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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 26, 2007
Adventures for Pigs and Princesses
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Picture BooksA comic take on nursery rhymes is what drives Three Little Kittens and other favourite nursery rhymes (Andersen; 12.99), illustrated and selected by Tony Ross: the witty and wildly prolific writer-illustrator best-known for the Little Princess...
Also Showing
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Sicko (12A) Michael Moore iii88One turns to a new Michael Moore film with a heavy heart - can someone so fat and self-regarding really afford to be that smug? - and a weather eye for the usual simplifications and stunts that mar his crusading polemics....
An Alternative History of Medical Care
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Alternative Medicine By Roberta Bivins OUP Pounds 14.99 (238pp) Pounds 13.50 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897In the West, we think of orthodox bio-medicine as the gold standard of medical care and all other systems - homoeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine...
Answers to Rounds 1-9
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INVENTIONS1. The pendulum (in 1656, in The Hague).2. The telephone (Meucci's patent was filed in 1871; the first coherent spoken message was conveyed by Bell's machine in 1876).3. The sternpost rudder (a rudder which is an integral part of the ship,...
A Poet with a Song in His Art
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His debut album is called The End of History, but for Mercury Prize nominee Fionn Regan it's only the start. By elisa brayIf you hadn't already discovered Fionn Regan, you may recognise the Irish singer-songwriter from his nomination for this year's...
Arcadia Puts on Sales despite Grim Summer
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By Karen AttwoodSir Philip Green reported a modest improvement in annual profits at his fashion empire Arcadia yesterday following "one of the worst 'non-summers' in many years", but opted against taking a dividend for the second year in a row.Arcadia,...
Architect Sues for 'Violation of Copyright' over Bridge Changes
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Santiago Calatrava's steel and glass Campo Volantin footbridge has become as distinctive a part of the Bilbao skyline as the nearby Guggenheim Museum.But in a spirited defence of his artistic integrity, the Spanish architect is suing the city of Bilbao...
Arthritis Sufferers' Anger as Drug Is Denied on NHS
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By Jeremy LauranceHealth EditorCampaigners reacted angrily yesterday to a decision by the UK medicines watchdog to reject a "last resort" drug for the crippling condition of severe arthritis.The National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness (Nice) said...
A Second Life for Virtual Bluesmen
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The dance duo Underworld tell martin james how they escaped oblivion by uploading to the internet"If people want to say we're not that popular anymore then they needed to be here tonight. I mean, bloody hell, our audiences are just getting larger."Karl...
A Week in Books
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Treaties and tantrums aside, most British public figures feel comfortable with the idea of their country as a semi-detached European power. We may tweak the rules, sceptics and supporters both assume, but we never run the game. The cultural marketplace...
BBC Flagship Natural History Unit Budget to Be Cut by a Third
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By Ciar ByrneArts and Media CorrespondentThe BBC's plans to slash by a third the budget of its world- famous Natural History Unit, the home of Planet Earth, have been condemned as "short-sighted" and "draconian" by programme-makers.As part of 2,500 job...
BBC's Johnston 'Imagined Own Death' during Kidnap
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By Sam ReevesThe BBC journalist Alan Johnston has spoken in-depth for the first time about his kidnap ordeal.The reporter, who spent 114 days as the hostage of a Palestinian extremist group in the Gaza Strip, told a BBC Panorama special that he was "at...
Benitez Right Man for Reds, Insists Hicks
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By Ian HerbertFacing the prospect of imminent Champions League elimination and the estimated 20m financial blow that would bring, Liverpool co- owner Tom Hicks made a robust defence of his manager Rafael Benitez yesterday, dismissing criticism of his...
Benitez the Right Man for Liverpool, Insists Hicks
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By Ian HerbertFacing the prospect of imminent Champions League elimination and the estimated 20m financial blow that would bring, Liverpool co- owner Tom Hicks made a robust defence of his manager Rafael Benitez yesterday, dismissing criticism of his...
