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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 29, 2011
250 Die in One Day as Twisters Rampage from Texas to Virginia
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SEARCH-AND-RESCUE teams were last night hunting for survivors beneath fallen masonry and tangled joists, power lines and fallen trees in towns and hamlets across seven states in the south-eastern US which were ravaged by the worst outbreak of tornadoes...
A Bookish Boom in Buenos Aires
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The week in books What would a bibliophile's heaven look like? I think I have the answer now. April in Buenos Aires, and a gentle autumn morning in the lush and leafy neighbourhood of Palermo. Stroll, under the spreading tipa trees that kiss leaves across...
Addicted to the Dividend Income at BAT
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Investment Column OUR VIEW: HOLDSHARE PRICE: 2611p (-20p)British American Tobacco's products have deadly health consequences for most of its long-term customers, but the world's second-largest quoted cigarette-maker gave investors several reasons to...
A Film Festival Finally Getting into Its Groove
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Tribeca celebrated its 10th birthday with a mix of stars, quirky programming and controversy. Sarah Hughes reports from New York New York's Tribeca Film Festival dares to be different. When it began in 2002, the popular belief was that America's newest...
A Gamble That Paid Off
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The Friday Essay The first legal betting shops had blacked-out windows and crackly 'blower' commentary. Fifty years on, they are glossy recession-busting businesses. But, says Stan Hey, veteran of the early days, the thrill is the same This may seem...
A Homecoming to Shifting Sands
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A PALACE IN THE OLD VILLAGE by Tahar Ben Jelloun, trans. Linda Coverdale Arcadia, Pounds 8.99, 165pp from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 It does not generally do to reveal the ending of a novel under review. But when the entire work concerns...
A Latino Rebel Becomes Our Man in Havana
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Benicio Del Toro has form when it comes to Cuba, having played Che Guevara. Now the brooding actor has chosen the country as the setting for his directing debut. Kaleem Aftab goes on set Benicio Del Toro is agitated. The Usual Suspects star is pacing...
A Masque Would Live in the Memory
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Years after the fact, what survives of these great royal occasions are the sideshows. What must have seemed, during the festivities, something to tickle the onlookers and fill a few hours between parties comes in time to seem the thing which lasts best.What...
America's Troubles Are a Problem for Us All - but Also a Useful Lesson
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Comment To repeat the clich, when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. While the fast-growing emerging markets have domestic engines of growth, they are still dependent on exports; and capital flows from... America. They have not "decoupled"...
And That's Not the End of the Palace's Headaches over Abbey Invitations
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THE SYRIAN ambassador to Britain was yesterday told he is no longer welcome at today's royal wedding as the row continued over invitations issued to diplomatic envoys of authoritarian regimes and countries convulsed by bloody crackdowns on pro-democracy...
A New Spin on Sri Lanka's Sporting Life
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CHINAMAN by Shehan Karunatilaka Jonathan Cape, Pounds 12.99, 395pp Pounds 11.69 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 In his 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody Allen plays a documentary-maker called Cliff Stern who is obsessed with Louis...
Anger over Inequalities Is Easily Exploited by Extremists
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Comment Yesterday's bombing of a cafe in Marrakech is a reminder that the "Arab Spring" will not solve the Middle East's problems overnight. Although the sight of pro-democracy protesters of all religions and backgrounds pouring on to the streets of...
An Obscurantist and Absurd Judgment
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Leading Articles Stem cells NO ONE SHOULD doubt the gravity of the ruling by one of the eight advocates general to the European Union's Court of Justice on the issue of stem cells. It looks set to kill off a fledgling bioscience discipline that could...
An Opportunity for Peace That Must Not Be Squandered
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Leading Articles Palestinians The Arab Spring has delivered yet another unexpected twist. Fatah and Hamas, the two warring factions of Palestinian politics, have agreed to a unity deal. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, claimed yesterday...
