Search by...
- Keyword
- Title
- Author
- Subject
- Publisher
Results should have...
- All of these words
- Any of these words
- This exact phrase
- None of these words
Keyword searches may also use the operators
AND, OR, NOT, “ ”, ( )
AND, OR, NOT, “ ”, ( )
The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from September 8, 2006
Online Gaming in Fresh Turmoil after Arrest of Sportingbet Chief
Read preview
Online gambling stocks took a hammering yesterday after US authorities arrested a second internet gambling director, Sport- ingbet's chairman Peter Dicks, amid a crackdown on what they regard as an illegal activity. The 64-year-old Briton was held on...
Paperbacks
Read preview
Rise and Shine By Anna Quindlen HUTCHINSON pounds 11.99 (269pp) The CNN presenter Kyra Phillips may have survived her open mike broadcast from the ladies' bathroom, but the celebrity heroine of Anna Quindlen's fifth novel doesn't override a similar technical...
'Perhaps It Was This Uneasy Feeling That Made Me React So Hysterically to the Next Question: Modern Art: Good or Bad?'
Read preview
If you've been following this column over the past three weeks you'll have noticed that each one is linked to the last. On reflection it occurs to me that certain major themes and preoccupations have emerged. In writing about how I would like to pretend...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles the Preferred Choices of Travel as Britain Gives Walking the Boot
Read preview
Walking has taken another backwards step with the publication of official statistics showing that Britons are making far fewer journeys by foot than a generation ago. Despite official advertising campaigns urging people to stride out for their health,...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles the Preferred Choices of Travel as Britain Gives Walking the Boot ; Figures from the Department of Transport Have Revealed That the Average Person Walked 197 Miles Last Year, Compared to 255 in 1975, While Travelling 5,745 Miles by Car, Twice as Much as in 1975
Read preview
Walking has taken another backwards step with the publication of official statistics showing that Britons are making far fewer journeys by foot than a generation ago. Despite official advertising campaigns urging people to stride out for their health,...
Postcards Kept under Wraps for 40 Years Set to Fetch Pounds 50,000
Read preview
Donald McGill, a bookish draughtsman who once seemed set on a career in naval architecture, had no great pretensions about the bawdy comic postcards that he began designing and selling in 1904. Though millions of people bought them and tittered over...
Poultry Men Admit Playing 'Baseball' with Live Turkeys
Read preview
Two workers at a Bernard Matthews turkey factory have admitting using live birds to play "baseball" in what animal welfare officers described as one of the worst cases of cruelty they have encountered. Daniel Palmer, 27, and Neil Allen, 30, both of Dereham,...
PROFESSOR BILL PARRY ; 11-Plus-Failure Mathematician FRS
Read preview
Bill Parry had a meagre school education but went on be an outstanding mathematician in the field of dynamical systems and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He specialised in ergodic theory, which has close connections with probability theory, statistical...
Regulator to Investigate Bank Charges on Overdrafts
Read preview
The Office of Fair Trading turned its fire on the current- account market yesterday, launching an investigation into the fees which banks levy for going overdrawn, with a view to forcing them to slash their charges next year. The inquiry comes weeks...
Reviews: Classical ; PROM 69: BBC NOW/ OTAKA PROM 70: BBC SO / HAITINK Royal Albert Hall LONDON ***** / ****
Read preview
Finally, a Prom that had it all: metaphysical scorn in Shostakovich, communal joy in music-making through an hour-long Rachmaninov symphony, and a reminder that the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, a decade on from the principal conductorship of Tadaaki...
Reviews: Theatre ; RABBIT Trafalgar Studios LONDON ***
Read preview
There are times when Nina Raine's first play, Rabbit, comes over like a cross between an upmarket Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps and Patrick Marber's Closer. There are other occasions when it gives the impression of being two plays awkwardly...
Reviews: They're Close - but No Cigar ; Dance MAGIA DELA DANZA / DON QUIXOTE Sadler's Wells LONDON *** / ***
Read preview
In Magia de la Danza, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba has a timewarped air. The company is unified and well trained' at its best, the dancing is lively and appealing, technique matched with sunny charisma. Other performances are stodgy, technical displays...
