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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 December 28, 2007
1977: The Year When Scargill Was Spied on by MI5 and Thatcher Got Stuck in the Loo
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Annual revelations from the Public Record Office show our recent history in a new light. Robert Verkaik and Cahal Milmo dig out this year's gemsGEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe public record office in Ireland has released letters in the 1940s between George Bernard...
2007 the Year the Dome Finally Delivered
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Condemned by all as a huge waste of money, it was bankrupt within a month of its opening. Now, seven years on, it is more successful than anyone could have imagined. Saving a white elephantFew of those braving the crowds taking in the splendours of...
A Cruel Saga, Fuelled by Slur and Suspicion
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Since 3 May, when Madeleine McCann disappeared from her bedroom in the Portuguese holiday village of Praia da Luz, there has been no news of her. None at all. This abject fact, however, has not been allowed to get in the way of a good story. In the absence...
A Game of Follow the Leader
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At the start of 2007, few Liberal Democrats thought that 2007 would see them elect their third leader in two years. Sir Menzies Campbell was the highly respected and reassuring figure the party needed to steer it into calmer waters after the ousting...
A Killing That Reverberates Far beyond Pakistan
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benazir BhuttoThere was an appalling sense of inevitability about the death of Benazir Bhutto at an election rally in Rawalpindi. The risk she had taken in returning to Pakistan was brutally apparent from the moment her plane touched down. The failed...
Alner's Emotive Victory Adds Drama to the Listener's Bid to Topple Denman
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Bearing in mind their general reluctance to follow the script - a trait familiar to every punter - British steeplechasers are certainly going to unusual lengths this Christmas to maintain a narrative that is coherent, orderly and utterly engrossing....
Alner's Emotive Victory Adds Drama to the Listener's Bid to Topple Denman
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Bearing in mind their general reluctance to follow the script - a trait familiar to every punter - British steeplechasers are certainly going to unusual lengths this Christmas to maintain a narrative that is coherent, orderly and utterly engrossing....
Alves and Maicon on Chelsea's Pounds 50m-Plus Shopping List
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Chelsea hope to follow the expected signing of Nicolas Anelka when the January transfer window opens next week with the arrival of up to three other new players in what could amount to a stunning transfer spree by the Premier League club.If all their...
Amazon Looks to Diversify after Enjoying Best Christmas Ever
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By Nic FildesAmazon appears to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the high- street slowdown after the online retail giant revealed that rampant demand for Nintendo Wii consoles, blockbuster films such as The Bourne Ultimatum and Apple's latest iPod...
Another Killing That Will Never Be Credibly Solved ANALYSIS
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When a different suicide bomb attack came close to taking her life in October, Benazir Bhutto blamed both extremists opposed to democracy and rogue elements within the government of President Pervez Musharraf.She also demanded a full investigation and...
Arsenal
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Need If Jens Lehmann goes then another goalkeeper; if Lassana Diarra departs, a midfielder. Maybe a striker.Budget Big money signings extremely unlikely. Arsne Wenger is under no pressure to spend.Candidates What's your knowledge of junior African football...
A Society Divided by Its Own Dreams
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This year, Britain woke up to the fact that it has fractured once again into jagged shards of privilege and poverty. Class - the oldest of British subjects - became inescapable, a hot-button issue even in middle-class Middle England. At the top, people...
BAdminton Copenhagen Masters (Den) Men's Singles Group [Derived Headline]
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BAdmintonCopenhagen Masters (Den) Men's singles Group 1: K Beng Hong (Malay) bt P Wacha (Pol) 18-21 21-11 21-16. Group 2: K Jonassen (Den) bt D Palyama (Neth) 21-11 21-10; M Roslin Hashim (Malay) bt D Palyama (Neth) 21-16 21-16. Women's singles Group...
Bankers Rush to Raise Capital
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Merrill Lynch is the latest American bank to go to the sovereign wealth funds of the Far Eastfor finance. Will the UK banks be forced to follow suit? By Sean Farrell Business AnalysisThis week's $5bn (2.5bn) injection into Merrill Lynch from Temasek...
