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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 September 30, 1995
After the Troubles
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"It was an Ulsterman who wrote the US Declaration of Independence," says Pat Feeney in a bar in Crossmaglen, a nip of Bushmills chasing the blackest and creamiest pint of Guinness. "It was not," says Ian Dungannon, his drinking companion. "Your man here...
A Golden Eagle Sat in the Cage. in Half an Hour It Had Killed, Plucked and Devoured the Crows, Leaving Only Feathers and Seven Pairs of Feet
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Alan, a Highland gamekeeper, set out up the glen in his Land Rover, and as he passed his crow-trap, which stood 50 yards off the track, he noticed a flurry of movement. Scrutiny with binoculars revealed that the wire-netting cage had caught seven hoodie...
A Grey Area for the Boys in Blue
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The Cobra Trap Shooter sat on my dashboard winking and bleeping madly. I was obviously about to arrive in a veritable nest of police speed detectors and should brake smartly. In fact I was stuck at the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel, the Thames crossing...
A Grey Area for the Boys in Blue
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If you're worried about being fined for speeding, kitting yourself out with a radar detector might seem to be the answer. These small, easily concealed devices bleep a warning when they pick up signals from police speed traps. In theory, the signal is...
All You Need to Know about the Books You Meant to Read; This week:Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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Plot: An austerely ideological novel that details the persecution and eventual triumph of the watchful, withdrawn Cinderella, Fanny Price.Fanny is a dependent relative supported by Sir Thomas Bertram, owner of Mansfield Park. Her gentle virtues are contrasted...
Art and Lies
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Smeared by the fall-out from Cold War melt-down, Piers Paul Read has resurrected the genre we thought abandoned to some Lubyanka of the mind. A Patriot in Berlin, his latest foray into the murk of modern European history, is espionage revisited.Central...
At Home with Paul Ince
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Paul Ince was happy to talk, he said, but only if I went round to his house. It was just after Manchester United had won the championship in 1994, 10 days before they were due to play in the Cup Final and Paul Ince was inviting me into his parlour. It...
Barefoot in Samoa
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When Robert Louis Stevenson married Fanny Osbourne in 1880 he was, he said, "a mere complication of cough and bones". He was 30, had only just begun his writing career and was on the point of death from consumption. Fanny was 11 years older and an avid...
Bazaar
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Bestsellers Top 10 at Oxfam TradingThis week is National Oxfam Week, the charity's annual fund-raising push. Boost their funds and benefit your palate by buying a pack of the bestselling Cafedirect coffee, grown by farmer cooperatives in Peru, Mexico,...
Birthdays TODAY
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BirthdaysTODAY: Sir Stanley Bailey, former Chief Constable of Northumbria, 69; The Rev Gordon Barritt, former Principal, the National Children's Home, and former president of the Methodist Conference, 75; Lord Belstead, former government minister, 63;...
Blair Faces Revolt on Minimum Wage
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BARRIE CLEMENTand DONALD MACINTYRENext week's Labour Party conference is expected to call for a national minimum wage of pounds 4.15 an hour despite intensive private lobbying by the Labour leadership.The decision would mean that the party is going much...
Board Sacked as 'Statesman' Chief Steps into the Fray
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CHRIS BLACKHURSTWestminster CorrespondentThe crisis at the ailing left-wing weekly magazine New Statesman and Society deepened yesterday with Philip Jeffrey, the magazine's major shareholder, sacking the entire board and appointing himself as chairman.Steve...
Boy's Ecstasy Death Sparks Drugs Alert
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JASON BENNETTOCrime CorrespondentA drugs alert was issued following the death of a 17-year-old yesterday and the serious injury of two of his teenage friends after they apparently took ecstasy tablets and amphetamines at a Blackpool nightclub.The fear...
Breakthrough! or Maybe Not
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The venue was a room in the Sheraton Hotel at Heathrow Airport. About 20 of the world's leading Aids researchers had gathered to listen to the latest results of a large clinical trial of anti-HIV drugs. As medical protocol demanded, they had until now...
