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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from March 31, 2009
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
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LEADING ARTICLE Capitalism has long lived with contradictions. But it is not necessary to attempt to comprehend the complexity of the credit crunch to see that. Consider the polypill. You would have to go a long way to uncover a market failure as striking...
'Activists' Arrested under Terrorism Law
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POLICE USED anti-terrorism laws to arrest five people they suspect of planning to disrupt Thursday's G20 summit, it emerged yesterday.Three men and two women, who were thought to be political activists, were taken into police custody on Friday after...
Afghan Leader Accused of Bid to 'Legalise Rape'
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UN and women MPs say Karzai bowed to Islamic fundamentalists before poll AFGHANISTAN'S PRESIDENT, Hamid Karzai, has signed a law which "legalises" rape, women's groups and the United Nations warn. Critics claim the president helped rush the bill through...
After 650 Years, the Wisdom of the Alhambra Is Revealed
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Granada's fortress-palace built by Spain's medieval Moorish rulers, has always fascinated visitors. But what messages do its intricately carved walls hold - poetry, philosophy or piety? Elizabeth Nash reports Visitors to the Alhambra fortress-palace...
As the World Sees It
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GM boss resignsTIMESo Rick Wagoner is out at General Motors, at the request of the Obama administration. I've never known quite to make of the guy - most of GM's many troubles aren't his doing, but he had eight years to resolve them and came nowhere...
Australians Do Battle over the Prefab Huts of Pommy Town
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Debate raging over whether homes are eyesores or historical relics IT WAS known as Pommy Town, and the bushland-fringed housing estate seemed like paradise to the British migrants who settled there in the 1950s. Home might have been a prefabricated...
Barcelona the Threat, Says Ferguson
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Sir Alex Ferguson's admiration of Barcelona has been a useful tool in his mind games against other clubs in recent years and he insists that they - and not Liverpool - represent the greatest threat to his team's hopes of retaining the Champions League.Barcelona,...
Barcelona the Threat, Says Ferguson
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Sir Alex Ferguson's admiration of Barcelona has been a useful tool in his mind games against other clubs in recent years and he insists that they - and not Liverpool - represent the greatest threat to his team's hopes of retaining the Champions League.Barcelona,...
Barclays Resists Taking Part in Government's APS
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Barclays turned down the chance to take part in the Government's Asset Protection Scheme yesterday as it continues to steadfastly adhere to its policy of avoiding government support, lest Westminster in return seeks influence over its corporate governance.The...
Better Late Than Never
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Last Night's Television THE WIRE BBC2 DISPATCHES: THE TROUBLE WITH BORIS CHANNEL 4 Fifteen years ago, the eminent journalist Hunter Davies was fired as television critic of the Mail on Sunday when in a review of EastEnders he admitted that he had never...
Blackpool Towers above Heathrow for Passenger Satisfaction
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Survey shows that small is beautiful when it comes to air travel Blackpool's fading Victorian glamour and down-at-heel B&Bs may place it in the second division of seaside resorts, but its airport is the best in Britain.In a survey of 30 UK airports,...
Bridge
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Times have changed. Forty years ago, rubber bridge was the most common form of the game played in the majority of bridge clubs. Nowadays it is duplicate pairs. But rubber bridge clubs still exist, and this hand arose in the high-stake game at London's...
Brown Is Urged to Focus on Domestic Problems
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Poll reveals even Labour supporters oppose the Prime Minister's emphasis on global solutions to economic crisis The public overwhelmingly wants Gordon Brown to turn his attention to the British economy rather than seek a global solution to the recession,...
Can Such a Simple Idea Save Thousands of Lives?
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Comment FEW ideas are simple in medicine but none is simpler than the polypill. A combination of five medicines in a single capsule, taken once a day, would be easy to remember, easy to take and, on the strength of the trial reported in today's Lancet,...
Capello's Way
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Tomorrow night, when England does battle with Ukraine, all eyes will be on the team's enigmatic and intellectual manager. As a nation hopes he can take them to World Cup glory, Brian Viner examines the man behind the myths Sitting in the celestial coaches'...
