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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 June 16, 2008
A Costume Drama for Grapple Fans
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Performance LUCHA LIBRE Roundhouse LONDONWhat is life like for a Mexican wrestler who fights in the lucha libre style? The luchador Mystico de Juarez, also known as Incognito, from El Paso, Texas, is one of 16 top Mexican masked wrestlers coming to the...
A Road Less Travelled
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You'd have to be mad to hitchhike - wouldn't you? After all, anything could happen. Is it even possible, in these fearful times, to catch a free ride across Britain? Simon Usborne braves the loneliness of the long-distance thumberIn the kind of rain...
Austria Demands Heroes but History Favours Germans
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Austria v Germany Today, 19.45, Vienna, BBC1Austria may not be a football nation but tonight the country will stop for a football match. Austria v Germany is Scotland v England multiplied. The imbalance between the teams is greater, the historical enmity...
Austria Demands Heroes but History Favours Germans
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Austria v Germany Today, 19.45, Vienna, BBC1Austria may not be a football nation but tonight the country will stop for a football match. Austria v Germany is Scotland v England multiplied. The imbalance between the teams is greater, the historical enmity...
Beenhakker Offers Mother-in-Law of All Battles
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Poland v Croatia Today, 19.45, Klagenfurt, BBC3Slaven Bilic does have a sense of humour, but does not necessarily strike you as a man who wants to trade mother-in-law jokes, especially not during the serious business of a tournament that he believes...
Beenhakker Offers Mother-in-Law of All Battles
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Poland v Croatia Today, 19.45, Klagenfurt, BBC3Slaven Bilic does have a sense of humour, but does not necessarily strike you as a man who wants to trade mother-in-law jokes, especially not during the serious business of a tournament that he believes...
Bickers: The Autobiography of Martin Bicknell (Green Umbrella Publishing, Pounds 16.99)
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Book of the weekWhen a sportsperson's career is over (sadly, in some cases long before the career is over) and they want to produce their life story, a publisher or agent will approach a journalist, a specialist in that particular sport, to "ghost" the...
Boogie Monster Bares His Soul
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Pop GNARLS BARKLEY 229 LONDON ***It's hard to think of a more deceptive novelty hit than "Crazy", or one that hid so much in plain sight. Exuberantly propulsive and unshakably catchy, its singer, you eventually realised, really did doubt his own sanity....
Bridge
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Things Your Bridge Teacher Won't Tell You (Master Point Press) is a first-rate book, full of practical tips, which I highly recommend. The author is Dan Romm, probably an unfamiliar name to you, but having had success in tournament play in his younger...
Brough Proves Class Act as Ganson Takes Centre Stage
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WAKEFIELD 28 HUDDERSFIELD 26Wakefield propelled themselves into the top six with a breathless victory over a fiercely determined Huddersfield side at Belle Vue.Steve Ganson, the referee, took centre stage by showing three yellow cards as well as dismissing...
Brough Proves Class Act as Ganson Takes Centre Stage
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WAKEFIELD 28 HUDDERSFIELD 26Wakefield propelled themselves into the top six with a breathless victory over a fiercely determined Huddersfield side at Belle Vue.Steve Ganson, the referee, took centre stage by showing three yellow cards as well as dismissing...
Brough Proves Class Act as Ganson Takes Centre Stage
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WAKEFIELD 28 HUDDERSFIELD 26Wakefield propelled themselves into the top six with a breathless victory over a fiercely determined Huddersfield side at Belle Vue.Steve Ganson, the referee, took centre stage by showing three yellow cards as well as dismissing...
Brown Ready to Rain on Bush Parade with Iraq Troop Pull-Out
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Gordon Brown is ready to override the misgivings of George Bush by going ahead with a major announcement on British troop withdrawals from Iraq. The US President will sit down to talks with Mr Brown today after their dinner at Downing Street last night...
CBI Slashes Growth Forecast for 2009 to 1.3 per Cent
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The Confederation of British Industry has slashed its forecast for the economy next year, predicting that rising prices and falling demand will push growth to its lowest since the recession of the early 1990s.Britain's biggest employers' group has left...
