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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 October 16, 2007
A Bear That Never Really Learned to Punch Its Weight
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If sport reflects society then the failure of Russian football at the highest level does not just result from its turbulent development. Glenn Moore reportsIn August the Americans showed a B-52 bomber at the Moscow airshow. What followed was an even...
Abuse or Stabilisation: Call It What You Will
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OUTLOOKBankers don't tend to act out of altruism, so when three of them get together to launch a $75bn lifeboat to help bail out"structured investment vehicles"and"conduits", it's more than usually worth delving into why.If this were an initiative organised...
A Clever Romp through a Weird World of Finance, Sex Toys and Lecherous Ghosts the Tuesday Book
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making money By Terry Pratchett doubleday, Pounds 18.99 Order for Pounds 17.09 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897The latest novel in the Discworld cycle is so on-the-nose and up- to-the-minute in its subject than you can't help speculating that Pratchett has...
A Failure of Delivery
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LEADING ARTICLE Royal MailThe deal to end the industrial dispute between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union remains to be agreed. But the damage that these strikes have already inflicted on the British postal service should not be underestimated.First...
Aitken Hits out at Italian 'Bottle' Jibe
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By Nick Harrisin TblisiScotland touched down here in Eurasia last night intent on pushing the boundaries of their Euro 2008 ambitions to fulfilment and insisting that they have the nerve to get over the qualifying line. They face Georgia tomorrow needing...
Aitken Hits out at Italian 'Bottle' Jibe
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By Nick Harrisin TblisiScotland touched down here in Eurasia last night intent on pushing the boundaries of their Euro 2008 ambitions to fulfilment and insisting that they have the nerve to get over the qualifying line. They face Georgia tomorrow needing...
Anti-Fur Campaigner Faces Prison over Seal Cull Film
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A British animal rights campaigner has vowed to go to prison in Canada rather than pay a fine if he is convicted of breaking rules governing filming of the country's annual seal cull.Mark Glover, campaigns director of the Nottingham-based Respect for...
An Unkind Cut
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Should the mother of Katie Thorpe, a teenager with cerebral palsy, be able to demand a hysterectomy for her? Kate Ansell, who also has CP, says such a move should not be contemplatedI have a lot of empathy with Katie Thorpe, the disabled teenager whose...
Ashton Built on His Nation's Basic Instinct, Laporte Ignored It and Paid for His Folly
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We will never know - and in English rugby these next few delirious days there will plainly be little disposition to imagine - what would have happened if the French coach Bernard Laporte had pulled off the liberating achievement of his Italian football...
Ashton Built on His Nation's Basic Instinct, Laporte Ignored It and Paid for His Folly
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We will never know - and in English rugby these next few delirious days there will plainly be little disposition to imagine - what would have happened if the French coach Bernard Laporte had pulled off the liberating achievement of his Italian football...
Award-Winning Black Actors 'Leaving for US'
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The best of black British acting talent was recognised yesterday at the Screen Nation Film and TV awards, as Naomie Harris and David Harewood won awards for their roles in smash-hit Hollywood blockbusters.Harris, who starred in Pirates of the Caribbean:...
Balenciaga's Blazer Becomes the Must-Have Copy
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Call off the search. The hunt for this season's most wanted, and most copied, piece of clothing has screeched to a stylish halt at a navy blazer with yellow piping by Balenciaga. At least 10 shops, including Peacocks and Topshop, have sealed the garment's...
BBC Staff Expect News Output to Bear Brunt of Cost Cutting
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BBC journalists are growing increasingly concerned that huge cost cuts will affect the quality of the corporation's news output.News is expected to be one of the worst-hit departments when Mark Thompson unveils plans to cut costs across the BBC this...
Bhutto's Hometown in Frenzy at Return of Exiled Leader
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A small queue of peasant girls approaches the grave of Pakistan's former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, on the outskirts of his family's ancestral home in Larkana. One by one, they climb the steps and kneel with their heads slightly bowed. The eldest...
Big Four Increase Dominance in Audits
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By David ProsserDeputy Business EditorThe UK's biggest accountancy firms enjoyed a 13 per cent rise in income over the 2006-07 financial year, research published yesterday revealed.The report will add to concern among watchdogs that the UK's four biggest...
Bob Denard
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Mercenary operating in Africa'Colonel' Bob Denard was the archetype of the old school of western mercenaries, described in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Dogs of War. For three decades, he left a trail of coups d'etats - and failed coups d'etats - across...