Celtic Tiger Relegated to Europe's Financial Second Division
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The strains within the eurozone seem set to grow as Ireland had its credit rating downgraded by Standard & Poor's yesterday. It is the fourth member of the single currency group to be thus treated in recent months.Ireland lost its AAA rating, being demoted...
Chechen Leader's Enemy Shot Dead
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AN OPPONENT of Chechnya's Moscow-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov, has been assassinated in Dubai. The murder of Sulim Yamadayev is the latest in a line of killings of Chechens who opposed the rule of Mr Kadyrov and again raises questions about the nature...
Chess
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Levon Aronian's victory in the Amber tournament was no fluke and indeed it followed an even more impressive win a year ago, when he guaranteed first in the rapidplay and first overall with a day to go, and ended up first equal in the blindfold as well...
Classical
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CLAIRE BOOTH / NASH ENSEMBLE / LIONEL FRIEND Wigmore Hall, London *** Three months on from his 100th birthday and still working away in his New York studio, Elliott Carter seems to be developing a new career as a film star; popping up on screen in the...
Clinton Cards to Fight Back with Refinancing and Robust Sales
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The greetings card retailer Clinton Cards is expected to reveal today it has renegotiated its loan facilities, alongside better- than-expected interim trading results, in moves that will rebuff speculation about its financial stability.Clinton Cards...
Corsets at Dawn
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Hit & Run... Don't you just love the BBC? On an admirable mission to bring The Wire - aka "the greatest TV drama ever made" - to a wider audience, BBC2 has just started screening the whole of the first season of HBO's Baltimore-set cop saga... at 11.20...
Credit Crisis Diary
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Dunfermline manager back in the wildernessThree years ago, Peter Weanie was feeling pretty smug. The Dunfermline Building Society manager had built the group's corporate loans team from scratch, for which he was feted by management and the press. He...
Darius, Boris and a Blast from the Past
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A convicted fraudster and self-confessed 'potential psychopath', Darius Guppy has long been a source of embarrassment for his old friend, Boris Johnson. Now a tape has come to light in which the pair discuss beating up a journalist. By Andy McSmith ...
Dissidents Burn Hijacked Vehicles in Belfast Attacks
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A series of hijackings and vehicle burnings across Belfast during yesterday's tea-time rush hour caused major traffic jams as dissident republicans again went on the rampage.Some vehicles were set on fire while others were abandoned close to police stations,...
Do We Need to Change the Rules on Maternity and Paternity Leave?
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The big question Why are we asking this now?The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has called for a dramatic change in parental leave arrangements to ensure that fathers and lower-income parents are better served. The Commission insists that...
Dressing-Room Inspires Leap of Faith by O'Leary
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Grand National glory beckons for a Co Cork trainer whose life was changed by a team talk. By Chris McGrath THOMAS O'LEARY sat in the dressing room and listened, electrified, as Gerry Ryan implored the men of Ballinascarthy to believe in themselves. "Lads,"...
Dressing-Room Inspires Leap of Faith by O'Leary
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Grand National glory beckons for a Co Cork trainer whose life was changed by a team talk. By Chris McGrath THOMAS O'LEARY sat in the dressing room and listened, electrified, as Gerry Ryan implored the men of Ballinascarthy to believe in themselves. "Lads,"...
Forget the Protesters: Someone Separate the Leaders
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Comment On the basis of the text of the G20 summit communique, leaked comprehensively yesterday, it seems pretty clear that the event will be a flop. But could Thursday's G20 Summit do more harm than good?Yes. The text indicates that little concrete...
German Rail Boss Forced out over Spy Scandal
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Entire workforce screened to check they were not passing on company secrets THE CONTROVERSIAL head of Germany's state-owned rail network, Deutsche Bahn, was forced to resign yesterday amid a deepening privacy scandal in which the company admitted spying...
Glimmers of Hope from the Housing Market
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While the UK economy remains on track for its worst year since 1931, some tentative signs emerged yesterday of eventual recovery. Fresh mortgage approvals - in effect first-time buyers - rose by 19 per cent between January and last month, according to...
Gunman's Wife Worked at Care Home
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Carnage in Carthage just one of three multiple killings in US over a single weekend POLICE BELIEVE that a domestic crisis may have propelled Robert Stewart to go to a North Carolina nursing home where his estranged wife worked and shoot dead seven elderly...