Chess
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Magnus Carlsen moved further clear at the Aerosvit Foros tournament in the Ukraine last Thursday, winning very impressively against Alexei Shirov (below). Meanwhile, his nearest pursuer, Sergey Karjakin, was put to the sword by Karjakin's Ukrainian countryman...
Choose Your Words Carefully, the Blink Media Revolution Has Begun
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ON NEW MEDIABlink and you'll miss this message. Brevity is the new digital cool. As handheld computers such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry replace the desktop, mass media is being transformed into micro media. Technology is chunking, slicing and shrinking...
Collingwood and Bell Find Strength in Ailing Format
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If authority can be attached to Kevin Pietersen's prognosis for international cricket, the 50-over form of the game will be facing extinction within a couple of years, thanks to an insatiable appetite for Twenty20.Nonetheless, a 17,000 sell-out here...
Collingwood and Bell Find Strength in Ailing Format
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If authority can be attached to Kevin Pietersen's prognosis for international cricket, the 50-over form of the game will be facing extinction within a couple of years, thanks to an insatiable appetite for Twenty20.Nonetheless, a 17,000 sell-out here...
Confessions of a Man with a Serious Addiction to Gummy Paper Squares
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The Monday Book THE ERROR WORLD By Simon Garfield FABER, Pounds 14.99 Order for Pounds 13.49 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897It takes an intrepid investigative journalist (which Simon Garfield is) to write about a passion for stamp-collecting. As a typically...
Cowboy Comic Is Quick on the Drawl
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The Weekend's TV HOW THE WEST WAS LOST SAT BBC4 COMMERCIAL BREAKDOWN WITH JIMMY CARR SUN BBC1How the West Was Lost began with a classic Western takedown, a grizzled, taciturn veteran finally reacting to the provocations of a cocky young upstart. Grizzled...
Dance
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BAHOK Sadler's Wells LONDON **Dancers wait in an airport lounge. Overhead, a display board flips through strings of random letters, ending in unwelcome messages: delay, please wait. The dancers fidget or talk, encountering strangers and immigration officials....
Days like Those
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'We can't have Diddy David Hamilton in a car with a table wedged in it, can we? No, we certainly cannot'Our new, rented, rural retreat has caused Matthew to take on an entirely new facial expression. Not all the time, just whenever I mention the problem...
Derek Tapscott
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Arsenal and Wales strikerWelsh football has produced bigger and brighter stars, more extravagantly talented performers, more celebrated folk heroes than Derek Tapscott. But no one tried harder for his country, or for Arsenal, or for Cardiff City, than...
Discontent Flares over Google's 'Dominance'
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Advertisers are growing increasingly suspicious of Google's dominance of the online market, and last week's tie-up with Yahoo has only added fuel to the fire.Under the deal, Google's ads will be shown with Yahoo search results, and, although the current...
Donadoni Denies Berlusconi 'Team Talk'
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The Italy coach Roberto Donadoni had a message for the Italian media yesterday: stop imagining the contents of his conversation with the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.Donadoni was called by Berlusconi before Italy's opening match at the European...
EU Leaders Move to Keep Treaty Alive amid Fears of Permanent Rift
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France and Germany hope ratification by all 26 other member states will force Ireland into lineDeep cracks appeared yesterday in the efforts of European governments to put a brave face on Ireland's rejection of the European Union reform treaty.EU foreign...
Everything Is Illuminated
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The new director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, has been criticised for mounting a low-key first show on the Divisionists. Here, he defends his decisionDivisionism is the name adopted by a group of artists based in northern Italy in the final...
Floods Wipe out 1,600 Nests in Disaster for Britain's Rarest Birds
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More than 1,600 pairs of wading birds and ducks have had their nests destroyed by flooding in a wildlife catastrophe in the Cambridgeshire fens.Nearly 600 pairs of increasingly scarce ground-nesting waders - lapwing, snipe and redshank - have lost eggs...
Fortune Expects Tariq to Help Retain Ascot Title
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It's Royal Ascot week, and that means superlatives. The biggest, the best, the richest, the most ostentatious, the most elegant. And a bit of number-crunching is always appropriate on such occasions. Prize money for the week: 4,000,000. Amount likely...