Reviews: When Imagination Falls Short of Reality ; 9/11: THE TWIN TOWERS BBC1 INTERVENTION: WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU CHANNEL4
Read preview
Much of the debate around 9/11 and the US's lack of preparedness for terrorist attacks has focused on the question of imagination: could such an attack have been imagined beforehand? The suggestion that it was imaginable seems to carry the implication...
Reviews: You Write the Reviews. ; SKIN DEEP Tennant Room, Royal Academy LONDON ****
Read preview
This exhibition really is in a single room' it's mainly etchings from the Twenties, but with no trace of Futurism, Vorticism, or even simple Cubism to spice them up' the two artists involved are virtually forgotten' and, most ominous of all, the show...
Rock & Pop: New Releases
Read preview
Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds JIVE ***** Reading recent interviews with Justin Timberlake in which he talks of this album as constituting "a kick up pop's ass", one might imagine he's made some thrilling new breakthrough. One would be mistaken,...
ROCK & POP: Rough with the Smooth ; While John Peel Gave New Pop Acts Radio Space, Rough Trade Gave Them Shelf Space. DAVID SINCLAIR Reports on 30 Years of the Label That Changed Music History
Read preview
Who would have thought that the opening of a single, independent record shop in Kensington Park Road, west London, 30 years ago could have had such a defining influence on the course of popular music? The shop was called Rough Trade, and it changed the...
Rugby League: Kear Finds Fulfilment in Relegation Crunch Clash for Wakefield
Read preview
The Wakefield coach, John Kear, claims to have enjoyed preparing his side for a match that could send them out of Super League as much as the build-up to his famous Cup final triumphs. Kear won the Challenge Cup against the odds with Sheffield and Hull,...
Rugby League: Kear Finds Fulfilment in Relegation Crunch Clash for Wakefield
Read preview
The Wakefield coach, John Kear, claims to have enjoyed preparing his side for a match that could send them out of Super League as much as the build-up to his famous Cup final triumphs. Kear won the Challenge Cup against the odds with Sheffield and Hull,...
Rugby Union: Andrew Adamant England Coach Will Still Have Final Say
Read preview
Sir Clive Woodward always insisted that no modern professional sports team should be picked by committee, so the World Cup-winning grandee is probably relieved to be running the 2012 Olympics rather than the England rugby side. The man who recently beat...
Rugby Union: Andrew Adamant England Coach Will Still Have Final Say
Read preview
Sir Clive Woodward always insisted that no modern professional sports team should be picked by committee, so the World Cup-winning grandee is probably relieved to be running the 2012 Olympics rather than the England rugby side. The man who recently beat...
Russia 'Aiming to Sell 100 per Cent of Rosneft'
Read preview
Rosneft, the state-owned Russian oil company that controversially floated on the London stock market this summer, should be 100 per cent privatised, a senior Moscow official said yesterday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the highly placed Kremlin...
Russia 'Aiming to Sell 100 per Cent of Rosneft'
Read preview
Rosneft, the state-owned Russian oil company that controversially floated on the London stock market earlier this summer, should be 100 per cent privatised, a senior Moscow official said yesterday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the highly placed...
Sardinia's Coastline Protected from Developers
Read preview
Sardinia took a giant step towards saving its coastline for posterity this week when the island's regional assembly approved a law banning construction on 1,100 miles of land near the sea. The law is expected to kill off plans from Silvio Berlusconi's...
Scientists Find Trigger for Fatal Pregnancy Condition
Read preview
Scientists have identified a possible cause of a pregnancy complication that kills thousands of women and babies every year. Abnormal levels of two proteins may trigger the condition pre- eclampsia, a study has found. The discovery could lead to the...
Scottish & Southern Shines on Gloomy FTSE Day ; MARKET REPORT
Read preview
With the FTSE 100 suffering its worst single-day decline since early July, Scottish & Southern Energy provided one of few bright spots for investors to cheer yesterday, as the broker Citigroup upped its stance to "buy" and increased its price target...