Heaven Can Wait
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Tunnels, bright lights, visions of the deceased. Do near-death experiences really offer a glimpse of the afterlife - or is there a more rational explanation? Roger Dobson reports When doctors returned to check on the patient who had almost died and been...
His Dirty Little Secret
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Jacqui Smith is said to be 'mortified'. But should a woman be ashamed of her husband watching porn? By Joan Smith They watch porn in Redditch, you know. Let me rephrase that: we know for certain that a man in the West Midlands has watched two porn films,...
'If Your Phone Sounds Weird, Don't Worry, It's Just the Apocalypse Again'
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Tales of the City Oh look - this year's imminent-apocalypse story has arrived. Imminent-apocalypse stories turn up about once a year, to spread panic among the unscientific. They began in 1999, when thousands became convinced that the chronometers on...
In Need of Security - and a Strategy to Tackle the Terror
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LEADING ARTICLE Pakistan is in peril. Its survival depends on democracy and the rule of law The terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in central Lahore earlier this month was a mighty blow to the sporting culture that unites the subcontinent....
In Pakistan, the Blame Game Only Compounds Our Troubles
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"Make no mistake, al-Qa'ida and its extremist allies are a cancer that risks killing Pakistan from within," President Obama said while introducing his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Trouble is, Pakistanis are not convinced.With militants rampaging...
Investors Should Raise a Glass to AG Barr
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Investment Column Our view: BuyShare price: 1,211p (-19p)AG Barr is a good or a bad punt depending on how you think the next year will go. If you are a glass half full, green-shoots optimist, it might now be a little too late to buy, despite the company...
It's Time We All Paused for Thought
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The Tuesday Book HOT FLUSHES, COLD SCIENCE By Louise Foxcroft GRANTA, Pounds 14.99 Order for Pounds 13.49 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 The idea that women are inherently inferior to men - condemned by their biology to be so...
It's Time We Redefined the Word 'Adult'
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Odd phrase "adult movies" - and one that's only been with us, according to the OED, since 1958, where the first citation comes from a New Musical Express small ad offering "unusual adult photo sets".It takes a while for the OED to register a usage, since...
Keep Fit the Bollywood Way
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Blame it on 'Slumdog Millionaire' - modern Indian dance is fast becoming the next big fitness trend. Alice-Azania Jarvis gets into the groove I'm standing in Pineapple Studios in central London, clad almost entirely in Lycra, and writhing for all I'm...
Keeping American Dream on the Road
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Outlook President Barack Obama gave a number of reasons for wanting to save the core of the American car industry yesterday after rejecting the survival plans submitted by management. Unfortunately, very few of these reasons were commercial. Rather,...
Kinnear Hints at Wise's Exit
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JOE KINNEAR, the Newcastle United manager, has hinted that he could become director of football at St James' Park should medical advice prevent the 62-year-old from making a full-time return to the dugout. That would have implications for Dennis Wise,...
Kinnear Hints at Wise's Exit
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JOE KINNEAR, the Newcastle United manager, has hinted that he could become director of football at St James' Park should medical advice prevent the 62-year-old from making a full-time return to the dugout. That would have implications for Dennis Wise,...
Kroenke Raises Stakes in Battle of Billionaires
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Secretive American tycoon outflanks Russian rival in Arsenal's power struggle The battle for control of Arsenal entered a new phase yesterday as the American billionaire, Stan Kroenke, bought another eight per cent of the club's shares for 42.5m from...
Kroenke Raises Stakes in Battle of Billionaires
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Secretive American tycoon outflanks Russian rival in Arsenal's power struggle The battle for control of Arsenal entered a new phase yesterday as the American billionaire, Stan Kroenke, bought another eight per cent of the club's shares for 42.5m from...
Liberty Undermined by Fundraising Chatter
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Market Report LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL suffered a bruising fall to the bottom of the benchmark index last night, as speculators anticipated an announcement regarding the commercial landlord's fundraising plans.Traders have been awaiting a move since last...
Little Britain 'Makes Pupils Behave Badly'
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Teachers blame sketch show and 'Big Brother' for rudeness and excessive swearing in the classroom TELEVISION EXECUTIVES are to be urged by schoolteachers to tone down the language and behaviour shown in programmes because pupils are copying what they...
