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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 April 14, 2012
A Failure That Is Preferable to Success
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LEADING ARTICLE The dismal failure of North Korea's rocket launch will, and should, be a cause for widespread relief. Whether the launch was intended, as Pyongyang insisted, to put a satellite in orbit marking the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung,...
Ah, Mr Boyd, We Weren't Expecting You
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William Boyd With an invitation to pen the next James Bond novel, this most accomplished of storytellers is poised to win a whole new set of admirers. By John Walsh When it was announced on Wednesday that William Boyd had accepted an invitation by the...
All Creatures Great and Small Get the St Tiggywinkles Treatment
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Given the upmarket location of this newspaper's offices, the surrounding pavements tend to be populated by charity collectors in primary-coloured cagoules, adopting the "Hello! You look ace! And rich! Let's be direct debit friends!" stance as you approach....
Anniversaries Are the Marker Buoys That Help Us Navigate through Life
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For a lot of people, today is a very important day: 14 April 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic, which is big news for reasons that aren't immediately obvious. Why does the sinking of a passenger ship a century ago still matter...
Bahrain? It's Perfectly Peaceful, Claims Formula 1 Chief Ecclestone
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Grand Prix to go ahead as planned, despite fears protesters will try to disrupt the event After weeks of doubt amid security concerns over an upsurge in clashes between authorities and anti-government protesters, it was confirmed yesterday the Bahrain...
Big Day for Spurs, Dry Run for Harry?
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The England manager's job will be the elephant in the home dressing room tomorrow at Wembley Harry Redknapp will give his pre-match team-talk in the traditional home dressing room at Wembley tomorrow afternoon. He will take his place in the home dug-out....
Black Day for Equity Desk at Scottish Widows amid Sale Talk
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Struggling fund management business owned by Lloyds to lose 23 of 38 experts in strategy shift Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (Swip) yesterday tore the heart out of its Edinburgh equities business amid persistent rumours that state-backed owner...
Bridge
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South took a rosy view of his hand and upgraded it by opening Two Clubs, and over partner's Two Diamonds relay, rebid 2NT (23-24). North raised directly to Six No-Trumps.West led a low spade, to the king and ace. So long as either minor breaks 3-2, 12...
Carragher Is Now Happy to Fuel Everton's Crying Shame
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Defender was a Blue as a kid and remembers Liverpool victories turning him to tears. The boot is safely on the other foot these days Jamie Carragher has experienced the depth of Merseyside misery that comes from watching the other colour win at Wembley....
Chess
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At the end of last year I played in a small tournament in Leon in the northwest of Spain: a four-player rapidplay of what the organiser, grandmaster Alfonso Romero, kindly called 'Legends', though we - Robert Hubner, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Gyula Sax and...
Children of the Warlord
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In the 1990s, Liberia was torn apart by a civil war in which child soldiers fought for the guerrilla leader Charles Taylor. As an international court delivers its verdict on Taylor, Finlay Young meets the former fighters back in Africa - now grown up,...
Chinese Slowdown Sparks Fear on Recovery
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China fuelled fears over a flagging global recovery yesterday as the world's second-biggest economy showed its weakest pace of growth since 2009 in the opening three months of the year.It grew at an annual pace of 8.1 per cent - still leaving Western...
City Mind Games Won't Wash with Us, Says Ferguson
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Sir Alex Ferguson has said that Manchester United are too experienced to be drawn into any mind games played by his opposite number at Manchester City, Roberto Mancini.The United manager said Mancini's claim that the title race was "finished", even though...
City Mind Games Won't Wash with Us, Says Ferguson
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Sir Alex Ferguson has said that Manchester United are too experienced to be drawn into any mind games played by his opposite number at Manchester City, Roberto Mancini.The United manager said Mancini's claim that the title race was "finished", even though...