Boils, Locusts and Other Lyrical Treats Pop
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plague songs Barbican londonHow did a bunch of the world's leading artists find the inspiration to perform their own Plague Songs - a contemporary retelling of the Plagues of Egypt in the Old Testament?Rufus Wainwright sings his slow, moving country...
Campbell Quits, the Loser of the Election That Never Was
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Sir Menzies Campbell bowed swiftly to the inevitable last night by jumping before he was pushed as leader of the Liberal Democrats.The 66-year-old MP, who faced an increasingly open revolt inside his party, decided to fall on his sword rather than face...
Cash in Your Chips as Smokers Abandon Rank
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THE INVESTMENT COLUMNEdited by Andrew DewsonOur view: SellCurrent price: 109.75pRank Group took another battering yesterday, the shares continuing to slide as a result of last week's profit warning that was, well, rank.Not only has the impact of the...
Celebration of Europe's Finest Visual Arts
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the grand atelier: pathways of art in europe Palais des Beaux- Arts brussels HHHHFew shows of recent years have had the scope and grandiose ambitions of this one. Its aim, through a display of more than 300 objects culled from 156 European museums, is...
Chess by Jon Speelman
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The endgame is supposedly the area of chess in which strong players have the greatest margin over weaker ones. This is because, contrary to popular belief, endgames are generally far from "dry" but rather often require exact calculation of variations...
Citigroup Earnings Details Alarm Investors
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By Stephen FoleyCitigroup dismayed investors with downbeat comments about its future profitability, as it warned that its mortgage customers were defaulting in higher numbers than expected and that parts of its investment banking business had shrunk...
Cold Winds Are Swirling around the Third Party
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LEADING ARTICLE Liberal DemocratsIf confirmation were needed that politics is a harsh and unforgiving trade, yesterday's resignation of Sir Menzies Campbell as leader of the Liberal Democrats surely provides it. Despite Sir Menzies' reputation as a likeable...
Colin Thompson
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Modernising director of the National Galleries of ScotlandWhen Colin Thompson retired in October 1984 from directing the National Galleries of Scotland, he had been in the post for nearly seven years. It would be wrong to construe from this relatively...
Creme De la Creme Classic Cars Citroen Type 7
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As French as Gitanes, it rewrote the rules of automotive design. Andrew Roberts salutes the peerless Traction AvantReaders who watch archive television may have encountered the the 1960-1963 TV Maigret, in which even the briefest excerpt of a black Citron...
Cumbrian Town Paves the Way for Television's Big Switchover to Digital
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Whitehaven has seen better days. The mines have long since closed; the west Cumbria town would have probably been abandoned long ago, had it not been for jobs the nearby Sellafield nuclear power station provides. Perched on subsiding cliffs, a monument...
Dallaglio Admits His Surprise at English Revival
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By Chris Hewettin ParisLawrence Dallaglio admits to raising an eyebrow at England's transformation from World Cup embarrassments to World Cup finalists in the space of a calendar month - not, perhaps, the grand gesture we have come to expect from the...
Dallaglio Admits His Surprise at English Revival
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By Chris Hewettin ParisLawrence Dallaglio admits to raising an eyebrow at England's transformation from World Cup embarrassments to World Cup finalists in the space of a calendar month - not, perhaps, the grand gesture we have come to expect from the...
Divorce Lawyers 'Put Fees before Clients'
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Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are the latest celebrity couple to find out the hard way that divorce often ends in a long, acrimonious and expensive court battle. But many costly annulments could be avoided if alternative and less hostile means...
DIY Dentistry
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With NHS treatment becoming increasingly scarce, Esther Walker highlights the simple steps you can take to help keep your mouth healthy - and avoid all the pain and expenseBRUSHINGMost tooth decay is a result of insufficient brushing or poor brushing...
Do I Have a Food Allergy? How Can I Stop Cystitis Attacks?
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CasebookIs food making me ill?Is it possible to have a mild food allergy that only brings on symptoms intermittently? I sometimes develop a runny nose and itchy throat soon after eating certain foods. The symptoms are mild and don't really trouble me,...
Exotic Dancer Camp Confident of Winning Next Round with Kauto Star
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By Sue MontgomeryA sabre was rattled, rather provocatively, in the owner's camp. The talk from the trainer was fighting, too, but more measured. The horse at the centre of the war of words, Exotic Dancer, didn't say much, but if his appearance yesterday...
