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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 May 13, 2010
29 Days to Go
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WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN Pato looks to future after failure to make Brazil squadMilan striker Alexandre Pato has remained positive despite missing out on a place in Brazil's squad for the finals. "I believed in it until the end," the 20-year-old said, "but...
29 Days to Go
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WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN Pato looks to future after failure to make Brazil squadMilan striker Alexandre Pato has remained positive despite missing out on a place in Brazil's squad for the finals. "I believed in it until the end," the 20-year-old said, "but...
A Baby on the Way, a Country to Run - and He's Got to Move House
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Paul Vallely tells the story of the Prime Minister's first day in the new job Cameron's day When David Cameron opened his front door early yesterday he could have been forgiven for forgetting that British politics has entered what supermarket marketing...
Airlines Lukewarm on Plans to Axe Third Heathrow Runway and Reform Tax Regime
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Britain's aviation industry was lukewarm in its response to policy changes proposed by the newly formed Liberal-Conservative coalition yesterday.The biggest change of direction is the scrapping of Labour's hard- fought plans for a third runway at Heathrow....
Alcohol a Problem for War Veterans, Study Finds
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One in sevens soldiers, sailors and airmen returning from the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq are drinking at dangerous levels - but overall service personnel have not suffered the tidal wave of mental problems that was predicted, researchers report...
A Little Knowledge about Plane Crashes Can Be a Dangerous Thing
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Comment The first reports of the crash at Tripoli airport broke in UK newsrooms at around 8.30am yesterday. Within three minutes a rumour had begun, fuelled by Twitter, that volcanic ash was responsible - even though the Libyan airport is many hundreds...
Anger Management Classes for ANC Star
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Some unsuspecting patients at an anger management class near Johannesburg are set to be joined by South Africa's most notorious big-mouth, it emerged yesterday. Julius Malema, leader of the ruling party's youth wing, is to undergo counselling to help...
Another Crisis That the Bankers Didn't See Coming Their Way
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OUTLOOK Two weeks before the election, a rather unusual briefing note went round the City, where support for the Conservatives has generally been loyal. Jonathan Pierce, Credit Suisse's highly rated banking analyst, cautioned that a victory for any party...
Arnold Spohr
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Dancer and inspirational ballet director who worked with Fonteyn, Markova and Baryshnikov Arnold Spohr was a man of many tales, some as tall as he, others rooted in fact. One of his favourites concerned the day he almost dropped the celebrated ballerina...
A Two-Party Government: The Questions Raised
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Q What is Nick Clegg's role?A From a desk in the Cabinet Office, he has been given the job of pushing through an agreed programme of political reform. He will put a binding motion before the House of Commons stating that the next general election will...
A War That Nobody Wants
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International Studies You don't have to be a fan of Dr Strangelove to recognise that wars can start by accident - that if the tinder is properly laid, a small spark can set off an uncontrollable blaze. First comes the miscalculation, a relatively small...
Bank of England Cheers Tory Cuts but Warns of Dangers Ahead
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Mervyn King hailed the new Government's plan to cut public spending by 6bn this year as he delivered the Bank of England's quarterly Inflation Report yesterday, but the Governor also warned David Cameron's administration that the risks to an economic...
Bluebirds Book Wembley Date after Thriller
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CARDIFF CITY 2 Chopra 21, Whittingham pen 69 LEICESTER CITY 3 Fryatt 25, Hudson og 36, King 49 aet; 3-3 agg; Cardiff win 4-3 on penalties FOOTBALL FOOTBALL Another enthralling advertisement for the Championship play-offs ended with Dave Jones moving...
Bluebirds Profit from Kermorgant's Calamity
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FOOTBALL FOOTBALL CARDIFF CITY 2 Chopra 21, Whittingham pen 69 LEICESTER CITY 3 Fryatt 25, Hudson og 36, King 49 aet; 3-3 agg; Cardiff win 4-3 on penalties Dave Jones has battled against a backdrop of financial uncertainty all season but will be presented...