Clegg Can Ensure Wasps' Week Goes from Bad to Worse
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WEEKEND PREVIEW Harlequins v WaspsIt has been a brutal week for Wasps: fast running out of money and under serious threat of administration, they failed to close the deal with a new investor; riddled with injury, they lost their captain John Hart to...
Clegg's Plan to Make Us Pay to Help the Needy Is Lacking Detail
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What's the Government's latest solution to the growing energy crisis? You know, the shameful fact that millions of people can't afford to adequately heat their homes because of soaring gas and electricity bills? Little Nick Clegg announced it proudly...
Cunning Osborne Sets a Tax Trap
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Inside Westminster When Ed Miliband taunted a silent and rather shame-faced line of Cabinet ministers on Budget day over whether they would personally benefit from George Osborne's cut in the 50p top rate of tax, it was one of his greatest hits since...
Decades of Criticism Have Not Cleaned Up Supply Chains
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COMMENT Last year it was Nike. Indonesian workers manufacturing for its Converse brand told undercover reporters that supervisors slap them in the face and kick them if they make mistakes. The mainly female workforce at the factory in Pou Chen makes...
Di Matteo Plays Straight Bat before Semi
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Harry Redknapp's Tottenham mirror their creator: impromptu, entertaining and sometimes too open for their own good. Fortunately for Chelsea fans at Wembley tomorrow, and watching neutrals, their team does not reflect its current steward.While Redknapp's...
Divisions Emerge as Sarkozy Loses Ground in Polls
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New doubts and divisions appeared yesterday in President Nicolas Sarkozy's camp, a week before the first round of the French presidential elections.A volley of four opinion polls showed President Sarkozy losing most of the ground gained in recent weeks...
Domingo Malagon
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Master forger for the anti-Franco resistance It is testament to Domingo Malagon's innate modesty that he never liked the way leading 1950s Spanish Communist Party [PCE] colleagues called him the one "irreplaceable element" in their organisation. But...
Do You Think People Can Be 'Cured' of Their Sexuality through Prayer? Get over It!
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Notebook Stonewall's awareness-raising campaign has been running for a few years now. It states, in bold letters, "Some people are gay. Get over it". That's easy to say: persuading people into a position of tolerance, or not caring either way, might...
End of an Era Synchronised with Hopes of Vital Renewal
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Race needs its share of luck and judgement after last year's carnage and controversies Though their most famous occasion remains an institution of British life, none who ply their trade on the Turf will be deceived that it is necessarily unsinkable....
Even the Disinterested Can Be Distracted Now and Again
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Errors & Omissions In our excellent series about the failings of NHS nursing this week, we used "disinterested" to mean "uninterested", twice. It hardly matters, because no confusion of meaning is likely, but as long as there are enough people who care,...
E-Wallets Put Money Back in Your Pocket
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Your 16-year old daughter is going out for a night on the town, and you are worried that she might run out of money. In the past few days a new solution has emerged. If need be, you can use your mobile phone to transfer money within seconds to her account,...
Exposed: The Reality Behind London's 'Ethical' Olympics
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Investigation reveals that the Adidas kit worn by Team GB athletes is made in abusive sweatshops Sick, abused, driven to despair: workers who clothe Olympic stars EXCLUSIVE Olympic-branded gear - to be worn by British athletes and Games volunteers -...
Factory Workers Are 'Forced to Lie' during Adidas Safety Inspections
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It's no secret why Adidas and other sportswear brands such as Nike, Gap, H&M and others get most of their products manufactured in developing countries. Wages are cheap, labour law is lax, and people are desperate for jobs. Over the past decade, such...
Failure to Launch - but Pyongyang Pays Price for Rocket Test
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US food-aid deal collapses following claims that North Korea was testing a long-range missile The US announced yesterday that it will not deliver on its promise to provide food aid to North Korea after the failed launch of its long-range rocket, which...
Film
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New Films FILM OF THE WEEKThe Cabin in the Woods (15)Director Drew GoddardStarring Chris Hemsworth, Kristen ConnollyFive archetypal US college kids load up a camper van and drive to an isolated old cabin in the woods, stopping only to refuel at a dilapidated...
