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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 March 8, 1999
Architecture: And for Our Next Cunning Plan the South Bank Is Looking for Yet Another Scheme That Will Rejuvenate T He World's Biggest Arts Complex
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A little less than a year after the farce that ended the ambitious plan by Richard Rogers to put a glass roof over the entire South Bank Centre, the complex is following the showbiz maxim to pick itself up, dust itself down and start all over again.This...
Architecture: Green Vision Where Once the Car Was King on the Site of an Historic Automobile Factory, Paris Is Planning a Virt Ually Car-Free Re-Development
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IN 1898 Louis Renault built his first car in a workshop on the le Seguin, west of Paris. A hundred and one years later the island, the last undeveloped site in Greater Paris, is to be a virtually car- free zone.The historic Renault factory, the driving...
Athletics: `Big Supes' Turns Silver into Gold
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YESTERDAY EUROPE, today the world. Wins by Jamie Baulch and Ashia Hansen on the final day of the World Indoor Championships here completed Britain's best ever performance in this event as the impetus of last year's European Championship success was maintained.Taking...
Bloc-Headed Nations That Are Totally Lost Nations with No Idea Where Th Ey Are City Life TASHKENT
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WE ARE late, lost, and getting angrier by the minute. We are, for at least the 10th time in the past half-hour, grilling a pedestrian for directions. Yet again, we are hearing an utterly different answer from the one given a moment ago by the previous...
Book of the Week: Michael Schumacher: The Quest for Redemption by James Allen Partridge Pounds 16.99, Hardback
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Michael Schumacher: The Quest for Redemptionby James Allen Partridge pounds 16.99, hardbackONCE DESCRIBED by Damon Hill as "robotic", Michael Schumacher warmed up for yesterday's Australian Grand Prix by putting on a football strip and having a kickabout...
Boxing: Boxing's Garden of Champions the Venue for Saturday's World Title Fight between Lewis and Holyfield Has Staged Many of the Sport's Greatest Contests
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Wlhen Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield face up for the undisputed heavyweight championship at Madison Square Garden on Saturday they will be in a place that lies very close to the heart of boxing history.If the arena at West 33rd Street and Eighth...
Britain and US Lose `True Gulf Ally'
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FIRST KING Hussein of Jordan, then the Emir of Bahrain. Only 10 weeks into 1999 and the Grim Reaper is moving at speed through the Middle East (Abdullah Ocalan could yet join his guests, but we must wait).Sheikh Issa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain...
Britain and US Lose `True Gulf Ally'
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FIRST KING Hussein of Jordan, then the Emir of Bahrain. Only 10 weeks into 1999 and the Grim Reaper is moving at speed through the Middle East (Abdullah Ocalan could yet join his guests, but we must wait).Sheikh Issa bin Salman al-Khalifa of Bahrain...
Brown to Give `Children's Budget'
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GORDON BROWN will unveil a "Budget for families" tomorrow that hands more state help to poor families without launching an all-out attack on the middle classes.The Chancellor, whose handling of the economy is praised today in a glowing report by the...
Can a Scottish Politician Lead a UK Party in the Era of Home Rule? the Liberal Democrats' Leadership Contest Will Throw the Issues Surroun Ding Devolution into Sharp Relief
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AT 3.30PM tomorrow the British Chancellor will rise in the House of Commons to deliver his third budget, a statement of profound importance to the entire UK economy. Gordon Brown is 48 and at the peak of his powers. There is no reason to suppose that...
Cheap Assistants Replacing Nurses
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NATIONAL HEALTH Service trusts are cutting back on experienced nurses and replacing them with half-price healthcare assistants to save money, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday.The trend to "de-skilling" on hospital wards was putting patients...
China Denies US Nuclear `Spy' Claim
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THE STRAINED relations between the United States and China looked likely to deteriorate after US claims that China developed a miniaturised nuclear warhead from technology stolen from a secret American nuclear laboratory.The allegations elicited denials...
Commons Watchdogs to Press for Greater Powers
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THE CHAIRMEN of Commons select committees are to request greater powers to hold the Government to account amid concern that Labour has sought to "neuter" them since taking office.A list of demands is being drawn up by Labour MPs who chair key committees....
Cricket: Flintoff Provides Platform England A 350 & 288 President's XI 199 & 142-3
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ENGLAND A can finish their tour of South Africa with another win, after resolute batting followed by a productive stint in the field yielded three vital wickets against the President's XI in Cape Town yesterday.It was evident from the start of play that...