SEPTEMBER 11 THE PRICE WE'VE PAID BY JONATHAN RABAN ; the Blow Inflicted on America by September 11 Was Unprecedented in Its Scale and Horror. but Is It Really the Date to Remember? Five Years on, It's Clear That the True Turning Point for the World Came Seven Days Later
Read preview
Woken by the jarring peal of the phone at 5.58am, Pacific time, I heard a friend's voice say, "Turn on your TV! Turn on your TV!" Then she hung up. Groggy with sleep, I clicked the remote, and the screen bloomed into a scene of aghast confusion. I was...
SHARES AND MARKETS: Scottish & Southern Shines on Gloomy FTSE Day ; MARKET REPORT
Read preview
With the FTSE 100 suffering its worst single-day decline since early July, Scottish & Southern Energy provided one of few bright spots for investors to cheer yesterday, as the broker Citigroup upped its stance to "buy" and increased its price target...
'Starting False Rumours and Spreading Gossip Is a Hobby of Mine' ; the 5-Minute Interview Jo Caulfield Comedian
Read preview
Jo Caulfield starts her second nationwide tour this year on 24 September. What are you looking forward to about being on tour? Going to hotels. I never tire of brand-new clean bathrooms and someone cleaning the room the next day. If I weren't talking...
Stiglitz Doubts IMF Will Make Headway on Global Imbalances
Read preview
Finance ministers from around the world gather in Singapore next week for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund but Joseph Stiglitz - the scourge of globalisation - is pessimistic they will make any progress in tackling the global imbalances...
THE ACCEPTABLE FACE OF CAPITALISM ; as One of the World's Top Hedge Fund Managers, Stanley Fink Has Amassed a Fortune of Pounds 180m. but a Health Scare Made Him Reassess His Life - and Now He Has Decided to Give Up His Job to Concentrate on Charitable Work. Finance and Philanthropy
Read preview
Stanley Fink's world changed in late 2004. The chief executive of the Man Group, one of Britain's highest-paid businessmen, was on safari in Botswana with his wife, Barbara, daughter Gabriel-la and sons Jordan and Alexander when he was struck dumb in...
THE ACCEPTABLE FACE OF CAPITALISM ; as One of the World's Top Hedge Fund Managers, Stanley Fink Has Amassed a Fortune of Pounds 180m. but a Health Scare Made Him Reassess His Life - and Now He Has Decided to Give Up His Job to Concentrate on Charitable Work. Finance and Philanthropy
Read preview
Stanley Fink's world changed in late 2004. The chief executive of the Man Group, one of Britain's highest-paid businessmen, was on safari in Botswana with his wife, Barbara, daughter Gabriel-la and sons Jordan and Alexander when he was struck dumb in...
The Big Question: He May Be the Subject of a New Opera, but Is Gaddafi Still a Global Pariah?
Read preview
Didn't he used to be Public Enemy No 1? Certainly there was a time when no self-respecting opera company would have thought of commissioning a work with a title like Gaddafi: A Living Myth as the English National Opera has done. In the 1970s and 1980s,...
The Body Clock Calls Time, Gentlemen, Please
Read preview
Tick, tock, ticktock. Sorry, guys, but the party's over. It's time for your mates to take you out for a quiet pint and gently explain that time is running out. It's time for your mum to send you a little sheaf of press cuttings and a note saying that...
The Body Clock Calls Time, Gentlemen, Please
Read preview
Tick, tock, tick tock. Sorry, guys, but the party's over. It's time for your mates to take you out for a quiet pint and gently explain that time is running out. It's time for your mum to send you a little sheaf of press cuttings and a note saying that...
The Great Givers
Read preview
Bil Gates The world's richest man has said that he plans to move to a part- time role in his company Microsoft by 2008, to devote more time to philanthropy. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's biggest charity, with an endowment of $60bn...
The Great Givers
Read preview
Bill Gates The world's richest man has said that he plans to move to a part- time role in his company Microsoft by 2008, to devote more time to philanthropy. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's biggest charity, with an endowment of $'60bn...