Barton Arrest Compounds Allardyce Pain at Newcastle
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--footballJust when Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United needed it least, Joey Barton was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning in Liverpool city centre. Barton, along with a 19-year-old man and a 27- year-old woman, was taken into custody by...
Barton Arrest Compounds Allardyce Pain at Newcastle
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--footballBy Michael WalkerJust when Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United needed it least, Joey Barton was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning in Liverpool city centre. Barton, along with a 19-year-old man and a 27- year-old woman, was taken...
Barton Arrest Compounds Allardyce Pain at Newcastle
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--footballBy Michael WalkerJust when Sam Allardyce and Newcastle United needed it least, Joey Barton was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning in Liverpool city centre. Barton, along with a 19-year-old man and a 27- year-old woman, was taken...
Benazir Bhutto
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Courageous Pakistani opposition leader who had twice served as her country's prime ministerBenazir Bhutto was often accused of courting martyrdom, and the manner and timing of her death will bestow the status of a martyr upon her. Like her father, Zulfikar...
Benitez Refuses to Apologise for Derby Wobble
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Rafael Benitez emerged from the prospect of a potentially- embarrassing 1-1 draw at Derby County on Boxing Day to see Liverpool's title ambitions improve. And the Liverpool manager is unembarrassed by the good fortune that saw captain Steven Gerrard...
Benitez Refuses to Apologise for Wobble at Derby
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Rafael Benitez emerged from the prospect of a potentially- embarrassing 1-1 draw at Derby County on Boxing Day to see Liverpool's title ambitions improve. And the Liverpool manager is unembarrassed by the good fortune that saw captain Steven Gerrard...
Bhutto's Flaws in Office Cannot Diminish Her Greatness, or the Extent of Pakistan's Loss
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Violence, assassination and murder have followed the Bhutto family like furies throughout the 40-year history of Pakistan. Every member of the family who has shown any political ambition and entered public life has been killed violently. The one exception...
Bloodshed, Bombshells - and New Beginnings
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A fleet of dusty buses containing 800 or so men, women and children and their baggage might be the image that best summed up the most significant shift this year in the world's biggest ongoing news story. A few weeks ago, reports from Damascus confirmed...
Bridge
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A shape-showing bid by a defender can provide the blueprint for bringing home a contract. This hand arose during the round robin stages of the 2007 World Championships, and it was Phillip Alder, bridge correspondent of The New York Times, who highlighted...
British Airways Finalises $4.4Bn Deal for 24 Boeing Super-Jumbos
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By Danny FortsonBritish Airways has finalised a $4.4bn (2.2bn) order for 24 787s, the wildly successful wide-body jumbo jet developed by Boeing.The order, which BA first announced in September as part of the renewal of its long-haul fleet, draws a line...
Brokers Predict FTSE 100 Will Break through 7,000 in 2008
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By Nikhil KumarBrokers and money managers struck a bullish note yesterday about the market's prospects, forecasting yet more gains for equities despite mounting fears of a slump in growth and the possibility of new sub-prime skeletons in 2008.Investors...
Call a Spade a Spade and a Child 'Baroness'
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Not least of the many pleasures of spending some sustained time with my parents-in-law, Anne and Bob, over the festive season is hearing Bob's tales of when he were nobbut a lad working in the collieries of south Yorkshire 60-odd years ago. Every Christmas,...
Chanderpaul Continues Glorious Run
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west indies 408 south africa 122-5A disciplined century from Shivnarine Chanderpaul and an incisive spell by fast bowler Daren Powell put West Indies on top after two days of the first Test against South Africa here in Port Elizabeth yesterday.Chanderpaul...
Chanderpaul Continues Glorious Run
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west indies 408 south africa 122-5By Telford Viceat St George's ParkA disciplined century from Shivnarine Chanderpaul and an incisive spell by fast bowler Daren Powell put West Indies on top after two days of the first Test against South Africa here...