Cricket: McGrath Has the Last Word Australia 269 and 126-2 West Indies 167
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AUSTRALIA QUICKLY completed their spectacular rout of the West Indies of the previous afternoon and proceeded to consolidate their advantage on the third day of the first Test here yesterday.Glenn McGrath, who had initiated the West Indian demise in...
Cricket: Slater Takes Total Control Australia 269 and 227-7 West Indies 167
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THE first Test followed its inevitable course towards a predictable Australian victory here yesterday, ordained by Sunday afternoon's customary West Indian late order disintegration.Australia secured a commanding lead of 102 when Glenn McGrath wrapped...
DTI to Set Up Bureau for Small Firms
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STEPHEN BYERS will announce the creation of a new bureau for small business at the Department of Trade and Industry, as one of a series of business-friendly measures to be unveiled on Wednesday.Other steps expected to be announced by the Trade Secretary...
Emergency Mission Ready to Repair Hubble Trouble
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AN EMERGENCY mission is to be sent to repair the Hubble space telescope, which is in danger of shutting down suddenly because of a wobble.Scientists at the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) have found that gyroscopes on the...
Euro-Sclerosis Need Not Be Catching
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LAST WEEK, this column discussed the question of UK membership of EMU, and concluded there was no case for the Government to abandon its "wait and see" stance before the next election. This conclusion dismayed many of my pro-European friends, so I would...
Family Affair: A Lust for Adventure Alex Nickson Is 26. as a Tour Leader He Has Travelled to Some of the Wo Rld's Most Remote Places, but Now He Plans to Take a Desk Job. His Mother, Mari-Caroline, Admires His Fearless Spirit - Even Though She Worries about Him - and Isn't Sure He Will Be Able to Settle Down
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AlexI was born in Africa and grew up there so I have always been attracted to the wilder parts of the world. Life may not be as comfortable, but it feels more real in the bush. When I was little I was hooked on wildlife and animals. When other kids were...
First Night: British Soul Ace Improves on a Sparkling Start Lynden David Hall Brighton Centre
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WHETHER PLAYING a mean blues or boogie on the guitar, or singing his own songs about carnal love, God, absent fathers and the transmigration of souls, Lynden David Hall is absolutely great. With a repertoire such as that, he would be garlanded with highbrow...
Football: A Pate Full of Superlatives
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OUTSIDE EDGELIKE MOST footy fanatics, I've always hung on to every word of players and managers. Lately, though, they've become about as unfathomable as one of Jorge Campos's goalie's jerseys.I blame it all on this percentage effort business, you know....
Football: A Plate of Chips and a Cornish Pasting
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CHELSEA AGAINST Liverpool seemed an attractive prospect last weekend: the multi- national entertainers against the former greats struggling to make sense of their season.However, choosing a match has been harder since I left the Football Association;...
Football: Bergkamp Blows Aside Smith Plan Arsenal 1 Derby County 0
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THIS IS what Arsene Wenger had to say about the referee Steve Dunn, who repeatedly came under fire from Arsenal's supporters during the FA Cup quarter-final against Derby County on Saturday: "It was a difficult match for him."If we are used to Wenger's...
Football: Bruce Worried by High Demand on Youngsters Sheffield United 3 Watford 0
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THERE WERE a number of additional spectators at Bramall Lane on Saturday, diverted from Barnsley's snowed-off FA Cup tie with Tottenham. These included journalists, Tottenham supporters and half- a-dozen weekending Icelandic fans but, though all should...
Football: City Slip Back to Mediocrity Manchester City 0 Northampton 0
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THERE ARE headlines guaranteed to shock but nothing is more likely to have spoons dropped in cornflakes than "Manchester City bobbing along nicely, thank you". Catastrophe, calamity, unlucky, yes, but things going swimmingly at Maine Road? Come on.But...
Football: Coventry Well Placed to Shift the Pressure Coventry City 2 Charlton Athletic 1
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AFTER ALL these years, a football season just would not be the same without Coventry teetering on the brink. Mid-table is all very well but, given that they are unlikely ever to win the title, it is only by jousting with disaster from time to time that...