Asian Economy May Overheat, Warns the IMF
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RAPIDLY EXPANDING economies in Asia, such as China and India, are in danger of overheating, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday. Property bubbles, rising inflation and distorted economies still over-reliant on exports to the West are the...
A Sublime Second Wind
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LA rockers The Airborne Toxic Event have poured their hearts into their latest album, they tell Althea Legaspi In a hotel lobby in Austin, Texas, The Airborne Toxic Event (TATE) are ready for the first item on their busy day's agenda. Well, almost. Drummer...
Bahrain Sentences Four Men to Death for Killing Two Policemen
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A BAHRAINI national security court has sentenced four men to death for killing two police officers during the pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the authorities last month.The sentences are likely to deepen divisions between Bahrain's Shia majority,...
Beer, Faith and Freedom
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book of the week GK CHESTERTON: A BIOGRAPHY by Ian Ker Oxford, Pounds 35, 747pp Pounds 31.50 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 The sanctifying process that preserved so many early 20th- century literary figures in the popular imagination...
Buffett Dropped a Clanger When He Backed Sokol So Publicly
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OUTLOOK A month ago tomorrow, Warren Buffett, chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway and the world's most famous investor, issued a tersely worded statement. Mr Buffett announced the resignation of one of his most trusted lieutenants, David Sokol, as...
Business Diary
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Analysts hitch their wagon to weddingWe don't want to be royal wedding killjoys, but is Panmure Gordon's attempt to get in on today's fun pushing things just a little too far? Its patriotic analysts have put out a special edition of their regular notes...
Carnage at the Cafe: 10 Tourists among 15 Killed by Marrakech Bomb
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Briton thought to be among the dead after suspected suicide attack at height of lunchtime rush A BOMB tore through one of Morocco's best-known tourist spots yesterday, killing 15 people and injuring 20 others in an attack that carried the hallmarks of...
Caught in the Net
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The Reich stuffAs mentioned in this column some weeks back, there are many events taking place around the world this year to mark the 75th birthday of the US composer Steve Reich (below). Next weekend sees London's Barbican Centre celebrate the minimalist...
Chess
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Gata Kamsky clinched victory at the US Championship in St Louis, Missouri, on Wednesday, drawing the second game of the final against Yuri Shulman with ease, following the rather dry but still highly impressive win in game 1 on Tuesday (below).The final...
Chipmunk Musician
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MusicOn my iPod I've got a good variety - Adele, Lil Wayne, Trey Songz, Florence and the Machine, Jay-Z - even myself. Adele has just hurricaned - what I like about her music is there's not too much going on. It's just a beautiful voice. My cultural...
Classical
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Alexander Melnikov Wigmore Hall, London ***** Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues may be seldom performed, but they are one of the miracles of 20th-century pianism, and their genesis was suitably strange. The composer had been steeped in Bach's preludes...
'Come on in, It's All for Sale'
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Enterprising artists and savvy designers are setting up shop in their own homes, studios and even a family-run B&B to offer an informal setting for visitors to try before they buy. Jill Macnair reports For some brave entrepreneurs, home-working doesn't...
Couple Admit to Kidnap and Rape of Jaycee Dugard
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A COUPLE who snatched an 11-year-old girl and held her captive in their backyard for 18 years have admitted kidnap and rape and are expected to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in June 1991 as she left home in California...
Digital Digest
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THE BEST OF THE WEB FILMRomance by numbersWhat's Your Number? is a romantic comedy starring Anna Faris as a singleton who decides that in order to find "the one" she needs to revisit all of her ex-partners. Faris, whose previous films include, Scary...
DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews
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THE GREEN HORNET (12) Michel GondryDVD/Blu-ray (119mins)*The Green Hornet joins Hudson Hawk, Batman and Robin and The Avengers as one of the all-time, big-budget action duds. The one- note, one-expression Seth Rogen plays Britt, a spoiled playboy with...