Lives Remembered
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Amy BaumannAmy Baumann, author of A Valley Wide, the recently published memoir about her life in a remote part of Ibiza in the early 1960s, died on Sunday in Wigtown, Scotland, following a stroke two weeks earlier.Amy was pleased with the positive response...
Living Large
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JR, the self-styled 'biggest artist in the world', has turned the Kibera slums in Nairobi into a huge canvas for his work. Daniel Howden reports Modern art is useful. At least it is for Doreen Achieng. A huge canvas featuring her eyes and shot by one...
Malawi Court Makes Madonna Wait for Child
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Human rights groups accuse star of bullying her way past the law A Malawian court has delayed its ruling on Madonna's attempt to adopt a four-year-old orphan, while human rights groups in the impoverished southern African country accused the American...
'Mastermind' of Lahore Massacre Captured Alive
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Commandos storm police academy in eight-hour siege after terrorist gunmen leave eight cadets dead and 90 injured THE PARADE ground was still sodden from overnight rain but their instructors were in no mind to cancel Monday morning's drill. So, from 7am,...
Maurice Jarre
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Composer who won three Oscars for his work with David Lean Maurice Jarre, who won three Oscars - all for films by David Lean - was one of the last of the "silver-age" film composers, perhaps best known for scoring large-scale films but equally at home...
Medicine's Magic Bullet
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This capsule costs pennies, contains a simple cocktail of medicines, and halves the number of strokes and heart attacks. Doctors want to hand it out in the first mass medication for the middle-aged in Britain. So why are the big drug companies so uninterested?...
Michael Ward
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Labour MP who won the highly marginal Peterborough seat in 1974 and briefly defected to the SDP After epic struggles, Michael Ward was finally elected to the key marginal seat of Peterborough in October 1974, by 21,820 votes to the Conservative Harmar...
MPs Are like Bankers: They Love Spending Other People's Money
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As Danny DeVito said in the film Other People's Money: "There's only one thing I love more than money. You know what that is? Other people's money."The Business Dictionary defines "Other People's Money (OPM)" as follows: "Money borrowed as unsecured...
Nationwide Gets Pounds 1.6bn to Take over Dunfermline
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Scottish mutual told members last year it had no sub-prime exposure Nationwide, Britain's largest building society, took over the prime parts of the collapsed Scottish lender Dunfermline yesterday in return for a 1.6bn payment from the Government.The...
Nature Notebook
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A wave of migrants flocking to our shores "Oh to be in England," wrote Robert Browning, "Now that April's there", and it's certainly true that the month which begins tomorrow is exhilarating, in that it probably has more happening, in terms of the natural...
Pakistan's 'City of Lights' Wakes Up to a Brutal Reality after a March Filled with Terror
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SUNDAS HURAIN shuddered when she woke to see gunmen rampaging around her city once again. At the beginning of the month, it was an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore; yesterday it was an attack on a police training facility...
Pandora
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Her Majesty calls on Big Brother for a giftPandora very much doubts that the Queen harbours many an anti- establishment tendency - though the prospect is, rather delightfully, raised by news of her gift to the Mexican President: a copy of the classic...
Pietersen Nearing His Endgame
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CRICKET England's best batsman on the brink as team-mates tire of his self-centred attitude ENGLAND reached their final destination of the winter yesterday. Speculation mounted that it might also be the terminus of Kevin Pietersen's international career.If...
Pietersen Nearing His Endgame
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CRICKET England's best batsman on the brink as team-mates tire of his self-centred attitude ENGLAND reached their final destination of the winter yesterday. Speculation mounted that it might also be the terminus of Kevin Pietersen's international career.If...
Pop
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TINARIWEN AND TUNNG Koko, London *** A concert featuring a collaboration between Malian desert bluesmen Tinariwen and English folktronica pioneers Tunng seems on paper a musical mix-and-match likely to result in either high-brow chin-scratching or confused...
Requiem for a Born Goalscorer Finally Worn Down by a Nation's Expectations
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It is impossible to apply a date, or a single incident, but undoubtedly something changed in Michael Owen. Maybe his resistance to football's celebrity culture broke down or perhaps, more prosaically, he simply wearied of the toll of injury, which took...
