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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 18, 2011
A Documentary That's Worth Checking Out
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The Weekend's TV The Hotel / Sun Channel 4 The Secrets of Scott's Hut / Sun BBC2 The owner of the Damson Dene Hotel, Jonathan Denby, says he would feel "outraged" if anyone compared his establishment to Fawlty Towers after watching The Hotel, Channel...
A Hard Shoulder to Cry On
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The M1 It may not be on the same scale of Eyjafjallajkull's eruptions emptying the skies of aircraft, or weeks of snow blocking whole sections of the country, but the closure of the M1 has brought that same curious mixture of frustration for those whose...
Ambitious Bath Find Something Solid to Build on with Top-Six Spot
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BATH 19 HARLEQUINS 15 According to the arithmetic, Bath can still qualify for the end- of-season play-offs. According to rugby logic, they have as much chance of making the semi-finals as Shirley Williams has of being mistaken for Lady Gaga. Not that...
A Spotter's Guide to a Wild Orchid Summer
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In the tropics, they're outlandish: huge, exotic blooms ranging in colour from tangerine to puce, from snow-white to maroon, the world's most spectacular flowers. In Britain, where the orchid season is about to begin, they are more restrained, usually...
Bale and Wilshere Crowned as PFA's Players of the Year
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Tottenham's Gareth Bale was last night named as the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year.The 21-year-old has been in imperious form for Spurs in both the Premier League and Champions League this season, becoming one of the most talked...
Balotelli Awaits FA Decision as United Sense Injustice
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* Governing body to study referee's report * City player showed 'disrespect' claims Nani Ill feeling over Scholes' challenge lingersThe animosity between Manchester's two footballing rivals deepened yesterday as Mario Balotelli was accused of "disrespect"...
Balotelli Awaits FA Decision as United Sense Injustice
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* Governing body to study referee's report * City player showed 'disrespect' claims Nani Ill feeling over Scholes' challenge lingersThe animosity between Manchester's two footballing rivals deepened yesterday as Mario Balotelli was accused of "disrespect"...
Balotelli Awaits FA Decision as United Sense Injustice
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* Governing body to study referee's report * City player showed 'disrespect' claims Nani Ill feeling over Scholes' challenge lingersThe animosity between Manchester's two footballing rivals deepened yesterday as Mario Balotelli was accused of "disrespect"...
Big Trouble in Middle England
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The Monday Book KING OF THE BADGERS By Philip Hensher FOURTH ESTATE, Pounds 18.99 Order for Pounds 16.99 (free p&p) from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 Philip Hensher thinks big. His previous novel, The Northern Clemency, was a family saga...
Bridge
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A Pro-Am tournament was the curtain raiser to the Copenhagen Invitational, and among the "Am's" was His Royal Highness, Prince Henrik of Denmark, the Patron of the event, an enthusiastic bridge player and certainly no shy bidder.After a pass by North,...
Bruce Pines for Bent after Another Loss
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Three months after his departure, Steve Bruce is still talking about Darren Bent. Saturday's defeat at Birmingham was Sunderland's eighth defeat in 10 games since the striker packed his bags and departed for Aston Villa. In that period, the Black Cats...
Business Diary
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Are sour grapes on menu at Goldman?More now on Goldman Sachs, which made a few headlines last week with a report calling the top of the commodities market. Unkind folk on internet gossip sites are now wondering out loud whether Goldman's downbeat assessment...
Cameron's Betrayal of the Middle Class
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University admissions Nothing makes people angrier than losing their position in the world to someone they feel deserves it less. We've seen the wrath of the white working classes over losing their jobs and their council flats to immigrants. We're about...
Castro the Younger's Big Step Forward
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Leading Articles Cuba CUBA IS is holding its first Communist Party Congress for 14 years. But it is a measure of the frenetic pace of developments elsewhere in the world and the low expectations that attach to set- piece gatherings in one-party states...