Expat 'Murdered His Wife to Claim Her Life Insurance'
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A British expatriate went on trial in France yesterday accused of murdering his wife and trying to make her death look like an accident.Robert Lund, a former tree surgeon, denies killing his wife Evelyn, whose body was found in her car in a lake almost...
Face It - Summer Was Never All It Was Cracked Up to Be
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"Mum, have we got to autumn yet?""Dad, how will we know when we get to autumn?""Oh, what does autumn look like?""What are the main symptoms of autumn, and can it be cured?""How big are the chances of being knocked over by autumn in the street, and what...
Former Prisons Inspector Backs Call to Legalise Drugs
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A senior police officer's call for the legalisation of all drugs, including heroin, has been backed by a former chief inspector of prisons.Lord Ramsbotham argued that the huge number of people in jail with a drug problem proved that current policy, based...
Freeze Frame
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Chinese Communist Party, 15.10.2007Who's Hu?Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers the keynote speech at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) yesterday. The event is held in Bejing every five years. In a rare bout of humility,...
Gang Accused of Recruiting Europe's First Female Suicide Bomber Go on Trial
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Muriel Degauque lived a largely unremarkable life. Until, that is, she converted to Islam and blew herself up , aged 38, on an Iraqi roadside, going down in the history books as Europe's first female suicide bomber.Yesterday, the network accused of recruiting...
He Took over Too Late and Never Defined His Direction
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analysisThe sad truth about Menzies Campbell's leadership of the Liberal Democrats is that it just came too late.Had he challenged for the leadership in 1999 and taken on Charles Kennedy things might have been very different. Then, however, his politics,...
Hospital Trust Boss Resigns after Superbug Outbreak
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The chairman of the hospital trust that was hit by an outbreak of a killer bug, claiming the lives of at least 21 patients has resigned.James Lee stood down after Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, announced a Department of Health review of his role...
Housing Market Continues to Slow
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By David ProsserDeputy Business EditorHouse prices rose by 11.4 per cent year on year in August, down from 12.4 per cent a month previously, the Department for Communities and Local Government said yesterday. Economists warned that the figures provided...
'I'm after Room for My Dog - and Wine'
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CAR CHOICE Ann needs a car big enough to carry her wheelchair, pet, and a few cases of French plonk. James Ruppert considers the optionsNigel Hay needs advice on how best to replace his wife Ann's current car, a 2002 VW Polo 1.4S Automatic with 14,500...
Injury Brings 'Devastated' Lewsey's Cup Dream to End
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--rugby unionBy Chris Hewettin ParisJosh Lewsey did as much as anyone to drag England kicking and screaming into a second successive World Cup final - not simply by scoring the only try of the last-four tie with France on Saturday night, but by playing...
Injury Brings 'Devastated' Lewsey's Cup Dream to End
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--rugby unionBy Chris Hewettin ParisJosh Lewsey did as much as anyone to drag England kicking and screaming into a second successive World Cup final - not simply by scoring the only try of the last-four tie with France on Saturday night, but by playing...
'Insane' Tycoon's Pounds 8.3m Gift to Tories Is Overturned in Court
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Branslav Kostic was a multimillionaire Serbian businessman who rated Margaret Thatcher the "greatest leader of the free world in history". So it was unsurprising that when he died in 2005 he left the Conservative Party 8.3m. He said he believed that...
Lampard Faces Being Left out in Moscow Cold
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By Sam Wallacein MoscowThe Moscow weather that greeted the England team as they landed last night was bleak indeed - snow, sleet and temperatures touching freezing. A scene to match Frank Lampard's mood it would seem after the Chelsea midfielder was...
LAST CHANCE TO BUY Audi A8
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When's it going?There's a new A8 available right now, although you do struggle to see the differences. Look closely though and you may spot a new grille, fresh alloy design and new door mirrors with integrated indicators. It's also a bit greener and...
Laughed at on His Debut, He Never Really Recovered from There
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The SketchMing always looked a bit like a memento mori; now he lives on in at least two leaders' minds as an awful warning. To Brown, he shows it's not as easy as it looks being a party leader. And to Cameron - well, it was Ming who gave the second-best...
Lots of Shakes, but Very Little Rattle and Roll Feature 4x4 Training
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The way to cross the toughest terrain, discovers Daniel Howden, is to assume a Zen-like calm and just lets a Land-Rover do the restI wander lonely as a Land-Rover. Ahead and above me, jagged waves of rocks lurch forward along a trail the width of my...