First Lady of Fine Art
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She owns more than 300,000 works by great artists from Da Vinci to Monet - or, at least, she retains the rights to reproduce their images. As Harriet Bridgeman's incredible art library celebrates 40 years, John Walsh meets its charismatic chief curator....
Five Best Films
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The Kid with a Bike (12A)The Dardennes brothers' Cannes Grand Prix-winner, about a wilful boy who escapes a children's home, is a model of narrative concision, with an optimistic opinion of human behaviour.Into the Abyss: a Tale of Death, a Tale of Life...
Five Best London Shows
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Sweeney Todd - the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Adelphi TheatreJonathan Kent's production of Sondheim's towering masterpiece features a superb performance from Michael Ball as the titular barber whose bid for revenge turns murderous. To 22 SeptFilumena...
Five Best London Shows
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Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam British MuseumThe museum continues its series of spiritual shows with the Fifth Pillar of Islam, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Documents, illustrations and mementoes. To 15 AprDamien Hirst Tate ModernThe first British...
'For a Good Holiday, You Need Someone to Hate'
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My life in travel David Starkey David Starkey is a historian and television presenterFirst holiday memory?My memory of childhood holidays is uniformly awful. I was born in 1945 - in what appeared to be a mini ice age - so my first recollection was getting...
Games
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Reviews Devil May Cry: HD Collection 29.99Format PS3, Xbox 360Publisher CapcomWhen Devil May Cry came out, it was a revelation, dripping with post-Matrix cool, as its mix of stylised violence and stringent rankings set the tone for a generation of Japanese...
Gibson Learning to Fire in Everton Engine Room
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Moyes signed United midfielder on recommendation of Rooney and, after the odd rocket for being too laid-back, it is paying off Sir Alex Ferguson advises his fellow managers to avoid the January transfer window, claiming that the players he is offered...
'Glenstrata' Partners Slip amid Tie-Up Uncertainties
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MARKET REPORT The merger may have hit a mini speed bump, but many in the City are still enthusiastic over "Glenstrata". Yet, while investors were being told yesterday that they will have to wait an extra month before getting documents relating to the...
Greenhouse Effect
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RESTAURANTS It may be that the sun has gone to my head - I've spent a golden couple of hours in a dappled, greenery-filled glasshouse, drinking Prosecco and rose syrup - but surely Petersham Nurseries Caf is the prettiest restaurant in Britain? It certainly...
Hello, Bradford! George Galloway Rides into Town with Big Promises
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From storming the town hall to finding an Arab buyer for the city's football team, Jonathan Brown listens to an audacious agenda There is no shortage of challenges facing George Galloway in Bradford, the city where he spectacularly snatched by-election...
High Society
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WINE The staid image conjured up by the name might deceive you into thinking that the Wine Society is some fusty Victorian institution of claret tipplers. In fact, this no-frills company delivers on all the features you could want from a dynamic wine...
His Campaign Broadcast Starred Actors, Not Real Londoners - So Was Ken Crying Crocodile Tears?
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It has become the most reproduced visual image of London's mayoral campaign so far: Labour candidate Ken Livingstone openly weeping. But doubt has now been cast on whether the sobs were genuine or fake.Mr Livingstone's campaign team spent another frustrating...
Home Truths
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FIVE-MINUTE MEMOIR I have a recurring dream. I am standing in the hallway of the flat where I spent my childhood and where my mother still lives. The wallpaper is dark green stripes and through the windows of the sitting room I can see trees in full...
I Applaud Farrell's Decision. Now They Should Go for Smith
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TACKLING THE ISSUES It takes a brave man - certainly a mature one - to turn down the chance of coaching England with a home World Cup on the distant horizon. As I know Andy Farrell to be both brave and mature, I cannot say I'm completely surprised by...