Buyers Queue to Grab a Stake in Gartmore
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JOHN WILLCOCKFinancial CorrespondentGartmore, the fund management group 75 per cent owned by Banque Indosuez, is in play after the French bank put its stake up for sale, valuing the company at more than pounds 550m.Gartmore's management headed by Paul...
Can Blair Cope with Democracy?
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It's now quite possible that the Labour conference will begin on Monday morning with a good old-fashioned, unedifying and all too telegenic row about the National Executive's refusal to endorse Liz Davies as the candidate for Leeds North East.On Wednesday,...
Cantona Back on the Scene
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On the way out of Old Trafford on Tuesday night one of the dozens of street traders who fur up Sir Matt Busby Way on match days was doing his best to cheer up the hordes who had just seen their team stumble out of Europe yet again."Never mind, " the...
Carling Keeps Cool as Rat Pack Swoops on Stoop
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Rugby UnionSTEVE BALEWill Carling will find it somewhat easier coping with West Hartlepool at The Stoop this afternoon than with those who will be present for anything but the rugby. "The whole rat-pack will be out but what can we do?" Quins' Alex Saward...
Carling Runs into the Media Scrum
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WILL BENNETTand STEVE BALEWill Carling will today sidestep his marital difficulties and run into the sort of problems he must overcome if he is to hold on to his position as captain of England's rugby union team.When he takes the field for his club,...
Castleford Overshadowed by Halifax
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BY DAVE HADFIELDHalifax 19 Castleford 10Halifax, with their World Cup candidates showing rather more convincing form than Castleford's, always had the better of an error-strewn and penalty littered match at Thrum Hall last night.Halifax, with the Western...
Casualties of Modern Agriculture? on Sale This Week, Are an Eight- Legged Lamb, and a Calf with Two Noses and Four Eyes
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About ten tons of elephant and horse manure is for sale among nearly 500 dispersal lots from Gerry Cottle's circus tomorrow (11.30am) at the circus's winter quarters at Addlestone Moor, Surrey (M25, junction 11).The show goes on, now that Mr Cottle's...
Chirac Jobs Policy Thwarted by Rise in Unemployment
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MARY DEJEVSKYParisThe aggressive jobs-first policy of President Chirac's government appeared to have suffered an early setback yesterday when official figures registered the first rise in French unemployment for almost a year.If the trend is confirmed,...
Church Gave Sex Claim Priest Pay-Off Money
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ALAN MURDOCHDublinThe Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has confirmed he loaned a priest facing sex-abuse allegations IRpounds 27,000 from church funds in 1993 to help him pay an out-of-court settlement to the victim, despite an earlier denial that...
Church Launches a Fresh Crusade over the Jobless
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PAUL WALLACEEconomics EditorTen years ago, the Church of England incurred the wrath of the Thatcher government with Faith in the City. Yesterday the Rt Rev David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool, launched an inquiry into unemployment and the future of work...
CIA to Act on Guatemala Abuses CIA Officials Face Sack over Guatemala Abuses
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RUPERT CORNWELLWashingtonJohn Deutch, the CIA director, was yesterday preparing to dismiss or punish up to a dozen of his "operatives" for enlisting suspect agents in Guatemala and covering up glaring evidence of human rights abuses there in the late...
Comedy Lano & Woodley's Curtains
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Zubin Mehta was conducting the London Philharmonic in a concert performance of Aida at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday evening, but I had come to the South Bank to see a cultural event of quite a different order: two clowns in ill-fitting clothes...
Comment: Problems Multiply at SBC Warburg
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Problems multiplyat SBC WarburgNobody ever pretended that merging Swiss Bank Corporation with SG Warburg was going to be easy but judging by the present turmoil the problems of doing so seem to have been multiplying. With most of the other City takeovers,...
Comment: The Good Ship EMU Holed below the Waterline
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European finance ministers meeting in Valencia this weekend are ostensibly discussing a name for the new Euro-currency and practical details about how to manage the transition to it from the initial fixing of exchange rates and establishment of a European...
