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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from March 24, 2009
A Bold and Risky Plan to Reverse the Credit Crunch
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LEADING ARTICLE We must hope Secretary Geithner's analysis of the banks is correct Anyone with ambitions for a long and comfortable political career would probably do well to give the present economic crisis a wide berth. The US Treasury Secretary, Tim...
All Hail Siza
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The Queen has awarded the 76-year-old Portuguese architect a Riba gold medal - and rightly so, says Jay Merrick Alvaro Siza, one of the worlds handful of true architectural geniuses, has just received the coveted Riba Royal Gold Medal from the Queen....
Are There Illegal Government Databases and What Can We Do about It?
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The big question Why are we asking this now?Claims that Britain is moving inexorably towards a database state have been strengthened by a report published yesterday by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. It found that 11 of the 46 database projects examined...
As the World Sees It
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Timothy GeithnerHUFFINGTON POSTIt was painful to watch Barack Obama, just hours after Timothy Geithner had admitted his role in the Dodd/bonus loophole affair, go on Jay Leno and say that Geithner is doing an outstanding job. My dictionary defines outstanding...
Back on the Beatings
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G F Newman's Law and Order shocked the nation when it was shown on TV 31 years ago. Its first airing since will still pack a punch, says Gerard Gilbert Take two British television dramas about police corruption and brutality in the 1970s. Channel 4s...
Back to Baghdad, for Better or Worse
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Haider Al-Safi worked for the Baghdad bureau of 'The Independent' during the invasion of Iraq and the beginning of the war. In 2005, anxious about his safety, he came to Britain, where he has been studying journalism. Last week he went back to see his...
Believe It If You Will as Geithner's $1Trn Elephant Takes Flight
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Outlook A neat way of providing price discovery and sharing with the private sector the risks of buying up the banking industrys toxic assets, or just too clever by half? When Tim Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, first outlined in early February...
Believe the Hype, Buy Huntsworth Shares
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Investment Column Our view: BuyShare price: 45p (+4.5p)For many company bosses the script is very similar. Yes, were coping well in the face of the recession. Yes, were pleased with our performance and were cautiously optimistic about the future. The...
Blanchflower Warns of 'Horrible' Things to Come
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MPC member reiterates claim that unemployment will eventually top 3 million The Bank of England policymaker who last year correctly predicted the current surge in unemployment and deep recession yesterday warned that the British economy may not recover...
Bridge
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The Naked Bridge Player and Other Stories by David Silver (publisher: Master Point Press) loosely follow the storylines of classics of literature and films. There is not the hand per page that you expect from the regular-style bridge book, but the narrative...
Britain, Not Europe, Will Be the Outsider at the G20 Summit
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CURL UP in the warm cocoon of optimism and defensiveness being spun by Downing Street before G20 leaders convene next week in London, and quite soon you will feel a chill draught. The British are doing their utmost to save the world; they are best friends...
Chess
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The world champion, Viswanathan Anand, is leading the chase as the 18th Amber tournament moves into the finishing straight at the Palais de la Mditerrane in Nice today, with the first of three final double rounds, following the last rest day on Monday.Perhaps...
Child's Play
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TOY LIBRARIES They're green, local and offer much more than just a toy loan service. Kate Lee and Kate Hilpern explore the wonderful world of the toy library Its first home was a temporary cabin in a school playground. But now the Pimlico Toy Library...
China Spearheads Surge in State-Sponsored Executions
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Amnesty report condemns 'legalised terror' as number of prisoners killed nearly doubles in a year EXECUTIONS OF prisoners almost doubled last year predominantly because of the Chinese government according to a report by Amnesty International.Death...
Choc-Full of Easter Fun
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Whether you want a luxury week away or a free family day out, Aoife O'Riordain has the perfect spring break WED LIKE TO MEET THE EASTER BUNNYThis furry character is putting in a lot of appearances all over the country over the Easter holidays. Peter...