Football: Geordie Hero Has Georgia in Mind Newcastle United 4 Everton 1
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THE GEORDIE hero from Georgia might not be on Tyneside beyond the summer. Even if he plays in every game between now and the season's end, Temuri Ketsbaia will not satisfy the Department of Employment's stipulation that foreign legionnaires in English...
Football: Guppy Strike Stops Rot at Leicester Wimbledon 0 Leicester City 1
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THERE WAS something terribly ironic in an item carried in Saturday's programme, on a page evidently printed before last Wednesday night. It said: "Joe Kinnear made history in midweek, with the game at Sheffield Wednesday, when he became the longest serving...
Football: Inter Taste Defeat Again OVERSEAS ROUND-UP
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MANCHESTER UNITED'S European Cup quarter-final opponents, Internazionale, fell to another defeat yesterday when they lost 1-0 away to Bari in Serie A.Yksel Osmanovski struck in the 43rd minute to give Bari their first victory in two months and condemn...
Football: Leaders Find It All Far Too Easy Sunderland 1 Norwich City 0
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QUITE WHAT the Black Eagles, a posse of Tanzanian acrobats, made of their half-time performance in which they bounced and tumbled in only their loin cloths in the freezing, swirling, Wearside rain is unknown, but it is clear that Sunderland are becoming...
Football: Old Firm Cup Final on the Cards
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THE DRAW for the semi-finals of the Tennent's Scottish Cup has opened the door for the first Old Firm final for 10 years.Rangers, who struggled for long periods in their 2-1 win over Falkirk yesterday, were drawn with St Johnstone who had beaten Motherwell...
Football: Saints Take Diabolical Liberties and Prosper Southampton 1 West Ham United 0
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LAST APRIL, Southampton, sitting pretty for once in the middle of the table, ended West Ham's ambitions of European football with a devil- may-care 4-2 win at Upton Park. This season they are playing a more familiar game of devil-take-the-hindmost, and...
Football: Some Joy for Suffering Stoke Blackpool 0 Stoke City 1
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THEY MADE a major investment in the future at Blackpool last week; pounds 4.95 for 500 polystyrene cups. Unfortunately there was nothing in the petty cash to pay for them, so they had to go back to the Cash and Carry.It's a pathetic little parable that...
Football: That Was the Weekend That Was
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Robson defends letting `the Juventus boy' goMIDDLESBROUGH MANAGER Bryan Robson may have been spared another weekend of distressing headlines about his private life but the former England captain still finds himself under fire - this time over his ability,...
Football: Vialli's Men Stand Defiant Manchester United 0 Chelsea 0 Replay, Wednesday 7.45pm
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THEY WERE dogged and determined with concentration etched across their brows and resounding in their tackles. These adjectives, which epitomised Chelsea's defence in yesterday's FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford, used to be absent on their travels,...
German Greens Castigate Leaders
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GERMANY'S GREENS confronted themselves yesterday with the question of whether they were ready for government, and answered with a resounding No.At a weekend party conference, the delegates rounded on the only Green politician who had distinguished himself...
GM Row: Consumers Rushing for Organic Food
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THE CONTROVERSY over genetically modified food has led to an unprecedented surge in the sale of organic food, The Independent has found.A survey of major retailers shows that two of the country's leading supermarkets - Tesco and Asda - recorded a 20...
GM Row: Lord Sainsbury in Monsanto Talks Science Minister with Food Business Links Met US Corporation While Play Ing Role in Biotechnology Policy
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LORD SAINSBURY, the science minister, with family business interests in genetically modified (GM) food, met senior officials from Monsanto, the American GM giant, while playing a key role in government discussions on biotechnology.Lord Sainsbury of Turville...
Historical Notes: Time Does Not Distort Reality. Life Does
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AT ONE time or another, we must have all felt that we were born into the wrong era. We pine for the false simplicity of the past or yearn for a feature of infinite possibilities. This is why we read fiction, to expand if only for a moment the terrible...
Howlers on Identity Parade Shocked and Confused, He Said: `Why Would Anyone Shoot Bobby Kennedy? W E've Just Won the League'
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A month ago to this very day, a brief item in USA Today caught my eye. It reported that the singer Mariah Carey had been devastated to learn of the death of the King of Jordan, telling CNN: "I'm inconsolable at the present time. I was a very good friend...