'I Can Still See in My Dreams. but When I Wake, the Truth Hits'
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Mother whose eyes were gouged by partner makes emotional testimony to court A mother-of-two who was left blind after her eyes were gouged out by her partner during a "premeditated, sustained, vicious attack" said yesterday she "feels like a ghost who...
'I'm a Good Villain'
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MY SECRET LIFE WERNER HERZOG, 69, FILMMAKER My parents were... I didn't know much of my father, he disappeared quickly and I never had much affinity with him. My mother was of Croatian decent. She raised three boys in post-war Germany, which was very...
In a Rangoon Garden, Cameron Stands with Suu Kyi and Offers Burma a Fresh Start
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PM dismisses warnings of false dawn with call to 'suspend' sanctions, at house where heroine was held for 15 years David Cameron yesterday called for the suspension of almost all sanctions against Burma as he said the country ought to be rewarded for...
Irish Catholics Rejecting Church Doctrine
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Vast majority surveyed say Vatican's teachings on sex and marriage are no longer relevant Ireland, once regarded as the land of the especially faithful, has become largely disconnected from the previously powerful Roman Catholic church, a survey reveals....
Italy's Adventure Centre
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Cover story For a family holiday that gets to grips with the great outdoors, summer in South Tyrol is hard to beat. It's also very, very confusing... It all looks so simple on the map. Lots of green, with crinkly borders. A bit bigger than Devon, one-third...
It's 2035 and Our Sport Stars Are Running Britain
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THE LAST WORD Who would have thought Barry Hearn would have been proved so resoundingly right? Apart from Barry Hearn of course. Here we are, let's pretend it's mid-2035, looking back to that day when the snooker soothsayer held up his sport as the example...
I've Played Only Once, but I'm a Lifelong Cricketer
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Sport and the mind What a wonderful thing is Wisden, that lovely, lozengy, yellow- jacketed, Bible-shaped and Bible-weighted cricketers' almanack, 1,500 pages deep, in which the averages of batsmen and bowlers and wicketkeepers, English and not-English,...
Jack Tramiel
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Trailblazer for the personal computer Jack Tramiel was the businessman behind the first all-in-one personal computer, the Commodore PET, and the world's best-selling home computer, the Commodore 64. He was instrumental in bringing powerful, low-priced...
Kick Start
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FOOD & DRINK Don't just spoon it on to the side of your plate, says our chef - use mustard to create delicious sauces and accompaniments to meat and fish dishes Apart from tomato ketchup, mustard must be the most popular condiment in the UK - and as...
Leading Medical Research Institute Joins Outcry at Osborne's Charity Tax Crackdown
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Risk of Pounds 100m shortfall in Budget piles pressure on Chancellor to revisit controversial decision The country's premier medical research institute - supposed to be funded jointly by the Government and private charities - could be the most high-profile...
Le Fondre and Ruthless Reading Grab Chance to Go Top
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SOUTHAMPTON 1 Lambert 48 READING 3 Roberts 19, Le Fondre 72, 90 Reading are on their way back up. After beating their title rivals last night to go top of the Championship they need - at the most - four points from their last four games to return to...
Le Fondre and Ruthless Reading Grab Chance to Go Top
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SOUTHAMPTON 1 Lambert 48 READING 3 Roberts 19, Le Fondre 72, 90 Reading are on their way back up. After beating their title rivals last night to go top of the Championship they need - at the most - four points from their last three games to return to...
Leila Denmark
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Doctor whose work led to the whooping cough vaccine and who worked till 103 Leila Denmark, the world's fourth-oldest person at 114, overcame deep-rooted prejudice to become one of America's first paediatricians, and the oldest practising medical practitioner...
Luxury Dive Resorts
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The big six ViceroyMaldivesThe latest resort in the Maldives archipelago opened this month on a secluded sliver of sand known as Vagaru Island. Here, 61 thatched villas stand along a pristine shore, lapped by the cerulean waters of the Indian Ocean....
