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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 November 17, 2008
50,000 Flee Homes as Fires Rage in California
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* Hundreds of properties burn as Los Angeles encircled by most destructive blazes in living memory Thousands of weary evacuees will begin returning to their Los Angeles homes this morning, after a chaotic weekend in which their city was encircled by...
551,351 Reasons Why Glamour Is Britain's Number One Magazine
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Leona Lewis is on the cover of the December issue of Glamour. It's called the "party issue", but the X Factor star is dressed down in a grey sweater, minimal make-up and loose hair. She is very pretty, but has a natural, low maintenance and approachable...
A Budget Christmas? Call in the 'Hamster'
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Jamie's cooking cheese on toast, Twiggy's partying in polyester and Richard Hammond's been tempted back from the Arctic by the bargains at Morrisons. Shame. It's going to be a crunchy Christmas, just look at the ads.Gone are the expensive celeb fests...
Accies Count Cost after Spot-Kick Controversy
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SCOTLAND HAMILTON 1 CELTIC 2 Perhaps the Scottish Football Association will be the next body to implement a Respect campaign after the Hamilton manager Billy Reid yesterday claimed his side were once again the victims of a poor decision by match officials...
A Clean Withdrawal from Iraq
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LEADING ARTICLE AN AGREEMENT of a historic nature was struck in Baghdad yesterday. The Iraqi cabinet has approved a deal with Washington which stipulates that US troops will withdraw from the streets of Iraqi towns by the middle of next year and that...
Ali and Frazier Diminished by Memories of Manila Bitterness
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VIEW FROM THE SOFA TRUE STORIES: THRILLER IN MANILA More4 TuesdayMuhammad Ali is an international treasure, the closest thing the world has to a secular living god, a fistic mixture of Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. Joe Frazier is a sad old bloke...
All US Troops out of Iraq 'In Three Years'
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THE IRAQI cabinet has finally approved a hard-fought security pact with the US under which all American troops are to withdraw from Iraq in three years, putting an end to the US-led occupation of Iraq that has defined America's relations with the rest...
Another British Currency Crisis - It's Enough to Make You Feel Nostalgic
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Stick your head out of the window, inhale deeply, and enjoy the sweet, yet sickly, scent of nostalgia. It's everywhere. On a Saturday night, you can settle down in front of the television to watch the X Factor or Strictly Come Dancing, throwbacks to...
A Raw Account of Childhood, Violence and the Barbarism Inside All of Us
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The Monday Book JACKDAW SUMMER By David Almond HODDER & STOUGHTON, Pounds 10.99 Order (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897 David Almond is an intensely local writer in constant search of universal themes. All his previous novels are set in the same corner of...
Art's Too Expensive, Says Hirst (Worth Pounds 200m)
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Damien Hirst has become the nation's biggest art export, transforming the global market with multi-million-pound works and earning his place as one of the world's most expensive living artists at auction. But now, just months after the success of a ground-breaking...
A Sponsored Walk Round the Big Top
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Underneath the main arena of the O2, the world's busiest music venue, there is a small room with a high security entrance that houses the most advanced technological gadgets, protected by a locked glass cabinet like the diamond in a Pink Panther movie.Inside...
As the World Sees It
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G20THE BASELINE SCENARIO (UNITED STATES)Tightening regulations quickly in the midst of a worldwide credit crunch is one good way to make sure that credit contracts further and faster. Lending standards naturally tighten in a crisis; the issue to address...
A Walk in the Cloud
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There's a revolution in the air. Literally. As we upload our lives into cyberspace, we're finally unleashing the true power of the internet. It's the sort of thing science fiction has been grappling with for decades - and now it's coming true. By Tim...
A Woman's Right to Choose Is Also Her Right to Be Human
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Podium HOW DO WE value fetal and embryonic life? Obviously we couldn't allow abortion if we accepted that fetal life had the same degree of value as a born human life, and I don't believe that it does. However, it is quite possible to value both fetal...
