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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 17, 2012
A Heroic Response
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Tourette's Syndrome means that Jess Thom is at the mercy of unpredictable verbal tics. But she has used humour to help fight back - and to educate others. Laura Page meets her When Jess Thom had to get off the Tube early due to a station flooding she...
A Land of Beaches, Bentleys ... and Bankers Galore
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CAYMANS LIFE Bentleys, yachts and award-winning seafood restaurants are all well known to the residents of the three islands that make up the Cayman archipelago. But mention the islands' tax status and they're likely to clam up.The Caymans, which are...
Alves Says 'Fear' Cost Chelsea 09 Final Spot
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Barca man claims lack of ambition, not referee, hurt Blues in infamous semi FOOTBALL Fear cost Chelsea their place in the 2009 Champions League final, not the Norwegian referee, Tom Henning Ovrebo, according to Barcelona's Dani Alves.As Chelsea look...
Arsenal Find They Can't Beat the System, When It's an Athletic 3-4- 3
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Not many teams will play at the Emirates like this. Trusting their players and their novel system, confidence with and without the ball, and utterly free of the drop-dread fear which afflicts their rivals, Wigan Athletic played stirring football. It...
A Self-Defeating Sanction for Truancy
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LEADING ARTICLE Docking a family's child benefit if children do not attend school is a bad idea. Which is not to deny that truancy is a problem. Some 54 million days of school were missed last year, up on the year before. Almost half a million pupils...
Asian Officer Wins Pounds 840,000 Compensation
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Cleveland Police forced to make payout for racism that blighted traffic officer's career Considering his ordeal over the past 17 years, Sultan Alam has surprising advice for a young Asian man or woman considering joining the police: "Do it. But do so...
Assad Launches Fresh Military Offensive as UN Monitors Arrive in Syria
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Ceasefire in tatters with fresh shelling of Homs on the day Kofi Annan's observers start work A United Nations peacekeeping mission to Syria risked descending into farce yesterday as Bashar al-Assad's army continued its unrelenting shelling of Homs and...
A Streetcar Named Desire Theatre Royal, Glasgow *****
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A fragile woman flutters around a bare lightbulb. Tennessee Williams almost called his 1947 play The Moth and it's an image that recurs throughout Scottish Ballet's heartbreakingly beautiful adaptation. Ashley Page, the company's departing artistic director,...
A Taxi Driver's Romantic Playlist Makes for a Quite Awkward Journey
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LIFE ON MARSDEN Without wishing to make gross generalisations about the listening habits of British taxi drivers, minicab journey soundtracks tend to consist of live football commentary, or local radio stations featuring angry phone-ins about how unfair...
Bale of Barca? He Fits the Bill, Believes Alves
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The Premier League player who is most like Dani Alves is Gareth Bale - at least that was the opinion formed within Barcelona after the Tottenham man's destruction of Internazionale's Brazilian wing- back, Maicon, last season. "He is a player I love to...
Bale of Barca? He Fits the Bill, Believes Alves
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The Premier League player who is most like Dani Alves is Gareth Bale - at least that was the opinion formed within Barcelona after the Tottenham man's destruction of Internazionale's Brazilian wing- back, Maicon, last season. "He is a player I love to...
Barclays Must Take More Heed of the Taxpayers on the Clapham Omnibus
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OUTLOOK Barclays' corporate symbol is the blue eagle. Right now the bank looks more like a rabbit, blinking in the headlights. Its American chief executive, Bob Diamond, is sick and tired of the media giving him a hard time about his pay and has taken...
Beastly Things by Donna Leon Heinemann, Pounds 17.99
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Iwent off Donna Leon several books ago - not enough plot, too much pasta, too much family stuff, above all, an excess of the tiresomely perfect Signorina Elettra, paragon of the Venetian cop- shop. But this is a return to form. Commissario Brunetti exerts...
Bridge
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As the play unfolded on today's hand, declarer was grateful for the knowledge that West held a six-card heart suit.After West had opened the bidding with a weak Two Hearts, North doubled, after which the North-South partnership wound its way to Six Spades,...
Bust-Up over World Bank as New Head Is Named
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Rapping Michael Jackson impersonator offers a break with tradition - but not everyone is happy Surprise! The man who will become the next president of the World Bank is an American - to the increasing irritation of developing nations, it is always an...
Change to the Independent's Cover Price
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Letter from the Editor Dear Reader, For almost four years, The Independent has not raised its price. During that period, we have faced intense financial pressures. Inflation has been high and the recession severe and prolonged. Newsprint, transportation...