Fortune Expects Tariq to Help Retain Ascot Title
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It's Royal Ascot week, and that means superlatives. The biggest, the best, the richest, the most ostentatious, the most elegant. And a bit of number-crunching is always appropriate on such occasions. Prize-money for the week: 4,000,000. Amount likely...
France Lament the Absence of Lost Leader Zidane
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France's Euro 2008 squad are missing Zinedine Zidane, the midfielder Franck Ribery and the goalkeeper Gregory Coupet said yesterday. "He would take the ball and go and score three goals," Ribery said as the team prepared for tomorrow's vital Group C...
From Russia ... with Love
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INTERVIEW JONATHAN DIMBLEBY The legendary broadcaster's series on the world's largest country was an intensely personal odyssey, as well as his toughest professional mission. Now back home and abundantly happy with his young wife and baby daughter, he...
Gatland's Ambitions Fuelled by Series Loss
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SOUTH AFRICA 37 Tries De Villiers 2, Januarie, Du Plessis Cons James 4 Pens James 3 WALES 21 Tries Cooper, Williams Con S Jones Pens S Jones 3Warren Gatland's Grand Slam champions slipped to a 2-0 series defeat in Pretoria on Saturday but, after the...
Hadden Happy with Win but Late Try Could Cost Scots Dear
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ARGENTINA 14 Tries J Fernandez Lobbe, Agulla Cons Todeschini 2 SCOTLAND 26 Tries Ford, Morrison Cons Paterson 2 Pens Paterson 4The Scotland coach, Frank Hadden, praised his young squad after this impressive victory in Buenos Aires over the side who finished...
Henderson's All-Round Effort Fires Middlesex
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*ROUND-UPMiddlesex made it three wins from three games after easing to a seven-wicket victory over Essex in the Twenty20 Cup at Chelmsford yesterday to extend their lead at the top of the South Division. Tyron Henderson was the architect, top-scoring...
Henderson's All-Round Effort Fires Middlesex
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*ROUND-UPMiddlesex made it three wins from three games after easing to a seven-wicket victory over Essex in the Twenty20 Cup at Chelmsford yesterday to extend their lead at the top of the South Division. Tyron Henderson was the architect, top-scoring...
Henderson's All-Round Effort Fires Middlesex
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*ROUND-UPMiddlesex made it three wins from three games after easing to a seven-wicket victory over Essex in the Twenty20 Cup at Chelmsford yesterday to extend their lead at the top of the South Division. Tyron Henderson was the architect, top-scoring...
Hiddink Sees Room for Improvement in Russia
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GREECE 0 RUSSIA 1 Zyryanov 33 HALF-TIME: 0-1 ATTENDANCE: 31,063The Soviet Union was one of the giants of the European Championship, winning the inaugural competition in 1960 and finishing as runner-up in 1964, 1972 and 1988. Since the fall of the Iron...
Hiddink Sees Room for Improvement in Russia
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GREECE 0 RUSSIA 1 Zyryanov 33 HALF-TIME: 0-1 ATTENDANCE: 31,063The Soviet Union was one of the giants of the European Championship, winning the inaugural competition in 1960 and finishing as runner-up in 1964, 1972 and 1988. Since the fall of the Iron...
Hodgson's Choices Show Dilemma Facing Struggling Teams
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Match AnalysisThere were far more positives for England from their game against New Zealand on Saturday than many pundits would have us believe.The physicality at the contact area and the play of Tom Rees saw England win that battle. Few teams get the...
Home Secretary Faces Commons Grilling over Loss of Secret Papers
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The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, is to be questioned by MPs over whether Britain's fight against terrorism has been compromised after a second security breach involving secret documents being left on a train.The second blunder, revealed in The Independent...
Hospitals May Be Closed for Failing to Meet Basic Standards of Hygiene
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All NHS trusts in England must improve standards of hygiene or face the risk of closure, an NHS watchdog warns today.The threat from the Healthcare Commission, the independent health inspectorate, comes as a survey shows one in four NHS hospital trusts...
How Jill's Healthy Recipe Revived an Ailing Fast Food Giant
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MARKETING MCDONALD'S After facing increasingly damaging assaults on its brand, McDonald's has taken the fight to its detractors. Sophie Morris meets the executive who is determined to make burger meat out of her opponentsMarketing executives make a point...