Chess
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The Russian Championship "superfinal" in Moscow is proving a rough ride, with nobody emerging unscathed. Despite a "no quick draw" rule, you'd expect a good proportion of games between players of this class to end peacefully and that has sometimes been...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Chronicle of a death foretoldBy Anne PenkethDiplomatic EditorFrom the moment Benazir Bhutto swept into the President's Room of the RAF club in London for a "farewell" dinner just days before her return to Pakistan, it was clear to see why Western governments...
City's Perfect 10 Denied in Late Controversy of Santa Cruz Goal
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manchester city 2 blackburn rovers 2Sven Goran Eriksson's hastily-assembled squad has delivered more than he might possibly have hoped this season but the one that got away did for his side's 100 per cent home League record last night, just as it seemed...
City's Perfect 10 Denied in Late Controversy of Santa Cruz Goal
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manchester city 2 blackburn rovers 2By Ian HerbertSven Goran Eriksson's hastily assembled group of players has delivered more than he might possible have hoped for this season, but it was the one that got away who - amid no little controversy - did...
Clothing Retailers out of Fashion with Traders
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Market ReportPost-Christmas has been all about the sales, with shoppers climbing over each other to claw Fendi handbags out of the bloody grasp of bitter rivals.The stock market, however, saw little buying and selling activity; although the few traders...
Credit Crisis Takes Its Toll as Property Market Cools
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Mortgage approvals down 40 per cent in a year w Sterling falls to new low against the euroBy Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorThe property market is rapidly cooling, with the credit squeeze beginning to take its toll on Brit-ish housebuyers, according to...
Distinguished Scientist Denied Knighthood for Backing Animal testingScientist Who Backs Animal Experiments Denied a Knighthood
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By Steve ConnorScience EditorA leading British scientist who led the Medical Research Council for five years before stepping down earlier this year has been refused a knighthood in the New Year Honours List because of his outspoken support for animal...
Electronic and Grocery Sales Provide a Festive Fillip
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By Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorDespite signs of a gathering economic storm, or possibly because of them, the British shopper is ending 2007 with one last spree. Retail sales in the run-up to Christmas rose a seasonally-adjusted 2.4 per cent compared...
Employment Rate Set to Slow to Worst Figure for a Decade
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The forecast for the number of new jobs next year is the worst in a decade because private firms are recruiting fewer staff and the public sector is facing severe cuts, a new report warns.Fears are mounting that storm clouds gathering over the British...
Eriksson and O'Neill to Join Big Spenders in the January Sales
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With the transfer window about to open, Jason Burt assesses where the smart money will be going next month, while (opposite) The Independent offers a club-by-club guide to who needs whatThe January transfer window is a time for the desperate - and the...
Eriksson Is Given the Blues by Offside Law's 'Grey Area'
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By Ian HerbertIt takes a fair bit to test the limits of Sven Goran Eriksson's diplomacy, but the decision which denied his team 10 successive home wins last night certainly managed it.The Manchester City manager fell short of directly questioning Darren...
Facebook: Something Just Clicked
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Emily Hilscher's Facebook page contained all the chit-chat and memories you would expect of a 19-year-old freshman veterinary student: grinning pictures from fancy-dress parties, reminiscences about the time she and friends recreated a Spice Girls video,...
Fame & Misfortune
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There may be trouble ahead for the property market, the banking fraternity and the occupier of 10 Downing Street, but for rehab clinics, 2007 was a boom year. Drying-out centres, courthouses, hospital casualty departments, even prisons were stretched...
Fast Learner
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It is clear now that if you cut Lewis Hamilton, there is little evidence of blood. He has a small intake of breath, flicks an invisible gear lever and drives on, a warm/glacial (take your pick) smile in place and a thousand certainties at hand. His father...