Bashed by Boycott and Tackled by Tufnell
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Dom Joly's Weird World of Sport Celtic were fined 42,000 because a badly dressed supporter managed to run on to the pitch during their Champions League match against Manchester United. How things have changed - in the old days this was part of the fun...
Benitez Revels in 'Bad' Liverpool Performance
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BOLTON WANDERERS 0 LIVERPOOL 2 If the fate of Juande Ramos proved anything it is that even for a coach with a successful history the Premier League is a tough and unforgiving workplace. It is one the former Tottenham manager's compatriot, Rafa Benitez,...
Benitez Revels in 'Bad' Liverpool Performance
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BOLTON WANDERERS 0 LIVERPOOL 2 If the fate of Juande Ramos proved anything it is that even for a coach with a successful history the Premier League is a tough and unforgiving workplace. It is one the former Tottenham manager's compatriot, Rafa Benitez,...
Black Day for Ireland despite New Zealand Failing to Fire Up
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IRELAND 3 NEW ZEALAND 22 Ireland were forced to confront the age old reality that they simply do not inhabit the same rugby planet as New Zealand. Never in 22 attempts have they beaten the All Blacks in a Test match and the dream died here with an inevitability...
'Bloodbath' at Urban Music Awards
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* Man fighting for life after being stabbed during speech by anti- knife campaigners Guns and knives were brandished and champagne bottles became weapons as the sixth annual Urban Music Awards descended into a bloodbath, witnesses said yesterday.A 27-year-old...
Bridge
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Jeff Meckstroth of the USA, South, acknowledged as one of the world's best players, ended in 3NT against England at the first World Mind Sports Games.West did well to lead one of the two suits that gave the defence a chance - a low heart, to the queen...
Brown Claims World Backing for Plan to Tax Less, Spend More
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* Pre-Budget report likely to offer help for 10p 'losers' * IMF leader calls on Britain to spend an extra Pounds 30bn Gordon Brown will claim today that his plans to cut taxes to keep the British economy moving have won the endorsement of leaders from...
Capello Goes to War over Gerrard
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* England manager to have medical staff inspect player despite Liverpool statement Capello calls up Mancienne for his 'experiments'Fabio Capello last night sparked a potential club versus country dispute when he called Steven Gerrard into the England...
Capello: 'My Decision May Leave Me Vulnerable to Being 'Merked' by Rio' Interview Reveals Coach's Fear of Being 'Merked' by Rio
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Talking Football Eleven months of perfunctory press conferences then suddenly Fabio Capello shocks us all by opening his heart to the man from Fifa Magazine on everything from managing England to living in London. Ahead of Wednesday's friendly against...
Capello's England Squad in Tatters
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* Gerrard added to coach's high-profile list of casualties for game against Germany Capello calls up Mancienne for his 'experiments' FABIO CAPELLOS England squad to face Germany on Wednesday was in ruins last night as Steven Gerrard became the third...
Carphone Ponders Pounds 900m Spin-Off of Talk Talk
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CARPHONE WAREHOUSE, the telecoms and broadband provider, is mulling proposals to spin off of its home phone and internet business Talk Talk, in a bid to release some of the value of the group for shareholders.It is thought that Talk Talk could command...
Chess
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The Dresden Olympiad got under way on Thursday with a first round which proved more interesting and informative than those in years gone by. There was a time, when the first day was marked by an orgy of 4-0 victories, as the strong slaughtered the weak....
Credit Crisis Diary
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Economic crisis, what economic crisis?You can't fault the employment agency Manpower for its optimism. Its junk-mail department sent out an email on Friday entitled "New Staff for Christmas". Apparently, it has lots more people on its books these days...
Crowds Flock to Greet Maradona
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Argentina's new manager arrives in Glasgow for Scotland match amid huge excitement. By Nick Harris As Diego Maradona landed in Glasgow yesterday to prepare for his first game as Argentina's manager - against Scotland on Wednesday - the executive who...