Borthwick Backs Stand-In Captain
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RUGBY UNION Steve Borthwick, an outgoing England captain who cannot bank on coming straight back in, has narrowed his horizons on the international front. "If I'm not captain again, I'll support the guy who is," the Saracens lock said yesterday, 48 hours...
Borthwick Backs Stand-In Captain
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RUGBY UNION Steve Borthwick, an outgoing England captain who cannot bank on coming straight back in, has narrowed his horizons on the international front. "If I'm not captain again, I'll support the guy who is," the Saracens lock said yesterday, 48 hours...
Borthwick Backs Stand-In Captain
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RUGBY UNION Steve Borthwick, an outgoing England captain who cannot bank on coming straight back in, has narrowed his horizons on the international front. "If I'm not captain again, I'll support the guy who is," the Saracens lock said yesterday, 48 hours...
Brown's Blitz Leaves Durham Struggling to Save Unbeaten Run
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DURHAM 218 & 87-4 Blackwell 43, Franks 3-38 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 559- 8d Brown 134, Read 124 no Given that this is only the second week in May and the season ends in the third week of September it seems faintly ridiculous to speculate with conviction about...
Brown's Blitz Leaves Durham Struggling to Save Unbeaten Run
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DURHAM 218 & 87-4 Blackwell 43, Franks 3-38 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 559- 8d Brown 134, Read 124 no Given that this is only the second week in May and the season ends in the third week of September it seems faintly ridiculous to speculate with conviction about...
Business Diary
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How best to fight the bankers' corner?With David Cameron now installed in Downing Street and Vince Cable in charge, nominally at least, of the banks, all eyes are on Angela Knight, the chief executive of the British Bankers' Association. Knight, a former...
Cameron and Clegg Hail a New Political Era on Their First Day in Power
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David Ccameron and Nick Clegg promised a "new politics" that would transform the political landscape yesterday as they launched their coalition government. The new Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister issued their policy prospectus for a full five-year...
Cecil Keeps Oaks Options Open after Aviate Flies In
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Victory in Musidora Stakes leaves her trainer unsure whether to run filly or rival Timepiece at Epsom Classic In the same way that pets are said to resemble their masters, it seems that horses trained by Henry Cecil can borrow something of his own character....
Cecil Keeps Oaks Options Open after Aviate Flies In
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Victory in Musidora Stakes leaves her trainer unsure whether to run filly or rival Timepiece at Epsom Classic In the same way that pets are said to resemble their masters, it seems that horses trained by Henry Cecil can borrow something of his own character....
Cecil Keeps Oaks Options Open after Aviate Flies In
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Victory in Musidora Stakes leaves her trainer unsure whether to run filly or rival Timepiece at Epsom Classic In the same way that pets are said to resemble their masters, it seems that horses trained by Henry Cecil can borrow something of his own character....
Chess
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Today, the decisive game which Viswanathan Anand won to retain his world championship title.The last game of a (still live) championship is always a huge occasion. Playing the Black pieces in a match in which White had dominated the action, Anand faced...
City Holds Its Breath as Cable Takes over at BIS
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The city suffered a collective shiver of fear yesterday as Vincent Cable was installed as Business Secretary and given a key role in the new Government's plans for banking reform.With calls to break up the banks and a plan for a unilaterally imposed...
Clinical Forlan Goes Extra Mile to Crush Cottagers' Dreams of Glory
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ATLETICO MADRID 2 Forlan 32, 116 FULHAM 1 Davies 37 Aet; Score at 90min: 1-1 IT WAS around 11.05pm in Hamburg and 116 minutes into the 63rd game of Fulham's remarkable season when at last their great improbable European odyssey was brought to an end...
Clinical Forlan Goes Extra Mile to Crush Fulham's European Dream
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ATLETICO MADRID 2 Forlan 32, 116 FULHAM 1 Davies 37 Aet; Score at 90min: 1-1 It was around 11.05pm in Hamburg and 116 minutes into the 63rd game of Fulham's remarkable season that this great journey was finally brought to an end by Diego Forlan, the...