Beyond Darfur There Is the Plight of Southern Sudan
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"Don't Look Away Now" was the rallying cry at the Day for Darfur events held around the world last month. But the trouble with Sudan - and Darfur is still part of Sudan - is that as soon as you focus on one crisis, another one breaks out somewhere else.I...
Bid for S&N Was Derisory, Says Board
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By Danny FortsonScottish & Newcastle dismissed a 6.8bn takeover bid tabled by Carlsberg and Heineken as "unsolicited and derisory" yesterdayIn a strongly worded rejection, Sir Brian Stewart, the chairman of the brewer of John Smith's and Newcastle Brown...
Book of a Lifetime
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Watchmen Alan Moore & Dave GibbonsAs a child I had a passion for comics. What began with The Beano and grew stronger with the likes of Judy and Bunty then grew older with a number of comics from DC and Marvel. As a teenager, comics such as Superman,...
Boys Killed on M56 as They Hurry Home in the Dark
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By Mike HornbyA boy of seven who was run over and killed on a motorway may have been rushing home because he was afraid of the dark, his father said yesterday.Kieran Coupe and his six-year-old friend, Guy Davies, were struck by three cars as they crossed...
BP Pays $373M to End Investigations in US
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By Stephen Foleyin New YorkBP added a $20m (9.8m) pay-out over an Alaskan oilspill to a wide- ranging settlement of criminal and civil charges that have dogged the company for the past two and a half years.The settlement on last year's Prudhoe Bay oil...
Braulio Brings Curtain Down on White Hart Lane Era
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tottenham 1 getafe 2By Conrad LeachIt's probably fair to say Martin Jol won't be going to Spain for his holidays any time soon. The Tottenham manager left the club last night, although not thanks to this defeat against a team from Madrid, and his replacement...
Bridge by Maureen Hiron
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The success or failure of today's contract was determined by declarer's play to trick one. Be aware, this is something of a "trick cyclist" hand, and the game reached was not the optimum one.South opened with a strong Two Diamonds bid, North relayed...
Brown's Afghanistan Appeal Raises Fear of UK Troop Increase
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Fears that Britain could be forced to send more troops to Afghanistan grew after Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a desperate appeal to Nato partners to share more of the burden of the war against the Taliban.Mr Brown put pressure on France and Germany...
Brown's Talk of Civil Rights Marks Move to Regain Voters' Trust
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By Colin Brown Deputy Political EditorA shake-up of Britain's secrecy laws and those powers enabling police to enter the home has been ordered by the Prime Minister as part of sweeping changes to the constitution.A review has been ordered by Gordon Brown...
Bush Swoops in with Pledge to Help California
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By Andrew Gumbel in San DiegoPresident Bush took a helicopter tour of the fire-ravaged hillsides of southern California yesterday, determined to prove that he was on top of a major disaster in all the ways he was not when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans...
Cahill Comes Back with a Bang to Get Everton off to Flying Start
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everton 3 larissa 1By Jon CulleyAfter Liverpool's grim night in Istanbul, Everton's European ambitions look in rather better shape. With a performance that had moments of high quality, the blue team from Merseyside sweetened some of the lingering bitterness...
Caldwell Admits Celtic Are Paying Price for Caution on the Road
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By Simon ParksGary Caldwell admits Celtic need to show more ambition in attack if they are to achieve that elusive away victory in the Champions League. Celtic dropped to the bottom of Group D after losing 1-0 to Benfica in Lisbon on Wednesday night.Oscar...
Candover: Credit Crunch Strikes out Mega-Buyouts
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By Danny FortsonThe era of the big buyout is over, for now at least. That is the conclusion drawn from new research from Candover, the London buyout group, which reported a massive drop in mega-buyouts in the three months through September as the full...
Cannabis Use Is 'Falling Fast' among Young Adults
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By Nigel MorrisHome Affairs CorrespondentDrug abuse is at its lowest level for a decade following a sharp fall in numbers of people smoking cannabis.About 3.2 million people in England and Wales aged between 16 and 59, equivalent to 10 per cent of the...