Crowds Flock to Greet Maradona
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Argentina's new manager arrives in Glasgow for Scotland match amid huge excitement. By Nick Harris As Diego Maradona landed in Glasgow yesterday to prepare for his first game as Argentina's manager - against Scotland on Wednesday - the executive who...
Dance
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RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY Sadler's Wells, London ** Some ideas shouldn't get past the drawing board. Rambert's new Eternal Light is horrifyingly full of them. Toucans and sparkly crosses jostle with flares and new-agey uplift. The dancers, poor things,...
David Hare's Latest Play Is 'Anti-Semitic'
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* Senior rabbi hits out at latest production - but admits he has never seen it AS a close friend of Tony Blair, the Labour Party's former chief fundraiser, Lord Levy, was drawn into the tortured politics of the Middle East and the row over the 1m donation...
Economy Faces Worst Year in Three Decades, Says CBI
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* Contraction of 1.7 per cent expected in 2009 and nearly 3 million out of work in 2010 THE BRITISH economy is set to suffer its worst year in three decades in 2009, contracting by as much as 1.7 per cent, according to new forecasts from the CBI.The...
Edgar Holloway
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Artist best known for his etched portraits Edgar Holloway's story is the stuff of which myths and artistic reputations are made. Born in May 1914 in Mexborough, near Doncaster, the son of a Yorkshire miner-turned-picture-framer, he left school at 14...
Elvis's Dead Twin and Other Walker Weirdness
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POP DRIFTING AND TILTING: THE SONGS OF SCOTT WALKER Barbican, London ** The last person you would expect to see tonight is Scott Walker, and the man who walked away from pop's expectations and gigs 30 years ago doesn't disappoint. That stubborn absence,...
English Credibility in Tatters
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* Humbling in the Rugby League World Cup highlights problem with Super League ENGLISH rugby league is having to ask itself some fundamental questions in the wake of this ignominious World Cup exit. However brave a face you put on it, a dreadful first-half...
'Esther Rantzen, I Said, and the Knife Slipped into Matthew's Thumb'
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Days Like These Matthew said, while slicing a lemon for his evening drink, that we must all learn from Barack Obama. "The man's equanimity is almost supernatural." he said, "and from this day forth I pledge to do all in my power to emulate him. Volatility...
Failing Schools Turned Round by 'Superheads'
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Exclusive * Exam results improvedramatically in first year of ground-breaking scheme Parachuting headteachers in to act as consultants or executive heads in schools that are struggling has had a remarkably positive effect on performance, research reveals.Figures...
Few Answers for Capello in Upton Park Stalemate
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WEST HAM 0 PORTSMOUTH 0 Fabio Capello thought his time was best spent on Saturday in the East End. The England manager then had to sit through a deeply average game that lacked spark or ingenuity for long periods, but he still felt that four players...
First Soldier Dies in 'Armoured Bus'
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* Bigger roadside bombs laid by Taliban claim life of Gurkha travelling in Warrior A British soldier was killed in Afghanistan's Helmand province over the weekend when his heavily armoured Warrior vehicle struck a roadside bomb. It is thought to be the...
For the Record
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Coconut shy* Few newspapers have emerged with much credit from reporting the story of Jersey children's home, Haut de la Garenne, which police said last week was not a murder scene after all. "At last...a proper copper we can trust," trilled 'The Daily...
Fred Newman
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Founder of 'Publishing News' and the British Book Awards Enigmatic and audacious, acerbic, unconventional and often very charming, Fred Newman, the co-creator and managing director of the UK trade paper Publishing News and the British Book Awards, has...
Fury Mounts over Child's Death
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* Public anger directed at councillors over systematic failures in social-work team Anger over the death of Baby P appeared to be reaching boiling point in Haringey as the majority Labour group on the council held an emergency meeting to discuss the...