Mackie and Moses Prove That Nice Guys Can Finish First
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WHAT I LEARNT THIS WEEK One of the best parts of this job is seeing young players develop their potential and I looked on with pride this week at the performances of Jamie Mackie and Victor Moses, two smashing lads who have really come on since I first...
Madeira's Sandy Little Sister
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Atlantic islands Porto Santo has one thing its bigger neighbour lacks - a large, empty beach, says Sarah Baxter It almost seems a shame that you can land on Porto Santo. The runway-laid middle of this tiny Portuguese isle, which floats 50km north-east...
Magoffin Shines as Champions Drop Themselves in It
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LANCASHIRE 124 & 85-4 Magoffin 3-14 SUSSEX 300 Yardy 110 Lancashire's collective will enabled them to recover from unpromising situations more than once on the way to their first outright title in 77 years last summer. They will need to draw deep on...
'Master of Disaster' Sees More Trouble in Europe
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Leonard Charlton, manager of the Melchior ST European Absolute Return fund, has a reputation for identifying companies whose share prices are likely to fall. He has proved so adept at this during his career that colleagues dubbed him "The Master of Disaster"....
Mayor Demands Lawrence Police Corruption Probe
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Boris Johnson joins family's calls for inquiry following investigation by The Independent The Government is under increasing pressure to reopen the inquiry into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, with the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, joining demands...
Moore Set to Organise Historic Carberry Win
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However patronising or romantic the different representations of her involvement today - and it must be hoped that everyone will be made to comprehend emphatically that she is not just a pretty face - the bottom line is that Nina Carberry has every chance...
Moore Set to Organise Historic Carberry Win
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However patronising or romantic the different representations of her involvement today - and it must be hoped that everyone will be made to comprehend emphatically that she is not just a pretty face - the bottom line is that Nina Carberry has every chance...
Movement Masquerading as Action Can't Mask Red Failings
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Listening to Liverpool chairman Tom Werner, you might just have believed the American ownership had got up the nerve for a bout of powerful leadership. If so, keep taking the gullibility pills. Others, though, might prefer an anti-nausea tablet or two.There...
Mozambique
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Traveller's guide In the first of a five-part series on Africa produced in association with Lonely Planet, Mary Fitzpatrick celebrates a little-visited nation that's big on beauty Indian Ocean sunrises, turquoise waters, a 2,500km coastline and a fascinating...
One Language, Two Cultures - but Not Everything Needs to Be Translated for America
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The Week in Arts There was something about the previews on Broadway this week of the West End hit One Man, Two Guvnors which fascinated me far more than whether James Corden would win over New York audiences. He did, of course, and deserved to with a...
On Other Pages
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cent higher than the official minimum wage - one of the cornerstones of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) base code, an internationally recognised labour code adopted by the Olympics organising committee, Locog. Workers struggle to survive on pay...
On Top of the World
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Organic farms, swimming pools, even a vintage plane - New York's skyline has hidden delights, as aerial photographer Alex MacLean discovered Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, yes. It is a plane, perched at the end of a bright green Astroturf landing...
Organised Approach Can Minimise Confusion
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Chris McGrath pinpoints the leading fancies, long shots and no- hopers in at-a-glance guide HOTSHOTSORGANISEDCONFUSIONGives Nina Carberry a grand chance of becoming the first woman to win. They won the Irish version together last season, his one and...
Paula: I'd Be Happy with a Medal of Any Colour
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Radcliffe admits she is not the Olympics force she was ahead of novelty race with Gebrselassie The demob happiness of Haile Gebrselassie was not the only reminder to Paula Radcliffe yesterday that she has unfinished business to attend to. There was also...
Peer-to-Peer Lending Shows Some Longevity
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Many people doubted whether peer-to-peer lending would ever really take off, but it appears that the sector is going from strength to strength and increasingly being accepted as a credible alternative to the banks.Compared with mainstream banking this...
