columnists and bloggers that dominate the British media. For weeks they speculated gleefully that Gordon Brown might not be the first European leader to visit President Obama. Some wondered even...
US Education Arm Boosts Pearson Profits
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PEARSON, the group that includes the Financial Times and Penguin Books, is bucking the publishing trend by raising its dividend following strong performance in 2008.Overall group revenues grew 8 per cent to 4.81bn last year, adjusted operating profits...
US Pledges to Help Stricken Gazans
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Clinton takes first step to secure 'comprehensive' Arab-Israeli peace deal The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, pledged help to Gazas 1.5 million stricken inhabitants and projected it as the first step in a drive by the Obama administration to...
Virus Forces Murray out of Davis Cup Test
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TENNIS World No 4's withdrawal means Britain face Ukraine with very inexperienced side The British Davis Cup squads worst fears were realised yesterday when Andy Murray withdrew from the tie against Ukraine beginning in Glasgow on Friday. The world...
Virus Forces Murray out of Davis Cup Test
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TENNIS World No 4's withdrawal means Britain face Ukraine with inexperienced side The British Davis Cup squads worst fears were realised yesterday when Andy Murray withdrew from the tie against Ukraine beginning in Glasgow on Friday. The world No 4,...
We Need a Villain - and Sir Fred Is Our Man
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Every drama must have its villain. Sir Fred The Shred Goodwin, erstwhile boss of Royal Bank of Scotland, is perfectly cast for this role in the production called The Credit Crunch. As his nickname suggests, Fred Goodwin was already famed for his chilly...
'What's Obama Doing in Denim and Trainers? Back to the Skinny Suits, Please'
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Tales of the City The Orange-winning novelist Linda Grant has been sounding off about her new book, The Thoughtful Dresser, in which she makes a heartfelt plea for the importance of clothing in our lives. Ms Grant, who likes to sport designer frocks...
What's So Special about Us?
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Comment The odd British ambassador in Washington revels in it. But most cringe when they hear the expression, and at least one has tried to ban it. None, however, can escape it. Whenever a Prime Minister travels to meet a new President, the state of...
Why Arsene's Beautiful Game Is Now a Thing of the Past
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Fan's Eye View Wenger's Arsenal have lost their loveliness, argues Nick Coleman. Instead, he manages a smug side betrayed by a flawed vision of its own superiority There is a new game being played during the long hours of tedium endured by spectators...
Why Arsene's Beautiful Game Is Now a Thing of the Past
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Fan's Eye View Wenger's Arsenal have lost their loveliness, argues Nick Coleman. Instead, he manages a smug side betrayed by a flawed vision of their own superiority There is a new game being played during the long hours of tedium endured by spectators...