Ed O'Loughlin Novelist
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One minute with... Where are you now and what can you see?I'm sitting at an Ikea table in my living-dining room in Dublin.What are you currently reading?'Voyages of Delusion' by Glyn Williams. It's about the disastrous 18th-century attempts to find the...
Erin Burnett CNBC News Anchor
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The business on... The Money Honey?Oh no. No, no, no. That's Maria Bartiromo, CNBC's other female star and the first woman to report from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Erin Burnett has been at the business channel only since 2005, but she...
Eurofighter Down to Last Two in Pounds 6.6bn India Race
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A FIGHTER aeroplane made by a European consortium that includes Britain's BAE Systems has reached the final shortlist of two contenders as India ponders where to award a 6.6bn contract for 126 aircraft.While there was no official statement from the Indian...
Excess and the Exorcist
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Edward St Aubyn has spent two decades writing acclaimed tragi- comic novels about the abusive, aristocratic Melrose family, modelled on his own. He talks to Arifa Akbar about bringing the saga to an end For those who have followed the Melrose family...
Fall in Lending to Small Firms Casts Further Doubt on Banks' Pledges
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BANK LENDING to small businesses fell in the first two months of this year - casting further doubt on the banks' pledges to increase credit made under the Government's Project Merlin agreement. New loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) fell to...
FICTIONS by Jorge-Luis Borges
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book of a lifetime When it came to settling on a single book, in the end it had to be Borges - and it had to be this one. Other books have had a powerful impact on me, but none marked a turning-point in my understanding of the world and the written word...
Foden: I've Learnt My Lesson from Taxi Trouble
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RUGBY UNION GLOUCESTER-SUPPORTING troglodytes in the Kingsholm Shed have long taken sardonic pleasure in arranging transport for visiting full- backs who find themselves in difficulty, but when the massed ranks of the Cherry and White chorus were heard...
Foden: I've Learnt My Lesson from Taxi Trouble
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RUGBY UNION GLOUCESTER-SUPPORTING troglodytes in the Kingsholm Shed have long taken sardonic pleasure in arranging transport for visiting full- backs who find themselves in difficulty, but when the massed ranks of the Cherry and White chorus were heard...
Foden: I've Learnt My Lesson from Taxi Trouble
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RUGBY UNION GLOUCESTER-SUPPORTING troglodytes in the Kingsholm Shed have long taken sardonic pleasure in arranging transport for visiting full- backs who find themselves in difficulty, but when the massed ranks of the Cherry and White chorus were heard...
Fresh Blow for Global Economy as US Slows
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Consumer spending hit by rapid rise in inflation and a stagnant jobs market SLUMPING GOVERNMENT spending, weaker exports and renewed caution on the part of consumers conspired to slow economic growth in the US in the first three months of 2011.The world's...
Glory in the Splendour That Is the Month of May
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Nature Studies Writing about the natural world is of necessity seasonal. Social Studies, say, or Economic Studies need make no reference to the time of year, but when your theme is Nature you can scarcely avoid it. And having now written 51 weekly examples...
Going Up, Going Up, Going Up
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Football One Saturday morning, almost exactly 15 years ago, my son and I took a coach ride from west London to Birmingham. The in-coach entertainment was the comedy film Dumb and Dumber, but the mood on the bus was not festive. We were football fans,...
High Street Ken's Diary
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Queen Jane's royal returnI'm sure I speak for men of a certain age across much of Middle England when I say a warm "welcome home" to the returning English Rose and fourth best Bond Girl Jane Seymour. The California-based actress is back in Blighty working...
IAN MCCULLOCH Echo & the Bunnymen
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my fantasy band VocalsFrank SinatraIt's got to be Frank, you can put him with anything or anyone. He was the best singer ever, by a million miles. I've often said that I was, but I suppose Frank could even have sung "The Killing Moon". Elvis, I guess,...
'I'm Selling a Flat That I Have Been Renting out. Do I Owe Any Tax?'