Cardinal Adam Kozlowiecki
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Energetic missionary in AfricaWhen the Gestapo arrested Fr Adam Kozlowiecki in Krakow in newly Nazi-occupied Poland in November 1939, little could he have believed that he would survive to become a pioneering missionary bishop in Africa and, eventually,...
Cecil Favourite for an American Beauty
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By Chris McGrathat Monmouth ParkTwo racehorse trainers stood in the murky, drizzly morning, within 30 muddy paces of each other, a world apart.One, gazing on to the track from a raised gallery, was Henry Cecil. His presence here confirms the grit that...
Cecil Favourite for an American Beauty
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By Chris McGrathat Monmouth ParkTwo racehorse trainers stood in the murky, drizzly morning, within 30 muddy paces of each other, a world apart.One, gazing on to the track from a raised gallery, was Henry Cecil. His presence here confirms the grit that...
Chelsea Rely on Speed King to Lift Shevchenko
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By Sam WallaceChelsea have revolutionised their efforts to get the best out of 31m striker Andrei Shevchenko by employing the former British Olympic sprinter Darren Campbell to help the Ukrainian regain his explosive pace. Despite Shevchenko's indifferent...
Chess by Jon Speelman
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I reported yesterday on the first half of the Barcelona Casino tournament in which Hikaru Nakamura was making the early pace. The young American's lead was half a point after five of the nine rounds, and it surged to a full point-and-a-half after round...
China Rejects Call for Action against Burma as Suu Kyi Meets Junta
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China has rebuffed international demands to take tougher action against the Burmese regime, saying the recent demands for democracy and their violent repression by the authorities were issues that had to be resolved by Burma's "own people".The rejection...
China's Growth Slows to 11.5%
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By Sean O'GradyEconomics EditorIdentified as one of the bright spots in the global economy, China recorded more double-digit growth in the third quarter, though the great expansion is slowing.The robust annualised 11.5 per cent jump in output for the...
Classical
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nono: fragments of venice / arditti quartet / mcfadden Queen Elizabeth Hall glass: music in 12 parts Barbican london **** / ****London is at the start of a six-month long celebration of the work of the Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990). Fragments...
Cousins and Competitors
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Old World,New World By Kathleen Burk Little, Brown Pounds 25 (847pp) Pounds 22.50 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897Not many people enter New York by sea nowadays, except ferry commuters into Manhattan from New Jersey. Those who do are often surprised at...
Cover Stories
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England may have lost out in Paris and Lewis Hamilton (below) in Brazil, but both their publishers - and indeed most booksellers - believe they will score in the bookshops this autumn. Lewis Hamilton: My Story is on HarperCollins' starting grid on 5...
Cultural Life
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Richard E Grant ActorBooksAt the moment, I'm reading Joseph Heller's classic Catch-22. I am currently filming in Budapest and the title perfectly reflects the "hurry up and frustrating wait" nature of a schedule that changes daily. Heller's multi-viewpointed...
Cyclists to Be Banned from Tour De France without Clean 'Passport'
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Troubled sport seeks to restore credibility with new scheme to deter drug cheats. Alasdair Fotheringham reports from ParisDrug-fuelled scandals have left successive Tours de France reeling from an ever-increasing credibility gap, so it was sadly logical...
Cyclists to Be Banned from Tour De France without Clean 'Passport'
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Troubled sport seeks to restore credibility with new scheme to deter drug cheats. Alasdair Fotheringham reports from ParisDrug-fuelled scandals have left successive Tours de France reeling from an ever-increasing credibility gap, so it was sadly logical...
Darling Admits Regulators Must Be More Alert after Rock Crisis
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By Sean FarrellFinancial EditorThe Chancellor yesterday admitted shortcomings in the handling of events leading up to the Northern Rock crisis but held out against a radical redrawing of res-ponsibilities between regulators.His comments came as the Bank...
Darling Can't Play the Rock Blame Game
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OUTLOOKWhatever your politics, it's difficult not to feel a modicum of sympathy for Alistair Darling - he couldn't have become Chancellor at a more inopportune moment. The public finances, stretched to the limit by the government borrowing Mr Darling...