Castro Vows Reforms 'Without Pause' for Cuba
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Cubans who long ago lost faith that their country will change may reconsider after the first Communist Party Congress in 14 years opened in Havana on Saturday with a scolding from Raul Castro that the sclerotic habits of a geriatric government and a...
Champion Admits Red Bull's Two-Stop Strategy Backfired
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Sebastian Vettel took his first defeat of 2011 on the chin, and was adamant that second place in the Chinese Grand Prix was no disappointment on an afternoon when a bold, two-stop strategy failed to pay off."My start was not the best and for some reason...
Chelsea Rally Round Torres but Still Follow Drogba's Lead
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Carlo Ancelotti, despite his protestations, was plainly desperate for Fernando Torres to score. The Spaniard's Chelsea colleagues went out of their way to try to set up his first goal during his appearance as a substitute on Saturday. The away fans repeatedly...
Chess
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The Russian team championship is producing wonderful fighting chess in Olginka in the Krasnodar region, with heavy bloodshed every day. Team championships are hugely volatile, but Tomsk-400 and Moscow Chess 64 look strong.For the moment, though, let's...
China Steps Up Inflation Fight with Bank Reserves Hike
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China stepped up moves to head off inflation yesterday by raising bank reserve requirements for the fourth time this year.The move, which comes after an increase in benchmark interest rates at the start of April, is the seventh since Chinese monetary...
City Rise at Last on Painstaking Foundations Laid by Mancini
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For 16 months Roberto Mancini has been driving Manchester City along an often difficult route towards a destination that has not always been clear.There have been training ground fights, dressing-room rifts, bolshy super-stars, bad results, terrible...
Cloak-and-Dagger Day with the BNP - a Party in Crisis
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Deserted manifesto launch signals election disaster. By Rob Hastings and Nigel Morris The low-key launch of the BNP's English manifesto in a deserted Stoke-on-Trent shopping street yesterday was in marked contrast to previous events held by the group...
Contamination of Water Is the Big Headache for Tepco
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Analysis When fighting a fire, you don't worry about your water bills. When the Japanese power company Tepco was fighting a potential nuclear meltdown in its stricken reactors at Fukushima, it was not particularly worried about the huge volume of radioactively...
Cut the World Service and It's Britain We Harm
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Media Studies We are all in favour of the BBC World Service but do we really care? I ask because there is little more than a whimper of national protest at the Coalition Government's plans to cut the World Service's budget by 16 per cent as part of...
'Cyclists Don't Have a Shield of Metal to Save Them from Harm'
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Readers have welcomed our campaign to make travelling on two wheels safer James Hoggarth, 36, a civil servant from LondonLast April, a van driver deliberately swerved at Mr Hoggarth while he was cycling through central London. Mr Hoggarth reported the...
Dalglish Plays Down Touchline Row after 'Frustrating' Wenger
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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish played down a touchline spat with Arsenal counterpart Arsne Wenger at the final whistle of the sides' 1-1 draw.Wenger was furious that Liverpool had been awarded a penalty in the 13th minute of stoppage time, and the...
Dalglish Plays Down Touchline Row after 'Frustrating' Wenger
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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish played down a touchline spat with Arsenal counterpart Arsne Wenger at the final whistle of the sides' 1-1 draw.Wenger was furious that Liverpool had been awarded a penalty in the 13th minute of stoppage time, and the...
Dance
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Alice Theatre Royal, Glasgow *** Huge expectations for Alice, creative director Ashley Page's first, and last, full-length new work for Scottish Ballet. Having remade Cinderella, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty as clever, witty classical-contemporary...
Digital Digest
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THE BEST OF THE WEB ROYAL WEDDINGA cheesy tributeWith companies across this green and pleasant land desperately trying to outdo each other to make the best (worst) Royal wedding tat, pizza-delivery company, Papa John's, might have stolen the crown. It...
'Distraught' Considine Eases Celtic's Route to the Final
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Scotland ABERDEEN 0 CELTIC 4 Mulgrew 49, Ledley 57, Commons 63 pen, Maloney 84 Celtic will meet Motherwell in the Scottish Cup final next month after easing past 10-man Aberdeen here yesterday.Dons defender Andrew Considine handed the initiative to Neil...
