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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 November 5, 2010
Airmail Bomb Was 'Just 17 Minutes from Detonating'
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ONE OF the mail bombs sent from Yemen was defused just 17 minutes before it was due to explode, the interior minister of France said yesterday, as he warned of further attempts to carry out terrorist attacks.Brice Hortefeux did not specify whether the...
All Blacks Want Gear to Put England in Reverse
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ON THE face of it, Graham Henry was in high good humour as he named his New Zealand side for tomorrow's set-to with England at Twickenham, delivering his wisecracks with a rat-a-tat rhythm that Jackie Mason himself might have admired. "A lot of people...
America Is Now Officially for Sale
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US midterms The laws and policies of the legislature of the United States of America are now effectively on e-Bay, for sale to the highest bidder. Are you a Wall Street boss who wants to party like it's 2007? Are you a Big Coal baron who wants to burn,...
An Affecting but Somewhat Dodgy Dossier
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THEATRE Palace of the End Arcola Theatre, London *** This London premiere of Judith Thompson's award-winning triptych of monologues about Iraq could not be better timed, coming in the wake of Wikileaks revelations about the appalling scale of prisoner...
Ancelotti's Urbane Competence Mocks All Our Initial Doubts
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As the pressure begins to mount, Carlo Ancelotti might just break into a Fergie rant or a Wenger wobble or even say something hinting at one of the funny cigarettes some speculate Rafa Benitez has recently been inhaling.It seems increasingly unlikely,...
Ancelotti's Urbane Competence Mocks All Our Initial Doubts
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As the pressure begins to mount, Carlo Ancelotti might just break into a Fergie rant or a Wenger wobble or even say something hinting at one of the funny cigarettes some speculate Rafa Benitez has recently been inhaling.It seems increasingly unlikely,...
A Passion for Justice and a Race against Time
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THE CONFESSION by John Grisham Century, Pounds 18.99, 432pp Pounds 17.09 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 This is a book about which John Grisham clearly felt deeply - perhaps because he has recently become concerned about wrongful convictions,...
Are You Getting the Message?
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A new Open University course looks at the power of branding. Yvonne Cook reports In the UK, we have drinking water available on tap. Yet we spend our hard-earned cash buying two billion litres of bottled water every year. The way the food and drink industry...
A Stone That Rolls from Wales across the Universe
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THE PLANET IN A PEBBLE by Jan Zalasiewicz Oxford, Pounds 16.99, 234pp Pounds 15.29 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare." So laments Mr Ramsay in To the Lighthouse, whose author,...
Aux Armes across the Channel
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Entente cordiale A few concerns have been raised about plans for closer co- operation between the British and French armies. There have been quacks of alarm from traditionalists and little Englanders, fearful that the essential character of our soldiery...
Bale's Old Pal Warburton Gets Lead Role
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WHILE MOST of Gareth Bale's old school team-mates can only ponder the what-ifs, at least one has the opportunity to shine his own name across the world stage this weekend. The Wales coach, Warren Gatland, has handed Sam Warburton the task of not only...
Berlusconi Clings on despite New Sex Claims
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ITALYS TAWDRY political circus yesterday entered what many are hoping will be its final phase, as Silvio Berlusconi made a last- ditch attempt to prop up his administration ahead of the seemingly inevitable spring elections.The Italian premier sought...
Blood on the Tracks of a Wilder Wood
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THE TIGER by John Vaillant Sceptre, Pounds 16.99, 329pp Pounds 15.29 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 Like its majestic and terrifying subject, John Vaillant's book moves with subtlety and grace, commands a vast terrain - and has the power...
Bronze, the New Gold Standard
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Its tripartite structure and brown pallor might put off all but hardened art collectors, but that didn't stop this Matisse sculpture becoming the highlight of a record-breaking week for the New York art market.The work sold at Christie's on Wednesday...
BT Attacked over Pounds 3bn Pension Saving
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BT HAS SCORED a second significant victory for its pension fund in a month after it emerged that its deficit will be slashed by 3bn as a result of government reforms. Yet, trade union officials were dismayed, saying the overhaul would leave thousands...