Conkers Plonkers
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First there was the sprinkler ban, which reduced grown gnomes - sorry, men - to tearful mourning for their raddled lawns. Then the car's weekly wash and polish had to go, turning Saturday morning into an empty wasteland of waiting for the start of Grandstand....
Coulthard Leads the Duellists
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Motor racingDERICK ALLSOPreports from NurburgringThe contest for the World Championship continues here with the now familiar trio competing for pole position, but the political and personal shenanigans for next season are playing to an ever more captive...
Crucial Days for Fisons
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Crucial daysfor FisonsThe most interesting element of yesterday's final defence document from Fisons was a piece of trivia. To reinforce its case, Fisons quotes Fred Franks, head of the healthcare sector at Lehmans, as saying that the sale by Fisons...
Dancing in Streets of Raith Again
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FootballPHIL SHAWEnglish clubs, Everton and Leeds in particular, drew some attractive and formidable opponents in Europe yesterday. Yet the biggest plum, topped off with a substantial dollop of cream in the shape of Jurgen Klinsmann, was pulled out by...
Death Be Not Proud
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The first time I heard Michael VerMeulen's name was when a colleague described him as "a complete prick". Later I would realise how much professional jealousy informed that statement, but at the time, since this colleague was also a trusted friend, I...
DNA Tests Trapped Bird Breeder Who Used Stolen Eggs
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IAN MacKINNONA peregrine falcon breeder who bought stolen wild eggs and hatched them using his licensed birds was yesterday jailed for four months.Peter Gurr, 54, sold the offspring birds, a protected species once in danger of extinction, to other breeders...
Dollar Bounces against Yen in Expectant Market
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DIANE COYLEEconomics CorrespondentThe dollar fell sharply against the yen yesterday morning in Tokyo, but it recovered later as the currency markets fell quiet ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers in Valencia this weekend.The US currency fell as...
'Doves' That Contain Anything from LSD to Cleaning Powder
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Up to one million people are estimated to take the dance drug ecstasy every week.However, its popularity has waned in the past year as increasing numbers of users have discovered the tablets are often adulterated with other drugs and substances as diverse...
Drop Your Feet and Use Your Fingers
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Across the country tomorrow, in corner shops and Sainsbury's Homebase, the cry will resound: "Let us have Magna Carta and the Iron Yard of Our Lord, King John". For this weekend, amid much predictable anguish, metric measures for pre-packed food and...
Dull Hepworth Shines Through
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Hepworth's interims yesterday brought the building sector's results season to a close - more with a whimper than a bang, it has to be said. After the flood of disappointments and warnings in the last month or so, the market was relieved to see the boiler...
East Slavonia Braces for the Final Battle
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Driving along a quiet road, near the little town of Erdut, in what the old maps show to be Croatia, and the new Serbian maps show to be almost-Serbia, we suddenly seem to hit trouble. Two dozen fighters, wearing the maroon berets of one of Serbia's most...
Emily Green Recommends
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CO. CORK If the name of The Ivory Tower, The Exchange Buildings, 35 Princes Street, Cork (00-353-21-274665) does not refer to its popularity among university lecturers, then it should. Academics, woolly as sheep, congregate at tables. New wave jazz might...
England Ready to Experiment
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HockeyEngland will today face the all-powerful Australians in their last group game of the Champions' Trophy here without Russell Garcia, their most experienced player, writes Bill Colwill from Berlin.Garcia, player-coach of the Polo Barcelona club,...
EU Stalls on Route to Fiscal Union
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SARAH HELMValenciaCOLIN BROWNLondonThe future of European monetary union hung in the balance last night as European Union finance ministers gathered for crisis talks in Valencia amid growing speculation that they may be forced to delay the launch beyond...
Exchange Beats Another Retreat
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JOHN EISENHAMMERFinancial EditorThe Stock Exchange has bowed to pressure for greater dealing competition in London by lifting a key part of its old monopoly - the ban on its members quoting competitive prices on rival exchanges. The change is an important...