Chelsea Veterans Happy with Underdog Tag
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Lampard and Drogba talk up the Blues' chances of overcoming Barcelona in Champions League tie Roberto Di Matteo's rejuvenated Chelsea roll forward to their next great challenge tomorrow night. Since taking charge, their caretaker manager Di Matteo has...
Chelsea Veterans Happy with Underdog Tag
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Lampard and Drogba talk up the Blues' chances of overcoming Barcelona in Champions League tie Roberto Di Matteo's rejuvenated Chelsea roll forward to their next great challenge tomorrow night. Since taking charge, their caretaker manager Di Matteo has...
Chess
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Tomsk-400 are the winners of the 19th Russian Team Championship by a narrow margin after things went their way in a fierce final round on Sunday.Tomsk (Sergey Karjakin, Ruslan Ponomariov...) defeated Polytechnic Nizhny Tagil (led by Dmitry Kokarev) 4-2...
Dazzling Start Dimmed by Bahrain Cloud
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FORMULA ONE With three different winning drivers and marques, the 2012 Formula One season could scarcely have got off to a better start. Jenson Button won for McLaren in Australia; Fernando Alonso won for Ferrari in Malaysia; Nico Rosberg won for Mercedes...
Did That Ball Go in? the Hows and the Whys of Technology on the Goal- Line
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After Mata's 'goal' on Sunday, few doubt the need for it. But with chip or camera? When? Where? Sam Wallace gives a few answers QWhy are we still waiting for goal-line video technology?AThe Football Association has been pushing for it with Fifa for the...
Did That Ball Go in? the Hows and the Whys of Technology on the Goal- Line
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After Mata's 'goal' on Sunday, few doubt the need for it. But with chip or camera? When? Where? Sam Wallace gives a few answers QWhy are we still waiting for goal-line video technology?AThe Football Association has been pushing for it with Fifa for the...
Dirty Tricks? Magicians Resort to Legal Action to Protect Secrets of Their Craft
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Penn & Teller accuse rival of threatening to make public their professional secrets Two magicians at crossed wands are heading to court over the rights to an illusion and the very principle of the secrecy of magic.Raymond Teller, one half of the hugely...
Don't Miss the Bus: Paris from Pounds 2.30 (but It Takes Half a Day)
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New Megabus service is cheaper than paying for a latte on a cross- Channel ferry if you book early A new front has opened in the battle for the most recession- proof method of travel. Hostilities broke out at 5am yesterday when the maiden international...
Facebook Benefits from Higher Ad Rates Ahead of IPO
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Sharp rise in volumes and rates should boost the social networking giant's forecast revenues Facebook's advertising rates have shot up 41 per cent on a year ago, an authoritative new survey suggests, boosting hopes for the social networking website's...
'Fear' Cost Chelsea in 2009 Semi, Says Alves
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Barca man claims lack of ambition, not referee, hurt Blues in infamous game FOOTBALL Fear was the decisive factor that prevented Chelsea reaching the 2009 Champions League final, not the Norwegian referee, Tom Henning Ovrebo, according to Barcelona's...
'Fear' Cost Chelsea in 2009 Semi, Says Alves
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Barca man claims lack of ambition, not referee, hurt Blues in infamous game FOOTBALL Fear was the decisive factor that prevented Chelsea reaching the 2009 Champions League final, not the Norwegian referee, Tom Henning Ovrebo, according to Barcelona's...
Fracking for Gas Allowed in UK despite Earthquakes
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Panel of scientists recommends mining process continues, but with tight guidelines Fracking, the controversial natural gas extraction technique which sometimes causes earthquakes, can go ahead in Britain - but only with tight restrictions on the process,...
GDF Pays Pounds 6.4bn for Full Control of Int'l Power
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GDF Suez has finally agreed on a deal to scoop up the 30 per cent of the UK energy provider International Power that it does not already own - but only after the French utility raised its offer by 7 per cent to 6.4bn.In a clear victory for International...
Hello! Great to See You! or It Would Be If You Weren't Up There on a Screen
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Notebook Strange that Nicolas Sarkozy, keen to show himself to the French electorate in grand presidential mode, should invite a camera crew to film him at such an awkward moment.Last week, ahead of the first round of voting in the election this Sunday,...
Helpful Tips If You Want to Avoid Spring-Cleaning the House
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If you ask me If you ask me, this month's issue of Not-OK! Magazine - my publication for women who would be into self-improvement, if only they could self-improve enough to give it a go - focuses on spring cleaning, as well as housekeeping generally,...