Btw
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Australians are notoriously friendly chaps but there are limits. Matthew McLaughlin, a magistrate in Queensland, was hearing evidence in court from Thomas John Collins, and objected to Collins calling him "mate". Sorry, he said, you can't call me that....
Burmese Defector Reveals Truth about Junta's Nuclear Ambitions
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In his extraordinary first interview, on the eve of elections, a former major in the secretive regime tells of chaos at the core of the state's weapons programme. By Simen Saetre A senior missile scientist who defected from Burma after leaking secrets...
Business Diary
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Pacino moves into hedge fund worldLet's say this for the credit crisis: it has at least given Hollywood executives some new inspiration for movies. There have already been a string of films prompted by the crisis - not least the long-awaited follow-up...
Cameron's Business Backers Lobby against Immigration Cap
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SOME OF the companies whose bosses publicly endorsed the Coalition Government's deep public-spending cuts have been privately lobbying ministers to relax the proposed cap on immigration to the UK. Microsoft, Asda, BT and GlaxoSmithKline were among 35...
'Careful with Those Wrinkles,' Countryfile Presenter Was Told
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FORMER BBC presenter Miriam O'Reilly was warned "to be careful with those wrinkles when high definition comes in" nine months before she was dropped from Countryfile by the BBC, a tribunal heard yesterday. Ms O'Reilly, 53, is suing the broadcaster for...
Cash Prizes for the Best Teachers - as Chosen by the Pupils
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A NEW online lesson service will be able to stockpile lessons from any secondary school in the country - which can then be accessed by teachers and students anywhere.So far, seven schools have signed up for the scheme - including the private schools...
Catfish Collins
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Guitarist who laid down the rhythmic bedrock for James Brown, Parliament and Funkadelic The Godfather of Soul, the late James Brown, was a hard taskmaster, fining his musicians for every mistake they made on stage. In March 1970, when most of his band...
Caught in the Net
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Walk the online tribute to CashRecently I happened across a video being created for the title track of Johnny Cash's final studio album, Ain't No Grave, which was released posthumously this year. The video (below) is a collective effort at www.thejohnnycashproject....
Cecil's Guidance Lets Queally's 'Natural Talent' Reach Full Bloom under Cecil's Guidance
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THEY SAY it might snow here today, and Saeed bin Suroor is in raptures over the possibility. The Godolphin trainer, who returns to Dubai every winter, still regrets the time he just missed a snowfall in Toronto and that delightful smile of his was much...
Cecil's Guidance Lets Queally's 'Natural Talent' Reach Full Bloom under Cecil's Guidance
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THEY SAY it might snow here today, and Saeed bin Suroor is in raptures over the possibility. The Godolphin trainer, who returns to Dubai every winter, still regrets the time he just missed a snowfall in Toronto and that delightful smile of his was much...
Chelsea Expect Tight Tussle with Improving Reds
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AFTER MANCHESTER United won in Turkey to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League on Tuesday, Sir Alex Ferguson said he was pleased his team could now concentrate on the domestic challenge of catching Chelsea.The problem was 24 hours later...
Chelsea Expect Tight Tussle with Improving Reds
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AFTER MANCHESTER United won in Turkey to all but qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League on Tuesday, Sir Alex Ferguson said he was pleased his team could now concentrate on the domestic challenge of catching Chelsea.The problem was 24...
Chess
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Yesterday, we saw how Alexei Shirov demolished Sergei Tiviakov at the 2nd Unive Tournament in Hoogeveen, which was won by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ahead of Shirov himself.On Guy Fawkes Day, it's only appropriate that we continue with more fierce action...
Childhood's Greatest Hits
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Technology The digital revolution means instant access to music, games and videos. But have today's children lost out on the joy of owning real objects - or is virtual a virtue? By David Crookes While the trend today is to slap on a pair of 3D glasses...