Explosions as the Old Guard Forced to Move On
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It will be a long time before SBC Warburg executives forget the melodrama of 12 September. The gathering of the investment bank's top corporate financiers was engulfed by an explosion of tensions that had been building since the takeover of Britain's...
Fake Cash Machine Swindlers Jailed
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A trio of conmen nicknamed "the hole-in-the-wall gang" were jailed yesterday for a pounds 120,000 swindle which involved the world's first home- made high street cashpoint machine.More than 300 customers were fooled by the realistic looking Halifax "card...
'Fantastic. It Was Fantastic. You're Fantastic. the Album's Fantastic'
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At the Lloyd Cole gig party in Camden Town, a blonde human whirlwind in a red dress all but elbows her way through my kidneys to get to Cole and announce, with brisk enthusiasm: "Fantastic. It was fantastic. You're fantastic. The album's fantastic."...
Fatal Mistake of the Teenager Who Wanted a Thrill
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JONATHAN FOSTERand JASON BENNETTOIt had been a normal evening at the Palace nightclub in Blackpool. About 600 clubbers were dancing the night away. Among those enjoying the club's "Red Hot" evening were Daniel Ashton, 17, his girlfriend Vanessa Watson...
Finance and Water Turn Up the Heat in Takeover Fever
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Takeover excitement gripped the stock market again as financials and waters joined electricities in the firing line.The decision of Banque Indosuez to sell its controlling interest in the Gartmore fund management group, and the signalled descent of Lyonnaise...
French Prepare to Oust Comoro Coup Leaders Mercenaries
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PAUL TAYLORReuterParis - France prepared yesterday for a possible military intervention to oust mercenaries who seized power in the Indian Ocean Comoro islands while sending increasingly stern warnings to the rebels, officials said.The Defence Ministry...
From the Bronx to the Beltway
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This is two books for the price of one. One of them is an autobiography in the Samuel Smiles tradition of self-help and well-earned success, the story of a son of Jamaican immigrants who grew up in the South Bronx, drifted into the Reserve Officer Training...
Fulton Anxious to Avoid Kiwi Danger
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The Australian coach, Bob Fulton, still has to decide who will play in several positions in the Centenary World Cup's opening match against England at Wembley next Saturday.Fulton, renowned for never fixing anything that is not broken when it comes to...
Future of Iraq Rests on UN Germ War Checks
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MICHAEL SHERIDANDiplomatic EditorThe chief United Nations arms inspector, Rolf Ekeus, arrived in Baghdad yesterday on what may be a critical visit in his search to discover the truth about Iraq's concealed biological weapons programme.It is also crucial...
Gear Freaks the Surfer
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Also known as: soul surfer (mystical type driven by "the quest" for the perfect wave), pro-surfer (driven by money), grommet (young surfer), kook (non-cool surfer).Favourite locations: Newquay's Fistral Beach, Scotland's Thurso East beach, Hawaii's Pipe...
Highlanders: Fantasy on the Celtic Fringes, Tartan in the Extreme - Vivienne Westwood and Other Wild and Wonderful Stories Photographs by Gavin Bond
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LeftBlue, pink and white tartan coat dress, pounds 515, waspie belt, pounds 120, woollen stockings, pounds 60, all by Vivienne Westwood at 6 Davies Street W1; bum cage, blanket skirt and neck ruffle by Vivienne Westwood to order, inquiries 0171-629 3757;...
Hi Ho, It's off to Work We Go
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We all recall those nerve wracking moments in our lives when the ropes of security were cast off and we were suddenly alone. It may have been your first day at school or the first day at college or university. Or it may have been your first day at work.Leaving...
How Good Is Microsoft Money?
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Financial software has often been thought of as difficult to use but the new version of Microsoft Money is a Windows 95 product and has a very distinctive look and feel, with quality graphics throughout.The program is aimed at individuals and their personal...
IRA Refuses to Give Up Its Weapons
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DAVID McKITTRICK and COLIN BROWNThe IRA last night told the Government that its demand for the decommissioning of weapons was "ludicrous" and declared: "There is no possibility of the IRA meeting these demands."The statement, one of the rare public comments...