Debt-Busting Firm Behind Bid for Southampton
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By Nick HarrisSouthampton yesterday named the mystery bidder involved in preliminary takeover talks as Sisu Capital Limited, a hedge fund with headquarters in Mayfair, London, that specialises in the pursuit of debt-laden businesses. Sisu, which has...
EasyJet Buys GB Airways for Pounds 103.5m
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By Andrew DewsonEasyJet, the budget airline, has agreed to pay 103.5m in cash to buy GB Airways from the privately held Bland Group. The deal means that easyJet will operate 24 per cent of the landing slots at Gatwick airport and make it the airport's...
Ended Summer: Surfboard Ban aboard All BA Flights
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By Emily DuganThe Beach Boys would not be pleased. In a decision that threatens that great hippy institution, the surfing safari, British Airways (BA) have announced they are banning surfboards from all their flights.Grabbing a board and heading for...
Evacuees of San Diego Lap Up the Donations
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By Andrew GumbelThe fire evacuees huddled by the thousand at San Diego's American football stadium may not have known whether their houses were still standing. But they still had options, suggesting that life - southern California style - would emphatically...
Fathauer Brothers Will Leave Ginn Fans Seeing Double
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By James Bartlamin MiamiFans at this week's Ginn Classic here will be seeing double when brothers Derek and Daryl Fathauer become the first identical twins to play in a PGA Tour event for 26 years. The 21-year-olds, seniors at the University of Louisville,...
Five Live Blames 'Dud Summer' for Bad Ratings
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By Ciar ByrneArts and Media CorrespondentRadio Five Live, the BBC station specialising in sports and news, has suffered a fall in its audience to the lowest level for seven years.BBC Radio 4 also saw its listener numbers drop between July and September,...
'Food Miles' Soared by 31% in a Year, Study Reveals
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By Martin HickmanConsumer Affairs CorrespondentAlmost a third more food was flown into Britain last year than in 2005, embarrassing the Government which has promised to slash the pollution and congestion from "food miles".Air-freight rose 31 per cent...
France Goes Green with Organic Farming Pledge
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President Nicolas Sarkozy last night declared a "green" French revolution which will cut the nation's energy consumption and carbon emissions, reduce road and air transport and promote organic farming.He was speaking after a two-day national conference...
France Goes Green with Switch from Air to Rail
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President Nicolas Sarkozy last night declared a "green" French revolution which will cut the nation's energy consumption and carbon emissions, reduce road and air transport and promote organic farming.He was speaking after a two-day national conference...
Game on Console Makers in Three-Way Shoot-Out
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As the Chistmas season approaches Nintendo has been winning market share from rivals Sony and Microsoft by targeting consumers outside the hard-core market. By Nic Fildes Business analysisThe balance of power in the Japanese electronics industry has...
German Social Democrats Veer Left in Break with Schroder Era
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Germany's ailing Social Democrats are planning a sharp shift towards the political left this weekend in a drive to win back millions of disillusioned supporters who have abandoned the party in droves over the past decade, complaining that it has lost...
Going out on a Song: Nana Mouskouri Sets off on Farewell Tour after 40-Year Career
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By Jonathan BrownIt could have all been so different. Back in 1966, a young Nana Mouskouri, then relatively little known outside mainland Europe, embarked on a tour of the US with Harry Belafonte.It was a big moment in her embryonic career. The calypso...
Gotcha! Goalie's Lawyers Sink Teeth into MacKenzie over Dog Injury Claims
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By Jonathan BrownAs editor of The Sun, the word Rottweiler could have been invented for Kelvin MacKenzie. During his time at the helm of the top-selling tabloid, he loved nothing more than to sink his fangs into his hapless victims - much to the delight...
Great Works
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Crucifixion (1287-88)Giovanni Cimabue Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce, FlorenceWhat is a tradition? Francis Bacon gives a clue. In the first of his famous interviews with the critic David Sylvester, he talked about a recent painting of his own, Three...