'I'm Not Miserable - It's the Way My Face Hangs'
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The 5-minute Interview Thomas Dartnall MusicianThomas Dartnall (aka House of Lords) is bass player in the Ashby- de-la-Zouch band Young Knives. Their first full-length album was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize. On 26 June the band will play...
India's Dirty Laundry
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The murder of a teenage girl in Delhi, unjustly blamed on a domestic servant, has heightened hatred and suspicion at the heart of Asia's most class-riven society. Andrew Buncombe reports An upstairs, downstairs nationFor police in the eastern suburbs...
Infected by Political Calculation
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LEADING ARTICLE HOSPITALSThe latest report from the Healthcare Commission will make worrying reading for anyone awaiting an operation. According to the NHS watchdog, more than a quarter of health trusts are failing to meet the Government's new standards...
In Offering Labour an Illusion of Hope, David Davis May Have Done Cameron a Service
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A week ago, British politics was almost on the verge of becoming dull. Labour was bound to lose; the only question still to answer was the size of David Cameron's majority. That was the consensus - in the Labour Party. The cloud of defeatism had settled...
'In the Pit Lane You're Busy - the Last Place You're Looking Is in Front'
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An email conversation with GT Championship racing driver Ryan SharpFormula One is the most high-profile of motor sports, but the FIA GT championship - which stages the third race of the 2008 season next weekend in Adria, Italy - is claimed by fans and...
In the Right Direction
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INSIDE STORY The cream of Britain's television directing talent met last week to set up Directors UK, aimed at protecting their rights and influence over the production process. The Independent was there to see them in actionSTUART ORME,(The Heist, Goodbye...
Iraq Veteran to Join Davis Campaign
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Colonel Tim Collins, the British officer who was praised for his speech before the invasion of Iraq, is backing David Davis's by- election campaign against Big Brother anti-terror laws. Mr Davis, who has resigned as shadow Home Secretary to fight the...
Irish Voters Have Stated the Truth for All of Us
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Ireland is in danger of being bullied. The big boys planning the assault are France and Germany. That is the plain meaning of the statement they issued on Friday in response to the news that Irish voters had rejected the Lisbon Treaty designed to streamline...
'It Is a New Shot. People Should Be Applauding It'
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Kevin Pietersen launched a robust defence of his right to mix left-handed strokes with his normal right-handed batting style after twice taking the unconventional route to hit New Zealand's Scott Styris for six.England's centurion changed his stance...
'It Is a New Shot. People Should Be Applauding It'
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Kevin Pietersen launched a robust defence of his right to mix left-handed strokes with his normal right-handed batting style after twice taking the unconventional route to hit New Zealand's Scott Styris for six.England's centurion changed his stance...
Jerry Wallace
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'Mr Smooth' of country-popJerry Wallace's warm and engaging vocal style gained him the sobriquet "Mr Smooth". He modelled himself on his hero, Nat King Cole, and his delivery proved ideal for the trend in the late 1960s and early 1970s towards country-pop;...
Johnson's Men Find All Blacks Operating on Different Planet
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NEW ZEALAND 37 Tries Smith, Carter, Muliaina, Sivivatu Cons Carter 4 Pens Carter 3 ENGLAND 20 Tries Ojo 2 Cons Barkley 2 Pens Barkley 2Only Martin Johnson knows if his family seat in rural Leicestershire is sufficiently far from New Zealand to spare...
Katich Leaves West Indies with a Mountain to Climb
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*CRICKET AUSTRALIA 251 & 439-5 dec WEST INDIES 216Australia's batsmen extended West Indies' already implausible victory target to 475 by lunch yesterday on the fourth day of the third and final Test.Resuming on 330 for 3, Australia lost two early wickets,...
Katich Leaves West Indies with a Mountain to Climb
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*CRICKET AUSTRALIA 251 & 439-5 dec WEST INDIES 216Australia's batsmen extended West Indies' already implausible victory target to 475 by lunch yesterday on the fourth day of the third and final Test.Resuming on 330 for 3, Australia lost two early wickets,...