Clarke Back in Line on Inheritance Tax Cut Policy
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Shadow Business Secretary's comments on Tory pledge a 'cock-up, not a conspiracy' David Cameron promised yesterday that he would cut inheritance tax in his first five-year term if he becomes prime minister despite the black hole in the public finances.The...
Clarke Wasn't Mistaken - Just Honest
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Kenneth Clarke is a misunderstood political figure. Good old Ken hes not very hot on the policy detail seems to be the general view. And, of course, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that Mr Clarke enters a broadcasting studio without checking...
Clijsters Set for Return to the Game
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TENNIS Former world No 1 will reveal schedule this week and plans to play at US Open Kim Clijsters, who retired from tennis two years ago to have a baby, is poised to announce her comeback to the womens tour. The 25- year-old Belgian, a former world...
Comedy
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ROB BRYDON Hexagon, Reading ** When Rob Brydons support act, Hal Cruttenden, announces himself, theres the customary puzzlement from the section of the audience that didnt realise there was a warm-up. When Brydon announces himself, after the interval,...
Constitutional Rights and Wrongs
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LEADING ARTICLE Eighteen months after we were promised a new Bill of Rights, the Government has finally delivered a Green Paper on the subject. The delay has been put down to the innate complexities of constitutional reform and the need to consult the...
Credit Crisis Diary
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Bank of America cheers us all up with songThere isnt enough space in the whole of The Independent to revel in the full glory of this clip www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qAuqq1LFnU doing the rounds of You Tube users right now. Suffice it to say that you havent...
Daily Mail Group Doubles Job Cuts at Regional Arm
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Publisher set to hit targets for full year despite decline in advertising The publisher of the Daily Mail has axed 1,000 staff from its regional newspaper business twice the number of cuts it announced just four months ago as the division continues...
Disabled Have No Right to Choose Carers
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Campaign to protect 'dignity and autonomy' of handicapped people fails DISABLED PEOPLE have no right to choose their NHS-funded carers despite complaints that current rules are robbing thousands of claimants of their dignity and autonomy, the High Court...
Dollar's Status under Attack from China
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World leaders gear up for reform of global system Another skirmish in the war of words in the most important economic relationship in the world that between the US and China broke out yesterday, as the Governor of the Peoples Bank of China called for...
Donovan's Disco Divas Are a Drag
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First Night Priscilla Queen of the Desert Palace Theatre, London ** I will survive, Im sure, but the Priscilla wave that caught the Palace Theatre last night was a pretty strong blast of lethal elements: costumes that would have looked dated in a 1970s...
England Recall a Priority for City's Richards
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MICAH RICHARDS suggested yesterday that Manchester Citys decision to play him all over the pitch had contributed to the drop in form which has seen him fail to muster a single minute of play for England since Fabio Capellos appointment as manager.Richards...
England Recall a Priority for City's Richards
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MICAH RICHARDS suggested yesterday that Manchester Citys decision to play him all over the pitch had contributed to the drop in form which has seen him fail to muster a single minute of play for England since Fabio Capellos appointment as manager.Richards...
England Recall a Priority for City's Richards
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MICAH RICHARDS suggested yesterday that Manchester Citys decision to play him all over the pitch had contributed to the drop in form which has seen him fail to muster a single minute of play for England since Fabio Capellos appointment as manager.Richards...
Fears of Debt-for-Equity Swap at Brixton
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Market Report A WARNING on debt and prospective covenant breaches put Brixton in focus last night, with City analysts spotlighting the risk to current shareholders as the commercial property landlord considers its options.JP Morgan sounded the alarm,...
Fighting for Life: American Peace Activist Shot by Israelis
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Parents demand inquiry into how son was critically injured by tear gas canister The parents of an American peace activist publicly appealed yesterday for a full investigation into how their son was shot in the head with a high velocity tear gas canister...