Independent Pursuits: Bridge
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THE PLAY started well for South in his contract of 1 no-trumps on this deal. In the ending, however, he found himself in the unusual position (for a declarer) of being the victim of a criss-cross squeeze.Playing a Strong Club system, South opened One...
Independent Pursuits: Chess
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TODAY, A very difficult position of limited practical value, but with enormous potential to baffle and amaze: The "Three Pawns Problem" or "Szen Position".The Szen PositionExamined by Carrera as early as 1617, this endgame is so complex that I know of...
Intel Follows Gates into Monopoly Court
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THE US GOVERNMENT begins a key competition case this week against Intel, the chip maker that, along with software giant Microsoft, dominates the computer market.Washington contends, as it does with Microsoft, that Intel used its market strength to edge...
Investors Raise Pressure on Ash to Quit as Hamleys Chief
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HAMLEYS, the troubled toy retailer, is considering removing its chief executive Chris Ash within weeks, in a bid to quell investors' anger at the company's dismal performance.Mr Ash is coming under growing pressure to resign to take responsibility for...
Is It News or Nonsense? You, the Public, Can Now Decide A Group of Children in a Village in Portugal Claim to Have Seen Monica Lewinsky in a Vision
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HOW CLOSELY do you follow the news? Did you know, for instance, that News at Ten is no longer called that, but is now News at Some Other Time? And that it has been replaced by a new programme called Some Dreary Old Movie With Lots of Advertising Revenue...
It's Dumb to Say That Culture Is Just Plumbing the Depths
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THE THESIS that some sort of "dumbing down" process is happening to our culture, discussed in a series of articles last week in The Independent, I reject. I don't find the evidence, quite the reverse.Here is one test. My wife and I go to the cinema on...
John Walsh on Monday: I Was Mere Putty in Her Soft Embrace
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THIS MAY take a little explaining, but I seem to have fallen in love with a chair. It is not any old chair, you understand, but a fantastically sexy model, lithe and bendy and curvaceous and frankly gagging to wrap you in its sinuous embrace. You may...
Last Autocrat of the Movies Leaves a Rich Legacy from His Obsessive Ody Ssey with a Rich Legacy of Masterpieces
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STANLEY KUBRICK'S biographer Michael Ciment called him "one of the most demanding, most original and most visionary film-makers of our time". The only superlative he omitted was, the most reclusive.No one in the world of film disagreed with any of these...
Law Reports: Case Summaries; 8 March 1999 Law Reports
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THE FOLLOWING notes of judgments were prepared by the reporters of the All England Law Reports.PracticeCommissioners of Customs and Excise v Anchor Foods Ltd; Ch D (Neuberger J) 26 February 1999. A MAREVA injunction to restrain the defendant from selling...
Leading Article: You Don't Need Any Gimmicks for a Good Budget, Chancel Lor
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"NO MORE on tobacco; a penny on beer; something on dogs and pools, but not on horses; increase in purchase tax, but only on articles now taxable; profits tax doubled." Hugh Dalton's hurried leak of the main points of his 1947 budget mattered because...
Making Dinosaurs Is Merely a Fantasy; Podium from a Speech to the American Association of the Advancement of Science Conference, in Anaheim, California
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SCIENTISTS OFTEN complain to me that the media misunderstands their work. But I would suggest that, in fact, the reality is just the opposite, and that it is science which misunderstands media.Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And...
Microsoft Plants Secret Users' Code
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MICROSOFT, WHOSE software runs most of the world's personal computers, admitted yesterday that its latest version of Windows generates a unique serial number secretly planted within electronic documents that could be used to trace the authors' identities.In...
Monitor: The Sunday Press Gives Advice to the Chancellor for the Budget All the News of the World
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THE IMPOSITION of the minimum wage and restrictions on the length of the working week, not to mention the launch of the euro, have taken a huge toll on small firms. It is time to give them something back.Entrepreneurs must be encouraged with tax breaks...
Motor Racing: Irvine Takes His Chance at Last
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IT WAS the day when Formula One bordered perilously on farce, when the favourites were left by the roadside, and when Eddie Irvine finally came of age as a grand prix driver.Taking the lead on the 18th lap, when Mika Hakkinen's dominant McLaren succumbed...
Nearby Homes Infested with Flies All Year
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DIANE TOMKINSON lives a mile from the Peckfield landfill site in Micklefield, West Yorkshire. When her daughter Bethany was a year old she was diagnosed with a heart murmur.Bethany, now two and a half, does all the things other children do and the doctors...