Performance Notes
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The BalletCarbon LifeRoyal Opera House, LondonOverviewChoreographer Wayne McGregor's new ballet has a startling line- up of a type more usually associated with gigs than ballets. Mark Ronson is the guitarist-composer; Alison Mosshart (The Kills) is the...
Perth
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48 hours Gentle temperatures, autumn colours and cheap fares make this a good time to visit Western Australia's pretty and prosperous capital, says Anthony Lambert Travel essentialsWhy go now?Cooler days and autumn colours make this a favourite time...
Police Blogger to Sue the Times over Hacked Emails
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'Night Jack' detective takes action following editor's evidence to Leveson Inquiry The blogging police detective whose identity was exposed after a journalist from The Times hacked into his email account is suing Times Newspapers for damages.Richard...
Price-Fixing Is Bad for the Book Buyer So Let's Leave It in the History Section
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US Outlook Is the US Justice Department going to smash the book publishing industry cartel? Let's hope so. The collusion set out in this week's competition lawsuit against Apple, Penguin, Macmillan et al reveals not just a gang of executives colluding...
Q&A: How the Charity Tax Will Affect Giving
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Q What is the proposal?A To cap on all income tax reliefs at 50,000 or 25 per cent of income (whichever is greater). This includes tax breaks for charitable giving as well as other tax breaks, such as those for business losses and loan interest payments.Q...
Revealed: Russian Spy Agency Linked to Dead Lawyer
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Russia's spy agency authorised a raid on a British investment firm in Moscow that led to a massive tax scam by allegedly corrupt officials and the death of a lawyer who tried to expose the fraud, new papers show. Sergei Magnitsky, a Moscow-based lawyer,...
Roll Up, a Chic Circus Is in Town
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24-hour room service 25hours Hotel Vienna In a secluded park in the youthful 7th district of Austria's capital, this quirkily cool hotel, with its reception on the top floor, has been cleverly converted from a 1970s student hostel. But to associate it...
Schumacher Rolls Back the Years with a Car He Can Throw at Corners
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Mercedes' seven-times world champion shows he's no back number at 42 by posting fastest time in practice "Is Michael past his sell-by date?" Johnny Herbert, standing in as a Sky TV commentator for Damon Hill this weekend, pondered the question for a...
Scots Get a Really Horrible History of the English
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Latest play in series, written for Edinburgh, is tailored to win applause north of the border The Sassenachs will meet a bloody end when Horrible Histories, the all-conquering children's show secretly loved by adults, is given a tartan makeover for the...
Second Failure Means Patel May Be Frozen Out
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ROUND-UP It is all very well being sent to the shires to make some runs, but when the month you have been given to rebuild your claim to an England place is April you might argue that the playing field is not exactly level.So it may seem to Samit Patel...
Settled Central Defence Is More Important Than the Beane Counters
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THE WEEKEND DOSSIER Tucked neatly in the black bag Damien Comolli carried away from Liverpool's training ground on Thursday will have been a small laptop and a mountain of statistics. With his departure, and a fairly brutal appraisal from chairman Tom...
Shining Path Sniper Kills Peruvian Policewoman
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Shining Path terrorists have killed a police captain as she took part in an attempt to rescue dozens of hostages seized by the rebels earlier this week.Nancy Flores Paucar, 32, was hit by a sniper as a helicopter she was co-piloting attempted to land...
Skintland? Alex Salmond Is Quick to Rise to the Bait
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The DIARY The current issue of The Economist magazine carries a warning to Scotland of the potential cost of independence, illustrated on the front cover by a spoof map of "Skintland", with its capital renamed "Edinborrow" and the islands to the north...
Something to Declare
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Bargain of the week BMI domestic flightsWhile the future of BMI remains unsettled - the takeover by BA has not yet been confirmed - the airline continues to fly its usual schedule, and to sell flights at below cost. From its Heathrow base, there is good...