From Cures to Curiosities
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The home enema set, the bullet extractor, the iron lung... an online exibition gives a fascinating insight into the history of medicine. By Jeremy Laurance An instinct for self preservation is a defining characteristic of all creatures. Sir Henry Wellcome...
Geithner's Gamble
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How does the US Treasury Secretary's plan to repair the banking system work? Stephen Foley reports The US stock market went up as much yesterday as it went down last time Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, announced a plan to repair the battered banking...
Goldman Sachs May Bid for iShares
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GOLDMAN SACHS yesterday emerged as a possible contender to buy Barclays iShares business, which the bank is trying to sell to boost its capital position.Barclays, which is racing to sell the business by next week ahead of the deadline for applying for...
Gordon and Jack Hooked on Tory-Bashing
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Sketch The prime Minister came into the Commons deeply saddened. He was being brave so we could only guess at his private sorrows. No wonder he wrote a book called Courage. It was the death of Jade Goody, you see. Hed been deeply saddened by it.The news...
Heathcliffe Hits Exotic New Heights
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THEATRE WUTHERING HEIGHTS Oldham Coliseum, Oldham *** Bront goes to Bollywood is how the British-Asian theatre company Tamasha has tagged its cross-over version of Wuthering Heights, in which saris, song and sand replace the rather more dour elements...
Homophobic? Moi?
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Chris Moyles censured by Ofcom for mocking Will Young's sexualityCHRIS MOYLES is famed not so much for failing the cornflakes test the media benchmark by which bad-taste stories and remarks are judged for offence as for spitting out the milk and smashing...
How Long Will It Take Ferguson to Turn His Boy Wonder into a Football Man?
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It is entirely conceivable that Sir Alex Ferguson will use the two-week international break to re-make Manchester United into something resembling authentic pursuers of unprecedented glory. But how much time does he need to make a football man of Cristiano...
International Role Would End Career, Says Redknapp
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Harry Redknapp yesterday told Fabio Capello that he was making a mistake in calling up Ledley King for the England squad. His views were communicated to the England manager as Tottenham Hotspur officials attempted to negotiate Kings withdrawal on the...
International Role Would End Career, Says Redknapp
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Harry Redknapp yesterday told Fabio Capello that he was making a mistake in calling up Ledley King for the England squad. His views were communicated to the England manager as Tottenham Hotspur officials attempted to negotiate Kings withdrawal on the...
'It's an Odd Trial Where You Know the Outcome before You Start'
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Medical Life Doctors dont come much bigger than Joseph Biederman. He is one of the worlds most influential child psychiatrists, and one of the most cited researchers on attention deficit disorder (ADD) in children. He has an ego in keeping with his reputation,...
'I've Been So Lucky'
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The day she gave birth to her first child, Astrid Wynne was told she had ovarian cancer - at 28. Every woman, whatever her age, should know the symptoms, she argues The first I heard about the cancer was when I came round from the general anasthetic...
Jump in - Even If It Is a Little Cold
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The Tuesday Book IN GREAT WATERS By Kit Whitfield JONATHAN CAPE, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 The secret in fiction of showing how things remain humanly the same, no matter how bizarre, is...
King Call-Up 'Ridiculous' Says Baffled Redknapp
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Tottenham manager fears for future of his defender following England recall 'I don't see how he can play - I don't see how it can work' Harry Redknapp last night described Fabio Capellos decision to call Ledley King into the England squad as ridiculous...
King Centre Stage While Pretender Waits in Wings
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Spurs nurse their fragile captain from game to game but, writes Sam Wallace, they may have to pool his talents with Fabio Capello The swimming pool at the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levys house near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire is heated, indoors and...
King Centre Stage While Pretender Waits in Wings
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Spurs nurse their fragile captain from game to game but, writes Sam Wallace, they may have to pool his talents with Fabio Capello The swimming pool at the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levys house near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire is heated, indoors and...