Don't Stop the Music: Beloved US Orchestra Forced into Bankruptcy
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The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of America's most prestigious ensembles and a favourite among classical music lovers around the world, not least in Britain, is expected to file for bankruptcy this week in a desperate effort to pull itself back from the...
Durham Forced to Sweat by Late Sting in the Tail
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YORKSHIRE 149 & 343 DURHAM 327 & 311-6 dec Durham won by 146 runs Resisted in their attempt to force a victory at the Rose Bowl in the first round of matches, Durham pressed home their advantage successfully here, although only after Yorkshire had mounted...
Eat, Sleep and Shop: French Live the Cliche
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The French spend more time eating and drinking, sleeping and shopping than any other nationality, according to the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report.The OECD's annual Society at a Glance survey examines a range of indicators...
Etherington and Pennant Wreck Bolton's Notion of Cup Romance
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BOLTON WANDERERS 0 STOKE CITY 5 Etherington 11, Huth 17, Jones 30, Walters 68, 81 It was supposed to have been the kind of FA Cup romance which recalled Nat Lofthouse, a striker they called "the Lion" 50 years ago. Instead, there was romance of a more...
Fashion Audit
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We loveYSL 'do good' bagIf you were to imagine a bag made from fairly traded, recycled plastic bags and woven cotton, handcrafted by the women of the Gafreh Association in Burkina Faso, the product in your head would undoubtedly not look like this. But...
For Bonds, the Greatest Punishment May Be Exclusion from Hallowed Hall
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THE WAY I SEE IT A sportswriter talking about a legacy is just a fart talking about its own smell." So wrote a sportswriter on the ever readable Deadspin website last week concerning the stench emanating from the trial of Barry Bonds. It neatly, if a...
George Soros Should Have Some Fun at Rupert Murdoch's Expense
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ON MONDAY Andreas Whittam Smith once observed that it is an act of madness for a journalist to write an open letter (see Melanie Phillip's blog of last Tuesday: "An Open Letter To The Culture Secretary"). So I will not begin with: "Dear George Soros."...
Golden Youths
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Fashion A new wave of hip, young jewellery designers is transforming the industry with its ideas. Harriet Walker finds out who's bringing our bling bang up to date DOMINIC JONES, 25Cybergoth glamourWhere do you find your inspiration?I have always had...
Hamilton Puts a Stop to Vettel's Run as McLaren's Tactics Pay Off
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Lewis Hamilton began and ended his Chinese Grand Prix in dramatic circumstances but his calmness paid off both times to allow him to secure his first win of the season yesterday. It was a stunningly cool performance on a day of thrilling action.Even...
Hindus Reclaim 5,000 Years of History
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By restoring temples in the Muslim region of Kashmir, the Pandit community is also preserving its past. Andrew Buncombe reports At a Hindu temple in the centre of Srinagar, Sanjay Tickoo scattered petals, lit a candle and quietly voiced the words of...
Houllier Delighted by Villa 'Fight' after Late Winner at Upton Park
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Premier League All the signs at Upton Park on Saturday pointed in opposite directions for these clubs, towards safety for Aston Villa and relegation for West Ham United. But if West Ham want an example of what can be done to arrest a slide, they could...
Houllier Delighted by Villa 'Fight' after Late Winner at Upton Park
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Premier League All the signs at Upton Park on Saturday pointed in opposite directions for these clubs, towards safety for Aston Villa and relegation for West Ham United. But if West Ham want an example of what can be done to arrest a slide, they could...
Households Squeezed by Sharp Rise in Living Costs
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Household budgets suffered a "further steep deterioration" earlier this month, dealing a blow to hopes of an increase in consumer spending after a dire first three months of the year, according to an influential survey released this morning.The grim...