Italian PM Loses Face in Budget Battle
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ANDREW GUMBELRomeItaly's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, yesterday faced a serious challenge to his political authority after a package of deficit-cutting budget proposals for next year was given a luke-warm reception by business leaders, the media and...
It's the Ultimate Elvis Sale: Two Thousand Lots Including Hisjewel Encrusted Jumpsuits, His White Rolls Royce, a Never Released Single. Even the King's Rusty Hair Trimmers
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In a bashed-up blue transit van in a parking lot in Kansas City, Ted Owen, an auctioneer from Bonhams, London, was given a glimpse of $300,000 worth of Elvis Presley's possessions: guns, a stage suit, diamond jewellery. He then knew he had finally penetrated...
Jo Brand's Week
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Living south of the Thames with the ever-attendant cliche about the unwillingness of cab drivers to make that journey, I get quite tense if I think the driver is going to launch into a racist monologue, which again, cliche as it is, many do. So what...
Keegan Profits as Fox Joins Spurs for Pounds 4m
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FootballCLIVE WHITEKevin Keegan last night "reluctantly" accepted a pounds 4m offer from Tottenham Hotspur for Ruel Fox, the midfielder he signed for almost half that sum from Norwich two seasons ago. Newcastle had been holding out for an extra pounds...
Kenwood Chief Brought in to Speed Clark Plans
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BY TOM STEVENSONDeputy City EditorC & J Clark, the Somerset-based shoemaker and retailer, took a step closer to its planned flotation yesterday when it appointed Tim Parker of Kenwood as chief executive. Kenwood's shares fell 10p to 250p on the announcement.Mr...
LEADER: We Look in the Mirror of the UN and See Ourselves
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Sir Bufton Tufton (Loose Chippings - Cons.) has accepted money for asking a parliamentary question. Abolish the Tory Party! Abolish the House of Commons! Mr Justice Cocklecarrot has handed down a lenient sentence in a child abuse case. Scrap the Crown...
LETTER: Human Rights: Britain's Obligations and Aberrations
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From Mr John WadhamSir: Stephen Ward is right in arguing that one of the consequences of not having a written constitution or a domestic Bill of Rights is the relatively high number of cases against Britain in Strasbourg ("When Britain stands accused...
LETTER: The Lost Tribes of Terracottas
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From Mr Nigel EvansSir: In his article "The government, the terracotta and the Academy" (Visual Arts, 26 September), David Sweetman mentions that the Royal Academy's secretary, Piers Rogers, "is struggling to maintain his customary urbanity" in the run-...
Liberation Day for the French Enigma
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FootballPHIL SHAWAccording to the cod philosophy that makes Eric Cantona the Jean-Paul Sardine of football, he is not a number but a free man. After eight months as a prisoner of the stands, liberation for Manchester United's No 7 becomes official tomorrow.Alex...
Like Malignant Pixies, Hearts Fans Jigged Their Lewd Jigs and Grunted in a Primeval Chorus
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It is a simple case of good and evil. That is why you keep going back. The football is usually dreadful, the scoreline probably goalless and the weather inevitably lousy, but there's not many places in today's world where you can be sure you are witnessing...
Lisbon Bridge Plan Angers Greens Threatens Wildlife
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More than 200 flamingos undulated their necks and dipped their curved bills into the salt shallows near Alcochete across the Tagus estuary from Lisbon. The late afternoon sun glinted on the water to give it a texture and colour that the locals call "sea...
Looking for clues;The Red King's Dream by Jo Elwyn Jones and Francis Gladstone Cape, Pounds 16.99
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Sitting in a boathouse on a rainy afternoon in 1862, Charles Dodgson began to spin a mysterious, entrancing tale for Alice Liddell. His companion, Duckworth, entered the story as the Duck, Alice's small cousins became the Lory and the Eaglet, while Dodgson...
Marks of Weakness, Marks of Woe
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The title is a snip from Blake, his poem "London": he wanders through each chartered street, marking, in every face he meets, marks of weakness, marks of woe. Cartwright is very good at picking up marks of weakness: his protagonist is a weak man whose...