King Centre Stage While Pretender Waits in Wings
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Spurs nurse their fragile captain from game to game but, writes Sam Wallace, they may have to pool his talents with Fabio Capello The swimming pool at the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levys house near Potters Bar in Hertfordshire is heated, indoors and...
Less Opinion, More Debate, Please
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IMAGINE THAT, instead of being an article in a newspaper, these words were part of an opinionated dinner-party conversation. Across the table is someone presenting a controversial and contrarian view Melanie Phillips, perhaps, or Ken Livingstone.The...
Lonely Life and Premature Death of Nicholas Hughes
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The son of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath moved to Alaska to pursue his passion for the oceans. But he could not escape the depression that made him take his life at the age of 47 THE WIDOW of Ted Hughes has broken her decades-long silence over the turbulent...
Luis Andres Edo
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Anarchist who fought the repressions of Franco's Spain With the death of Lus Andrs Edo, aged 83, in Barcelona, the anarchist movement has lost an outstanding militant and original thinker, and I have lost a comrade-in-arms, a former cell-mate and an...
Margaret Mellis
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Painter and maker of driftwood collages A beautiful young Scottish painter called Margaret Mellis was among the illustrious group of painters and sculptors, famously dubbed the gentle nest of artists who worked in wartime Carbis Bay near St Ives in Cornwall....
McGeechan Has Lion-Sized Headache after Six Nations
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The coach for this summer's tour to South Africa has difficult decisions to make in key areas. By Chris Hewett It used to be so simple. When a team won a Grand Slam in Lions year, as Wales did before the trips to New Zealand in 1950 and 1971, the Test...
McGeechan Has Lion-Sized Headache after Six Nations
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The coach for this summer's tour to South Africa has difficult decisions to make in key areas. It used to be so simple. When a team won a Grand Slam in Lions year, as Wales did before the trips to New Zealand in 1950 and 1971, the Test side reflected...
Minister Faces Inquiry into Second Home Cash Claims
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MPs join backlash over expenses as committee considers pay reformMPs from across the political divide last night joined the backlash against London colleagues and called for a ban on claiming expenses of up to 24,000 a year for a second home when living...
Mourinho Picks Fight with Rivals on Team Orders
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Jose Mourinho, the outspoken coach of Serie As Internazionale, monopolised the headlines in Italy again on Sunday with his suggestion that coaches in the countrys top flight allow their club presidents to pick the team. Pressed in a television interview...
Murray Glad to Blow Away the Cobwebs
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TENNIS Scot moves closer to top form despite succumbing to Hurricane Nadal in final Andy Murray and American hard courts go together like hamburgers and fries. The 21-year-old Scot won his maiden title in San Jose, beat Roger Federer for the first time...
Nehru Descendant Guilty of Muslim Hate Crime
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Indias main opposition party has said it will stand by a great- grandson of the countrys first prime minister in forthcoming elections, even after an independent body found him guilty of hate crime and urged that he not be fielded as a candidate.In a...
New Rules Apply
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A raft of rule changes means that the Formula One world to which Lewis Hamilton returns this weekend is very different to the one he left five months ago - and they have made the defence of his drivers' world title much more difficult. David Tremayne...
New Rules Apply
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A raft of rule changes means that the Formula One world to which Lewis Hamilton returns this weekend is very different to the one he left five months ago - and they have made the defence of his drivers' world title much more difficult. David Tremayne...
No Way to Tweet a Lady
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Hit & Run... You need only see a photograph of 54-year-old actor Bruce Willis and his new bride, the 30-year-old model Emma Hemming, to understand a few of the many benefits of attracting a younger spouse. But the generation gap brings with it some special...
Obama Plays His $1 Trillion Card
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Markets soar on rescue package Surprise rise in US house sales The long-awaited $1 trillion plan to restore the toxic US banking system to health triggered a bout of frenzied buying on stock markets around the world, as investors bet that the Obama administration...