New Films
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BELOVED (15)Director: Jonathan DemmeStarring: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover If film lives in a boldly naturalistic plane, prose inhabits an altogether more oblique and shadowy realm. And so Jonathan Demme's adaptation of Toni Morrison's multi-layered Pulitzer...
Obituary: Dennis Viollet
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THERE IS a compelling case for citing the Busby Babes as the most joyously precocious collection of soccer talent ever drawn together under the banner of one English club. That Manchester United team, so savagely devastated by the Munich air disaster...
Obituary: John Smithes
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DURING A life devoted to the making of port, John Smithes made a major contribution not just to the family firm of Cockburn but to the port trade in general.At Cockburn (now owned by Allied-Domecq), he helped to shape the company's Fine Ruby Port and...
Obituary: Sheikh Isa, Emir of Bahrain
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THE EMIR of Bahrain, Sheikh Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa, was a father figure to his nation and in the region.When he was buried on Saturday, hours after his sudden death from a heart attack, 10,000 of his subjects (he preferred to call them his family...
Obituary: Virginia Durr
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VIRGINIA DURR was a well-born white Southern lady who devoted most of her life to campaigning for civil rights in the United States.In the 1950s, she and her husband, the lawyer Clifford Durr, were in the thick of the civil rights struggle in Alabama....
Old Colonial Rivals Aim for New Co-Operation
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A BRITISH Foreign Secretary and a French Foreign Minister will this week host in Abidjan an unprecedented meeting of envoys from the two countries, in a symbolic gesture designed to show that a new era of co- operation is replacing the long historical...
Opera: The Return of the King MACBETH ARTS THEATRE CAMBRIDGE
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VERDI TOOK 30-plus curtain calls at the 1847 Florence premiere of Macbeth. It's easy to see why. Events cascade with lightning speed. Macbeth and his lady understand each other instinctively. They evince few qualms. Carnage flows as night follows day:...
Pandora
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JANCIS ROBINSON has learnt the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. Britain's formidable first lady of wine recently offered a bed to a hippie-dippy mate at the familial chateau she shares with the restaurant maven Nick Lander. But the couple...
Paris to Curb Cars in Its Most Beautiful Square
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THE PLACE de la Concorde claims, with some reason, to be the most beautiful square in the world. For tourists and pedestrians it is a nightmare - an automotive Jacuzzi separating the Champs Elyseesfrom the Tuileries gardens and the Louvre.To reach the...
Planet Organic Founders Fall out Who's Suing Whom
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AFTER THREE years in business together, the two founders of Planet Organic, an innovative supermarket selling naturally grown produce, are parting company.Renee Elliott and Jonathan Dwek went to court after their different attitudes and objectives towards...
Police in Hunt for Petrol-Bomber Who Incinerated Family's Four Generat Ions
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THE MIDDLE-AGED woman stooped down and gently laid a bunch of white carnations in the front yard of what was, until 48 hours ago, a family home. Her husband looked up at the charred brickwork and the boarded- up windows, and shook his head in disbelief.Friends...
Politics: Ashdown's Final Shot at `Timid' Blair
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PADDY ASHDOWN took his final conference bow as Liberal Democrat leader yesterday and warned his party against cutting its ties with Labour after he quits as leader.The thorny issue of co-operating with the Government is expected to play a key role in...
Politics: Who Next Could Lead the Party of Gladstone, Lloyd George, Th Orpe and Steel?
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Charles KennedyFar enough ahead as the favourite that activists say they can almost smell the power passing when he enters a hall. Backed by party grandees. With Scottish Home Rule imminent, being the MP for Ross, Skye and Inverness West may be his biggest...
Pop: Give It a Little More Fizz, Lads KULA SHAKER 100 CLUB LONDON
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IF ONLY the excesses for which Kula Shaker have had their career derailed were even half-true. They've been called misogynists, even Nazi- obsessed, since the singer/lyricist Crispian Mills opened his mouth once too often about his beloved, romanticised...
Racing: Action Replay-Arkle Proves a Real Champion in the Spring of 1964, Arkle, the Greatest Steeplechaser of All Time, W on the First of Three Cheltenham Gold Cups. Dick Francis, Later to Become a Hugely Successful Author, Was There to Report the Event for the `Sunday Express'
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IN ONE of the greatest Gold Cup races seen at Cheltenham for years, Arkle, from Ireland, beat Mill House, the English star, fairly and squarely by five lengths in record time yesterday. It left no doubt in anyone's mind as to which is the champion.Never,...