The National Interest Is the Last Thing on His Mind ; LABOUR IN TURMOIL
Read preview
The wonderful thing about politicians is the way that the more naked their ambition, the more they clothe it in terms of public interest. Blair couldn't announce a date for his departure, said his supporters, because power would immediately ebb away...
The National Interest Is the Last Thing on His Mind ; LABOUR IN TURMOIL
Read preview
The wonderful thing about politicians is the way that the more naked their ambition, the more they clothe it in terms of public interest. Blair couldn't announce a date for his departure, said his supporters, because power would immediately ebb away...
Tomkins Shares Hit by US Slowdown
Read preview
Shares in Tomkins crashed yesterday after the engineering group warned of a sharp slowdown in its American car and housebuilding markets. Tomkins, which generates about 70 per cent of its revenues from the US, said profits for July and August would be...
Tomkins Shares Hit by US Slowdown
Read preview
Shares in Tomkins crashed yesterday after the engineering group warned of a sharp slowdown in its American car and house building markets. Tomkins, which generates about 70 per cent of its revenues from the US, said that profits for July and August would...
Tunnel Vision ; the 2012 Olympics Is Set to Change London Overground - and Underground. Here's How
Read preview
London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games will have a legacy that reaches far further than improved sports facilities and a new set of gold-medallists to celebrate. As this map shows, the instantly recognisable multi-coloured spaghetti that...
Two Fijian Families Mourn Soldiers Killed Days a Part
Read preview
They were born within months of each other on the same remote South Pacific island where they grew up fishing and playing rugby. They died three days apart, separated by hundreds of miles, fighting insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yesterday, the families...
Two Fijian Families Mourn Soldiers Killed Days Apart
Read preview
They were born within months of each other on the same remote South Pacific island where they grew up fishing and playing rugby. They died three days apart, separated by hundreds of miles, fighting insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yesterday, the families...
Unions Promise to Give PM a Rough Ride at Conference ; BLAIR: THE ENDGAME
Read preview
Mr Blair has dramatically failed to quell the rebellion among his main union critics and can expect to experience a rough ride at the TUC Congress next week. In his short statement yesterday, he acknowledged that next week's TUC Congress would be the...
Unions Promise to Give PM a Rough Ride at Conference ; BLAIR: THE ENDGAME
Read preview
Mr Blair has dramatically failed to quell the rebellion among his main union critics and can expect to experience a rough ride at the TUC Congress next week. In his short statement yesterday, he acknowledged that next week's TUC Congress would be the...
US Congressman Savages BP for 'Years of Neglect'
Read preview
A congressional committee grilled top executives of BP's US operations yesterday, accusing the company of gross neglect of corrosion problems that came close to shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oilfield in Alaska, and denouncing BP's "notorious track record"...
US Congressman Savages BP for 'Years of Neglect'
Read preview
A congressional committee grilled top executives of BP's US operations yesterday, accusingthe company of gross neglect of corrosion problems that came close to shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, and denouncing BP's "notorious track record"...
Video Claims to Show Bin Laden with Hijackers
Read preview
For the fourth time in just eight days, George Bush tried yesterday to focus the country on his handling of the "war on terror", insisting that his administration had made the US far safer in the five years since the 11 September terror attacks. "We...
Warning over Sugar Level in Sports Drinks
Read preview
Britain has among the highest rates of obesity and lowest levels of exercise in the world, yet research shows that we are also one of the top consumers of sports drinks and foods in Europe. The UK spent pounds 180m on products branded for athletes in...
'War on Terror' Makes the US Safer, Says Bush
Read preview
For the fourth time in just eight days, George Bush tried yesterday to focus the country on his handling of the "war on terror", insisting that his administration had made the US far safer in the five years since the 11 September terror attacks. "We...
Watchdog Ruling Hits Pounds 7bn Thames Water Sale
Read preview
The water regulator dealt a blow to the forthcoming sale of Thames Water yesterday by announcingplans to strengthen the ring- fencing of the company to prevent any future owner removing cash or assets from its regulated business. The so-called "cash...