Officer Killed after Suicide Bomber Targets Islamabad
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Terrorist strike in heart of capital mars Pakistan's annual national holiday MILITANTS underlined their ability to strike at the heart of Pakistan when a suicide bomber attacked a police station in Islamabad yesterday, killing one officer and injuring...
Pandora
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Nul points! Copyright battle with a twistSandie Shaw versus the EU: could one ask for a more fantastic feud? Yet it seems that this one is a reality, after the right-on Sixties singer lately a campaigner for musicians copyrights found her attempts...
Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake
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KIDS IN THE KITCHEN From Easter treats to fruity chicken curry, Annabel Karmel shares some of her favourite spring recipes LITTLE CHICK CUPCAKESFor children aged four to 10Ingredients(Makes six cakes)55g/2oz butter, room temperature55g/2oz soft light...
Picasso's Fury Screams out Still
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VISUAL ARTS THE GUERNICA TAPESTRY Whitechapel Gallery, London ***** Welcome back! Picassos Guernica, that supremely sombre evocation of the destructive powers of war, first went on show at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1939, after it had been exhibited...
Pop
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SPARKS Forum, London *** When Ron Mael springs from a bed to open proceedings, he leaps up as if this duo had just recorded 1974s breakthrough album Kimono My House, not last years 21st effort, Exotic Creatures of the Deep.This sexagenarians fitness...
Reds Can Tough It out at Top, Says Carragher
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LEST ANYONE at Anfield forget the fact, being top of the Premier League table around Christmas was not all it was cracked up to be. Even the night Liverpool stepped up there, by virtue of a point from a drab, goalless draw against West Ham in early December,...
Rite of Spring Double Spurs Quinn
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RACING IF THE SPRING DOUBLE, that time-honoured but now ever so slightly old-fashioned concept, is an elusive target for punters, it is many times more so for the games professionals. To find the winner of both the Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National...
Rite of Spring Double Spurs Quinn
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RACING IF THE SPRING DOUBLE, that time-honoured but now ever so slightly old-fashioned concept, is an elusive target for punters, it is many times more so for the games professionals. To find the winner of both the Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National...
Rite of Spring Double Spurs Quinn
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RACING IF THE SPRING DOUBLE, that time-honoured but now ever so slightly old-fashioned concept, is an elusive target for punters, it is many times more so for the games professionals. To find the winner of both the Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National...
Science Notebook
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14 days that make all the differenceSOME PEOPLE may not be happy with the idea of being given a blood transfusion made from the stem cells of spare IVF embryos, a development that could emerge from a three-year research project funded by the Wellcome...
Slow Death on the Nile
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Last Night's Television CLEOPATRA, PORTRAIT OF A KILLER BBC1 FISH:A JAPANESE OBSESSION BBC4 STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE BBC2 To the best of my knowledge, only one woman in all of history has enjoyed the posthumous distinction of being played by Peggy...
'So Darwin Was a Boho Boozer on the Quiet - an Idle Proto-Wildean Dandy' Lying on His Otto'
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Tales of the City Its hard to think of Charles Darwin as a dandy, a horseman, a gourmand or a sot. We think of him as fixated, from youth, on natural science. He seemed born to taxonomise, to research and classify. He was the kind of kid who could tell...
South Africa 'Preferred' to England as IPL Hosts
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Fears over April weather sees organisers cool on bringing tournament to UK Spring weather and fixture congestion hit English hopes CRICKET ENGLISH CRICKET was last night braced to lose the multi-million pound Indian Premier League extravaganza to South...
South Africa 'Preferred' to England as IPL Hosts
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CRICKET Fears over April weather turn organisers cool on bringing tournament to UK ENGLISH CRICKET was last night braced to lose the multimillion pound Indian Premier League extravaganza to South Africa because of the likelihood of April showers ruining...
Stroke Victim's 'Deathbed' Confession to 32-Year-Old Murder Proves Premature
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Lying in his bed for what he was convinced were his final moments, James Brewer, a stroke victim, felt compelled to confess to a crime that had weighed on his conscience for more than three decades.In 1977, the factory worker was arrested in Tennessee...