Men Only? You Must Be Joking
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A new survey has named the nation's top 10 wits - and there isn't a woman among them. But as Emily Dugan discovers, female humour has helped define our life and culture for centuries The funnier sexLady AstorThe first female Member of Parliament,...
Mother Care
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In ITV's new version of 'Frankenstein', the pioneering scientist is a woman who treats the Monster like a child. Gerard Gilbertvisits the set to find out moreIt was less depressing than anticipated to revisit London's now- decommissioned Middlesex Hospital....
Motorbikes Are a Menace - It's Time We Took Them On
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THE CYCLING COLUMNI've decided to open up a new front in my war against other road- users. Already, I count regular motorists, lorry drivers and bendy buses among my sworn enemies on the daily commute to work - each of which regularly make attempts on...
Murray's Golden Touch Stuns Stepanek Recovers Touch to Stun Stepanek
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--tennisBy Paul Newmanin MadridAndy Murray's room in his futuristic hotel here is painted jet black, with just four small lights positioned over his bed. It is so dark that after a pre-dinner doze over the weekend he awoke and was unable to find his...
'Nature Not Nurture' Is to Blame for Aggressive Children
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Young children have an innate tendency to be aggressive that they have to learn to control in their pre-school years if they are to avoid being violent and antisocial later in life, an expert in childhood behaviour has found.Toddlers are born with aggressive...
News Round-Up
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The magnificent sevenThe seven finalists for the Car of the Year 2008 accolade are: Fiat 500, Ford Mondeo, Kia Cee'd, Mazda 2, Mercedes-Benz C-class, Nissan Qashqai and Peugeot 308. The finalists were decided on a first-round vote by the 58 European...
Nobel for 'Mechanism Design' Pioneers
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By Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorThe Nobel prize for economics has been awarded to three American academics, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for their work on mechanism design theory.Despite the abstruse sounding name, this branch of thesocial...
No Science of Abortion without the Ethics
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"We have confined ourselves to scientific developments", concludes the Christian Medical Fellowship in its formal submission to the select committee considering Britain's abortion laws, "but cannot end without a reminder that abortion is always a procedure...
Number of Rejected Mortgage Requests Soars 60 per Cent
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By Esther ShawThe number of rejected mortgage applications has soared 60 per cent over the past six months, according to the price comparison service MoneyExpert.com.It found that in the six months to the end of September, a total of 738,000 home loan...
Olmert Hints Israel May Be Willing to Split Up Jerusalem
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The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, hinted yesterday that he might be willing to split Jerusalem, by questioning for the first time whether certain Palestinian neighbourhoods needed to be part of what Israel officially sees as its undivided capital.Mr...
One Giant Step
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After a horrific paraglider crash, Danny Penman was told that his smashed leg might have to be amputated. But thanks to a deviceresembling a medieval torture kit, he's back on two feet againI knew there was something seriously wrong with my paraglider...
Pandora
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Gummer's unholy row with the humanistsAn un-Christian dust-up is under way between John Gummer, the Catholic Tory MP, environmentalist and cow eater, and the British Humanist Association. Each accuses the other of dishonesty.The humanists claim that...
Pessimism Is Brown's Enemy on Europe
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Most of us are familiar with the situation: you are having a rather trivial conversation at a party, when suddenly you become aware that a couple of other people nearby are discussing something which interests you much more - and so you somehow manage...
Pessimism Is Brown's Enemy on Europe
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Most of us are familiar with the situation: you are having a rather trivial conversation at a party, when suddenly you become aware that a couple of other people nearby are discussing something which interests you much more - and so you somehow manage...
Poll Victory Sets Up Mayor of Rome as Italy's PM in Waiting
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Italy woke up yesterday with a new prime minister-in-waiting. After a primary election on Sunday in which more than three million voted, Walter Veltroni, the Mayor of Rome, is now seen as the best bet to replace Romano Prodi.Mr Veltroni attracted 75...
Pop
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kula shaker Koko london HHHHMen of a certain age may have gone weak at the knees when they heard that Led Zeppelin were reforming, but for those who were teens or early twentysomethings just a decade ago, 2007 has seen another, equally momentous rock...
Praxair Bid Talk Sets Johnson Matthey Alight
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Market ReportOn a topsy-turvy day for the market, takeover talk was once more at a premium. While the top tier ended the day down, Johnson Matthey, the blue-chip chemical company, bucked the trend after late bid speculation.It soared 9.92 per cent to...