Knobbly Fruit and Veg Back on Menu as EU Plans to Scrap Uniformity Laws
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For years, the bent cucumber - beside its maligned compatriot, the straight banana - has been wielded by Eurosceptics eager to clobber the European Union. But Brussels bureaucrats are to usher in a new age of acceptance when it comes to knobbly fruit...
'Labelling People as Terrorists Is Utterly Pointless'
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DOCUMENTARIES RELIGION It's 15 years since John McCarthy was released by his Hizbollah captors. Kim Sengupta discovers how he found 'a pretty ordinary life'John McCarthy had always thought of himself as a Christian, but it was while he was being held...
Lloyds Eyes German Market for Overseas Expansion
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Lloyds TSB is considering a bid for Deutsche Postbank, Germany's biggest retail bank, to put into action its long-held ambition to expand internationally.A deal, which could cost $12bn (9.5bn) would be a massive undertaking for Lloyds. The bank has looked...
Loose-Head Prop Up the Bar? England Deny Sheridan Accusations
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Andrew Sheridan, very much the symbol of the England rugby team in these parts and still commonly regarded as the world's most destructive loose-head prop despite his ups and downs against the All Blacks in Auckland at the weekend, is doubtful for this...
Lowes' Honeymoon Survives Breathless Comedy of Errors
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WARRINGTON 38 HULL KR 20James Lowes' honeymoon as Warrington's caretaker coach goes on after a strong second-half performance against Hull KR yesterday put the Wolves in control after a breathless first period. "It was another step in the right direction,"...
Lowes' Honeymoon Survives Breathless Comedy of Errors
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WARRINGTON 38 HULL KR 20James Lowes' honeymoon as Warrington's caretaker coach goes on after a strong second-half performance against Hull KR yesterday put the Wolves in control after a breathless first period. "It was another step in the right direction,"...
Lowes' Honeymoon Survives Breathless Comedy of Errors
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WARRINGTON 38 HULL KR 20James Lowes' honeymoon as Warrington's caretaker coach goes on after a strong second-half performance against Hull KR yesterday put the Wolves in control after a breathless first period. "It was another step in the right direction,"...
'Magician' Dreams of Centre Court as Stage for One Last Trick
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Fabrice Santoro may have recently broken the record for Grand Slam appearances, yet, as he tells Paul Newman, the unpredictable French veteran still longs to grace Wimbledon's showpiece in a singles matchFabrice Santoro knows that the end of his remarkable...
Making Mischief? It's an Essential Part of the Job
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TELEVISION PETER KOSMINSKY Once fired by the BBC, the revered director tells Ian Burrell why he tackles awkward issues he feels his old bosses now avoidOutside on the churchyard lawn, several dozen elderly Chinese residents of London's Soho are in the...
Manager May Bring in Psychologist to Aid Chelsea
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The famous female sports psychologist who has worked behind the scenes for Luiz Felipe Scolari in his greatest personal triumphs has said she is ready to come to Chelsea to help the Brazilian establish a rapport with his new players. Regina Brandao told...
Manager May Use Psychologist to Build Team Spirit
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The famous female sports psychologist who has worked behind the scenes for Luiz Felipe Scolari in his greatest personal triumphs has said she is ready to come to Chelsea to help the Brazilian establish a rapport with his new players. Regina Brandao told...
Marie O'Riordan
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MY LIFE IN MEDIA 'I stand in for Mariella Frostrup at The Observer, and I fantasise that I can also be her occasional stand-in for her frequent dinners a deux with George Clooney'Marie O'Riordan, 48, is the editor of Marie-Claire, which sells 330,000...
Marshall's Bravery Keeps West Indies' Hopes Alive
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*CRICKET AUSTRALIA 251 & 439-5 dec WEST INDIES 216 & 235-3West Indies put up a brave fight against Australia on the fourth day of the third Test yesterday but, despite a spirited 85 from Xavier Marshall, still need 240 runs with seven wickets left.The...
Miller's Novel Set to Become a Bestseller This Summer
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The daughter of the playwright Arthur Miller is among eight emerging novelists who can expect their debuts to become best- sellers after they were included on Richard and Judy's summer read list.Rebecca Miller, who is married to the actor Daniel Day-...