Geovanni Exposes Big-Time City
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Brazilian leaves Hughes' ambitious side looking half-hearted as bid to end their losing run falls short. By Sam Wallace HULL CITY 2 MANCHESTER CITY 2 Drawing with Hull City on a chilly afternoon on Humberside probably does not figure anywhere on the...
Get the Obama Look
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The US election was no contest in the fashion stakes. Carola Long salutes the President-elect's keen sense of style - and reveals the secrets inside his wardrobe THE TIEAmericans wanted a break from tradition, and they got it, courtesy of Obama's knot....
GM Workers Plead for Emergency Bailout
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A BANKRUPTCY filing by General Motors would be the beginning of the end of the US-owned car industry, the president of the United Autoworkers union has predicted.Ron Gettelfinger joined the chorus of industry players pleading for government loans to...
Gomes Drops Redknapp Back in Deep End
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FULHAM 2 TOTTENHAM 1 "When things are not going well, people always look for a scapegoat. I think that is what happened with the goalkeeper."So said Tottenham captain Ledley King after Spurs' first defeat under Harry Redknapp, at Craven Cottage. King...
Government to Defy Critics with Secret GM Crop Trials
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Exclusive * Mandelson and Benn lead campaign to win support for controversial technology Ministers are drawing up plans for genetically-modified crops to be grown in secret and more secure locations to prevent trials being wrecked by saboteurs.They may...
Hadden Agony over Missed Chances
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SCOTLAND 10 SOUTH AFRICA 14 We saw the taming of the Beast, the sinking of the Bismarck, but not quite the downing of Peter de Villiers' stuttering Springboks. The 80 minutes here on Saturday had thrills, not a little spillage of blood, and a fizzing,...
Hardy Eustace Puts Young Pretenders in Place
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No thoroughbred in these islands has more medals on his chest than Hardy Eustace (right), and he does not take indulgently to insubordination. Challenged yesterday by perhaps the most insolently gifted of the younger hurdlers, Sizing Europe, the veteran...
Hating the 'Mail' Is One Thing, Hailing Mr Justice Eady Another
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The Guardian and the Daily Mail hate, and are fascinated by, each other. Scarcely a week passes without a missile erupting out of one camp, aimed at the other. In any other walk of life, Norwegian peace negotiators would have been brought in, and innumerable...
Haye Shows Credentials for World Title Tilt
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BOXING IT IS possible that David Haye will look back on Saturday night and wonder what all the fuss was about.Haye made the move from cruiserweight to heavyweight in front of nearly 10,000 people at the O2 Arena in London in a fight that had six knockdowns...
How to Grow Old Gracefully
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Life Support ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR THE MODERN WORLD GET REALDespite what some of the media would have you believe, the slow decline of the flesh - and faculties - is as much of an issue for men as it is for women. Ageing affects everyone, and it is as...
Hughes Relieved to Avoid Defeat
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Manchester City manager hails 'positive result' as Stephen Ireland ensures Hull secure only a point. By Sam Wallace HULL CITY 2 MANCHESTER CITY 2 Drawing with Hull City on a chilly afternoon on Humberside probably does not figure anywhere on the Abu...
'I Never Thought I'd End Up in League Two but They All Try to Play Football'
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One of the stars of Euro 96, Darren Anderton was once known as 'Sicknote' because of his injury record but is still playing - for Bournemouth - at the age of 36 THE BRIAN VINER INTERVIEW As England's footballers prepare to take on Germany on Wednesday,...
Introducing 'Hack-Lit', the Latest Successful Publishing Phenomenon
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The newest genre in the frantic world of book publishing - books by journalists, for journalists, and about journalism - has already been dubbed "hack-lit".Mike Molloy, when editing the Daily Mirror, once remarked that half of his staff had written the...
Ion Sarbu
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Philosopher and music scholar Ion Sarbu was a man of many talents, loved and respected by students and contemporaries over many years as a distinguished university professor. His book, The Violin and its Masters, from its Origins until Today, a monumental...