Sudanese Leader Defies Arrest Warrant with Trip to Eritrea
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Pursued by International Criminal Court, Bashir tests support among Arab nations Sudans president Omar al-Bashir visited Eritrea yesterday in a cautious first step outside his country since a warrant for his arrest was issued by the International Criminal...
The 101st Departement - on the Other Side of Africa
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Bucking the separatist trend, the island of Mayotte wants closer ties to France A tiny island in the corner of a distant ocean will vote next Sunday to become a French dpartement or county defying a separatist trend in other fragments of France scattered...
The Ten Best Coffee Tables
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MujiElegant, functional and thoroughly contemporary Mujis acrylic table will give an illusion of space if youre short of room and comes with a neat magazine rack.Price: 125www.muji.co.ukHealsDesigned by Pam West and Matt Edmonds of Frank Designs, this...
The Way We Live Now
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Changes in the inflation 'shopping basket' reveal a time-poor, throwaway society, reports Sean O'Grady An image of the average Briton tucking into a hot rotisserie- cooked chicken bought from a supermarket, washed down with a glass of ros and watching...
This Tragedy Has Nothing to Do with Poetry, Nothing to Do with Art
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Comment In his letters to the critic Keith Sagar, Ted Hughes described blissful fishing trips with his son, Nicholas, in Africa, Iceland and Alaska. Alaska, he said, was a dreamland where they fished alongside bears and lay awake listening to wolves....
Tragedy Sees Spirit of Trinity Summoned Once Again
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The loss of Leon Walker will again test the resolve of Wakefield rugby league club, for whom sorrow has become too familiar, writes Dave Hadfield The few months that Wakefield have endured, culminating in the death of their young player, Leon Walker,...
Tragedy Sees Spirit of Trinity Summoned Once Again
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The loss of Leon Walker will again test the resolve of Wakefield rugby league club, for whom sorrow has become too familiar, writes Dave Hadfield The few months that Wakefield have endured, culminating in the death of their young player, Leon Walker,...
Turks and Caicos PM Quits after Corruption Inquiry
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The premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands has resigned after an investigation found clear signs of corruption in the British overseas territory.Michael Misick, who denies selling Crown land for personal gain, quit a week earlier than expected. His...
UN Accuses Troops of Using Boy, 11, as Human Shield
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An 11-year-old boy was used as a human shield by Israeli troops during their 22-day offensive in Gaza including when they came under fire according to a report by UN human rights experts published yesterday.The report says that on 15 January, as Israeli...
US Tried to Gag British Man 'Tortured' in Guantanamo
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Captive told he would be freed if he pleaded guilty and agreed not to speak to media THE AMERICAN government tried to force a British resident held at Guantanamo Bay to drop allegations of torture in return for his release, court documents published...
Vodafone Signs 'Milestone' Network Tie-Up with O2
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Vodafone has signed a landmark deal with O2s parent company which could save them hundreds of millions of pounds, as the two rivals attempt to combat the disintegrating economic conditions. The shift prompted analysts to predict a spate of similar deals...
We Cannot Treat Afghanistan in Isolation from Pakistan
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Podium THE SITUATION is bad today, when it shouldnt be, because the international community, including, I regret to say, the United States, perhaps especially the United States, prematurely decided that they were doing okay and refocused their attention...
Well Done Our Women Cricketers. Just Don't Ask Me to Watch Them
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Scandal surrounds the victory of our national team in the womens cricket world cup. The scandal, apparently, is that there was no terrestrial television coverage of their great triumph or so the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy...
Why We Are All Haunted by Religion
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What a striking choice of words the Archbishop of Canterbury made when he said, on Sunday, that he believed we were living in a country that is uncomfortably haunted by the memory of religion. The Archbishop is not a completely unworldly man, and hes...