'Happiness Is Not a Threat'
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After the bestselling traumas of Lucky and The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's new novel goes further into the dark. John Freeman talks to the woman behind the woeEight years after publishing a harrowing memoir about being raped, and half a decade since...
Honour among Thieves Film of the Week
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Eastern Promises (18) David Cronenberg (100 mins) iii88 starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent CasselThere's an awful lot of red in the palette of David Cronenberg's intriguing gangster noir Eastern Promises. The opening 20 minutes offer varying...
Hostile Reception for New Boy
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BOLTON WANDERERS 1 BRAGA 1By Dave HadfieldA headed equaliser five minutes from time denied the Premier League's bottom side a morale boosting Uefa Cup victory in front of their new manager and a sparse 10,000 crowd at a disillusioned Reebok Stadium.Gary...
How the Vatican Destroyed the Knights Templar
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One of the most iniquitous chapters in the history of the medieval church was revisited in Rome yesterday when the Vatican publisher Scrinium put on sale facsimiles of the trial of the Knights Templar order, held before Pope Clement V in 1308.The book...
'I Don't Want to Be a Hero'
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In both his film career and his private life, the actor Josh Hartnett likes to keep his feet on the ground, he tells Gill PringleJosh Hartnett could be one of Hollywood's wealthiest young stars today had he only agreed to don Superman's cape or Spider-Man's...
I Had to Go to China to Find Some Decent Art
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," said Keats. "That is all/ ye know on earth and all ye need to know." If only, mate. It may be poetry's job to universalise from the particular, but what applies to Grecian urns does not, alas, apply quite so neatly to...
Installation Sheds Psychedelic Light on York Minster's Facade
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By Arifa AkbarArts reporterThe Gothic facade of York Minster was last night transformed by a maelstrom of psychedelic colour generated by the surrounding sounds of the city.The digital artwork, "Evoke", operated by voice-activated technology, picked...
'I See Him Now and Again but I Don't Swap Notes with Steve McClaren'
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The manager of the England women's football team could give her male counterpart a few tips after qualifying in style then winning new fans at the World Cup finals in China BRIAN VINER INTERVIEWS Hope PowellTo paraphrase a certain Nike advertisement,...
Is the Kyoto Treaty an Outdated Failure Based on the Wrong Premises?
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The big questionWho suggests that?Two UK-based academics, Gwyn Prins and Steve Rayner, have written a paper in the science journal Nature claiming that the Kyoto Protocol - the 1997 international pact which obliges industrial nations to cut greenhouse...
I've Seen the Future, and It Belongs to the Old
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The Office of National Statistics must enjoy giving us all a shock. Their recent reappraisal of expected population growth has started many hares running. Some 11 million more people in the next 25 years, far more than we had expected."The UK is sleepwalking...
JC Flowers Plans to Get Rock Rolling Again
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By Sean FarrellJC Flowers signalled the strength of its interest in buying Northern Rock yesterday by announcing the management team it would appoint to turn around the stricken mortgage lender.The private investment firm picked Paul Myners, the former...
Jeff Stevenson
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Rugby league scrum-halfJeff Stevenson was a scrum-half of the highest quality for Leeds and other rugby league clubs and the last Great Britain captain to lift the Ashes on home soil. That moment came in 1959, when he led his country in the third Test...
Jol Heads for Exit as Spurs Look to Ramos
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By Sam WallaceMartin Jol was last night understood to be on the brink of the sack from Tottenham regardless of his side's Uefa Cup result against Getafe. The Dutchman was due to meet with his chairman Daniel Levy after the game when he would be given...
Kroenke Keeps Eye on Greater Arsenal Share despite Lockdown
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By Andrew WarshawWhen American sports tycoon Stan Kroenke announced in April he had increased his stake in Arsenal, fuelling speculation of a takeover bid, Gunners chairman Peter Hill-Wood famously declared: "We don't need his money and we don't want...