Requiem for a Born Goalscorer Finally Worn Down by a Nation's Expectations
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It is impossible to apply a date, or a single incident, but undoubtedly something changed in Michael Owen. Maybe his resistance to football's celebrity culture broke down or perhaps, more prosaically, he simply wearied of the toll of injury, which took...
Return of the Miracle Man
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Tiger claws back O'Hair's five-shot lead to show the world he's ready for the Masters. James Corrigan reports The Houston Open organisers had been planning on billing this week's tournament not simply as the usual Masters warm-up, but more as the event...
Return of the Miracle Man
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Tiger claws back O'Hair's five-shot lead to show the world he's ready for the Masters. James Corrigan reports The Houston Open organisers had been planning on billing this week's tournament not simply as the usual Masters warm-up, but more as the event...
Return of the Miracle Man
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Tiger claws back O'Hair's five-shot lead to show the world he's ready for the Masters. James Corrigan reports The Houston Open organisers had been planning on billing this week's tournament not simply as the usual Masters warm-up, but more as the event...
'Revealed: The Real Reason We Should Eat Up Our Greens'
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Medical Life The Mediterranean diet - sun-kissed, olive-oil drenched - has reigned as the queen of diets, the one true path to health, for at least 20 years. Yet no one really understands why it works. Most medical authorities have said the antioxidants...
Scots' Strike Force Must Not Freeze
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George Burley will ring changes up front in search of goals against Iceland Scotland's last win at home was in October 2007, in a Euro 2008 qualifier over Ukraine, which was also the last time that a Scottish striker scored a goal in a competitive game....
Scots' Strike Force Must Not Freeze
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Burley will ring the changes up front in search of goals against Iceland Scotland's last win at home was in October 2007, in a Euro 2008 qualifier over Ukraine, which was also the last time that a Scottish striker scored a goal in a competitive game....
Sex, Sadness and Symbolism
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THEATRE DIMETOS Donmar Warehouse, London *** Here's an odd play. I'll agree if you'll agree it's an allegory, but Athol Fugard's 1975 tale of a reclusive engineer harbouring a destructive passion for his niece while refusing an appeal to his civic duty...
Sheva Aims to Get Back on His Feet
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After a season on the Milan bench, the Ukrainian comes to Wembley tomorrow hoping to revive his career. By Ian Herbert Vivo. Alive. That, as Gazzetta dello Sport put it yesterday, is how Andrei Shevchenko hopes he will feel when his return to the city...
Sheva Aims to Get Back on His Feet
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After a season on the Milan bench, the Ukrainian comes to Wembley tomorrow hoping to revive his career. By Ian Herbert Vivo. Alive. That, as Gazzetta dello Sport put it yesterday, is how Andrei Shevchenko hopes he will feel when his return to the city...
Slippery Open-Mouthed Groans
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Sketch I've been all over the Palace of Westminster looking for a 10- porn story for you. But having ended up at the Treasury statement (another bust building society) I can only leave you with the raw materials for a sketch of sufficient filthiness...
So Who'll Win the World Cup?
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Maradona has Argentina fizzing, Brazil look sluggish, and Italy have fresh talent... With half the qualifiers played, Glenn Moore assesses the favourites' form There are 436 days to go to the World Cup, but already Fabio Capello's management has whetted...
Spotify Declares War on iTunes
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New online music sensation signs a ground-breaking deal to start selling songs as well as playing them It's the free music service that's attracting thousands of new users every day, and now Spotify is taking on the daddy of online music - iTunes. The...
Staff Pay Heavy Price for Brawn Supremacy
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MOTOR RACING F1 team to cut 270 jobs despite making the most sensational debut since 1955 Brawn GP are making more than a third of their staff redundant, their chief executive, Nick Fry, said in an announcement yesterday that took the gloss off their...
Staff Pay Heavy Price for Brawn Supremacy
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MOTOR RACING F1 team to cut 270 jobs despite making the most sensational debut since 1955 Brawn GP are making more than a third of their staff redundant, their chief executive, Nick Fry, said in an announcement yesterday that took the gloss off their...