Fears for Business-Class Airlines as MAXjet Files for Bankruptcy
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By Danny Fortson Business CorrespondentWhen MAXjet filed for bankruptcy this week, few were surprised. Indeed, as soon as the business class-only airline took to the skies two years ago, analysts began predicting the demise of it or of one of its direct...
Films Will Inspire Tourism Boom to 'Quirkier' Countries
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By Amol RajanAfter a year in which holidaymakers have been warned in ever bleaker terms about the environmental impact of their flights abroad, many forecasters have been predicting a gloomy 2008 for the aviation and tourist industries.But research shows...
Footballer Barton Arrested for Assault
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Joey Barton, Newcastle United's troubled midfielder, was arrested by Merseyside police after an incident in Liverpool city centre in the early hours of yesterday morning.Hours after Newcastle's 1-0 defeat at Wigan Athletic, Mr Barton, 25, is alleged...
For the Record
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Joey "Jaws" Chestnut, of San Jose, California, won this year's World Hot Dog Eating Championship at Coney Island, New York, having consumed 66 in 12 minutes - a world record, but disgusting.Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell broke the world 100 metres record...
France Calls on Chad to Send Six Jailed Aid Workers Home
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By Claire SoaresFrance has requested that Chad return the six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' hard labour for trying to kidnap more than 100 children so they can serve their sentences on home soil.The French Justice Minister, Rachida Dati,...
From Atonement to Zeppelin
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Sooner or later, they all come back. But rarely have they done so in such quantity, and variable quality, as this year. From Led Zeppelin to the Spice Girls, Take That to Madness, the Sex Pistols to The Police. That lot at least had the bulk of their...
From Ruislip with Love
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Celebrate Ian Fleming's centenary with an extra-long Bond stamp, says John WalshYou may notice every special-edition stamp issued by the Royal Mail, and marvel at its elegant tributes to historical figures; then again, you may not notice them at all....
Gadgets, Games - and the Gorilla That Ruled YouTube
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iPhoneThe gadget of the year came, once again, from Apple. The iPhone finally solves the problem of pockets bulging with both phone and MP3 player, providing not only the most attractive model of each device on the market in a single handset, but also...
Heroes (and Zeros)
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Chain smokin'In May, the British Olympic cycling gold-medallist Chris Hoy attempted to break the one-kilometre time-trial record. He just missed out, but in the process he reached the highest ever self- propelled speed on the track - 72kph.The weight,...
Home Baking Is Reheated as Sales of Cookware Soar
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By Jerome TaylorThe plethora of celebrity television chefs encouraging us to go back to our traditional culinary roots and dust off the rolling pins appear to have succeeded in getting Britain baking again.Spurred on by so-called "domestic goddesses"...
How Will Bhutto's Killing Affect This Fragile Country?
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Q: What are the likely political repercussions in Pakistan of Benazir Bhutto's assassination?The killing has dealt a severe blow to the fragile hopes of an orderly transition to democracy in Pakistan and has left the country facing a dangerous future....
'I Am 70, but Today I Feel like an Orphan'
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Another exhausting election rally behind her, Benazir Bhutto waved to the crowd one last time, her head and torso sticking up through the open sun roof of her white jeep. Shots rang out. She slumped back in the vehicle and fell to one side just as there...
Indians Caught off the Pace by Lee's Speed Trap
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--cricket australia 343 & 32-0 india 196Australia took a firm grip on the first Test against India here in Melbourne after Stuart Clark and Brett Lee produced a sustained period of hostile and controlled pace bowling to dismiss India for 196 late on...
Indians Caught off the Pace by Lee's Speed Trap
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--cricket australia 343 & 32-0 india 196By Greg Stutchburyat the MCGAustralia took a firm grip on the first Test against India here in Melbourne after Stuart Clark and Brett Lee produced a sustained period of hostile and controlled pace bowling to dismiss...
Irwin's Widow Aims to Expose Japan's Whale Hunt as a Sham as a Sham
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The widow of Steve Irwin, the self-styled "Crocodile Hunter" who was killed by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef last year, is to conduct scientific research among whales in Antarctica in an attempt to demonstrate that Japan's scientific whaling programme...