Clock Is Ticking for Australia's Bikini-Clad Meter Maids
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For decades women in gold lycra bikinis have patrolled the streets of Surfers Paradise, the popular resort on Queensland's Gold Coast, feeding meters to save motorists from parking fines.Lately, though, the "meter maids" have fallen on hard times, their...
Combine Your Holiday with Music for a Total Adventure
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International Elisa Bray provides a breakdown of the best overseas destinations renowned for their festivals There was a time when going abroad for a music festival wouldn't feature on the agenda. Now it's pretty common - at Snowbombing in Austria last...
Consensual, Civilised ... Depressing
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Cameron and Clegg In his dreams, it can't have been like this. In his dreams, it was cheering crowds, tears of joy, hands clasped in gratitude, and waves of sheer, blessed, joyous relief that the people had seen the light, and a new age had dawned,...
Continent Waits to See If Clegg Can Put the Brake on Tory Euroscepticism
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Europe A new era of British politics may have begun but Brussels is still waiting to see if it will mark a new era of British engagement with Europe. The hope, if not the firm conviction, is that Nick Clegg, as a Europhile, will successfully temper the...
Cost of Overdraft at Highest Level for a Decade despite Base Rate Low
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The cost of an overdraft at Britain's banks is now higher than at any time for a decade, research shows, despite the fact that the Bank of England base rate has now been at an historic low of just 0.5 per cent for 14 consecutive months.Moneyfacts, the...
Culture Club
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Your Independent Readers review this week's film A Nightmare on Elm Street (18) Directed by Samuel Bayer; starring Jackie Earle Haley (above), Katie Cassidy, Rooney Mara and Kyle Gallner "The original A Nightmare on Elm Street is the most successful...
Dance
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Compagnie Marie Chouinard Sadler's Wells, London ** In bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_ vARIATIONS, choreographer Marie Chouinard hobbles her dancers. The work opens with her company wearing one pointe shoe each. Over the course of the evening, Chouinard trusses...
Department by Department, What the New Government Plans to Do
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'Independent' writers explain who came out on top in the policy wrangles TAX AND SPENDINGPersonal allowances to be increasedWhat they sayCancelling planned national insurance rise for employers - but not employees. Personal allowances for income tax...
Digital Digest
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THE BEST OF THE WEB INTERNETWired.com; Ind.pnTwitter's 140-character missives have meant a boom in URL shorteners - widgets that shrink web addresses. 'Wired' has a map showing how countries such as Libya (Bit.ly), Belgium (Youtu.be) and Greenland (Goo.gl)...
Don't Be Fooled. This Is Tory Rule
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Coalition Britain Right - who knows a way of making "Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition out out out" scan properly? Events haven't been made easier by the news coverage, which involved reporters telling us "Oh my God it's historic and the two...
Drogba Confident That Balance of Youth and Experience Will Carry Chelsea to More Glory
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Chelsea's squad may be top heavy with players approaching the wrong end of their careers, but Didier Drogba, one of those the far side of 30, believes they have the ideal "balance" to add trophies beyond this season's Premier League.Down the core of...
Dutch Boy Is Sole Survivor as More Than 100 Die in Libyan Air Crash
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At least one Briton on board as Airbus A330 hits ground short of runway The only recognisable part of Afriqiyah Airways flight 8U771 that remained were a few smashed seats and its brightly painted tailfin.Shortly after 6am yesterday, the state-of-the-art...
Essential Gear You Don't Want to Forget
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Top tips Dave Taylor identifies the things you'll need to make your next event memorable - for all the right reasons Headwear is a must.No, we're not talking about those multi-coloured jester hats that turn up all over the place - although, for many...
Forest Green Attack FA after Corruption Investigation Is Quietly Closed
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MATCH-FIXING The vice-chairman of a football club tarnished by match-fixing suspicions for the past year has launched a blistering attack on the Football Association and the Gambling Commission for their "inept" handling of the case.Colin Peake, vice-chairman...