Mixing Some Freudian Thought into a Kitchen-Sink Drama
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Miles Kington Remembered 5 AUGUST 1992Max Steinling is a kitchen psychologist. He is, as far as he knows, the only person in the world who studies patterns of behaviour peculiar to the kitchen. And does he find much Freudian food for thought?"My friend,"...
Mugabe Forces Soldiers and Police to Support Him in Early Vote
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has secured a comfortable head start of at least 130,000 votes through rigged voting by members of the security forces in this month's run-off election against the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, according to...
Myths and Magic of the Man Who Puts Adland on the Edge of Its Seat
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ON ADVERTISINGTony Kaye is an adland legend. You can tell by the number of famous stories about him. There are many. Before I tell you one of the best, you might need to know that Tony Kaye (below) directs ads. He also directs movies (American History...
Nadal Wins His First Grass Title after a Thriller
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What a shame we have to wait another week for Wimbledon. While Roger Federer, champion for the last five years at the All England Club, was winning his 59th match in succession on grass to lift the Halle title in Germany yesterday, Rafael Nadal won a...
Nepal Puts Hitler's Mercedes Gift on Show
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A now-rusting car given to the King of Nepal by Adolf Hitler is among the more unlikely items that will fill a museum being established in the palace once occupied by the Hindu Kingdom's former royal family.The 1939 model Mercedes-Benz was donated by...
New Kids on the Block and the City
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Britain's fashion colleges lead the world - so this year's graduate shows offer a tantalising glimpse of the future. Report by Carola LongA dress that resembles a giant wedding cake, and a skirt made of newspapers... it must be the graduate fashion shows....
Nihat's Double Shocks Czechs
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TURKEY 3 Arda 75, Nihat 87, 89 CZECH REPUBLIC 2 Koller 34, Plasil 62 HALF-TIME: 0-1 ATTENDANCE: 29,016Turkey scored two goals and had their goalkeeper sent off in the most astonishing five minutes of this eventful Euro 2008 to steal a quarter-final...
Nihat's Double Shocks Czechs
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TURKEY 3 Arda 75, Nihat 87, 89 CZECH REPUBLIC 2 Koller 34, Plasil 62 HALF-TIME: 0-1 ATTENDANCE: 29,016The three Turkish players who sat a university entrance exam on the morning of this game will never forget yesterday, whether they pass or fail. Their...
O'Driscoll Rues Irish Addiction to 'Miracle Ball'
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AUSTRALIA 18 Tries Barnes, Horwill Con Giteau Pens Giteau 2 IRELAND 12 Tries Leamy, O'Driscoll Con O'GaraIreland simply cannot close a deal. It is a psychological issue that their incoming coach, Declan Kidney, will surely address after they showed in...
Opera
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WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS Barbican LONDON ****Philip Glass's 2005 opera came for its UK concert premiere with a reputation as its composer's strongest recent stage work, and in the knowledge that he had drawn parallels with the war in Iraq. Its source,...
Pandora
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EMAIL pandora@independent.co.ukWEBSITE www.independent.co.uk/pandoraBrummies make a crisis out of a drama centreThe BBC's chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, pictured right, is facing an awkward decision over the fate of one of its key drama centres in Birmingham.With...
Party's over for Big Limos
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They're ubiquitous on Britain's streets - and many may be running illegally. But as a crackdown looms, legitimate operators fear they'll be driven out of business. By Jerome Taylor and Nigel MorrisThe stretch feels the squeezeThey are the behemoths of...
Political Labels No Longer Mean Very Much
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You just can't tell these days. David Davis, a man with a hard glint in his eyes, a boxer's oft-flattened nose and rigid Conservative certainties, goes all sentimental and wobbly over human rights. Meanwhile, over on the other side, "ethnic" MPs, except...
Pop
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LAURA MARLING St James's Church, Piccadilly LONDON ****When she was little, Laura Marling's dad apparently used to sit her down and force her to listen to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez, insisting that this was "real music". The teenage singer-...
Protesters Clash with Police in Attempt to Storm Whitehall
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Police wielding batons clashed with protesters last night when a demonstration against George Bush's farewell visit to Britain turned violent a few hundred metres from where the US President was dining with Gordon Brown.Within the shadow of the Houses...