'I So Much Want a Fresh Beginning. This Year I Haven't Made Any Resolutions. I've Made Rules'
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My Life In A ColumnI'm just not drinking today because I am unhappy and I'm tired. It's a week away from New Year. I am writing this column now so that I'm not all stressed out, running around looking for a fax machine. My column always has to be typed...
Is Our Love of the Countryside Destroying It?
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When Donald Trump proposed his grotesque development on the shores of Scotland, half golf courses, half Las Vegas hotels, the general reaction was one of abhorrence that such a vast excrescence might be inflicted on a wide and windy stretch of wilderness...
'I Would like to Make House Prices Cheaper for My Pals'
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The5-minute InterviewJones presented his first catwalk collection at the 2003 London Fashion Week and designs for Umbro. Last year he was named MenswearDesigner of the Year.If I weren't talking to you right now I'd be...In Africa on safari. I love...
Joe Dolan
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Chart-topping romantic singerThe Irish entertainer Joe Dolan had international hits with "Make Me an Island", "Teresa" and "You're Such a Good Looking Woman". His powerful voice entranced audiences around the world, but particularly in Ireland, where...
Kenyans Vote amid Fears of Rigging
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By Steve Bloomfieldin KiberaChaos at polling stations and small pockets of violence failed to dampen enthusiasm across Kenya yesterday as the country went to the polls in one of the closest elections Africa has ever witnessed.Early exit polls suggested...
Lampard out for a Month as Chelsea Hit the Limit
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Another day, another key player out. Frank Lampard's torn thigh muscle against Aston Villa on Wednesday means that the midfielder is out for a month and represents another major blow to Chelsea's fading Premier League challenge. The 29-year-old is just...
Lampard out for a Month as Chelsea Hit the Limit
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By Sam WallaceAnother day, another key player out. Frank Lampard's torn thigh muscle against Aston Villa on Wednesday means that the midfielder is out for a month and represents another major blow to Chelsea's fading Premier League challenge. The 29-year-old...
Last Stand of a Lame Duck
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American politics at the end of 2007 is a tale of two countdowns. Just 312 days remain to what is shaping up as the most open, and potentially the most transformative, election of the modern era. And just 387 remain until the victor is inaugurated, and...
Longbridge Plan to Create 10,000 Jobs
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By Danny FortsonBirmingham City Council has unveiled a 500m plan to revitalise the former MG Rover site at Longbridge that has laid near dormant since the car maker went into administration in 2005.The scheme envisages the creation of 10,000 jobs through...
Marit Allen Fashion Editor and Costume Designer 66 [Derived Headline]
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Marit Allen, fashion editor and costume designer, 66; Don Arden, music promoter, 81; Brooke Astor, philanthropist, 105; Maurice Bejart, choreographer, 80; Mark Birley, club proprietor and businessman, 77; Lesley Blanch, writer, 102; Michael Brecker,...
Melons, Eggs and Mountains: The Sporting Year in Quotes
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'It looks like he's pulled a rabbit out of the bag'My dear, my penis is a mountain.Translation of "Mila kura si planina" - as opposed to the correct words to the Croatian national anthem "Mila kuda si planina" ["You know my dear how we love your mountains"]...
Miners in Pole Position at End of Volatile Year
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By Nick ClarkIt has been a volatile year for the London markets, which brought euphoria and despair in equal measure, with the miners set to take the plaudits when the dust settles on New Year's Day.With only two trading days remaining before the end...
Muhammad Ali vs. Brice Lee Who Would Win the Fight? and Other Sporting Questions
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Ever wondered why cyclists shave their legs? Or if darts players need to drink? Or whether there's a motive behind Sharapova's shriek? Nicholas Hobbes answers the questions that have had sports fans stumped for decadesWhy do cyclists shave their legs?In...