City Regulators Attacked for Triggering 'Mortgage Famine'
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HOMEBUILDER Redrow yesterday launched a furious broadside against regulators accusing them of creating a "mortgage famine" on the same day that the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) urged the city watchdog to "think again" over tough new rules that its...
Clarke Comes under Fire amid Rumours of Split in Aussie Camp
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AUSTRALIA ARE in turmoil. The team have forgotten how to win, the dressing room is split, the future of the captaincy is the subject of heated debate and with only 20 days until the Ashes nobody can decide who their best bowlers are.It would almost be...
Clarke Comes under Fire amid Rumours of Split in Aussie Camp
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AUSTRALIA ARE in turmoil. The team have forgotten how to win, the dressing room is split, the future of the captaincy is the subject of heated debate and with only 20 days until the Ashes nobody can decide who their best bowlers are.It would almost be...
Could You Make an Eight-Letter Word out of F I D E T C A S H?
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This year's 'Countdown' star did - and gave the show a conundrum THREE CONSONANTS, three vowels, another three consonants. Thirty seconds. What can you get? "Shade" for five? "Shifted" for seven? Not bad, but there is an eight-letter word, as the predominantly...
Dance
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Emanuel Gat Dance Sadler's Wells, London ** With Winter Variations, Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat takes an earlier idea and stretches it to breaking point. This hour-long duet repeats themes from his earlier Winter Voyage - and repeats them, and...
Dartford's Green Army March on to New Ground
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Britain's first eco-friendly arena will be in the FA Cup spotlight when Port Vale arrive at Princes Park tomorrow, writes Paul Newman Modern-day Dartford folk are clearly not the fearsome lot they used to be. Wat Tyler's 1381 Peasants' Revolt against...
Defoe to Return Next Week against Rovers
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A GOOD week for Tottenham Hotspur has been improved by the news that Jermain Defoe hopes to make his comeback from an ankle injury in their home match with Blackburn Rovers a week tomorrow. This would be a quicker recovery than expected for the England...
Digital Digest
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THE BEST OF THE WEB POLITICSwww.newstatesman.comLabour strategists are analysing the US midterm results. Like Obama, Ed Miliband ran as an outsider, against his party's establishment candidate, inspiring younger activists to join his campaign. He advocated...
Dispatches from the Gates of Hell
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THE ROAD by Vasily Grossman, trans. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler MacLehose Press, Pounds 20, 392pp Pounds 18 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 The Road is a fascinating collection of short stories, letters and articles by Vasily Grossman,...
DVD & Blu-Ray Reviews
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BEN WALSH, HOLLY WILLIAMS, NICK CLARK THE PACIFIC(15) Jeremy PodeswaDVD/Blu-ray (630mins)****Steven Spielberg's fixation with the Second World War continues. He has given us Band of Brothers, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan and 1941 and he is on...
Ed Richards Chief Executive, Ofcom
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The business on... The man of the moment?Indeed: Vince Cable's decision yesterday to refer News Corp's bid for full control of Sky to Ofcom puts Mr Richards at the centre of what is fast turning into a political and commercial maelstrom.What will he...
Evolution of a Pop Star
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Darwin Deez majors in geek chic, yet the indie-folker has just made the NME Cool List. He shows Gillian Orr his dance steps Darwin Deez is not your typical pop star. Firstly, there's his look. Tall, thin, and dressed in thrift-store threads, his head...
First Blood to the Coalition
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Firefighters back down on strike but 'autumn of discontent' continues One union opts for compromise, but the season of strife is not over MINISTERS ARE prepared to up the stakes in their disputes with striking public-sector workers, after firefighters...
Flights of Fancy
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Smart design and clever use of materials are creating a stylish new world of gravity-defying staircases, says Kate Watson-Smyth Most of us never think about stairs, beyond whether they are capable of getting us up to bed and back down again without collapsing....
Floats like a Butterfly, Stings like a Bee - the Chancellor Turns Pugilist
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SKETCH It was like Henry Cooper or Rocky or Frank Bruno running Mastermind - with the exciting innovation of being allowed to punch the contestant for answers he didn't like. "It was Queen BerenGARIA! Oof! Get up! Gonnora was his SECOND wife! Stop LYING...