How Do You Feel about Post-Match Interviews? Me Neither
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View from the sofa FA CUP ITV 1 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SKY SPORTS A shirt and tie covered with a tracksuit top, as modelled by Wayne Rooney at Wembley on Saturday, is the look of a PE teacher at school assembly. Rooney, though with his Bash Street features,...
Hugh Martin
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US composer and lyricist who wrote the score for 'Meet Me in St Louis' The songwriter, vocal coach and arranger Hugh Martin, with his collaborator Ralph Blane, wrote the score for Vincente Minnelli's film musical masterpiece, Meet Me in St Louis (1944)...
Inquiry Looms into Nuclear Fuel Plant
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ENERGY Calls for an official inquiry into the financial evidence used to justify the construction a 1.34bn nuclear fuel plant at Sellafield in Cumbria will be treated seriously, the National Audit Office has told The Independent.Michael Meacher, an environment...
Investors Receive a Boost as Payouts Soar to Pounds 15bn
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Payouts by UK companies soared to 15bn in the first three months of the year, rising by 10.3 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2010. It was the fastest quarterly growth rate since the third quarter of 2008.Dividends rose by 1.4bn, with the overall...
Join Clegg's 'Leaders' Club' - for Pounds 25,000 Annual Fee
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The Liberal Democrats are offering lobbyists face-to-face meetings with ministers, including Nick Clegg, if they pay 25,000 a year. The cash-strapped party has launched a club offering privileged access to the Deputy Prime Minister and senior Liberal...
Keitany Lets Her Feet Do Talking in Challenge for Radcliffe
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There are 466 days to go before London welcomes the world to the 2012 Olympic Games. It seems Paula Radcliffe will need every one of them if she is to catch up with the painfully shy little Kenyan woman who made a big statement of intent on the road...
Leinster Shrug off Absence of O'Driscoll to Overtake Spirited Ulster
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Round-up Leinster flanker Shane Jennings called for "concentration" before "an exciting few weeks ahead", as his side extended their unbeaten home run of 25 games with a fine 34-26 victory over Ulster on Saturday, leapfrogging their Irish counterparts...
Longest Day Ends in Acrimony as Arsenal See Title Hopes Fade Away
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ARSENAL 1 Van Persie pen 90 LIVERPOOL 1 Kuyt pen 90 The entire Liverpool team ran to the away section to celebrate Dirk Kuyt's penalty equaliser in the 12th minute of stoppage time, even though the goal effectively hands the Premier League title to their...
Losing Our Religion
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The Monday Essay The Church of England is an institution in decline, with fewer worshippers than ever and dissent in its ranks. Could salvation come in the form of severing its ties with the State? By Adrian Hamilton As the faithful look forward to...
M1 Remains the Road to Nowhere with Chaos Set to Drag on for Days
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The chaos that plagued motorists at the weekend shows no sign of abating, as the main artery connecting London and the North still faces days of closure and delays after a fire on Friday.A seven-mile stretch of the M1 was put out of action following...
McCloskey Suffers Cruellest Cut after Officials Make the Wrong Call
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Boxing A week that started in confusion ended in farce on Saturday night when a tiny cut put an end to the Amir Khan and Paul McCloskey world title fight in front of more than 17,000 stunned fans at the MEN Arena, Manchester.McCloskey, the unbeaten challenger,...
McCloskey Suffers Cruellest Cut as Doctor and Referee Get It Wrong
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Boxing A week that started in confusion ended in farce on Saturday night when a tiny cut put an end to the Amir Khan and Paul McCloskey world title fight in front of more than 17,000 stunned fans at the MEN Arena, Manchester.McCloskey, the unbeaten challenger,...
McDermott's Long Wait Delivers Rapid Rise for Reading
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THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE COLUMN With eight wins in a row propelling Reading into the thick of the fight for an automatic promotion place to the Premier League, it is no surprise that comparisons are being made with the Royals side that took the Championship...
Menzies Rolls Back Years in Dragons Win
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RUGBY LEAGUE The Catalan Dragons made it three wins in a row to embed themselves in Super League's top eight. The Catalans backed up their victories at Warrington and Wigan by winning in Perpignan for the first time this season, 28-10 over Hull.The visitors...