Spring into Action
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GARDENS National Gardening Week is upon us. But as a nation of impassioned horticulturalists, we hardly need reminding why plants are our pride and joy Do we need the Royal Horticultural Society, which has less than half a million members, to tell us...
Staying in Films on Television
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TODAYWall-E 5.25pm BBC1 *****(Andrew Stanton, 2008) Pixar's most dazzlingly inventive film is a largely wordless, gracefully cinematic eco-sci-fi drama about no less than what it is to be human. Without ever losing his essential robot-ness, its hero...
Stout Hart Says 'We Will Never Give Up the Chase'
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They had won, Manchester United had lost and suddenly hope was flickering around the Etihad Stadium. However, if they awaited a statement of defiance from Roberto Mancini, what Manchester City's supporters received on Wednesday night was another concession...
Sun, Sea ... and Psychiatric Evaluations. Travel Deal Proves There's No Such Thing as a Free Holiday
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A leading travel firm is seeking volunteers to find out if a change really is as good as a rest. By Simon Calder A leading tour operator is seeking six volunteers to help understand the physical and emotional changes brought about by a holiday. Kuoni...
Supermarket Wine for a Fiver? It Probably Won't Be a Corker
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Expert tempts shoppers to look past the obvious and break stranglehold of discounted boring bottles Most "bargain" supermarket wine is "incredibly dull", lacking in character, blended and bland, according to an industry figure who is urging shoppers...
Syrians Take to the Streets as UN-Brokered Ceasefire Frays
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Activists claim at least five people killed as soldiers use live rounds across the country A fragile day-old ceasefire in Syria showed signs of breaking yesterday amid reports that security forces fired on peaceful protesters who took to the streets...
Tax-Avoidance Could Backfire on Companies
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Tax has become the latest battleground for ethical investors, but their message sends out a warning to anyone who invests in shares.Investors are demanding that funds stop supporting companies that use tax-dodging schemes. By doing so, campaigners claim,...
Ten Best Comedy Gigs
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Sean Lock Mon & Wed to 30 AprSurrealist insight from Mock the Week's reliably funny one. He's here trying out some new material, so the signs are good for the kind of off-the-cuffness at which he excels. Pleasance Theatre, London N7Frank Sanazi ThurPete...
Ten Best Dance Events
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Artifact Thur to 21 AprWilliam Forsythe's piece, performed by the Royal Ballet of Flanders, subverts the conventions of classical ballet. Sadler's Wells, London EC1Richard Alston Dance Company Tue & WedThis lyrical company dance Alston's Shimmer, to...
Ten Best Events
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Claytime to 6 JunThe upside-down purple cow is back on the South Bank is hosting numerous performances for kids in the next few months, including this lovely 60-minute show where the over-threes get to play with clay. E4 Udderbelly at Southbank Centre,...
Ten Best Gigs
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Raghu Dixit Project and Members of Bellowhead WedDixit (above) sold out his Alchemy appearance last year, and he's back with Pete Flood, Andy Mellon and Brendan Kelly of Bellowhead, plus the choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi for what should be a spectacular...
Ten Best Gigs
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Dry the River Sun & Tue to ThurThe new Mumfords? You might as well say the new magnolia, but these Londoners promise more than your usual indie-folkies, emerging from a hardcore history with reserves of muscle and melodrama. Touring London, Nottingham,...
Ten Best Performances
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La Fille du Rgiment ThurYves Abel conducts Laurent Pelly's Royal Opera production of Donizetti's romance, with Patrizia Ciofi as the regimental mascot and Ann Widdecombe as La Duchesse de Crakentorp. ROH, London WC2English Touring Opera tonight, Mon...
Ten Best Talks & Festivals
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Brympton Festival Fri to 26 AprAmong the highlights are Nessa Carey (above), Sophie Hannah, Michael Dobbs, Alison Weir, Lindsey Davis, Graham Fawcett, Kate Williams, Christopher Lloyd, Adrian Tinniswood, Prue Leith, Hugh Le Provost and Martin Polley....