Forest Green Attack FA after Corruption Investigation Is Quietly Closed
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MATCH-FIXING The vice-chairman of a football club tarnished by match-fixing suspicions for the past year has launched a blistering attack on the Football Association and the Gambling Commission for their "inept" handling of the case.Colin Peake, vice-chairman...
Forest Green Attack FA after Corruption Investigation Is Quietly Closed
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MATCH-FIXING The vice-chairman of a football club tarnished by match-fixing suspicions for the past year has launched a blistering attack on the Football Association and the Gambling Commission for their "inept" handling of the case.Colin Peake, vice-chairman...
Forgiveness Cannot Be Demanded, Says Tutu
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People living in immense suffering cannot be forced to forgive their enemies, but helping them do so is the best way to bring about lasting peace, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said yesterday.The Nobel Peace Prize winner said when wars come to an...
Forlan Idol Forms Double Act to Have the Last Laugh
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"Diego Forlorn" they used to call him. But it was the Fulham players who were left forlorn last night as Diego Forlan finally blew away his comedic reputation in England. The Uruguayan took eight months and 27 games to score his first goal for Manchester...
Former Kaupthing Bank Boss Wanted by Interpol
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The former chairman of Kaupthing, the Icelandic bank that collapsed in 2008, has been added to Interpol's wanted list.Sigurdur Einarsson, who was publicly blamed by Gordon Brown for the failure of the bank, lives in west London. He reportedly told prosecutors...
From Twenty20 No-Hopers to World Leaders in 10 Hectic Months
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Last year's laughing stock, England suddenly look like masters of the short-form game. In St Lucia, Stephen Brenkley charts the rise of Andy Flower's new-look big-hitters All England's carefully laid plans for Twenty20 glory might have been killed at...
From Twenty20 No-Hopers to World Leaders in 10 Hectic Months
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Last year's laughing stock, England suddenly look like masters of the short-form game. In St Lucia, Stephen Brenkley charts the rise of Andy Flower's new-look big-hitters All England's carefully laid plans for Twenty20 glory might have been killed at...
Genus Offers Seeds of Farming Recovery
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Investment Column OUR VIEW: BUYSHARE PRICE: 724P (+4P)The betting must be that there are few people who can claim to have ever met a farmer who says business is booming, but an update yesterday from the animal breeding outfit Genus would suggest otherwise....
Gera Draws Inspiration from a Life Less Ordinary
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Sergio Aguero is Diego Maradona's son-in-law, which cannot be easy for an Argentine footballer. Zoltan Gera was a teenage tearaway, into drugs, gambling and criminality, before finding religion and focusing on his football. Both men have had to deal...
Goodbye to the Note of Ill-Repute
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Unless you're a criminal, you may never have seen one of these. And that's why the EUR 500 note has been taken out of circulation. Mark Hughes and Rob Sharp investigate You are a hardened drug baron, controlling a network of dealers. Presiding over an...
Graduate News
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Employers plan on raising graduate recruitment targetsAlmost 40 per cent of employers are planning to raise graduate recruitment this year, according to research by the Association of Graduate Recruiters. A snapshot survey of almost 100 companies taken...
Happy Meals?
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The Thursday Essay It's a byword for Yankee imperialism and a nutritionist's nightmare - but McDonald's, which turns 70 this week, has actually been a positive force for change, writes Guy Adams The great philosopher John Travolta once observed that,...
Hard Cheese for the Teen Tycoons
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Last Night's TV Junior Apprentice / BBC1 Cracking Antiques / BBC2 It's The Apprentice, but not quite as we know it. For one thing, Surallen has gone - that terrified smear of an honorific rendered obsolete by last year's ennoblement. It's Lord Sugar...
Hodgson's Epic Campaign Ends, but His Fulham Journey Looks Far from Over
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After agonising final defeat, the manager dismisses links to top European jobs and commits his future to west London club ROY HODGSON said last night that he intended to stay at Fulham despite the interest in him from across Europe after his side dramatically...