Right from the Start, There Was a Sense That Sir Ming's Moment Had Come Too Late
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Leaders become vulnerable in periods of wildly oscillating political moods. Three weeks ago there was some speculation that David Cameron would not survive for much longer. Now he enjoys a second honeymoon. Gordon Brown walked on water in September....
Rocket Launch FEATURE Suzuki B-King
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Suzuki's new beast is awesomely powerful but surprisingly agile and well mannered, says Tim LuckhurstApproaching the village at 70mph in sixth, I could see that my route through the mini-roundabouts was clear. I braked hard, held the bike in top gear...
Room in the Back? Oh Yes THE VERDICT BINZ
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Take an E-Class Merc, streeeeetch it, put in more doors and what do you get? A luxury eight-seater that still drives like a dream, says David WilkinsThis week, our reader-testers get to grips with something a little bit unusual - the Binz limousine,...
Russia Would Be More Dangerous without Putin
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For amateurs, it's an absorbing, if macabre, parlour game. For professionals in politics, diplomacy and the like, it's a routine exercise in thinking the all too thinkable. You take an individual, the more powerful the better, and consider the implications...
Save the Planet and Enjoy It Feature Mini Cooper D
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It's one of the most environmentally friendly cars you can buy. Keith Adams takes a trip to the Nurburgring to prove that being green doesn't mean you can't still have funThe green motoring revolution has been gaining momentum - but social responsibility...
Scotney Denies Saying He Would 'Get Fallon'
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By Chris McGrathat the Old BaileyThe man hired to protect the integrity of British horseracing yesterday denied suggestions that he has a vendetta against Kieren Fallon. Giving evidence to the race-fixing trial at the Old Bailey, Paul Scotney rejected...
Shocking Story Gets the Right Treatment Last Night's TV
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THE RELIEF OF BELSEN CHANNEL 4 DRAGON'S DEN BBC2 CORONATION STREET ITV1It is perhaps because the Holocaust involved cruelty and suffering on such an unimaginable scale that it has unleashed relatively little in the way of television drama down the years....
Some Say That It Makes the World Go Round, Others Call It the Root of All Evil. but What Exactly Is Money? Why Do We Need It? and Where Did It Come from? as Economists Herald the Advent of a Cashless Society, Johnny Acton Tells the Story of Man's Most Basic Commodity - While Sean O'Grady Looks to Its Hi-Tech Future
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Goats and axes: the trouble with barterBefore the invention of money, the only way to trade goods was via barter. If you had a spare goat but wanted a big pile of wheat, you had to find someone in the reverse position. This would have been fine in a...
Springboks Invite Mandela in Effort to Revisit '95 Vibe
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By Simon TurnbullThere are some 5,421 miles between Johannesburg and Paris, and 12 years have passed since Francois Pienaar got his mitts on the World Cup on home soil, but the Springboks are doing their level best, it would seem, to recreate the spirit...
Springboks Invite Mandela in Effort to Revisit '95 Vibe
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By Simon TurnbullThere are some 5,421 miles between Johannesburg and Paris, and 12 years have passed since Francois Pienaar got his mitts on the World Cup on home soil, but the Springboks are doing their level best, it would seem, to recreate the spirit...
Stalemate over Leno's Late-Night Chat Show Could Cost NBC Dear
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When Jay Leno signed a contract extension three years ago to maintain his position as the king of the late-night US TV chat-show circuit, he wasn't too perturbed about the contract's end-date in 2009. If anything, he welcomed it."You can do these things...
Standard Life and Swiss Re in Talks to Gatecrash Resolution Merger
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By James MooreThe battle for Resolution Life heated up yesterday after Standard Life saidit was in talks with SwissRe about taking on therival insurer Pearl andResolution's preferred merger with Friends Provident with a bid of its own.It came as the...
Supply Fears Drive Oil to Record Prices
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By Nic FildesOil prices surged to a record high yesterday on the back of tension between Turkey and Iraq, adding to concerns over global supplies before the northern winter.The oil price has risen steadily in recent months after dipping below $50 a...
Suzuki's Splash Makes Waves
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ROAD TEST SUZUKI SPLASH Gone is the slinky aerodynamic of techno-styling, in is the cuboid cool of the new Suzuki Wagon-R mini-MPV. John Simister squares up to a new lookAre you square? Years ago, this was a term applied to people who were not "with...