Israelis Bristleat Attempt to Limit Exports
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David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, is embroiled in a diplomatic wrangle with Israel over Britain's attempts to restrict European imports from Jewish settlements in the West Bank.The exchanges came after four Palestinian militants were killed by an...
Is the Media to Blame for the Credit Crisis?
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A few years back, business news was deemed so boring that it was usually confined to the back pages, or down bulletin. But ever since "sub-prime" entered the general vocabulary, most reporting has been taken out of the hands of the specialist, rather...
Is the World's Longest-Lasting Civil War Finally Coming to an End?
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The big question Why are we asking this now?The Sri Lankan military said over the weekend that it was now in control of the entire western coast of the country, having captured the key strategic area of Pooneryn. This stronghold has been under the control...
It's All about Taste
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Can a top restaurant improve on perfection? Jay Merrick meets the architect who donned chef's whites before redesigning the River CafeStuart Forbes was Richard Rogers's project architect for the Millennium Dome, and he was a senior designer on Heathrow's...
Judges Despair as Public Vote Saves Sergeant
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It can't go on, declare the judges every week. But every week, the veteran political correspondent, his glamorous Siberian dance partner and the British public defy them.And so it was again last night that the broadcaster John Sergeant and Kristina Rihanoff...
Keane Lifts Sights after Laughing off Exit Talk
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BLACKBURN ROVERS 1 SUNDERLAND 2 Roy Keane was seeking perspective. "It's Incey's turn tonight," he said without a hint of pleasure. Instead he shook his head at the lurches in fate where a win launched Sunderland from the relegation places to midtable...
Key Women in the Affair Face Praise and Condemnation
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At the heart of the ongoing controversy over Haringey's failure to prevent the death of Baby P are two women: one, the whistleblower, is lauded, while the other is accused of repeated failure.Nevres Kemal, a former social worker who revealed to The Independent...
Little Black Magic
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The LBD is always a winner in the fashion stakes, and Balenciaga's take on it, although inspired by Fifties film-noir heroines, couldn't be more now, says Susannah Frankel I wanted to do something more austere," says Nicolas Ghesquire, designer of the...
Not out of the Picture
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The Weekend's Television THE FALLEN SAT BBC2 OUTNUMBERED SAT BBC1I had just finished watching Morgan Matthews's extraordinary film The Fallen when its opening title became obsolete. "To date," it read, "a total of 298 men and women have died whilst serving...
Obama 'Will Close Guantanamo Bay'
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* President-elect says he will end torture by military and work to save car industry In his first major interview since polling day, President-elect Barack Obama said last night that upon taking office he would close Guantanamo Bay and ban torture by...
Osborne to Reveal Tory Tax U-Turn
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* Shadow Chancellor rewrites policy in new bid to halt resurgent Labour Osborne plans tax cuts to counter resurgent Brown George Osborne will unveil an anti-recession package including some tax cuts, in a U-turn to allow the Tories to take the fight...
Pandora
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BBC's Prix is not right for MurrayFORMULA ONE boss Bernie Ecclestone may claim that moving the sport from ITV to the BBC won't harm its coverage, but others in the racing world aren't so sanguine.Veteran pundit Murray Walker, left - who worked at both...
Players Left in Lurch as ECB Fails to Agree Terms with IPL
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CRICKET Uncertainty continued to surround the England team last night when top England and Wales Cricket Board officials failed to agree with their Indian counterparts how long England's players will be available to play in the Indian Premier League.Giles...
Pop
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N.E.R.D Roundhouse, London **** It wasn't so long ago that everything Pharrell Williams touched turned to platinum. At one point in 2003, Pharrell and his childhood friend Chad Hugo - working under the name the Neptunes - had produced nearly 20 per cent...
Putin's Energy Threat Should Be Risible
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WHEN I read what Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, had to say a few days ago about the pipeline that would transport gas from Russia to western Europe via the Baltic Sea, I thought here we go again, more bullying.Mr Putin had suggested that if...