Her Bright Materials
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In Tate Britain, visitor assistants have been told to be on the look out for toddlers and small children approaching the gallery where artist Karla Black has just installed her sculpture, At Fault. Pink, blue, yellow and green powder is spread over the...
International Conductors' Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation Royal Festival Hall, London ***
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A showcase for three young conductors, a malfunction at the printers, and for the first time in my experience, no programmes for the audience and the prospect of blind-tasting the talents on show. Now there's a thought - no names revealed, no information...
It's a Myth That the Rich Profit from Donating to Charity
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Tax When the Church of England accuses the Government of "carpet- bombing" England's historic places of worship, there are only two possibilities. Either our warplanes have been misdirected, in which case heads must definitely roll at the Ministry of...
It's as If He'd Never Been Away ... PM Back as Charity Tax Row Rumbles On
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Labour surges to biggest poll lead since election while new Coalition split on 'green deal' emerges An attempt by ministers to end the war of words over their plan to curb tax relief on charitable donations failed yesterday when charities rejected their...
Kirwan and Lam on Sale's Coach Hitlist
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RUGBY UNION Bryan Redpath, the Gloucester head coach who has been heavily linked with an imminent move to Sale, will find his every move monitored when the two clubs meet at Kingsholm this weekend for a squabble over Heineken Cup qualification. He is...
Kirwan and Lam on Sale's Coach Hitlist
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RUGBY UNION Bryan Redpath, the Gloucester head coach who has been heavily linked with an imminent move to Sale, will find his every move monitored when the two clubs meet at Kingsholm this weekend for a squabble over Heineken Cup qualification. He is...
Kirwan and Lam on Sale's Coach Hitlist
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RUGBY UNION Bryan Redpath, the Gloucester head coach who has been heavily linked with an imminent move to Sale, will find his every move monitored when the two clubs meet at Kingsholm this weekend for a squabble over Heineken Cup qualification. He is...
Larry Ellison Chief Executive, Oracle
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SPOTLIGHT ON ... He of the vast riches?Only Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are higher than him on the list of wealthiest Americans, thanks to his estimated $36bn (23bn) pile. It's 35 years since he founded Oracle, and it has moved well beyond database...
Last Night's Viewing
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I got a bit worried about The 70s when Dominic Sandbrook started talking about that period "shattering the cosy post-war consensus". What cosy post-war consensus would that have been then? The one that united the entire country behind the government...
London Book Fair Interrupted by Protest at China's Rights Abuses
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Beneath the lavish pavilion devoted to the Chinese publishing at the London Book Fair, Dame Margaret Drabble is discussing the super- power's cultural heritage to approving nods from Beijing officials.But in a corner of the Earls Court venue, a vocal...
Maersk McKinney Moller
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Owner of the world's largest container-shipping company Maersk McKinney Moller, the Danish shipowner, was the world's greatest shipping magnate since Agamemnon. Greater than Henry the Navigator, greater than the founders of the world liner trades in...
Man Suspected of Three Paris Shootings Arrested
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A 33-year-old man suspected of committing at least three random killings in the south Paris suburbs was placed under formal investigation for murder last night.The man, described by his lawyer as "fragile" and "chaotic", was arrested on Saturday. The...
Met Chief 'Must Investigate Dirty Tricks Played on His Predecessor'
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MPs denounce alleged campaign to hound former commissioner Ian Blair out of office The head of the Metropolitan Police will today be challenged by MPs to investigate claims of a secret campaign inside Scotland Yard to hound one of his predecessors out...
Michael Peterson
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Surfer whose glittering career was ended by his troubled life Known as "MP" among the surfing fraternity, Michael Peterson dominated Australian surfing in the early 1970s. But although he was regarded as the best in the world by his peers, his domination...
Moses Pulls Strings to Give Wigan Mighty Lift
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ARSENAL 1 Vermaelen 21 WIGANATHLETIC 2 Di Santo 7, Gomez 8 Most top managers can wait a lifetime to beat Manchester United and Arsenal in the space of six days, Roberto Martinez has done it with a team that has been bottom of the Premier League for much...
Moses Pulls the Strings to Give Wigan a Mighty Lift
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ARSENAL 1 Vermaelen 21 WIGAN ATHLETIC 2 Di Santo 7, Gomez 8 There are many great managers who wait a lifetime to beat Manchester United and Arsenal in the course of one league season: Roberto Martinez has done it in the space of six days with a team...