Married PC Jailed for 'Wedding' to Colleague
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A policeman who went through a wedding ceremony with a colleague while still married was yesterday jailed for 18 months.Liverpool Crown Court was told PC Kenneth Williams kept up a double life for more than nine years, telling a string of lies to his...
Medical School Expels 'Teenager' Aged 32
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JOHN ARLIDGEScotland CorrespondentBrian MacKinnon, the 32-year-old Glaswegian who masqueraded as a 17-year- old schoolboy to go back to his old school in an attempt to become a doctor, lost his last chance of a career in medicine yesterday when Dundee...
MGF;Rover's Chubby New Sports Car Is One of the Most Entertaining Rides around. by John Simister
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What better symbol of Britain's motor industry than the first all-new MG sports car? Much is expected of this little car, and its credentials do not disappoint. There is a 1.8-litre enginemounted right behind the driver - which is where you'd find the...
Monty Gives No Quarter
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GolfTIM GLOVERreports from Co KildareBernard Gallacher, Europe's Ryder Cup captain, is not blameless despite leading Europe to victory over the US in Rochester last weekend. Perhaps influenced by a touch of Tartan nationalism, he paired Colin Montgomerie...
Moving Home, the Fourth Horseman of the Financial Apocalypse, Is a Nightmare. Here's How to Deal with It
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Moving house is one of the most stressful domestic events that can be undertaken voluntarily. And it has considerable financial implications too.An Englishman's home may be his castle, but it is also likely to be his single largest asset. (Pension Funds...
Napoleonic Complex
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As if the horrendous title weren't enough, there's an even more horrendous subtitle to put you off: "Seven Tall Tales linked together for an indecorous Toy Theatre". On investigation, the novel isn't quite that bad, but nearly. It revolves around a group...
Nigeria's Junta Keeps Press on the Run
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DAVID ORRLagosSitting behind his desk in shorts, sandals and red sports shirt, Babafemi Ojudy hardly fits the image of a newspaper executive. Which is precisely the point, for Mr Ojudy, editor of AM News, is on the run.He lives out of a suitcase in his...
Night of Destiny for Hamed
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BoxingJAMES REEDNaseem Hamed's yellow, red or blue fists have ruined the ambitions of 19 men since his first professional fight in 1992. Tonight he will weave his way from the warmth and funky music of his dressing-room to challenge Steve Robinson for...
No More Mr Twiggy
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Justin de Villeneuve, the man who discovered Twiggy in the Sixties and has spent much of the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties reminding us that he did, remembers in sharp detail the manner in which he and his protegee came to part.It occurred in the...
Northern Soul Food
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Twenty years ago, when I lived an hour's drive away, I used to spend weekends in the Lake District. A day's walking was free and bed and breakfast out of season was cheap. The big outlay, the indulgence, was dinner, always carefully researched to find...
OBITUARY: Group Captain Colin Gray
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Colin Gray was one of the outstanding New Zealand fighter pilots of the Second World War, reaching an unrivalled final score of at least 28 enemy aircraft shot down.One of the features of the Battle of Britain was the large number of pilots found from...
OBITUARY: Humphrey Mackworth-Praed
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From an early age, Humphrey Mackworth-Praed was interested in the countryside and natural history.His father was the naturalist C.W. Mackworth-Praed, and with his help Humphrey rapidly became an expert on butterflies and moths. His grandfather Colonel...
OBITUARY: Philippe Thomas
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Philippe Thomas ceased to exist long before he died. Before vanishing physically, at the age of 44, he had already disappeared altogether from the art world, not through neglect but rather as a deliberate strategy.If Thomas is no longer, works by such...
OBITUARY: Professor B. O. Osuntokun
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When the history of medicine in the post-colonial era in West Africa is written, the name of B. O. Osuntokun will figure large, as a man of great talent, of prodigious application and as a tireless advocate of the study of neurology in the tropics.In...