Fool's Gold THE STONE ROSES 1989
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Story of the song "Fool's Gold" lolloped out of the backend of the Eighties with a loose-limbed strut and an attitude to match. Merging northern English, pasty-faced guitar rock with urban American dance music, it was recorded a world away from the Stone...
Forward Injuries Put Bothroyd in Capello's Mind for France Game
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FABIO CAPELLO will be monitoring the Cardiff City striker Jay Bothroyd ahead of England's friendly against France this month, with his options severely restricted by the probable absence of Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe, as well as Bobby Zamora.The...
Forward Injuries Put Bothroyd in Capello's Mind for France Game
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FABIO CAPELLO will be monitoring the Cardiff City striker Jay Bothroyd ahead of England's friendly against France this month, with his options severely restricted by the probable absence of Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe, as well as Bobby Zamora.The...
Future of EMI in Doubt as Hands Loses Legal Fight
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Bank may take control of record label after bitter Pounds 7bn case between former friends GUY HANDS, one of Britain's richest private equity barons, was last night facing the prospect of losing more than half his wealth, after a New York court rejected...
German Police Arrest Neo-Nazis over 'Racist Rock Music' Broadcasts
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GERMAN POLICE have arrested 23 activists suspected of running an online neo-Nazi radio station that broadcast skinhead rock music with overtly racist and violent lyrics designed to win over young people.The neo-Nazis were arrested in raids involving...
Gerrard Hat-Trick Shows Henry the Anfield Way
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LIVERPOOL 3 Gerrard 75, 88 pen, 89 NAPOLI 1 Lavezzi 28 JOHN W HENRY would have learned much from his first visit to Anfield: about the passion of the old stadium he now owns, about Liverpool's limitations - and the fact that Steven Gerrard is still the...
Gerrard Hat-Trick Shows Henry the Anfield Way
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LIVERPOOL 3 Gerrard 75, 88 pen, 89 NAPOLI 1 Lavezzi 2 JOHN W HENRYS wife, Linda, had wondered aloud what song she should learn for her first visit to Anfield. The familiar one about Steven Gerrard, which by the end was crashing around the grand old stadium...
GM Roadshow Takes to the Air Ahead of IPO
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GENERAL MOTORS executives have begun criss-crossing the US and the world on an investor roadshow ahead of the company's $40bn (25bn) flotation, and they are being allowed to use private jets for the first time in two yearsTheir mode of travel was attracting...
GUY FAWKES vs DIWALI: BATTLE OF BONFIRE NIGHT
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As the two festivals coincide, Kevin Rawlinson wonders which fireworks will burn brightest Bonfire night celebrations are usually the only show in town on 5 November. This year, though, the burning Guys and flaring Roman Candles may have to fight a little...
High Street Ken's Diary
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When they were but stripling MPs, Dave Cameron, George (ne Gideon) Osborne and Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson were enlisted to help the then Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith, prepare for PMQs. Only, Duncan Smith tells Iain Dale for Total Politics magazine,...
Hot Dates with a Hippogriff
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ANGELICA LOST AND FOUND by Russell Hoban Bloomsbury, Pounds 12.99, 242pp Pounds 11.69 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 It's a short, delicious book: consume it quickly. A number of ingredients seem contrived at the outset, but plunge into...
Hoy Leads Bid for Euro Titles and 2012 Berths
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CYCLING FOR SIR Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton and the rest of Britain's much decorated cycling team, the road to London 2012 begins today in Pruszkow, a grimy dormitory town to the south-west of Warsaw, where the weekend-long European Track Championships...
Hoy Leads Bid for Euro Titles and 2012 Berths
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CYCLING FOR SIR Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton and the rest of Britain's much decorated cycling team, the road to London 2012 begins today in Pruszkow, a grimy dormitory town to the south-west of Warsaw, where the weekend-long European Track Championships...