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HOUSE DOCTOR Question: My fianc and I have lived together for more than two years and plan to marry next year. Having moved into his house, I plan to sell my old flat which I've let out for nearly two years. I've had a decent 240,000 offer but am wary...
Is 'Calm Down, Dear' Really So Offensive?
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The PM's rebuke to Labour's Angela Eagle sparked snorts of laughter from his colleagues - and howls of derision from the Opposition. Here, we weigh up both sides of the argument YESBy Harriet WalkerTo be offended by David Cameron's gaffe is to be offended...
Israel Calls Palestinian Deal a 'Fatal Mistake'
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ISRAELI PRESIDENT Shimon Peres yesterday described a long- awaited reconciliation deal between two Palestinian factions as a "fatal mistake" that will destroy any hopes of establishing an independent Palestinian state.A day after Fatah, the party that...
It's All Your Fault, Cult Author Tells His Fans as Latest Book Arrives Five Years Late
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THE AMERICAN fantasy author George R R Martin has sold millions of books worldwide, and his fame has heightened with Game of Thrones, the glossy US TV series starring Sean Bean, based on his mythical creations.However for the past six years Martin has...
'I Worry about Getting Old. I Want to Go on until I'm 50'
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Frankie Dettori has plenty of causes for concern - the passage of time, young rivals, Arsenal's recent implosion - but for now he's focused on tomorrow's 2,000 Guineas The Brian Viner Interview In a function room at Newmarket racecourse, some of the...
Johnston Signs Up for Butler's Raid on American Prize Money
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IN A departure that dovetails the willingness of both men to experiment, Mark Johnston yesterday revealed that he is sending a horse to be trained by Gerard Butler when his rival opens a satellite stable in North America next week. Butler, who is flying...
Johnston Signs Up for Butler's Raid on American Prize Money
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IN A departure that dovetails the willingness of both men to experiment, Mark Johnston yesterday revealed that he is sending a horse to be trained by Gerard Butler when his rival opens a satellite stable in North America next week. Butler, who is flying...
Johnston Signs Up for Butler's Raid on American Prize Money
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IN A departure that dovetails the willingness of both men to experiment, Mark Johnston yesterday revealed that he is sending a horse to be trained by Gerard Butler when his rival opens a satellite stable in North America next week. Butler, who is flying...
Kervezee Offers Promise of Shock Worcester Win
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WORCESTERSHIRE 315 & 256-5 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 382 ALEXEI KERVEZEES first full season in Championship cricket yielded 1,190 runs, which confirmed Worcestershire's estimation that they had "a very accomplished young talent" on their hands when they signed...
Kervezee Offers Promise of Shock Worcester Win
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WORCESTERSHIRE 315 & 256-5 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 382 ALEXEI KERVEZEES first full season in Championship cricket yielded 1,190 runs, which confirmed Worcestershire's estimation that they had "a very accomplished young talent" on their hands when they signed...
Kervezee Offers Promise of Shock Worcester Win
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WORCESTERSHIRE 315 & 256-5 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 382 ALEXEI KERVEZEES first full season in Championship cricket yielded 1,190 runs, which confirmed Worcestershire's estimation that they had "a very accomplished young talent" on their hands when they signed...
Laughs with Ladies Living on the Edge
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THEATRE 5@50 Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester **** As the action gets underway in Brad Fraser's foray into the lives and longings of modern middle-aged womanhood you find yourself thinking - or at least hoping - that being 50 could be a lot of fun....
Leave It to Bieber to Divert Us from Royals
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BTW... Had enough of the royal wedding? Worried about all the more important issues being kept off the front pages? Fear not, for I have kept track on your behalf, and have this to impart. Fans of oral hygiene and Justin Bieber (99 per cent of the population,...
Life Insurance in the Fast Lane
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films of the week CEDAR RAPIDS (15) 87 mins, Miguel Arteta Starring: Ed Helms, John C Reilly, Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche *** Comedy seldom comes as good-natured as Cedar Rapids, a fish-out- of-water story in which a Midwestern innocent discovers...