Hodgson's Epic Journey Ends in Tears after Fates Conspire to Deny Cottagers
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Davies' superb strike in vain as injuries to Zamora and Duff ruin Fulham's game plan against classy Spanish outfit After beginning their season back in July it was almost inevitable that Fulham would take it to the very last gasp, almost. They were four...
How Life Should Be Made Better for Overseas Students
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Smith review Will the report by Adrian Smith actually make a difference to students? Harriet Swain investigates If one aim of launching a review into postgraduate education was to show that policymakers regard postgraduate study as more than an afterthought,...
How Moderate Students Are Fighting Back
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Cover story Young Muslims have a forum where they're learning to combat fundamentalism. By Hilary Wilce How can mainstream young Muslim students get heard when fundamentalists often have a stranglehold on their groups and societies? Saniya Gour, 17,...
How to Earn Money by Raising It
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Careers As universities are being urged to drum up money from alumni and big donors, a new career has opened up for graduates. Rowenna Davis reports Not many people grow up wanting to become a fundraiser for universities - a profession traditionally...
'I Haven't Picked Up a Pen since I Last Did an Exam'
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DIARY OF A THIRD YEAR The return of sunshine and summer brings sadness for third years. It means final exams are only a few weeks away and every waking hour is spent in the library. This wouldn't be so bad if Sheffield University's library didn't overlook...
I Leave It All to My Butler - the Dying Wish of Reclusive Star
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Nepali-born servant inherits apartment that was a mecca for New York socialites It was the last flourish of an erstwhile grande dame of Gotham society whose home in the Dakota Building once brimmed with the likes of Tennessee Williams, Capote and Warhol....
'I like Dogs and I Love Walking. It Has a Rhythm'
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Careers Mark Forsythe, 45, is a professional dog walker who lives in London and walks up to 18 dogs a day, charging Pounds 10 per walkDESCRIBE YOUR TYPICAL DAYI leave home at 8am, along with my two dogs, and pick up another four for a walk. By 9.30am...
Introducing the New Cabinet
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The ministers and their in-trays, plus Simon Carr's verdict on their selection ANDREW MITCHELLDEVELOPMENT SECRETARYWorked as a UN peacekeeper in Cyprus in the 1970s, and has organised social action projects for the Tories in Rwanda.In-tray: International...
Is a Masters the Only Way into Social Work? Does Clearing Exist for Postgrads?
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POSTGRAD QUERIES I will be finishing a BA in public service management in December, and would like to go into social work, but I have been told a Masters degree is the only way. Is this right? Or does my (relevant) degree give me a shortcut?Unfortunately,...
It's Hard Work When You're in the Thick of It
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The Week in Radio When a public figure dies, the whole of his life flashes before other people's eyes. So hours after the Prime Minister's post-dated political demise, a kneejerk appreciation called Gordon Brown: a Political Life was rushed on to Radio...
'It's Rewarding to Do Something That Is Really Needed'
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POSTGRAD LIVES Karthick Kanchi Govarthanam, 29, is in the final year of a PhD in technical textiles at the University of Bolton, where he's been part of a team developing a flexible material that protects against knife slash wounds.How did you come to...
'I Would Miss Lectures at Sheffield University'
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Interview An education in the life of Jessica Ennis, the world indoor pentathlon champion and the world heptathlon gold medallist Jessica Ennis, 24, won the pentathlon title at the World Indoor Championships this year and the heptathlon at last year's...
Jarvis Cocker Curates National Trust Album
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Jarvis Cocker's transformation from indie music's enfant terrible to unlikely pin-up of the cream tea and country house set appeared complete yesterday, when it emerged that he had teamed up with the National Trust to curate an album of soothing sounds.The...
Job Loss Worries Are Driving Adults Back into Education
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The bleak economic climate is prompting thousands of adults to return to the classroom to learn new skills, according to research published today.With UK unemployment now at 2.51 million - the highest since December 2004 - the study reveals that record...