Watchdog Ruling Hits Pounds 7bn Thames Water Sale
Read preview
The water regulator dealt a blow to the forthcoming sale of Thames Water yesterday by announcing plans to strengthen the ring- fencing of the company to prevent any future owner removing cash or assets from its regulated business. The so-called "cash...
Watchdog to Probe Bank Charges on Overdrafts
Read preview
The Office of Fair Trading turned its fire on the current- account market yesterday, launching an investigation into the fees which banks levy for going overdrawn, with a view to forcing them to slash their charges next year. The inquiry comes weeks...
Watch Round the Clock
Read preview
BEFORE 6PM Racing 1.15 PM CHANNEL 4 The two-day St Leger meeting, climaxing in the last classic of the year (which is less lustrous now that top horses are bred for speed not distance), moves to York while Doncaster is being redeveloped. Two Rode Together...
'We Are like a Porno Film' ; Leningrad Are Banned from Moscow. They Sing about 'Corruption, Politics, Religion, Sex'. Ah, That Explains It
Read preview
If you thought the gypsypunk theatrics of Eugene Hutz and his band Gogol Bordello were a one-off, you won't have heard of Leningrad. This 15-piece Russian ska/punk/salsa/rock/gypsy/hip-hop outfit, formed by Sergey Shnurov in St Petersburg in 1997, are...
We Should Relish Forgotten Art
Read preview
Coverage of the Hayward Gallery's new exhibition How to Improve the World - drawn from the Arts Council Collection - has understandably tended to emphasise what you might call its curatorial coups - the Bridget Riley, bought for a snip, or the Turner...
West Bank Fragmented by Occupation
Read preview
The Israeli pressure on Palestinian cities, towns and villages on the West Bank is now so heavy that their inhabitants doubt their own ability to survive. The 540 Israeli checkpoints and barriers so fragment this small piece of territory that they are...
What Difference Would a Brown Government Make? ; BLAIR: THE ENDGAME
Read preview
What would Gordon Brown do as Prime Minister? It is the biggest unknown in British politics. Critics claim the inscrutable Mr Brown has deliberately concealed his agenda. Although he has said little about some issues, notably foreign policy, he wants...
Who Wins at the Mobos? ; Britain's Biggest Celebration of Black Music Is Entering Its Second Decade amid Derision
Read preview
Back in the day, the Mobo Awards was simply the business. From the moment Soul II Soul's Jazzy B proudly clutched that glittering statuette for his outstanding contribution to music in 1996, to So Solid parading their kudos by rushing the stage after...
Woman in Vegetative State Responds to Commands
Read preview
A 23-year-old woman left in a vegetative state after suffering brain damage in a road accident more than a year ago is capable of understanding and responding to certain commands, scientists claimed yesterday. Despite being unable to move or speak, the...
World Markets
Read preview
London TheFTSE100 suffered sharp losses for the second straight session, hit by interest rate worries, with miners such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto among the biggest losers. Shares in Party Gaming fell 10 per cent after the online bookmaker Sporting...
World Markets
Read preview
London The FTSE 100 suffered sharp losses for the second straight session, hit by interest rate worries, with miners such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto among the biggest losers. Shares in Party Gaming fell 10 per cent after the online bookmaker Sport-ingbet...
Yell Shares Surge as Price Controls Are Eased
Read preview
The Competition Commission has performed an about-face in the UK directories market after proposing an easing of price controls on Yell, owner of the ubiquitous Yellow Pages, from April 2008. The surprise decision sent Yell shares up as much as 10 per...
You Couldn't Make This One Up If You Tried
Read preview
Whatever other delights the week in Westminster has offered so far - and you'd want a six-volume encyclopedia to catalogue each individual merriment - the one most indelibly branded on the memory comes from the magnificent "Farewell Tour" memo. That...
You Couldn't Make This One Up If You Tried
Read preview
Whatever other delights the week in Westminster has offered so far - and you'd want a six-volume encyclopedia to catalogue each individual merriment - the one most indelibly branded on the memory comes from the magnificent "Farewell Tour" memo. That...