Light from a Daughter of Darkness
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THE CHILDREN OF LOVERS by Judy Golding Faber & Faber, Pounds 16.99, 251pp Pounds 15.29 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 There is renewed critical interest in novelist William Golding (1911-1993). Following the acclaim for John Carey's definitive...
London Comes to a Halt as Wedding Fever Goes Global
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UP TO two billion people around the world will watch today as a 29-year-old woman from Reading marries into the British Royal Family.Much of the UK is expected to grind to a halt as the nation enjoys another bank holiday, with many taking up position...
Mancini Eager to Avoid Summer Transfer Wrangle over Tevez
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City manager wants early indication of plans of striker whose future partly hangs on Champions League finish ROBERTO MANCINI said yesterday that he will not allow Carlos Tevez to embroil Manchester City in a drawn-out summer transfer saga which could...
Mancini Eager to Avoid Summer Transfer Wrangle over Tevez
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City manager wants early indication of plans of striker whose future partly hangs on Champions League finish ROBERTO MANCINI said yesterday that he will not allow Carlos Tevez to embroil Manchester City in a drawn-out summer transfer saga which could...
Mirror for the Beast in the Jungle
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THE DEVIL'S GARDEN by Edward Docx Picador, Pounds 12.99, 327pp Pounds 11.69 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 A biologist of uncertain provenance and mixed motives, Dr Forle and his non-native team studies the behaviour of a species of ant...
Mourinho Faces Ban for Barca Rant
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Uefa launches an investigation into semi-final trouble as fall- out also turns ugly 'It is impossible that a Barcelona manager would act in that way' JOSE MOURINHO was last night facing the possibility of a lengthy Champions League ban following his...
Mourinho Faces Ban for Barca Rant
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Uefa launches an investigation into semi-final trouble as fallout also turns ugly 'It is impossible that a Barcelona manager would act in that way' JOSE MOURINHO was last night facing the possibility of a lengthy Champions League ban following his comments...
Mourinho Faces Ban for Barca Rant
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Uefa launches an investigation into semi-final trouble as fallout also turns ugly 'It is impossible that a Barcelona manager would act in that way' JOSE MOURINHO was last night facing the possibility of a lengthy Champions League ban following his comments...
Mourinho Lit This Acrid Bonfire of the Vanities but Barca Added Fuel
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FOR ONCE it is too easy just to demonise Jose Mourinho. We can only do this if we ignore the fact that the execution squad which put football to a substantial death at the Bernabeu this week was hardly dressed exclusively in the white of his Real Madrid.Too...
Nawang Gombu
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Mountain guide who became the first man to climb Everest twice Nawang Gombu Sherpa was the youngest member of the 1953 expedition which made the first ascent of Mount Everest. He later reached the summit himself and subsequently became the first person...
New Realism Pervades Hamas-Fatah Negotiations
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Analysis Given that it is less than four years since the brief but savage civil war between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza, it may not be that surprising that only now do the two factions appear on the brink of reconciliation. It is not the first attempt, and...
New Releases
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BEASTIE BOYSHot Sauce Committee Part TwoCapitol**If Hot Sauce Committee Part Two has a slightly confusing, unfocused manner, that's hardly surprising. Originally scheduled for a 2009 release, the original Hot Sauce Committee was put on hold due to Adam...
New Tricks for Old Bricks
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An eco-refurbishment scheme has helped Maria Hawton-Mead convert her Victorian terrace into a green flagship - and prove that old homes can go low carbon too. As she tells Ruth Bloomfield To the casual observer Maria Hawton-Mead's pretty but unsensational...
Nice Day for a Revolution
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Society May Day celebrates the world's workers - and, in a time of economic unrest, it should also be a date to stand up and change the system, says David Harvey May Day is the occasion we celebrate the grand achievements of the workers of the world...