MPs' Heads Would Roll. So Why Is It Different in the Lords?
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COMMENT When the Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith were revealed to have taken cash from the former Harrods owner Mohamed Al- Fayed to ask questions in the House of Commons it caused a public outcry.Hamilton lost his seat to the TV journalist-turned-sleaze...
Nadal 'Scared' about Future as Knee Injury Takes Its Toll
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TENNIS Rafael Nadal is used to coming here with question marks over his future, but as he prepared to begin his quest for an eighth successive Monte Carlo Masters title, even the king of clay admitted yesterday to being "a little bit scared".Nadal, the...
New Book 'Exposes Links between Murdoch, Politicians and Police'
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A new book which promises to expose the connections between Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group and senior politicians and police officers is to be published this week.Dial M for Murdoch, by the Labour MP Tom Watson and The Independent journalist...
Norway's Dignity in Dealing with Its Worst Killer Will Heal the Wounds of His Atrocities
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COMMENT Would the British political establishment have been able to resist demands for the restoration of the death penalty if such a horrifying massacre had taken place here? Support for capital punishment remains largely passive, but widespread; it...
Obama Calls for Inquiry into Vice Claims against Secret Service
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Eleven elite agents allegedly brought prostitutes to their hotel ahead of summit The US Secret Service was yesterday stepping up its investigation into claims that agents dispatched to Colombia ahead of a weekend summit consorted with prostitutes, after...
Palestinian Inmates in Israeli Jails Start Mass Hunger Strike Today
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Prisoners hope to draw attention to solitary confinement and detention without charge More than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners will today launch a mass hunger strike in protest at Israel's controversial administrative detention laws that allow it to hold...
Parker Says Even Redknapp Might Be Losing Faith
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Scott Parker has admitted that Tottenham will have "failed" if they do not qualify for next season's Champions League, and suggested that their manager, Harry Redknapp, might have lost some faith in the players.Spurs' collapsing form, which has seen...
Parker Says Even Redknapp Might Be Losing Faith
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Scott Parker has admitted that Tottenham will have "failed" if they do not qualify for next season's Champions League, and suggested that their manager, Harry Redknapp, might have lost some faith in the players.Spurs' collapsing form, which has seen...
Paul Merton: Out of My Head Richmond Theatre **
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A leading light in British comedy and one of the most-proven funnymen on the planet, Paul Merton is back with his first UK solo tour since 1999, but Out of My Head is far from the quality you might expect, being weak virtually from start to finish.A...
Politician's Wife 'Killed Briton to Keep Her Financial Affairs Secret'
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The British businessman Neil Heywood, whose death has sparked political upheaval in China, was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a leading politician's wife to move money abroad, it was claimed yesterday.The allegations, which follow an...
Punters Are Paying the Price for TV's Business Interests
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STEVE BUNCE ON BOXING George Foreman pursued Muhammad Ali through the courts, in the press and tried for years to get a rematch of their "Rumble in the Jungle" fight.Big George finally gave up and went into retirement without the chance of revenge in...
Punters Are Paying the Price for TV's Business Interests
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STEVE BUNCE ON BOXING George Foreman pursued Muhammad Ali through the courts, in the press and tried for years to get a rematch of their "Rumble in the Jungle" fight.Big George finally gave up and went into retirement without the chance of revenge in...
Punters Are Paying the Price for TV's Business Interests
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STEVE BUNCE ON BOXING George Foreman pursued Muhammad Ali through the courts, in the press and tried for years to get a rematch of their "Rumble in the Jungle" fight.Big George finally gave up and went into retirement without the chance of revenge in...
Revealed: The Peer Paid to Lobby for Island Tax Haven
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The Tory peer and his work on the payroll of palm-fringed tax haven A former Conservative minister with close links to the Government is sitting as a peer in the House of Lords while simultaneously lobbying on behalf of a Caribbean tax haven.Lord Blencathra,...
Robben and Ribery the Main Threats to Real's Ambition
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As if reaching a European Cup final in their own stadium were not motivation enough, Bayern Munich will have countless reasons to want to end Real Madrid's European adventure at the Allianz Arena tonight.Bad feeling that runs back through 18 meetings...
Robben and Ribery the Main Threats to Real's Ambition
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As if reaching a European Cup final in their own stadium were not motivation enough, Bayern Munich appear to have countless reasons to want to end Real Madrid's European adventure at the Allianz Arena tonight.Bad feeling that runs back through 18 meetings...