Model Grandmaster Plans His Next Move to Change the Face of Chess
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Luke Blackall talks to Magnus Carlsen about his two careers Even its staunchest defenders would struggle to describe chess as sexy, but the growing stature of Magnus Carlsen could change all that. Not only is the 20-year-old Norwegian the number two...
Mourinho: I Would Love to Play Barca with 11 Men
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Europe He ordered the groundstaff to let the grass grow a few centimetres longer and not water the pitch before kick-off; he left his most talented player, Mesut zil, on the bench; and he gave central defender Pepe a roaming search-and-destroy role in...
Murray Restores Sense of Pride as He Battles to Give Injury the Elbow
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Tennis Andy Murray's pride has been hurting more than his body for most of the past 10 weeks but the world No 4 headed for Spain yesterday with an injured elbow his greatest concern. Having restored much of his confidence during an excellent first week...
Mystery of British Couple's 'Toxic Seaweed' Death in Chiang Mai
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Questions raised about safety of Thai city following spate of heart attacks officially blamed on virus. By Enjoli Liston The mysterious deaths of up to seven tourists in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai have baffled the authorities, casting doubts...
New Particle Find Turns Physics Upside-Down
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It is either one of the most astonishing observations in contemporary science - or an experimental artefact that will be quickly forgotten.Physicists are buzzing with rumours of the discovery of a new sub- atomic particle - and a novel nuclear force...
NHS Pledge Distorts the Coalition's Spending Choices
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ECONOMIC OUTLOOK It was that wise man Vince Cable who said before the last election and his entry into the Coalition Government that it would be a mistake to "ring-fence" NHS spending when trying to cut Britain's dangerously wide large fiscal deficit....
Nowhere to Hide, Says the Lawyer on Murdoch's Case
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The Monday Interview Charlotte Harris has spent four years pursuing hacking claims. She tells Martin Hickman why it's a cause worth fighting One of Rupert Murdoch's nemeses is a 5ft 2in mother of two children who sits in The Independent's offices joking...
N'Zogbia Offers Wigan Survival Hope
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The good news for Steve Bruce as he prepares to make a fresh attempt to sign Charles N'Zogbia this summer is that the Wigan winger is back to his very best. The bad news for Bruce is that N'Zogbia's next game is against his free-falling Sunderland team.No...
Opera
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The Coronation of Poppea King's Head Theatre, London *** As London's first pub theatre, the King's Head has always punched above its weight: I lost count of the major writing talents which emerged there during the Seventies and Eighties, and the transfers...
Palestinians 'Confess to Israeli Family Murders'
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Two palestinians teenagers linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have been arrested by Israeli security forces for the murders of an Israeli family attacked as they lay sleeping.Udi Fogel, 36, and his wife, Ruth, 35, died in a hail...
PM Rejects Calls for Phone-Hacking Inquiry
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Calls for a public inquiry into phone hacking by the News of the World were brushed off by Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday.Mr Cameron, who hired the newspaper's ex-editor Andy Coulson as his communications chief after he resigned over the scandal,...
Points Deluge Fails to Drown out Cockerill's Complaints
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LEICESTER 41 GLOUCESTER 41 In a blur of joyously glorious skill and laugh-out-loud defensive howlers this was the highest-scoring draw in First Division history, and the lessons learned will be profound. Leicester, surely, will attack Gloucester's forwards...
Police 'Far Too Ready to Use Kettling Tactics'
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Police are far too ready to consider "kettling" demonstrators, stoking up tensions between officers and peaceful protesters, the official report into Scotland Yard's handling of the recent anti- cuts rally has concluded.Liberty was asked by the Metropolitan...
Portugal's Crippling Debt after Hosting Euros Should Serve as a Warning to Ukrainian Football
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TALKING FOOTBALL The part of Euro 2012 that takes place in Ukraine should be fine, just as long as the neo-Nazi fans do not chant "Heil Hitler" - as they did at a Dynamo Kiev game last August - the stadiums get built in time and someone remembers to...