OJ Lawyer Sows Seeds of Doubt in Jurors' Minds
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EDWARD HELMORELos AngelesThe defence in the OJ Simpson case raised a catalogue of questions in its last opportunity to sow doubt in the minds of the jury, which begins considering its verdict on the double murder charges against the former sports star...
On a Sudden Interest in Japanese Art
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"The Passionate Art of Utamaro", currently running at the British Museum, is proving to be one of the most successful exhibitions of oriental prints ever mounted there. It would be nice to be high-minded about the reasons for this - to assume that the...
On the Wilde Side
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There is a vision of Dublin in autumn that seizes the spirit: when the setting sun flares up from the shimmering Liffey and dances through the ironwork of the Merchants' Bridge. More likely, though, cloud and rain will drape the city in concrete-grey...
Paperbacks
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Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe & Ethan Watters (Andre Deutsch, pounds 12.99)"Remembering is the First Stop to Healing", proclaims an advert in the South-Western Bell Yellow Pages. And memories of child abuse, as viewers of Oprah well know, seem almost...
Papers in a Spin as Editor Quits
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RHYS WILLIAMSMedia CorrespondentFleet Street is steeling itself for a new round of musical chairs following Max Hastings' surprise resignation yesterday as editor of the Daily Telegraph.Mr Hastings, 49, told Conrad Black, chairman of and principal shareholder...
Party Finds Davies 'Innocent'
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PATRICIA WYNN DAVIESPolitical CorrespondentThe Labour row over the banning of left-winger Liz Davies as a parliamentary candidate intensified yesterday after party headquarters confirmed that there had been no finding of guilt on charges against her.The...
Passion and Turmoil Mark Filming of New 'Poldark'
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MARIANNE MACDONALDArts ReporterWinston Graham's Poldark, presently being dramatised by HTV, is a saga of love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, tragedy and passion. Unfortunately the film itself has aroused exactly the same emotions.Set among the Cornish...
Peace Brings No Respite to West Bank
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Few Palestinians are travelling between Jerusalem and the West Bank this weekend because the Israeli army has closed off movement between Israel and the occupied territories. Ironically, as Palestinian and Israeli leaders celebrate their agreement in...
Question Time
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My 80 year old father has received pounds 160,000 from the sale of a holiday home. He already has sufficient income to satisfy needs and his will already provides inheritance to his children up to the nil rate band limit, with the remainder passing to...
Red Meat for Rednecks
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There we were, on a cheerless errand, wandering among the green hills of the Susquehanna valley, ultimately resting hungrily in Oneonta, New York, home to both the one American college that specialises in football, and to the oxymoronic US Soccer Hall...
Redwood Draws Up Populist 'Budget' to Woo Soft Right
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NICHOLAS TIMMINSPublic Policy EditorJohn Redwood, these days, is virtually a single-handed alternative government in waiting. From his grand base in Westminster's exclusive Lord North Street, he is drawing up his own alternative Budget to be launched...
Return of the Prodigal
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Alex Ferguson was asked this week if there was ever any doubt that Cantona would not go straight into the Manchester United team for tomorrow's match with Liverpool. "Only if we had won our first 10 games," he replied.That was never very likely. Although...
Sexual Perversity in Manhattan
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"I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame". Robert Mapplethorpe said this when he was dying of Aids in the late Eighties, the lament of a chronic publicity-hound who had always equated publicity with life itself. But fame had always been only...
Shoppers Weigh Up Metric Revolution
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LIZ SEARLPounds and ounces head for official oblivion tomorrow, as metrication takes over in Britain's supermarkets.The British Weights and Measurements Association yesterday urged the public to mount a "massive campaign of resistance to the change"....
Snow's Up
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If you take a car to the Alps, and don't mind a drive before skiing each day, there is something to be said for staying in valley villages rather than ski resorts - you'll always get lower prices, you'll often get a wider range of skiing options, and...
Southern Electric Favourite for Bid from National Power
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PETER RODGERSBusiness EditorNational Power is this weekend poised to make an agreed bid for a regional electricity company. An emergency board meeting has been scheduled for tomorrow, and the company's lawyers have been on stand-by.Speculation centred...