Letters to the Editor
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Hypocrisy of threatening Iran in the face of a nuclear-armed IsraelSir: Johann Hari (Opinion, 22 October) argues that "to go to war to uphold the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty would be a sick joke, when the world's leaders are all blatantly burning it...
Manager Bids Farewell with a Clenched-Fist Salute
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tottenham 1 getafe 2By Conrad LeachIt's probably fair to say Martin Jol won't be going to Spain for his holidays anytime soon. The Tottenham manager agreed his departure from the club last night, though not thanks to this defeat against a team from Madrid,...
McLardy Rekindles Masters Chances in Mallorca
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By Norman Dabellin MallorcaThe South African Andrew McLardy and Ireland's Gary Murphy shared the clubhouse lead in the Mallorca Classic first round here when thunderstorms and heavy rain caused play to be abandoned late yesterday afternoon. Half of the...
Megson Arrival Fails to Impress Bolton's Fans
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By Ian WhittellGary Megson relishes challenges but as he prepares to take charge of his eighth club in 12 years, the former Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City player faces his toughest one yet - convincing unimpressed Bolton Wanderers fans that...
Megson Arrival Fails to Impress Bolton's Fans
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By Ian WhittellGary Megson relishes challenges but as he prepares to take charge of his eighth club in 12 years, the former Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester City player faces his toughest one yet - convincing unimpressed Bolton Wanderers fans that...
Men Have a Responsibility for Abortions, Too
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Women - I mean, what are we like? Having abortions for totally trivial reasons, like not wanting to be pregnant! You'd think by now we'd have got it into our heads that abortions are only for women who really deserve them, which basically means anyone...
'Modernisation' Is Just Mollification
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The SketchThe House of Commons (by which I mean 13 backbenchers, one clerk and a deputy speaker) considered the modernisation proposals. These were produced by Jack Straw in a report subtitled "flattering our powerless, harried and excluded backbenchers...
Molly Badham
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Co-founder of Twycross ZooLike many young children, when asked "What are you going to do when you grow up?", Molly Badham would always reply, "Work with animals!" True to her word, in 1963 she became the co-founder of Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire.Born...
Mother 'May Have Pushed Her Daughter off Hotel Balcony'
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By James MacintyrePolice investigating the case of Gianna Cooper, the seven-year- old girl who is in a coma after falling from a hotel balcony in Majorca, have indicated she may have been pushed by her mother, who has been found dead near the scene....
MPs Claim Pounds 88m Expenses on Top of the Pounds 60,675 Each Gets in Salary
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By Nigel MorrisTwo ministers topped the league table for Westminster expenses yesterday as MPs claimed almost 88m in allowances last year.The pair faced accusations of profligacy after being paid an extra 5 per cent, well above the rate of inflation,...
My Life in A Column
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'I cannot believe that the body is capable of making such ugly, beautiful things'Fire storm. It's 4.30am. I'm lying in my bed in room 242, flicking through all the channels, keeping up to date with the fires as they march their way through Southern California....
New Releases
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The EaglesLong Road Out of Edengeffeniii88Almost three decades after their last studio album, The Eagles re- group with this unwieldy two-CD offering, which replaces all previous contenders as the textbook case of a double album that would be better...
Now Relentless Loss of Habitat Threatens First Primate Extinction for a Century
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By Steve ConnorScience EditorThe first extinction of a primate species in more than a century is imminent, according to the latest evaluation of the threat posed to the continued existence of monkeys and apes around the world. One species of monkey that...
Obama Is Discovering the Perils of Refusing to Wear Your Patriotic Heart on Your Sleeve
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A mystery surrounds the current interminable, US Presidential campaign. What has happened to Barack Obama? He was the candidate with everything - youthful, gifted, charismatic, with a message of national unity, who had even had the prescience to speak...
Outclassed Aberdeen Slide to Opening Defeat
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Panathinaikos 3 aberdeen 0By Thomas KeppellAberdeen experienced a miserable start to their Uefa Cup group stage campaign in Athens as Jimmy Calderwood's side went down to a crushing defeat to Greek giants Panathinaikos.After a closely-contested first...