Observations
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In search of the last surviving cowboys BY GAIL TOLLEYThe cowboy may be alive and well on our cinema screens, but in the American West they're part of a dying way of life, one that's paid tribute to in a new documentary by the film-makers Lucien Castaing-Taylor...
Out of Syria's Darkness Come Tales of Terror
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Witnesses who fled across the Lebanon border tell Robert Fisk what they saw IN DAMASCUS, the posters - in their tens of thousands around the streets - read: "Anxious or calm, you must obey the law." But pictures of President Bashar al-Assad and his father...
Paperbacks
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BOB DYLAN BY GREIL MARCUS: WRITINGS 1968-2010 by Greil MarcusFaber & Faber 15.99 (491pp) 14.39 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030So here it is, the big one. America's top (or at any rate longest- lasting) rock critic on America's top (or at...
Peace in the Ruins of the Reich
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EXORCISING HITLER by Frederick Taylor Bloomsbury, Pounds 25, 438pp Pounds 22.50 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 When Germany was defeated on 8 May 1945 this was only the start of her troubles. After 12 years of National Socialism, during...
Phoebe Snow
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Singer and songwriter who gave up a successful career to care for her disabled daughter Best known in her native US for "Poetry Man", the jazz-tinged love song she wrote about an affair with a married man, Phoebe Snow possessed a formidable contralto...
Plymouth Airport Closure a Sign of Things to Come
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A SMALL, friendly and relaxed airport, easily accessible from the city: just what the British traveller does not need. The owners of Plymouth City airport have announced the loss-making facility will close by the end of the year, saying "there is no...
Poetry and Politics in the Scripture That Sowed Freedom
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THE BOOK OF BOOKS by Melvyn Bragg Hodder & Stoughton, Pounds 20, 370pp Pounds 18 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 Those who wish to banish religion from public life dismiss any enduring legacy of Christianity on the way we live or think...
Poker
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Even before the US Department of Justice's recent legal action, which has driven the world's largest online card rooms out of the US, there was evidence that the poker industry's decade of almost continuous expansion had come to an end.Statistics can...
Pop
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Timber Timbre ICA, London *** Timber Timbre have been described as folk, pop, rhythm and blues, and even doo-wop. However, at the ICA they were simply the deepest and most delightful shade of gothic dark.On tour following their recently released LP,...
PORTRAIT OF ANDREA QUARATESI C.1528-32 (411 X 292 Mm) Michelangelo Buonarroti British Museum, London
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great works Michelangelo was profoundly ill at ease with himself and the world. You can glimpse this heightened degree of psychological agitation by the way he so often treats his materials, wrenching and pulverising them, ever impossibly demanding....
Private Viewing
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MILLING AROUNDMill House, Stone Allerton, SomersetPrice: 865,000Agent: Knight FrankTel: 0117 317 1999They say: Fascinating conversion of a windmill which has been carefully renovated to include six bedrooms, a study and two bathrooms.We say: And a four-oven...
Pulis Has Final Hope for Etherington despite Confirmed Torn Hamstring
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TONY PULIS, the Stoke City manager, will give Matthew Etherington every chance to prove his fitness for the FA Cup final against Manchester City on 14 May but yesterday's diagnosis of a torn hamstring makes the winger's chances of appearing at Wembley...
Pulis Has Final Hope for Etherington despite Confirmed Torn Hamstring
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TONY PULIS, the Stoke City manager, will give Matthew Etherington every chance to prove his fitness for the FA Cup final against Manchester City on 14 May but yesterday's diagnosis of a torn hamstring makes the winger's chances of appearing at Wembley...
Putting on a Show: An Invaluable Advert for Brand Britain
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ECONOMIC LIFE It will, apparently, be the largest-ever television audience ever, with more than 2 billion people - one-third of the world's population - expected to watch at least part of today's royal wedding. If that proves right, it will be double...