Ready to Wear
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Greta Garbo Victoria Beckham most certainly is not. When she arrived at Heathrow airport recently in skintight black quilted designer leather, and big black cap and sunglasses to match, the result was more "leave me the hell alone" than "I want to be...
Reid Breaks His Silenceto Back PM
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* Former cabinet minister praises 'brilliant' Brown - but urges more 'leadership' John Reid, the former cabinet minister, has urged Gordon Brown to translate his decisive action over the financial crisis to other policy areas. Breaking his silence since...
Returning Evans Stars as Quins Swat Wasps
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HARLEQUINS 32 WASPS 10 A stunning performance by All Black fly-half Nick Evans, making his first start since suffering a knee ligament injury in his Quins debut on the opening day of the season, was the highlight of Harlequins' demolition of Premiership...
Return of the Poacher
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As times get harder in Britain's cities, armed gangs are heading for the countryside - and stealing deer, salmon and rabbits to feed a burgeoning black market in food. Andy McSmith reports Once, the poacher was a man with big pockets in his raincoat...
Revenue Erosion Feared in Icap's Outlook
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The Week Ahead THE OUTLOOK is likely to be key when Icap posts its interim results tomorrow. The inter-dealer broker was sold last week when Morgan Stanley forecast a contraction in earnings next year and investors will no doubt be keen to hear the company's...
Rome Notebook
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Double standards at the VaticanOne of the bravest men in Italy was this week granted "a way out of hell", as he put it - only to find there was another hell right next door.When Beppino Englaro's daughter Eluana was involved in a car crash nearly 17...
Ron Ben-Yishai
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Work: Ron Ben-Yishai, 65, is an Israeli war reporter and one of the subjects of the animation documentary 'Waltz with Bashir', in cinemas from FridayLife: divorced with three children, Ben-Yishai lives in Tel AvivBalance: meet him at a screening at the...
Sayers and Heenan's Fight Offers Insight into Time of Anglo- American Animosity
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READ IT THE LION AND THE EAGLE by IAIN MANSON Pounds 14.99 Sports Books The world in which England's Tom Sayers and America's John Heenan met for boxing's first world championship bout, on 17 April, 1860, was one in violent flux.Driven inexorably forward...
Sayers and Heenan's Fight Offers Insight into Time of Anglo- American Animosity
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READ IT THE LION AND THE EAGLE by IAIN MANSON Pounds 14.99 Sports Books The world in which England's Tom Sayers and America's John Heenan met for boxing's first world championship bout, on 17 April, 1860, was one in violent flux.Driven inexorably forward...
Scrum Flop Puts England in Deep Water as Scrum Plight Puts England in Deep Water
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ENGLAND 14 Try Easter; Penalties Cipriani 2; Drop goal Armitage AUSTRALIA 28 Try Ashley-Cooper; Conversion Giteau; Pens Giteau 6, Mortlock EVEN WHEN he is attempting to fool only some of the people some of the time, as opposed to all of the people all...
Sixties Radicals Are Back. but Why?
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Their story seems strange even after all this time. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, small posses emerged from among the most privileged young people in Europe and America and took up arms against the society their parents had built. They bombed the...
Ski Industry Predicts Boom as Cold Sets In
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* Early snowfall on Europe's slopes points to bumper season for Alpine resorts CLAD in salopettes and woolly hats, skiers swished effortlessly downhill yesterday as nervous beginners concentrated hard on their snow-ploughs. OK, so this was a dry slope...
Small-Cap Miners 'Devastated' by Credit Crunch
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THE TOXIC combination of falling commodity prices and the global financial crisis is wreaking havoc on small-cap energy companies in the oil, gas and mining sectors.Oil and gas companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) lost 44 per cent...
Socialists Split in Battle for Thesoul of French Opposition
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* Royal poised to capture leadership - but opponents despair over future of party French Socialists came for a coronation - or at least a shotgun wedding - but many party members left their conference yesterday convinced that they had attended a funeral.The...