Kidnapped Wedding Party Killed in Mexico
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Police searching for a bridegroom who was kidnapped at gunpoint as he walked his new wife out of a wedding ceremony said yesterday that their mutilated bodies, together with those of his brother and uncle, who were also kidnapped, had been found in the...
Liberal Democrats Fear Deal Will Provoke Exodus
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Party reaction Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers were coming to terms with the prospect of sitting alongside MPs from a party they had spent their careers fighting yesterday, amid signs of grassroots unease over the formation of the historic coalition.Even...
Markets Mixed as Coalition Comes to Power in Westminster
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The markets were mixed as the UK's new coalition government took shape yesterday, with shares and gilts rising on hopes of swift action on the yawning budget deficit, but sterling falling against the euro and the dollar after the Bank of England issued...
Merlin Olsen
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American footballer who went from the 'Fearsome Foursome' to 'Little House on the Prairie' British viewers of Little House On The Prairie were probably unaware that Merlin Olsen, who played the huge bearded lumberjack Jonathan Garvey, was one of the...
Microsoft Punts the Future of Office into the Cloud
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Software giant highlights new virtual reality by moving its suite of programs off PCs and on to the net. Stephen Foley reports Software doesn't come in a box any more. It doesn't come on a disk. It doesn't have to be stored on your hard disk. The pictures...
Miliband Wastes No Time in Announcing His Desire to Succeed Brown
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Labour leadership Ever since David Miliband stepped back from challenging Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership his critics have, rather unkindly, labelled him a ditherer.But not yesterday. Moments after David Cameron and Nick Clegg announced their...
More Woe for Cattles as Black Hole in Finances Grows Again
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The beleaguered doorstep lender Cattles was yesterday forced to admit that it lost nearly 200m more in 2008 than its original estimates.With accountants crawling all over its books and its very existence in doubt the company said it lost 745m in 2008...
M&S Puts Aside Extra Pounds 800m to Try to Close Pounds 1.3bn Pension Deficit
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PENSIONS Marks and Spencer has agreed a pension funding package worth 800m in an attempt to close the scheme's deficit. The group's defined benefit scheme, which has 123,000 members, faced a 1.3bn shortfall when its last valuation was carried out at...
Murray Finds Feet on Clay with Best Display since Australian Open
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OTHER SPORT TENNIS Andy Murray has been insisting that he has not been concerned by his lack of victories on clay this season and the Scot showed at the Madrid Masters last night that there is little wrong with his current form. Murray recorded only...
Murray Finds Feet on Clay with Best Display since Australian Open
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OTHER SPORT TENNIS Andy Murray has been insisting that he has not been concerned by his lack of victories on clay this season and the Scot showed at the Madrid Masters last night that there is little wrong with his current form. Murray recorded only...
Murray Finds Feet on Clay with Best Display since Australian Open
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OTHER SPORT TENNIS Andy Murray has been insisting that he has not been concerned by his lack of victories on clay this season and the Scot showed at the Madrid Masters last night that there is little wrong with his current form. Murray recorded only...
Musical Pleasure on a Human Scale
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Boutique Nick Hasted on the rise of the bespoke event where intimacy and friendliness are the themes Watching Blur close Glastonbury last year with an emotionally charged performance, it was clear that it remains the king of festivals. But for those...
My Party Is Stronger Than Ever
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Liberal Democrats I have been involved in British general elections since 1964, and Election 2010 has been the most exciting I have ever experienced. After 39 years as a Liberal and Liberal Democrat party member, and 27 years as an opposition MP fighting...
New Politics? Don't You Believe It. Old Rivalries Will Soon Be Back
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Comment We are only at the start of the new Liberal/Conservative era and I already want to ban a phrase. The words I never want to read or hear again are "new politics". There is no such thing. There is politics, which is a noble vocation. Politics is...
Now for Male Bonding, Part 2
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Notebook Right. That's the election done. The next round-the-clock, fully tweeted, heart-stopping silly season event to hit the nation will soon be upon us, and it too will be a largely male affair. But that doesn't mean that the half-interested girl...