Renold Rides High to Overcome Manufacturing Woes
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SMALL TALK The most recent Markit/Cips barometer of activity in Britain's manufacturing sector was far from inspiring. It showed that, after displaying strength at the start of the year, the sector suffered a slowdown last month.Although still expanding...
Rise in Abortions among Mothers Denied Morning Sickness Drugs
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Doctors are failing to treat morning sickness, which can be so severe it has driven some women to abort their babies, because of the legacy of the thalidomide disaster.The denial of drug treatment to pregnant women because of fears about birth defects...
Rivals Share Platforms as AV Battle Intensifies
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In one of the more curious pairings of the modern political era, David Cameron will today share a platform with the Labour former cabinet heavyweight John Reid as the battle over electoral reform escalates and cuts across party lines.At the same time,...
Rodgers Outraged by Swansea's Slump
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Championship round-up Brendan Rodgers, the Swansea manager, reacted bitterly to his side's 2-1 defeat at Burnley on Saturday, their fourth successive reverse on the road, which leaves them five points behind big rivals Cardiff in the race for the second...
Rovers Rely on Weakness of Others as Kean Slump Deepens
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It seems ironic, to say the least, that the man who may well ultimately save Steve Kean's job is the man he replaced as Blackburn Rovers manager.When Sam Allardyce was relieved of his Blackburn duties in December, Rovers were in 12th spot in the Premier...
Rovers Rely on Weakness of Others as Kean Slump Deepens
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It seems ironic, to say the least, that the man who may well ultimately save Steve Kean's job is the man he replaced as Blackburn Rovers manager.When Sam Allardyce was relieved of his Blackburn duties in December, Rovers were in 12th spot in the Premier...
Rowley Atterbury
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Pioneering colour printer and early adopter of computer technology Rowley Atterbury was a pioneer in colour printing and in the application of computers to typesetting, and as with most pioneers, his influence was greater than his achievements would...
Sale Pleased with Reebok Experiment despite Defeat
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SALE 20 LONDON IRISH 34 It was the best of times and worst of times for Sale on Saturday as they were comfortably beaten by a London Irish side determined to end the season on a high although the "home" team were inspired by the Reebok Stadium idea they...
Shaw Gets an Ovation as Trapdoor Looms for Substandard Leeds
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WASPS 51 LEEDS 18 For Wasps five points too late to influence their season beyond pride; for Leeds no points in their increasingly desperate battle to retain Premiership status.League tables, however, do not lie. Wasps are building for the future after...
Solve the Proposal Puzzle - Do It by Crossword
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In these days of spring and romance, it is reasonable to imagine Cupid can fire his arrow almost anywhere. Yet it is hard to imagine a place less imbued with matters of the heart than the smudgy black- and-white grid of a newspaper crossword, even if...
Something from the Weekend
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The GoodBARCELONA CLOSE ON TITLESo much is invested in the set of four Clasicos that even in the least important game, on Saturday evening, the Spanish title was effectively decided. Bara now need, at most, 10 points from their final six games. The 1-1...
Stand-Up Comedy
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The Reading List Last week UK comics voted Daniel Kitson the funniest man in Britain. But what books should budding stand-ups not put down?AnalysisHow I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee, Faber & Faber, 12.99Ever since the days of This Morning With...
Teachers Worried as Girls Go Top of the Class for Cyber-Bullying
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Teachers will today call for an investigation into rising levels of poor behaviour among girls in the classroom. The girls, they argue, are more likely to resort to cyber-bullying - the form of bullying utilising the internet and mobile phones that is...
Tears Fall as Records Tumble
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POP Adele 02 Academy, Leeds ***** The double-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Adele continued her remarkable run of successes with a stunning sold-out gig in Leeds, on Thursday, that marked the start of her highly-anticipated spring UK tour. Crowds crammed...