Tales of the City
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'Fantastic, isn't it? The revelation that the boudoir secret of the swarthy Euro-ladykiller involves biscuits'I suspect that if anyone had their private erotic behaviour minutely reported by the tabloids, they'd risk appearing comical. So we should not...
Theatre
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glengarry glen ross Apollo Shaftesbury london HHHHThe press night of James Macdonald's superb West End revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, the David Mamet classic about in-fighting real- estate salesmen, had to be postponed when the actor Anthony Flanagan...
The Battle for Cape York
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Aborigines are fighting to preserve the wild corner of Australia that's been their home for 60,000 years. Greens want to save the area too. So why are the two groups at loggerheads? By Kathy Marks Australia's tropical stormThey call Cape York one of...
The Candidates to Take over the Party
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It has taken just two years in Parliament for Nick Clegg to become the odds-on front-runner to succeed Sir Menzies Campbell.He let slip his ambitions last month when he admitted he "probably would" stand for the leadership when there was a vacancy for...
The Ten Best Pubs
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1 The Duke of York Iddesleigh, DevonFor many people, this is just how pubs should be. Unfussy and friendly with roaring fires and a welcoming landlord, plus simply furnished bars, popular food and a good choice of drinks.01837 810 2532 The Bell Sapperton,...
Top Wall Street Banks Haggle over Rescue Plan for SIVs
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By Stephen Foleyin New YorkSome of Wall Street's big-gest banks are still haggling over vital details of a rescue plan which they hope will stave off tens of billions of dollars in losses from secretive off-balance-sheet vehicles.Citigroup is leading...
TV Fakery? Nah, You're Going to Get the Real Me
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As I've mentioned before, I've been working on three one-hour documentaries for the BBC about my return to Liverpool after 30 years away. In a way, this type of factual programme - although supposedly free from artifice - can actually make you more egotistical...
Two Heads Are Better Than One
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FEATURE COMMERCIAL VEHICLES PSA Peugeot Citroen and Fiat together have produced an appealing compact van. By Mark BursaMeet the latest family of vans to be produced under the ongoing collaboration between PSA Peugeot Citron and Fiat. They're all cute...
US 'Delayed' British Withdrawal from Basra
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British forces were prevented from pulling out of their last base in Basra City for five months because the Americans refused to move their consulate, according to senior military sources.The US warned that a brigade of troops would be sent from Baghdad...
Vickery Turns Cornish Ice Cream into Churchillian Rhetoric
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England's captain was banned at the start of the tournament. Now he is a one-man band on the stirring speeches front. Tim Glover reports from ParisA few weeks ago Phil Vickery, and his country, appeared to be on their knees.England, the defending champions...
Vickery Turns Cornish Ice Cream into Churchillian Rhetoric
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England's captain was banned at the start of the tournament. Now he is a one-man band on the stirring speeches front. Tim Glover reports from ParisA few weeks ago Phil Vickery, and his country, appeared to be on their knees. England, the defending champions...
Virgin Money Launches US 'Friends and Family' Lender
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By David ProsserDeputy Business EditorVirgin Money, the business unit through which Sir Richard Branson hopes to acquire Northern Rock, yesterday launched the next stage of its US expansion, with a novel new service enabling friends and families to lend...
Werner Von Trapp
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Member of the Trapp Family SingersWerner von Trapp was a member of the famed family of singers who became world renowned when their life formed the basis of the durable stage musical The Sound of Music, filmed with enormous success in 1965. The stepson...
What Is So Wrong with NHS Dentistry That People Are Pulling Their Own Teeth? the Big Question
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Why are we asking this now?People unable to find an NHS dentist have become so desperate that some are resorting to pulling their own teeth, according to a survey published yesterday by the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health. Of...
What Price the Rock?
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Assessing Northern Rock's value is a battle between long investors and short sellers. By Danny Fortson Business AnalysisAnother day, another harrowing ride for those with the nerve to still be holding on to shares in Northern Rock.In the first full day...
World Music
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el gusto Barbican london HHHHHThere's nothing like a story of veteran musicians reuniting after decades apart to sell a world music act to the media - look at the success of the Buena Vista Social Club and Orchestra Baobab. But I wouldn't be so cynical...
You Write the Reviews
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Zappa Plays Zappa Shepherd's Bush Empire LONDON HHHHHFrank Zappa was a guitarist, social commentator, composer and writer of surreal and eschatological lyrics. When I told friends I was off to see a concert of his music at the Shepherd's Bush Empire...