NervelessTaylor Revels in His Great Escape
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--dartsBy Paul Newmanat Alexandra PalaceThe BBC probably thought they had the exclusive rights to "The Great Escape" this Christmas, but Sky broadcast their version for the third time in eight days last night as Phil Taylor made another extraordinary...
Never Trust a Journalist's Advice on Brussels Sprouts
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Today I bring you the first post-Christmas advice column, so let's go with the first problem ...Q. When it comes to left-over Brussels sprouts ...A. Stop! Right there! Stop! I shouldn't tell you this, but when a journalist tells you how to dispose of...
New York Prepares to Launch Attack against Alien Invaders
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By Michael VirtanenNew York's fight against exotic pests such as lake-choking molluscs, alien weeds and pine tree attacking wasps will be developed by a new state office.The Environmental Conservation department will involve biologists and foresters...
No Denying the Cold, Hard Facts
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The sheer scale of what happened hasn't sunk in, it probably hasn't sunk in at all, with most people. They're not looking back on 2007 and talking about it, in the office, in pubs or over dinner. Listen to them: they're talking about Brown taking over...
Obituaries
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Isabella blow boris yeltsinBlow was known for many things, but primarily for discovering the designer Alexander McQueen, nurturing new talent and obliterating the view of customers at the Paris couture shows. Teetering on satin stiletto Manolos, wearing...
Obituaries
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michelangelo antonioniBlow-Up was either championed as a multi-layered philosophical enquiry into the basic instability and inscrutability of the photographic image, or else denounced as a complacently exploitative indictment of Swinging London. It seems...
O'Dwyer Outwits Rivals with All-the-Way Success on Whatuthink
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The Paddy Power Future Champions Novice Hurdle drew such a good field to Leopardstown yesterday that it seemed to have been named without the faintest exaggeration. But sometimes the past proves rather more pertinent than the future, and more than two...
O'Dwyer Outwits Rivals with All-the-Way Success on Whatuthink
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By Chris McGrathThe Paddy Power Future Champions Novice Hurdle drew such a good field to Leopardstown yesterday that it seemed to have been named without the faintest exaggeration. But sometimes the past proves rather more pertinent than the future,...
Outsiders
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In July, when the ban on smoking in public buildings was introduced in England, I was in Brazil, a country where men are men (although often they have the secondary sexual characteristics of women), and they like to smoke cigars the size of Amazonian...
Pensioner Who Killed His Wife Was 'Failed by the System'
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By Mark HughesA pensioner with a history of mental illness is believed to have bludgeoned his wife to death with a rubber mallet before apparently killing himself by driving his Smart car into a tree.The body of Sue Goswell, 63, was found with head injuries...
Pop
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mia ICA london HHHHThe Sri Lankan-born, London-based, agit-rapper MIA's success seems to be built around confounding expectation: her abrasive, ghetto world-music beats are more than brainless dance music; rather, they are barbed insights into rarely...
Pregnant Women Urged to Take Vitamin D to Halt Return of Rickets
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By Colin BrownPregnant women and mothers breast-feeding their babies are being advised by the Government to boost their intake of vitamin D in the winter to prevent their child suffering rickets or seizures. The alert was issued by the Department of...
Read Their Lips
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"Why don't you shut up?"King Juan Carlos of Spain replies to the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, after Chavez called Spain's former PM Jose Mara Aznar a "fascist" at a summit in Chile."If you have no eggs, you have no omelette, and it also depends...
Rebel with an Amazing Capacity for Trouble
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A troubled, truculent, violent, outspoken rebel. A one-man war against the establishment. When most football fans think of their least favourite English footballer, there is a good chance that it is Joseph Anthony Barton who appears in their mind's eye.Throughout...
Rebel with an Amazing Capacity for Trouble
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A troubled, truculent, violent, outspoken rebel. A one-man war against the establishment. When most football fans think of their least favourite English footballer, there is a good chance that it is Joseph Anthony Barton who appears in their mind's eye.Throughout...