Rockets? Sanctions? Nothing Can Stop Pyongyang's Party
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Pictures of the day As the orchestrated mass celebrations commemorating the centenary of the birth of its "Eternal Supreme Leader" Kim Il-Sung drew to a close, North Korea's latest abortive rocket launch was met with opprobrium from the UN Security Council...
Ronaldo's Road from Posturing Prodigy to Real Rival for Messi
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There are many ways of measuring the progress of Cristiano Ronaldo from supreme young narcissist in a game designed for teams into one half of arguably the most dazzling duel that football has ever seen.One of the more profitable ways, however, is contained...
Spanish Bond Yields Breach 6 per Cent as Investor Fears of a Bailout Intensify
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Panicking investors sent Spain's cost of borrowing above 6 per cent yesterday, pushing the country closer towards a bailout. The yield on 10-year Spanish bonds rose to 6.15 per cent in trading yesterday morning as the country's Finance Minister, Luis...
Sparkling Show Proves This Urban Legend Is Far from over the Hill
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"It's been a long time coming," says Ms. Lauryn Hill, as she appears on the IndigO2 stage the sold-out crowd. "We cut through so we can get back to doing it the way it should be done." This sounds like a veiled apology for the past decade, where her...
The 'Anti-Politics' Vote Won't Do People Any Good
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Rise of 'independents' George Galloway takes his seat in the House of Commons. Ukip's leader, Nigel Farage, strides around the political stage with renewed swagger, hinting at defections from the Conservative party. An independent candidate in London's...
The Independent's 30 Gold Stars for 2012
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Tomorrow there will be 100 days to go to the Olympics. To celebrate, Robin Scott-Elliot and Simon Turnbull count down Britain's 30 best gold-medal chances. Today, 20-11 PART 2 OF 3 20 Victoria PendletonCyclingQueen Victoria, as Hugh Porter, the BBC's...
The Iron Lady Takes Centre Stage Once Again
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"As a portrait of Thatcherism... it feels about as reliable as an MP's expenses claim." The Independent's Anthony Quinn's verdict on The Iron Lady summed up the general sense of antipathy towards a film that hardly brushed Margaret Thatcher's seismic...
The Lure of Diamonds
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After some extraordinary zig-zagging in the gems' price, KKR may make a major investment in their prospects by creating the world's third biggest producer, reports Tom Bawden The world's third biggest diamond producer could be heading for a listing on...
The Recess Was over - and the Commons Returned with a Roar
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YESTERDAY IN PARLIAMENT SIMON CARR'S SKETCH Education questions proceeded in an unusually depressing way. What a picture this occasion creates of the country's children - illiterate, innumerate, and more often than not pregnant. It's the lack of Personal...
The Smile That Came Back from the Dead: Muamba Leaves Hospital
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A familiar broad smile - many would say a miraculous one - spread across the face of Fabrice Muamba yesterday as he was discharged from hospital, 30 days after suffering a severe and very public heart attack from which many feared he could never recover.It...
The Suburb Where Presidents Are Made
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In a leafy district of Paris, two privileged boys grew up - and formed very different political views. As Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande race for the Elysee Palace, John Lichfield visits Neuilly-sur-Seine If you drive due west from Paris, heading...
This Is No Way to Get Children into School
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Truancy It sounds so simple, doesn't it? We've got a problem: truanting kids. So here's a solution: fine the parents. And just to make it simpler still, if the parents don't pay their fine, why not deduct it from their child benefit? That'll teach them,...
Time to Tame Our Four-Legged Fiends
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IN DEPTH The Dangerous Dogs Act was supposed to take 'devil' breeds off British streets. Instead, the problem they pose is worse than ever. Alan Selby and Kevin Rawlinson investigate Abbie Varrow was happily jumping up and down on her friend's trampoline...
Unrepentant and Shameless, Breivik Faces Justice at Last
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Self-proclaimed 'Knight Templar' pleads not guilty to murder of 77 people - saying it was self-defence There was only one, dramatic moment when Anders Behring Breivik seemed to crack yesterday. Dressed in a dark blue suit, beige silk tie and wearing...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
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Dear Virginia, I'm fairly well-off and people tell me I look good for my age - I'm 50. I'm divorced with a wonderful daughter, but though I do a lot for other people, no one seems to want to know me. I just can't get a girlfriend. I'm fine with short-term...
Vodafone and GSK - My Twin Choices for an Equitable Return
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INVESTMENT VIEW VODAFONE PRICE: 170p OUR VIEW: BUYGLAXOSMITHKLINEPRICE: 1,427.5p OUR VIEW: BUYCan equity markets remain at their current levels or is there another nasty squall bubbling on the horizon?Well, if you put 10 professionals in a room together...