Raven Russia Soars on Back of 'Property Sex'
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Small TalkGlyn Hirsch, Raven Russia's deputy chairman, gets fed up with what he calls the "BBC2 mentality" on Russia. By that, he means the perception many in the UK have of the country as a dark, unsophisticated, place where the only meaningful way...
Ready to Wear
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Summer may have barely begun, but it won't be long before the autumn/winter collections make their way into designers' stores - and with them the ad campaigns that flag up their arrival. A quick overview suggests that the days of the celebrity-as-model...
Regimes Play Power Games with Supplies
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ANALYSISWhen the oil price rocketed in 1973, everyone knew what the reason was. Opec, tired of supplying cheap oil to the world, flexed its muscles by cutting supplies and massively increasing prices, resulting in a global economic slowdown.This time...
Rejuvenated Westwood Stays in Hunt for Wounded Tiger
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*GOLFThe challenge for Lee Westwood was as obvious as it was demanding in the final round of the US Open here in San Diego last night. Do what no other has golfer done before: overhaul a Tiger Woods lead on the last day of a major. And do it when playing...
Risk-Averse Investors Threaten Drug Development
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New drug development by the biotechnology industry is threatened by increasingly risk-averse investors and intensifying competition from generic rivals, a survey shows.A major cause of investor wariness is the growing caution of the US Food and Drug...
Sainsbury's Expected to Deliver Solid Update
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THE WEEK AHEADThe supermarket chain J Sainsbury is due to publish a first- quarter update on Wednesday and analysts expect a more reassuring statement than the recent share-price weakness might suggest."Industry growth has been healthy, and, while Sainsbury's...
Saudis Pledge to Hit Record Oil Production as Unrest Spreads
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Saudi Arabia will raise oil production to record levels within weeks in an attempt to avert an escalation of social and political unrest around the world. King Abdullah signalled the commitment to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, at the weekend...
Scolari Humbled as Switzerland Go out with Bang
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SWITZERLAND 2 Yakin 71, pen 83 PORTUGAL 0 HALF-TIME: 0-0 ATTENDANCE: 39,700Five days as Chelsea manager and already the man is losing games: at this rate Luiz Felipe Scolari will be out of the job by September. OK, so it was only a dead rubber but Scolari...
Scolari Humbled as Switzerland Go out with Bang
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SWITZERLAND 2 Yakin 71, pen 83 PORTUGAL 0 HALF-TIME: 0-0 ATTENDANCE: 39,700Five days as Chelsea manager and already the man is losing games. This may have been a dead rubber for Luiz Felipe Scolari, but as a manager who places a lot of significance...
Scolari May Use Psychologist to Build Team Spirit
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The famous female sports psychologist who has worked behind the scenes for Luiz Felipe Scolari in his greatest personal triumphs said she is ready to come to Chelsea to help the Brazilian establish a rapport with his new players. Regina Brandao told...
Sir Richard Young
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Industrialist with an incisive and analytical mind, and a passion for technological innovationRichard Young was an industrialist whose interests and achievements extended far wider than the manufacturing in which his business career was largely based....
Sit Back and Enjoy the Freakshow
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MEDIA DIARYASSUMING THE leathery old bird does stand against David Davis in the by-election, you have to say that it's marvellous. No really, it's just completely spiffing. If there's one thing a country facing all manner of gloom needs to cheer it up,...
Sleepless Nights Fuel Aragones' Quandary
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SWEDEN 1 Ibrahimovic 34 SPAIN 2 Torres 15, Villa 90 HALF-TIME: 1- 1 ATTENDANCE: 30,772Spain's coach Luis Aragones confesses to not sleeping well at the best of times but his country's early qualification for the quarter- finals has left him with an...
Sleepless Nights Fuel Aragones' Quandary
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SWEDEN 1 Ibrahimovic 34 SPAIN 2 Torres 15, Villa 90 HALF-TIME: 1- 1 ATTENDANCE: 30,772Spain's coach Luis Aragones confesses to not sleeping well at the best of times but his country's early qualification for the quarter- finals has left him with an...