Real Coach Pays Penalty for Refusing to Play Fair
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IF THEY were in school they would be made to sit apart until the end of term. Barcelona and Real Madrid bring out the worst in each other. Bara, anticipating the opposition's over-physical approach, exaggerate the theatrics. Madrid - and more specifically...
Rooney to Sue after Police Warn He May Have Been Phone-Hack Victim
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THE MANCHESTER United footballer Wayne Rooney is considering whether to join the list of celebrities suing the News of the World for alleged voicemail hacking after it was confirmed yesterday that his mobile phone numbers were obtained by the private...
Rwandan Wedding Guest Told to Stop Harassing Dissidents in UK
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MI5 HAS warned the Rwandan high commissioner to Britain to halt an alleged campaign of harassment against suspected critics of his country's government based in the UK.Ernest Rwamucyo, who is due to attend today's royal wedding as Rwanda's envoy to London,...
Screen Talk
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The life of RyanWhen Ryan Seacrest, reality TV tsar, American Idol presenter and radio-show host got involved with the production stable Relativity Media, the rest of Hollywood took note. Seacrest helped to broker a deal between Relativity, whose output...
Sky's the Limit with Lestrade on the Case
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SKETCH You don't want to hear anything unpleasant on this happy day, so I won't go far into Jeremy Hunt's answer about the Sky bid and phone hacking. He said his only legal concern about the bid was the plurality of the media. Really? Surely there's...
Sky Update Adds Pressure on Murdoch to Raise Offer
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BSKYB SHOWED once again yesterday why Rupert Murdoch covets the company so highly, as it added more customers and lifted profits despite a "challenging consumer environment".Mr Murdoch's News Corporation is waiting for Government approval to push ahead...
Streetwise Scenes from the Heart of the Capital
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VISUAL ARTS Hand-Drawn London Museum of London **** Maps lie. Or at least, the people who make maps lie. They use maps to show what they want to show, to say what they want to say. They make the Tube network less accurate but more navigable. They squeeze...
Takeover Gossip Keeps Ferrexpo on a Rich Seam
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Market Report AS RUMOURS continued to swirl that a bid approach could be around the corner, Ferrexpo maintained its advance up the mid-tier index last night after investors were told to bet on its long-term potential.The miner shifted forwards 25p to...
The Albums You Can Judge by Their Covers
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As Lady Gaga reveals tacky artwork for her new CD, Simon Hardeman cringes at 10 other violations of taste and sense Just when you thought album artwork didn't mean anything any more, Lady Gaga's fans are up in arms about the tacky and misguided cover...
Theatre
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Chekhov in Hell Soho Theatre, London ** Chekhov died of tuberculosis in the German spa of Badenweiler in 1904, aged 44, uttering the famous last words, "I haven't drunk champagne for ages." His coffin arrived in St Petersburg in a railway wagon labelled,...
The Bridal Path
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Elvis is in the building and he's serenading the happy couple. The cake's collapsing - and so is auntie Maud. It's always a big day, no matter how modest the budget, as these candid wedding photographs by Martin Parr reveal Martin Parr specialises in...
The Diary
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Slight riotsThe row between Take That and Plan B started at the Brits, when the latter accused the former of stealing his thunder by bringing on backing singers (above left) dressed as riot police ("They were just trying to copy me"). Now, James Cauty,...
The Fabrication of Famous Artists
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A few years ago, conservative readers and commentators were shocked to learn that many students cut and pasted extracts from the internet when composing essays. Those same members of the general public would presumably also have been shocked that Gian...
The Honeymoon Problem: Where in the World Can Happy Couple Go?
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The newlyweds' choice of destination will speak volumes about their diplomatic skills. Simon Calder explores the options ROYALTY IS another country: they do things differently there. The heir presumptive and his new wife are drinking at the last-chance...
The Stars Who Remain Off-Camera
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Notebook The death of John Sullivan last weekend passed without much comment away from the obituary pages, which seemed an oversight to me, not that the creator of Only Fools and Horses would have wanted any fuss. He was a softly spoken, gentle, rather...