Rebel with an Amazing Capacity for Trouble
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By Sam WallaceA troubled, truculent, violent, outspoken rebel. A one-man war against the establishment. When most football fans think of their least favourite English footballer, there is a good chance that it is Joseph Anthony Barton who appears in...
Referees Are Just 'Applying Law' on Two-Footed Tackle
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The Referees' board has denied that officials have been ordered to clamp down on the two-footed tackle and say they are merely enforcing existing policy.The two-footed tackle has been under the spotlight recently following a spate of red cards, including...
Referees Are Just 'Applying Law' on Two-Footed Tackle
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By Carl MarkhamThe Referees' board has denied that officials have been ordered to clamp down on the two-footed tackle and say they are merely enforcing existing policy.The two-footed tackle has been under the spotlight recently following a spate of red...
ReQall Launches Mobile Memo Service
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By Nic FildesThe humble paper memo may soon be a thing of the past if a new digital memo service takes off. The device, invented by a team of ex- Apple executives, has just been launched in the UK.ReQall is the latest in a series of high-tech products...
Scottish Clubs' Easy Ride into Europe Likely to Upset English
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--rugby unionEngland's elite clubs love the Heineken Cup, but they do not always like it. They are exasperated by the lack of money generated by a competition of such stature, infuriated by a seeding system that gives the winners of the Italian league...
She Represented a Faint Hope but Now Even That Has Gone
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benazir bhutto 1953-2007By Peter Pophamand Saeed Shahin RawalpindiBenazir Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan and the leading contender to win the forthcoming election there, has been assassinated. She was struck by bullets, then by shrapnel from...
Some Contrarian Reasons for Optimism
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OUTLOOKIt was hard to find an optimistic voice among the ranks of senior bankers and other City dignitaries who attended the Governor of the Bank of England's cocktail party shortly before Christmas. One said that publicly at least it was his patriotic...
Son of Prezza 'Going to Be Stitched Up' in Hull East
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PandoraJust one week before the starting gun is fired in Hull East, there's a blow to the prospects of young David Prescott, 37, who hopes to replace his father John as MP in the Labour seat-for-life.Prezza Snr, 69, will step down at the next election....
'Sports Psychology, What's That All about? It's the Biggest Con of All Time'
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The England legend reveals why his proudest moment as a sportsman came in 2007 - and why the greatest cricketer of all time was not Sir Donald BradmanAs British sport looks back on 2007, one man has more reason than any other to heave a deep sigh of...
Stem Cells - the Great Breakthrough
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Two of the most significant science events of 2007 occurred within the space of a fortnight. The first was when scientists announced that they had been able to clone dozens of embryos from an adult monkey - a technical feat that had eluded researchers...
Teenager's Survival Guide to Living with Aids
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When Yemurai's mother and father died from Aids, she and her two younger brothers went to live with their grandparents. Three years on, her grandmother is showing the symptoms of Aids, contracted through cross-infection when caring for her dying daughter.Yemurai's...
The Battle of Ideas Isn't Over
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It was a roller-coaster year for the Conservative Party and its leader, David Cameron. His lows were so low that his future in his post was being openly questioned by his own party this autumn. But after an effective fightback, he ended the year at a...
The Best of the Best - Our Critics' Choices
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ArtTom LubbockBritish Vision, Museum of Fine Art, GhentNot in Britain, but the most important show of British art for a long time; a revisionist history, demoting romantic landscape, emphasising the documentary and the visionary. A short trip, on until...
The Big Question
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How does the honours system work, and do gongs go to the right people?Why are we asking this now?Because the announcement of the New Year Honours list is upon us, and, with it, headlines of the great and the good who have been given a gong.One man who...
The blaCk Market in Black Gold
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The sturgeon is so endangered that catching the prehistoric fish has been banned. But that won't stop Russia's richest from enjoying their traditional new year treat. Shaun Walker reports on the growing hunger for contraband caviar Appetite for destructionOne...