Racing: For the Notebook:Horses to Go on to Better Things
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POINT-TO-POINT racing has never been more competitive and, on Saturday at Warwick, CASTLE MANE reiterated the point in style with a fluent victory on his debut under National Hunt rules in the Town Of Warwick Foxhunters Trophy Hunter Chase.The easy winner...
Racing: Third Arkle Lures Johnson
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SOME OWNERS spend their lives dreaming of having a runner at the Cheltenham Festival, even a 50-1 chance. David Johnson is not one of them. Thanks to Martin Pipe and an apparently bottomless bank account, he was the most successful owner in Britain last...
`Rainbow Team' to Steer Bush Drive
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GEORGE W BUSH, by far the most likely Republican candidate for the White House in next year's election, put himself forward yesterday as the man who could reunite America behind the Republican Party.Mr Bush, Governor of Texas, has assembled a Presidential...
Right of Reply: The Director of Programmes, ITV Network, Replies to a S Peech by the Head of BBC Broadcast
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IT'S NOT been a good month for the BBC. So I am hardly surprised that Will Wyatt decided to use his speech to the All-Party Media Group at Westminster - repeated in this newspaper last week - to rip into ITV. It's an old PR tactic, but one that only...
Rugby League: Gateshead's Sterling Start Gateshead 14 Leeds 24
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GATESHEAD COULD not quite celebrate the opening of Super League's new frontier with a win over arguably the strongest side in the competition, but they went close enough to make it a sterling debut.Leeds looked likely on occasion to run away with the...
Rugby Union: England Come Up Smelling of Roses Ireland 15 England 27 Penalties: Humphreys 5 Tries: Perry, Rodber Conv Ersion: Wilkinson Penalties: Wilkinson 4 Drop Goal: Grayson Half-Time: 9-11 Attendance: 49,000
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THE BUOYANT Irish poured into Lansdowne Road expecting nothing less than the earth. Seduced by a near-miss against France and a half- decent victory over the Welsh, they anticipated an intense oval-ball equivalent of Hemingway's corrida or Mailer's boxing...
Rugby Union: The Day Wales Painted Paris Red France 33 Wales 34 Tries: E Ntamack (3) Tries: Charvis, James Castaign Ede C Quinnell Conversions: Castaignede 2 Convers Ions: Jenkins 2 Penalties: Castaignede 3 Penalties: Jenkins 5 Half-Time: 18-28
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TRAVELLING ON the Metro to the Stade de France, a trio of supporters from Bridgend revealed that they had each had a fiver on Wales to win the World Cup at 100-1. They thought the odds were attractive although somebody pointed out that 1,000-1 would...
Rugby Union: Tough Going as Italy Play Rough Scotland 30 Italy 12
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A MATCH which began as a highly entertaining, bloodless friendly ended with Scotland counting the stitches and Italy down to 14 men at Murrayfield on Saturday.Perhaps there is something of the Jekyll and Hyde about Italy as they were initially happy...
`Skilful' Chancellor Wins Rave Review from the IMF Eve of Budget: The UK Gets a Glowing Report as DTI Prepares to Boost SM All Business
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THE BRITISH economy got a rave review from the International Monetary Fund yesterday. The IMF praised the Government for its "skillful management" and said prompt monetary and fiscal policy responses should ensure that the economic slowdown would be...
Slave, Mother of 10, Genius CHARLOTTE SMITH: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY BY LORAINE FLETCHER, MACMILLAN PR ESS, Pounds 47.50
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THE PATTERN looks just a bit too familiar: a modern academic, whose weapons include extravagant claims of neglected genius and a variety of -isms, attempts to free yet another forgotten author from obscurity. It is even more convenient if that author...
Soldiers Recruited by Violent Far-Right
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THEY NUMBER probably no more than three dozen yet they are considered too dangerous and extreme for most of Britain's far right. Combat 18, a collection of skinhead tattooed racists, remain influential beyond their size. Yesterday it was disclosed...
Southgate Departs EMI with Pounds 800,000 Payoff
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SIR COLIN SOUTHGATE, the controversial executive chairman of EMI, is to receive a payoff of about pounds 800,000 following yesterday's announcement that he is to be replaced at the helm of the music group by Eric Nicoli, the chief executive of United...