Tesco's New Boss to Be Focus at Full-Year Results
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The Week Ahead As the new man in charge, Philip Clarke - who took over the reins from Sir Terry Leahy not much more than six weeks ago - will have all eyes on him tomorrow when Tesco announces its full-year results.The figures from the UK's largest supermarket...
The Agent Saboteur
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Media Magazine industry veteran James Brown's Sabotage Times is a hit online. But that doesn't mean he's going to follow The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast in selling out, he tells Ian Burrell It's not going to win the Mind charity's Mental Health...
Theatre
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London Road National Theatre: Cottesloe, London ***** The murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich at the end of 2006, and the impact on the immediate community, might not sound like ideal material for a new musical. But London Road - the street where the...
The Case of the Unsatisfying Female Cops
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There's no shortage of interesting male detectives on TV, yet the women are either grim or fluffy, says Ben Walsh Morse, Columbo, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Taggart, Rockford, Magnum, Frost... monikers etched into every murder-mystery enthusiasts' psyche....
The End of an Era
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Fashion Gentle maverick Tao Kurihara's autumn collection will be the last under her own name. She explains her change of direction to Susannah Frankel For those who worship at the altar of the Comme des Garons fashion empire and all that the name enfolds,...
The Sweet Smell of Success
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Start the week... Happy Monday. Some people, I know, will be looking forward to the Easter break already; but not you. You are focused, driven, snatching only a few moments away from the graft- success interface to read this. So here is some topical...
'This Is a Referendum on the Voting System. Not on Nick Clegg'
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ED MILIBAND WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR 'THE INDEPENDENT' 'Voters must look beyond personality or party' The nationwide referendum taking place on 5 May - the first for 36 years - is our chance to change politics for the better. Like most political contests,...
This Referendum Is a Tricky One for Miliband
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Analysis The "gay wedding" joint press conference in the Downing Street garden seems a long time ago. Yesterday David Cameron and Nick Clegg appeared on different television programmes to set out their opposing views on the electoral system. Today the...
This Vote Is Too Important to Be Distorted by Party Politics
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Leading Articles AV referendum A few weeks ago, there were fears that the referendum on electoral reform would come and go without anyone except the cognoscenti on either side really noticing. Such was the apparent public apathy towards a change in the...
Toure Provides Catalyst Which May Turn Costly Experiment into Success
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If this really is the City breakthrough, and certainly there is some evidence to go along with, they need not worry too much about the large irony that is at its heart.This is that at a time so discouraging their manager, Roberto Mancini, cast them as...
Toure Shows the Necessary Belief to Get Success from Costly Experiment
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If this really is the City breakthrough, and certainly there is some evidence to go along with, they need not worry too much about the large irony that is at its heart.This is that at a time so discouraging their manager, Roberto Mancini, cast them as...
Trial by Film-Maker Is Sarkozy's Next Ordeal
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And now "Sarko, the movie". Or even two movies. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is sometimes accused in France of being "uncultured" (ie vulgar), has become a great and knowledgeable fan of classic European cinema. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, in an attempt to...
Weekend Leaves Cecil Frankly Dominating the Classic Picture
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The pieces of the Classic jigsaw are starting to fit into place, so smoothly and with coincidences enough that even a cynical observer might start to believe in predestination. The Henry Cecil- trained Frankel is a hotter favourite than ever for the...
When My Time Comes, I Want to Be Allowed Help to Die
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Assisted suicide Ten days ago I fell when rushing into a tube station and injured my knee. It's been slow walking and climbing, a lot of stumbling, and only showers since then. At the weekend I thought I would try a long, deep bath. Tried to get up,...
Why Designers Love to Dress Pop Music's Leading Ladies
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Ready to wear It's official. Music's leading ladies are the new cover stars - knocking any actor/model/First Lady off the front of US Vogue, probably the world's most influential glossy magazine, not one, but two months running. In March (the "power"...
Written Works of Art
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Authors and designers are coming together to turn novels into precious artefacts. Arifa Akbar handles with care The way in which medieval readers regarded their books might best be compared, in today's terms, to the way in which the super-rich relate...