Vote Iggle Piggle, the True-Blue Tory Leader
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The DIARY There was time eight years ago when Boris Johnson's eventful political career seemed to be over almost as soon it began, when he was sacked from the Conservative front bench for lying about his love life. While married to one woman, he had...
Ways for Us Big Kids to Enjoy the Great Outdoors
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The Way We Live Has someone been putting Benzedrine in the tea at the National Trust's headquarters? Hardly a week goes by without that once-staid organisation coming up with another headline-grabbing protest, survey or campaign. Responding to the growing...
'We Lost Our Pete - We Don't Want to Lose the National Too'
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RACING As settles the emotional dust raised by Saturday's dramatic and traumatic Grand National, and begins a reasoned debate over the direction the historic sporting contest must take - starting with a meeting next week between the British Horseracing...
'We Lost Our Pete - We Don't Want to Lose the National Too'
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RACING As settles the emotional dust raised by Saturday's dramatic and traumatic Grand National, and begins a reasoned debate over the direction the historic sporting contest must take - starting with a meeting next week between the British Horseracing...
'We Lost Our Pete - We Don't Want to Lose the National Too'
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RACING As settles the emotional dust raised by Saturday's dramatic and traumatic Grand National, and begins a reasoned debate over the direction the historic sporting contest must take - starting with a meeting next week between the British Horseracing...
We Must Not Forget Hundreds Still in Belarus Gulag, Warns Freed Dissident
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Democracy activist released by 'last dictator in Europe' tells of life as a political prisoner in camp One of Belarus's most prominent political prisoners has for the first time described conditions in the notorious gulag prison camps where hundreds...
We've Got a Taste for Trophies, Says Johnson
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The Liverpool defender Glen Johnson has stressed he and his team- mates must remain focused on their league form despite an FA Cup final meeting with Chelsea looming.Liverpool have the chance to complete a domestic cup double, which would be their second...
What's the Problem - a Lack of Vision, or George Osborne?
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COMMENT Conservative MPs are increasingly critical of David Cameron and his Downing Street operation, and Nick Clegg admitted in an interview with The Independent on Sunday that the Government is "in a rut". The Tories have slipped in the opinion polls....
What This Mysterious Death Says about China
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LEADING ARTICLE For a death that went almost unreported at the time, the fate of Neil Heywood, a British businessman based in China, is turning out to have far-reaching repercussions - for Chinese politics, for bilateral UK-China relations and, in the...
What to Say to Save a Life
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Convincing a potential suicide not to jump is a job for only the most skilled negotiators. Emily Jupp finds out how they do it "Let's keep going." "What do you mean?" "Go!" "You sure?" "Yeah ... yeah." The final, unmemorable lines from Thelma and Louise...
Who Dares Wins
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Barca's rampaging full-back Dani Alves tells Pete Jenson at the Nou Camp that attack is the best form of defence - and next best is hard work 'The riskiest thing you can do in football is not take any risks." It's one of Pep Guardiola's favourite mantras...
Who Dares Wins
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Barca's rampaging full-back Dani Alves tells Pete Jenson at the Nou Camp that attack is the best form of defence - and next best is hard work 'The riskiest thing you can do in football is not take any risks." It's one of Pep Guardiola's favourite mantras...
Wilshere 'Gutted' at Being Ruled out for the Rest of the Season
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The Football Association heard the news it was dreading last night as Arsne Wenger definitively ruled a "devastated" Jack Wilshere out of the European Championship. Wilshere has not played all season after ankle surgery."Jack Wilshere will not play again...
Would-Be Shoe Bomber Agrees to Testify in Return for Cut in Jail Term
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Landmark supergrass deal will see British terrorist give evidence in al-Qa'ida trial in US A would-be shoe bomber has become the first British terrorist to have his sentence cut after co-operating with prosecutors and agreeing to give evidence against...
You Won't Believe Your Eyes
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TECHNOLOGY Crowds at the Coachella music festival gasped at an appearance by the late Tupac Shakur. How did that happen? It's all thanks to stunning holograms created in the UK. Gillian Orr reports When Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg co-headlined California's...
Zimbabwe Troubles See Investors Dump Aquarius
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MARKET REPORT It would be fair to say that the City is not exactly comfortable with Aquarius Platinum's operations in Zimbabwe. Yesterday, for the second time in less than two months, investors were abandoning the mid-tier digger after being spooked...