'I'll Close Down Twitter', Says Ridiculed ANC Leader
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A SCORE OF new Twitter accounts lampooning Julius Malema are popping up online after the firebrand leader of the youth league of South Africa's ruling ANC called for the micro-blogging service to be closed.The serial controversialist complained this...
In Search of New Life with the Victims Who Kill
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THEY FIGHT LIKE SOLDIERS, THEY DIE LIKE CHILDREN by Romeo Dallaire Hutchinson, Pounds 20, 299pp Pounds 18 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 The life of a child abducted and forced to act as a combatant in a rebel army in contemporary central...
Invensys Shares Up as Bid Rumours Return
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Market Report A RISE in Invensys' share price was the signal for takeover gossip to re-emerge around it yet again, which traders were quick to shoot down.The engineering and industrial controls company firm has frequently been the subject of rumours...
Is the New Face of the Modern Home?
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Grand designs can be architectural wonders, but they are not always the easiest homes to live in. Now a new generation of housebuilders is starting to favour substance over style. Oliver Bennett reports Plain and angular yet (mostly) approachable and...
It's Not Easy Being Eliza Doolittle
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Any girl feels like a new season debutante when she meets the parents. Knowing when to simper and when to smile, at what moment to tinkle out a little giggle or how to pronounce that fancy French thing on the menu - all require a social deftness and...
It's Time to Queue for Conceptual Art
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I don't know whether you saw the story the other day about a mysterious surge of visitors for a small exhibition at the National Gallery but, if you missed it, it was essentially a tale of popular insurgency. The queues were for a small show of work...
John Banville Novelist
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One minute with... Where are you now and what can you see?In my flat in the centre of Dublin, which I use as an office. There are many immigrant families in the apartment complex and... a courtyard where children of various races gather to play together...
Kingfisher Blue, Nature's Most Enchanting Colour
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Nature Studies If you were asked what is the most memorable colour in the natural world, what would you reply? Off the top of my head I would say the lipstick scarlet of poppies comes close, and maybe the lustrous orange of the large copper butterfly...
Look Past RSA's Hunger for the Next Deal
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Investment Column OUR VIEW: HOLD FOR NOWSHARE PRICE: 133.8p (+0.7p)RSA, the insurer, produced a reasonably upbeat trading statement yesterday, with net written premiums up 10 per cent from last year to 5.5bn. What might be more of a worry is the company's...
Low Blows in High Society
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NIGEL DEMPSTER AND THE DEATH OF DISCRETION by Tim Willis Short Books, Pounds 16.99, 249pp Pounds 15.29 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030 To Private Eye he was "GLE" - Greatest Living Englishman - and after their row he was sneered at as "Humpty-Dumpster"....
Major Museums Blocked from Using Reserves Totalling Pounds 285m
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TENS OF millions of pounds held in the reserve accounts of Britain's major museums - much of it donated by private donations and bequests - is frozen by the Treasury, despite the arts being in the midst of the biggest funding crisis in a generation.The...
Military Rulers Cancel Voting for 1.5 Million People in Areas of Unrest
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ELECTION AUTHORITIES in military-ruled Burma have cancelled voting in Sunday's elections in more areas where restive ethnic minorities are dominant. The Union Election Commission cancelled balloting in the elections in 12 more village tracts in six constituencies...
Mongolia's Spy Chief: Invited to Number 10, Detained in Wandsworth
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Echoes of Pinochet as country's top intelligence officer is arrested during official visit to Britain over alleged kidnap. By Cahal Milmo WHEN MONGOLIAS spy chief stepped off an Aeroflot flight into Heathrow a few weeks ago, he expected a welcome befitting...
MPC Holds Fire as Double Dip Fears Recede
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STRONGER THAN expected signs of sustained recovery prevented the Bank of England from a launching a second round of "quantitative easing", the direct injection of money into the economy, leaving economists speculating that the Bank's next move may be...