Something from the Weekend
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The Good...Matt GiteauThere's been a lot of attention chucked towards England's No 10 Danny Cipriani of late. Unfortunately, that's mostly because he spends his spare time chucking his attention at his model girlfriend and getting snapped by the paps...
Terry Hails 'Saviour' Anelka as Blues Roll On
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WEST BROMWICH 0 CHELSEA 3 Can Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba play together and if they can't will the latter spend the majority of the season among the substitutes, protected by the dugout from the hate mob, but exposed to the missiles of his own insecurities?These...
The State Panders to Parents, but Not All Families Are Safe
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STARTLING AND telling was Gordon Brown's response to the tragic death of the blue-eyed, beautiful Baby P: "I'm determined to do everything in my power to make sure that this does not happen again ... Every family needs to know their children are safe...
The Summit Which Marks the Changing of the Old Order
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LEADING ARTICLE The G20 communique shows how our economic world is being transformed Nothing emerged from the G20 meeting in Washington at the weekend that gives the financial markets great cause for bullishness today. There were no promises of co-ordinated...
The Ten Best Blouses
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WarehouseNYour blouse doesn't have to be close-fitting or buttoned-up. This shape is a perfect example of how to work a more New Romantic style. Why not remake yourself in the guise of Adam Ant?Price: 45www.warehouse.co.ukTed Baker7Pleated collars are...
This Time, the Joke's on Him
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He may be a fine actor and a sex symbol to millions around the world. But the best thing about Gorgeous George is that he knows how to laugh at himself, says Ian Burrell Not since an audience of 30 million viewers tuned in to see those flirting Eighties...
Three Die in High-Speed Police Chase
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* Car struck several houses before coming to rest upside down TWO MEN and one woman died after their Vauxhall Vectra, which was being pursued by police, struck a garden wall in Oldham, Greater Manchester, yesterday.A second woman in the car survived...
Time Running out for Schuster
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Spanish Commentary VALLADOLID 1 REAL MADRID 0 THE REAL Madrid coach Bernd Schuster will be given one match to save his job when club directors meet today, after being beaten 1-0 by modest Valladolid on Saturday - the current champions' third loss in...
Time Running out for Schuster
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Spanish Commentary VALLADOLID 1 REAL MADRID 0 THE REAL Madrid coach Bernd Schuster will be given one match to save his job when club directors meet today, after being beaten 1-0 by modest Valladolid on Saturday - the current champions' third loss in...
To Silence His Tory Critics, Osborne Must Do More. Now
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The Tory party is uneasy. It cannot understand why the normal rules of politics have been suspended. A few weeks ago, Labour's poll ratings were at record lows and the average Tory MP had only one anxiety: the removal of Gordon Brown. With him leading...
Twickenham Booing Adds an Ugly Dimension
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BEFORE THE game, John Bull had puffed out his chest and crashed his fist on the table. He had told these insolent colonials that Andrew Sheridan, half man, half skip-lorry, would leave a perfect impression of Al Baxter's prostrate form in the turf. That...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
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Dear Virginia, Last year, I discovered my husband was having an affair with a woman at the office. After a lot of tears and heart- searching he gave her up and stayed with me and the children, swearing he loved me. But I find I just cannot put it behind...
Walsh to Miss Kauto Ride Again
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The whole premise of the formbook is that history has a habit of repeating itself, but it seldom does so with such agonising precision. Once again, Ruby Walsh ended the first big afternoon of Cheltenham's season in the local hospital. Once again, Sam...
War, Death & Animation
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An acclaimed new cartoon film has stirred Israel's conscience aboutits responsibility for the notorious 1982 massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Ben Lynfield reports from Jerusalem Until a matter of months ago, very few Israelis...
Was Mason a Racist, or Just an Imbecile?
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Wittgenstein would have been greatly interested by the case of the BBC Bristol presenter and the taxi cab. Anyone looking at it will find it difficult to classify some of the statements made in the course of the events as meaningful in any sense.It began...