Sport on the Internet
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DOMESTIC SUCCESS in English Open championships is a rarity in many sports, but according to reports on the Web's badminton pages, some English players are in with a chance of picking up titles in the All England Open Championship that takes place from...
St John Brigade `Recruits or Dies'
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THEY ARE a familiar sight at every public event but St John Ambulances could disappear altogether unless the service can attract thousands of new volunteers, it warned yesterday.The service, which provides first aid to thousands of sports, arts and other...
Studio Was Kept in the Dark While He Spent the Money
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THERE HAD been rumours in the past couple of years that Stanley Kubrick was ill; and even that his organism might be housing the error that would eliminate him.That is a Kubrickian way of putting it, not a bad joke; he saw human beings and our social...
Television Review
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LAST WEEK'S City Central (Sat BBC1) ended with PC Sydenham being shot at point-blank range with a shotgun. Not much of interest about that, you'll say, and I'm bound to agree with you: life is cheap in the world of popular drama these days. There was...
The Olympic Stage Is Set Letter From. Sydney
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In any contest between a good big 'un and a good little 'un, the big 'un will always win. The old sporting adage has often been demonstrated by beefy Australian ball-players against their puny northern hemisphere rivals, and the same principle has been...
The One That Got Away John Neville Could Have Been Up There with Sir Ian and Dame Judi as a G Reat British Thesp. but Instead He Ended Up in Canada, and in the X-Files. Does He Have Any Regrets about the Past?
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John Neville is the working-class London boy who became one of the great idols of postwar British theatre. No, he's not, he's one of Canada's most resourceful artistic directors. Wait a moment, isn't he that guy known to millions of TV viewers as Well-Manicured...
Time to Stop Hating Barbie
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TOMORROW IS Barbie's 40th birthday. You probably don't want to know that and, frankly, I wasn't all that thrilled when the Barbie News Desk at Mattel Toys rang me last autumn to prepare me for the big day. Since then there have been at least 10 calls...
Tories Warn Hague to Hit Seats Target
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WILLIAM HAGUE has been warned that the Conservative Party may fail to achieve its target of gaining 800 seats in local authority elections in May.Mr Hague could face a leadership crisis if the party does not make significant gains in the European Parliament...
Toxic Dumps: Official Inquiry Ordered
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By Fran Abrams Westminster CorrespondentMINISTERS HAVE commissioned a study into reports that mothers living within two miles of toxic waste dumps are much more likely than normal to have babies with birth defects.Research has found the apparent link...
What the Papers Said A Round-Up of Sunday Business Stories
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n Business leaders are expected to welcome Gordon Brown's budget as a blueprint for economic stability and enterprise.The chief economist of the Confederation of British Industry, Kate Barker, said she was confident her members had been heard.n Standard...
Who's in and Who's out in the Great FTSE Shake-About Stock Market Week
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THE GREAT RESHUFFLE is upon us again this week, and the FTSE 100 is braced for its periodical round of changes.Like a prehistoric ritual, Wednesday's quarterly review of the indices will see some blue chips sacrificed on the altar of market value and...
Will BSkyB Get the Red Card? News Analysis: MMC Report on Murdoch's Bid for Man United Is Delivered This Week
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THIS WEEK, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission will deliver its verdict on the proposed purchase of Manchester United by British Sky Broadcasting, Rupert Murdoch's satellite broadcaster.In financial terms the pounds 628m takeover, the report on which...
With His Public School Education, Hand-Made Suits, Dinners at Marco Pie Rre White Restaurants and Holidays in the Caribbean, Who'd Have Thought Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan Would Have Ended Up Editing the Mirror (and Not Doing Too Badly Either)? the Deborah Ross Interview
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Off, then, to meet Piers Morgan, editor of The Mirror, the youngest- ever national newspaper editor, and a bloke who, after the mighty clanger that was "Achtung Surrender!", is now generally regarded as "a good thing". It's all a bit weird, I must say,...
Woodhead: Teachers Call for Inquiry
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TEACHERS' LEADERS demanded a government inquiry yesterday into fresh allegations over the conduct of Chris Woodhead, the Chief Inspector of Schools.They claimed that if the allegations against him, that he had an affair with a pupil while a teacher at...