Mystery of Aids Immunity May Be Key to Developing Vaccine
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SCIENTISTS BELIEVE they are close to understanding why a tiny proportion of people with HIV can live for many years without succumbing to Aids. The insight could lead to new ways of developing vaccines against HIV because it offers hope of a natural...
New Releases
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JAMES BLUNTSome Kind of TroubleCustard/Atlantic**Three years ago, James Blunt was struggling to come to terms with the implications of his sudden success on All the Lost Souls, the follow-up to the all-conquering debut album Back to Bedlam. It was a...
North/South Arrears Divide to Widen
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THE GOVERNMENTS programme of spending cuts will "exacerbate" the North/South divide, a leading credit ratings agency warns in a report published today.Standard & Poor's says Northern households will suffer higher rates of mortgage arrears and, prospectively,...
Observations
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Every night, a DJ will save my life BY JOHN OSBORNEI am developing a stage show called John Peel's Shed. In the show, I will play some records that used to be housed in that very building. I will also talk about the records, my passion for radio and...
Ominous Signals and Electric Shocks
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VISUAL ARTS Recorders: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Manchester Art Gallery *** At first, the large, low-lit gallery space looks rather unprepossessing: a circle of vintage microphones, all spot-lit, stand at its centre, as if waiting for a 1960s variety show...
Opera
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The Turn of the Screw Lowry, Salford **** For its first ever staging of Britten's chilling thriller The Turn of the Screw, Opera North has engaged a young director unafraid of piling on ghostly layers. As if Henry James's novella wasn't suggestive enough...
'Our Landlord Is a Family Friend. Do We Still Have Full Rights as Tenants?'
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HOUSE DOCTOR Question: My boyfriend and I rent a flat at a discount but our landlady, a friend of his family, regularly turns up unannounced to check things are OK or do little repairs. And the gas central heating works intermittently. She's promised...
Paperbacks
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THE WINTER GHOSTS by Kate MossOrion 7.99n 282ppfrom the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030Kate Mosse is no stranger to the pleasures of the supernatural. Her previous novel, Sepulchre, dealt in Tarot cards and devil worship, while Labyrinth, her international...
Poker
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Tomorrow at high noon hostilities resume in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event final in Las Vegas. The business end of the tournament takes place after a break of more than three months since the final table was set.This rather bizarre delay in...
Pop
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Robert Plant Roundhouse, London **** Robert Plant looks as comfortable in his skin as a man can be. He has already skipped past his twin 2007 triumphs, the massively acclaimed hit album with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, and Led Zeppelin's reunion show....
Pressure Grows on Mancini after City Suffer Third Straight Defeat
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LECH POZNAN 3 Injac 30, Arboleda 86, Mozdzen 90 MANCHESTER CITY 1 Adebayor 51 IN THIS febrile Manchester City era of petrodollar-fuelled expectation, the smallest incident becomes magnified, dissected, imbued with meaning. So when Roberto Mancini took...
Pressure Grows on Mancini after City Suffer Third Straight Defeat
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LECH POZNAN 3 Injac 30, Arboleda 86, Mozdzen 90 MANCHESTER CITY 1 Adebayor 51 IN THIS febrile Manchester City era of petrodollar-fuelled expectation, the smallest incident becomes magnified, dissected, imbued with meaning. So when Roberto Mancini took...
Private Viewing
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PERIOD LIVINGMarston Court, Yeovil, SomersetPrice: 850,00Agent: Chesterton HumbertsTel: 01935 812323They say: Most impressive period house in lightly wooded setting with seven bedrooms and magnificent 38ft reception room. Outside there is gar-aging for...
Professor Christopher Freeman
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Influential economist whose radical views gave him a healthy suspicion of capitalism The economist and science policy adviser Chris Freeman was one of the most original and influential economists of the late 20th century who combined the radical political...
Red-Carpet Glamour amid the Sand Dunes
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As both Arab and western film-makers make the pilgrimage to Qatar, Alice Jones watches as New York's Tribeca Film Festival unleashes its star power in Doha If you want to know what's happening in Doha, just take a look at its skyscrapers. Last week there...