Obama Factor Prompts MA in Community Organising
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New Masters One British university plans to teach young people how to fight for political change. Rowenna Davis reports Capitalising on the Barack Obama factor, Queen Mary, University of London is to launch a new Masters in community organising this...
Office 2010 Launch Sharpens Titanic Battle with Google
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The launch of Office 2010 takes Microsoft's titanic battle with Google into the cloud, retooling its office software to squish the challenge from web-enabled Google Docs. But the two companies' titanic struggle is being played out across the technology...
'Our Children All but Drove Us Apart'
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Think babies bring you closer? Think again, says father of six Harry Benson. Starting a family pushed his marriage to the brink - but it ultimately taught him important lessons about how to stay together On a bright summer day in 1986 I married my wife,...
Pandora
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Boulton wanderer? Sky remains the limitAs regular readers of this column will be aware, there has been genuine concern that earnest Westminster bulldog Adam Boulton has been working too hard.Just minutes after his unusually emotional clash with Alastair...
Plucky Poet Finds Her Voice
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POP Joanna Newsom Royal Festival Hall, London **** "I found a little plot of land/ in the garden of Eden," opens Joanna Newsom. Sitting at her wooden harp, slender in a diaphanous pink-and-white flowing dress, her hair cascading down her back, she...
Poker
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As pastimes go, poker can be a seriously expensive one - not because of the price of losing, but because of the "rake". The "rake" is the amount the operators charge for running cash games both in the virtual card rooms on the internet and the real ones...
Pop
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Pavement Brixton Academy, London **** Stephen Malkmus, Pavement's lead singer, has achieved cult status among indie fans of a certain age; namely, those young enough to take Mark E Smith's claims of their plagiarism with a pinch of salt, but old enough...
Poyet in the Frame for Pompey as West Ham Linked with Grant
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The Brighton and Hove Albion manager Gus Poyet is a target for Portsmouth whose manager Avram Grant looks destined for West Ham.Poyet, 42, took over at Brighton in November with the club fifth from bottom of League One and has led them to safety, nine...
Poyet in the Frame for Pompey as West Ham Linked with Grant
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The Brighton and Hove Albion manager Gus Poyet is a target for Portsmouth whose manager Avram Grant looks destined for West Ham.Poyet, 42, took over at Brighton in November with the club fifth from bottom of League One and has led them to safety, nine...
Poyet Is Target for Portsmouth as Hammers Close in on Grant
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The Brighton and Hove Albion manager Gus Poyet is a target for Portsmouth whose manager Avram Grant looks destined for West Ham.Poyet, 42, took over at Brighton in November with the club fifth from bottom of League One and has led them to safety, nine...
Pragmatism Will Hold Osborne and Cable Together
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Treasury When will he coalition's honeymoon end? On 25 June. That is the date pencilled in, 50 days after the general election, when George Osborne will present the emergency Budget that he promised will set the framework for the restoration of the public...
Pupils Strike against Phantom Holiday Cut
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Schoolchildren in several French towns have joined wildcat strikes against a government plan to cut a month from their summer holidays.No such plan exists. Nonetheless, a rumour has swept through social networking sites in recent days that "Sarko" plans...
Radical New Thinking Required
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Leading Articles Labour Party LABOUR'S FIRST taste of opposition in 13 years has been a bittersweet experience. Some in the party fear that it will be shut out of power for a generation. Others sense an opportunity for a rapid bounce back. But whichever...
Raise Your Game by Going to the Continent
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European Masters Why don't more cash-strapped graduates choose to study in Europe, asks Alexa Phillips Studying abroad is a popular choice for undergraduates who, through international exchanges, are experiencing the benefits of living in another country...
Regulator 'Out of Touch' over Advertising Ruling, Says ITV
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ITV has rounded on the Competition Commission after losing the battle to remove its advertising "straitjacket," saying the regulator was "out of touch" and had failed to understand the media landscape.The regulator refused to change its stance on the...