Staff Pay Heavy Price for Brawn Supremacy
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MOTOR RACING F1 team to cut 270 jobs despite making the most sensational debut since 1955 Brawn GP are making more than a third of their staff redundant, their chief executive, Nick Fry, said in an announcement yesterday that took the gloss off their...
Stage Fright Is No Problem If You Know the Audience Aren't Tigers
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Podium STAGE FRIGHT or "performance anxiety" is a more or less debilitating fear of public appearance. It ranges from mild distress to total panic and frequently impedes career development in the performing arts and professions that require public speaking....
Stern: 'Kingsnorth Should Be Shelved'
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There is no technology yet to make coal-fired station clean, says climate adviser BRITAIN'S LATEST coal-fired power station should not be built, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, the economist who led the Government's review into the financial cost...
Taxpayers Pick Up Tab for Inflation-Busting Expenses
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Prime Minister urges speedy review as he freezes ministers' pay Inquiry launched after details of Jacqui Smith's claims released THE BILL for MPs' expenses and allowances soared by an inflation- busting six per cent last year to reach almost 93m.The...
The Nuclear Option
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With site auctions set to conclude, the battle is moving up a gear. Sarah Arnott reports As potential atomic reactor sites go under the hammer this week, the battle for the UK's multibillion-pound nuclear renaissance moves up a gear.The auction of land...
The Unacceptable Face of Constable
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VISUAL ARTS CONSTABLE PORTRAITS National Portrait Gallery, London ** Can someone be good at everything? In the case of the Suffolk- born painter John Constable, we approach this show of his portraits with our minds already made up. We know that, like...
Three of a Kind
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Longing for a baby, Cathy Koester and her husband opted for one last round of IVF. Then doctors told them that something unusual had happened... The word "triplets" first came up during a hospital welcome lecture I attended with my husband Matt and about...
US Buyers of Chrysler and GM Cars Get Guarantees
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Government sets new deadlines for restructurings The US government announced it would guarantee warranties for American buyers of General Motors and Chrysler vehicles, and appointed a tsar to oversee aid to communities devastated by car plant closures,...
Voters Are Angry - and This Is Very Dangerous
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Britain's MPs aren't corrupt - but too many are plain mediocre and the public mood is turning against all of them. Steve Richards calls for urgent action Believe it or not British politics is relatively clean. MPs are not especially well paid or generously...
We Are Enshrining the Right to Be Angry
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No words encapsulate the spirit of the age more perfectly than that familiar phrase "named and shamed". When someone receives the named-and-shamed treatment, the world briefly seems a better, fairer place. Whether the guilty party is a politician, a...
'We Needed Tough Love,' Says Lampard
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Capello's era of discipline ends England's WAG ways and pays off on the pitch 'To play as a team, you need humility and selflessness'Frank Lampard revealed yesterday that the England players are grateful to Fabio Capello for ridding the squad of the...
'We Needed Tough Love,' Says Lampard
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Capello's era of discipline ends England's WAG ways and pays off on the pitch 'To play as a team, you need humility and selflessness'Frank Lampard revealed yesterday that the England players are grateful to Fabio Capello for ridding the squad of the...
What's to Be Done? Not a Military Solution
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Analysis THERE WAS a moment a couple of weeks ago when Pakistan may have teetered perilously close to a military coup. It came when thousands of demonstrators were heading to the capital on a "long march" to demand the reinstatement of sacked judges....
Wilkinson Races for Lions Deadline
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RUGBY UNION STATISTICALLY speaking, Newcastle are the form team in English rugby, having won seven of their last eight Premiership games - a better record than Leicester, Harlequins or any other of the strong- finishing teams - and risen from the darkest...
Wilkinson Races for Lions Deadline
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RUGBY UNION STATISTICALLY speaking, Newcastle are the form team in English rugby, having won seven of their last eight Premiership games - a better record than Leicester, Harlequins or any other of the strong- finishing teams - and risen from the darkest...
World Leaders Can Make a Difference
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It is hard now to recall the mood of hope, even euphoria, that was kindled when Gordon Brown secured the G20 summit for London (and then spoiled it by mis-speaking about saving the world). But now, as the first leaders start to arrive, and the capital...