Palestinian Cancer Patient Denied Entry from Gaza into Israel for Hospital Care
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A 21-year-old cancer patient in urgent need of specialist treatment was stopped from entering Israel from Gaza despite securing prior permission from the Israeli military to cross the border.The incident, the latest in a series which the Israeli group...
Pandora
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It's 18th-century peasant life, but not as we know itHypocrisy is a classic political Molotov cocktail: you complain about binge-drinking ... and then buy your own pub.Rumours have been doing the rounds in Parliament that Huddersfield's creased veteran...
Paperbacks
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The Uninvited By Geling Yan Faber Pounds 7.99 (276pp)Geling Yan's sly satire - her first in English - is a toothsome indictment of modern China and its newly-hatched infatuation with spin and PR. The novel's fallible hero, Dan Dong, makes his living...
Party Atmosphere on Superjumbo's Maiden Flight
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The world's largest jetliner, the new Airbus A380, flew into Sydney last night after a maiden flight from Singapore, disgorging passengers who had gorged themselves on caviar and lobster, washed down with Dom Perignon Rose.Singapore Airlines, proud owner...
PartyGaming Is Well Worth Taking a Flutter On
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the investment columnEdited by Andrew DewsonOur view: BuyCurrent price: 31.25p (+3.75p)Buying any share is a calculated gamble, but since the US ban buying shares in an online gambling group has become, well, just a gamble. But PartyGaming is a business...
Patience Is a Virtue That This Slab of a Saga Rewards
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World Without End By Ken Follett macmillan Pounds 20 (1110pp) Pounds 18 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897World Without End is Ken Follett's "sequel" to his similarly colossal novel, The Pillars Of The Earth, which was set in the 12th- century. It appeared...
PKK Tactics May Drive Turkey into a Reluctant Invasion
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Soon after midnight last Sunday, a detachment of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) surrounded a 50-strong unit of the Turkish army near the village of Daglica in Hakkari province, three miles from Turkey's border with Iraq.The operation was well planned....
Pop
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the pigeon detectives Arches glasgow ***Leeds' hotly tipped The Pigeon Detectives are a fine band, though admittedly cursed with just about the worst name since The Beatles. Ushered onstage in Glasgow by a riot of glaring searchlights, they provided...
Portrait of the Artist as a Gleeful Grump
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A Writer's People By VS Naipaul picador Pounds 16.99 (194pp) Pounds 15.29 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897"But getting back to your wretched book," the horrified VS Naipaul overheard himself saying to a fellow-Caribbean writer on BBC radio in 1955. He later...
Pregnant Women 'Could Drink'
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--Women should decide for themselves if they want to drink small amounts of alcohol in pregnancy, Pat O'Brien, a consultant obstetrician, has said. Writing in the British Medical Journal,he said it was not the role of the medical profession to make a...
'Preppy Killer' Faces Return to Jail after Bust for Cocaine
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Most New Yorkers thought they had seen the last of Robert Chambers, the privileged young man dubbed the "Preppy Killer" after his 1988 conviction for killing a woman in Central Park and leaving her body beneath a tree. After serving 15 years for manslaughter...
Pressure from Parents Sees Rejection of Smacking Ban
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By Richard GarnerEducation EditorThe Government bowed to parental pressure yesterday and decided against introducing a ban on smacking children.Ministers had promised a review of legislation two years ago but decided to stick with the status quo after...
Rebel Girls, Junior Spies and Some Secret Eruptions
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Books for 8-12sMichelle Paver's The Outcast (Orion, 9.99) is the eagerly- awaited next episode in her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. I have already lent my proof copy twice to young friends who couldn't wait for publication. It is set in a prehistoric...
Red Sox Make Flying Start against Ring-Rusty Rockies
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--baseballBy Larry Finein BostonThe Boston Red Sox battered the Colorado Rockies 13-1 in Game One of the World Series on Wednesday, ending the National League Champions' 10-game winning streak with a record-setting scoring spree.Boston completed the...