Reds Saved by Gerrard as City Fall Once Again
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* Liverpool captain hits Anfield hat-trick * Mancini in peril after slump in Poland 'At the moment everything is against us' STEVEN GERRARD last night scored a sensational hat-trick to save Roy Hodgson and Liverpool from the ignominy of a home defeat...
Reds Saved by Gerrard as City Fall Once Again
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* Liverpool captain hits Anfield hat-trick * Mancini in peril after slump in Poland 'At the moment everything is against us' WHILE STEVEN Gerrard struck a hat-trick inside 14 minutes against Napoli to see Liverpool to the brink of qualification for the...
Relationships Built to Last
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In search of a builder who'll finish on time and on budget? Kate Hilpern offers the essential guide to getting the right man for the job Take the speed out of your searchRogue builders rely on homeowners who are too nave or pressed for time to carry...
REPOS DANS LE MALHEUR (1945) Henri Michaux Pompidou Centre, Paris
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Great works Henri Michaux is known for his imaginary travelogues, his quasi- philosophical reflections, his poetry - and for his art. He began to make art in the 1930s, and the two disciplines came to be practised side by side for the rest of his life....
Republicans Plunged into Civil War as Tea Party Takes on the Old Guard Republicans Squabble over Failure to Wrest Control of Senate
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Tuesday night was a triumph for the party - but Washington's radical newcomers are now challenging the traditionalists JUST AS resurgent Republicans served notice yesterday that they mean to take down President Barack Obama in two years and stymie his...
RICHIE SAMBORA Bon Jovi
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my fantasy band GuitarJimi HendrixJimi was such an innovator. I think that even when the greats, the Jimmy Pages and Eric Claptons of this world, saw Jimi for the first time they would have thought "Oh my god!" He influenced all of us: his style, his...
Rolls-Royce Stands to Lose More Than Qantas If Investigation Finds Fault
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Analysis THE ENGINE failure on the A380 superjumbo is a potentially serious blow to the European aircraft industry - and especially to the British engine-maker Rolls-Royce.The incident is the third involving an A380 in the past 13 months and the second...
Screen Talk
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Warner Bros bank on Looney TunesHollywood is awash with people saying "now why didn't I think of that?" The latest idea to provoke such murmurs is a feature built around the ACME warehouse - the cartoon construct where many of the Looney Tunes characters,...
Seasons Not to Be Cheerful
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film of the week ANOTHER YEAR (12A) 129 mins, Mike Leigh STARRING: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, David Bradley *** After the outbreak of cheeriness that was Mike Leigh's last film, Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), his latest reverts to the low spirits...
Serbian Leader Visits Site of Wartime Massacre
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SERBIAN PRESIDENT Boris Tadic yesterday became the first Belgrade official to visit a site where more than 200 Croatians were massacred at the beginning of the war that tore the former Yugoslavia apart.Mr Tadic's visit to the eastern Croatian town of...
Shoddy Work against Shakhtar Sets Arsenal Tough Task in Braga
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THEIR MANAGERS warnings about complacency having gone unheeded in one Champions League away game, Arsenal's players should at least be better prepared for the next one. A flattering 5-1 win at home to Shakhtar Donetsk was never going to be a good guide...
Shoddy Work against Shakhtar Sets Arsenal Tough Task in Braga
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THEIR MANAGERS warnings about complacency having gone unheeded in one Champions League away game, Arsenal's players should at least be better prepared for the next one. A flattering 5-1 win at home to Shakhtar Donetsk was never going to be a good guide...
Simples People - or Mad Fools?
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The week in books I have not yet had this conversation with a distinguished foreign publisher, but I fear - or even hope - that I soon will. So there's no harm in rehearsing the likely moves...Distinguished Foreign Publisher: "Good to catch up with you...
Some Greens with Your Humble Pie?
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Last Night's TV What the Green Movement Got Wrong / Channel 4 Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits / BBC4 There's almost nothing so delicious on the small screen as a hippy eating humble pie; except maybe a whole parade of them, exhibited...
