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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 December 3, 2002
Aberdeen May Change Brand for Unit Trusts
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ABERDEEN ASSET Management, the struggling investment company at the heart of the split-capital debacle, is considering abandoning its brand for core products in an attempt to revamp its tarnished image. Martin Gilbert, the chief executive, said if the...
Afghan Leader Asks for Help to Fight Drug Trafficking
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JACK STRAW was pressed yesterday for an urgent increase in international help to combat the exponential growth in drug trafficking since the defeat of the Taliban a year ago. The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, made the plea in talks with the Foreign...
AMERICAN FOOTBALL: Brooks Double Inspires Saints
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WITH FOUR weeks remaining in the regular season, the intensity of the game has clearly been raised a notch as the leading contenders prepare themselves for an assault on the Super Bowl. That was especially evident in New Orleans, where the Saints faced...
ANALYSIS HUMAN RIGHTS: The Rights and Wrongs of the Official British View of the World ; as Tony Blair Highlights Human Rights Abuses in Iraq, How Does His Government Tackle Abuses by Other Controversial Regimes?
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Afghanistan The Foreign Office report focuses on Afghanistan and how the defeat of the Taliban brought about a "remarkable advance for the cause of human rights". Core rights, including freedom of expression and women's rights, are now better respected...
Anger as Prudential Slashes Its Terminal Bonuses for the Third Time in a Year
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PRUDENTIAL, thought to be one of the most financially strong of the UK's life assurers, has been forced to cut maturity payouts by 7 per cent after failing for the third time this year to protect its 2.5 million with-profits policyholders from the ravages...
Army Shocked by Bullying Allegations against Deepcut Sergeant Major
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SENIOR ARMY sources defended a sergeant major accused of bullying soldiers at a barracks where four young recruits died in mysterious circumstances. Andrew Gavaghan has been publicly named as a man who picked on recruits at the notorious Deepcut camp....
Arts: A Date with Paint ; on Kawara Has Done Everything to Remain Anonymous - We Don't Even Know When He Was Born - but, since 1966, He Has Fixed Nearly Every Day of His Life in Paint on Canvas and Sent Telegrams to Friends Saying `I Am Still Alive'. TOM LUBBOCK Visits a New Exhibition of His Work in Birmingham
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Icannot really remember what I was doing on 4 January 1966, but the artist On Kawara made a painting. It was small and blue with a piece of writing painted on it, in neat white lettering, which said "Jan.4,1966". This was the first. He went on to make...
Arts: THEATRE - A Night to Forget ; WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR Comedy Theatre London
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With the play What the Night is For, Gillian Anderson moves from The X-Files to the "ex" files. The "ex" in question is the man with whom her character, Lindy, a special-needs teacher, had a passionate affair back in New York 11 years ago. Now a big-shot...
A Sick Joke: Vilify Saddam While Closing Sangatte
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Yesterday's publication of the Government's 23-page document, Saddam Hussein: crimes and human rights abuses, has been roundly condemned by Amnesty International, a group dedicated to the exposure of human rights abuses. Amnesty International has no...
Ayling Makes Surprise Comeback as Chairman of Camping Company
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BOB AYLING yesterday made his City comeback nearly three years after he was ousted as the chief executive of British Airways. Mr Ayling, who received a pounds 2m pay-off and a pounds 250,000- a-year pension from BA when he was forced out in March 2000,...
Bill to Outlaw Fox Hunting Will Not Cover Upland Areas
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HUNTING IS expected to be banned in most areas of Britain after the publication of a Bill that will "outlaw cruelty by hunting with dogs". Ministers will issue plans to ban all forms of hare coursing and deer hunting on the basis of cruelty. But limited...
Blair Comes under Fire over `Graphic' Dossier on Saddam's Brutality
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TONY BLAIR launched an onslaught against Saddam Hussein's human rights record yesterday as he tried to sway public opinion in favour of possible military action against Iraq. The Foreign Office released a graphic 23-page dossier giving details of the...
Boston's Cardinal Plans Church Bankruptcy to Halt Abuse Lawsuits
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AN ARCHDIOCESE beset by an avalanche of civil lawsuits involving allegations of child abuse might file for bankruptcy to protect itself from financial ruin. New leaks indicating that Cardinal Bernard Law, head of the Catholic Church in Boston, is considering...
BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Big Guns Boom in Battle for Pounds 10bn Carrier Contract ; Gloves Come off as BAE Fights French Group Thales for Biggest Procurement Deal in Decades
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THE FRENCH defence contractor Thales yesterday hit back at claims that the UK's industrial know how and naval expertise will be irreparably damaged if it beats BAE Systems to a pounds 10bn order for two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. The contract,...
Cantona's Elevation an Insult to Football's Truly Famous
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YOU MAY have wondered, as I did with some fervour, precisely which collection of idiots voted Paul Gascoigne into the new Football Hall of Fame ahead of eight members of England's one and only World Cup-winning team - not to mention several legions of...
Centrica's Rough Deal `May Hurt Competition'
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THE ENERGY regulator Ofgem yesterday warned Centrica's planned purchase of the undersea gas storage facility Rough could damage competition and started canvassing for views on the deal. The watchdog, which is run by the chief executive, Callum McCarthy,...
Chess
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The Caribbean Island of Curacao was in 1962 the venue for one of the great tournaments of all time: the eight-player Quadruple round (!) Candidates tournament won by Tigran Petrosian ahead of Efim Geller, Paul Keres, Bobby Fischer, Victor Korchnoi, Pal...
Cinema: The Best Films
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Die Another Day (12A, Lee Tamahori, 136 mins) After 40 years and 20 films, James Bond is easily the most successful movie franchise in history - and this latest in the series cheerfully loots the back catalogue for a non-stop sequence of stunts, vaudevillian...
`Colombia 3' Refuse to Leave Cell to Face IRA Arms Trial
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THE TRIAL in Colombia of three Irish republicans charged with training narco-terrorists in the jungle opened yesterday with the defendants boycotting legal proceedings. The so-called Colombia 3 refused to leave their cells, claiming they would not receive...
Conran Goes Back to His Roots as a Furniture Designer
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FOUR DECADES after Habitat burst on to the scene in the Swinging Sixties, Sir Terence Conran has returned to the drawing board to design a new range of mass-produced furniture. Sir Terence, now possibly known more as a restaurateur than the man who brought...
Cover Story: Be Very Afraid ; the Children's Author Lemony Snicket (below) Is a Publishing Phenomenon. His Sinister, Often Bloodthirsty Books Are Instant Bestsellers. but If the Stories Are Odd, the Man Behind Them Is Odder Still. JOHN WALSH (Left) Is Drawn into His Mysterious World
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We're standing in the world's best toyshop, Toys'R' Us in the heart of New York, surrounded by fantastical creatures. On the first floor, a black giant Lego gorilla is clambering up the north face of a giant Lego Empire State Building. Nearby, a fearsome,...
Creativity
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We sought some new echoing terms to widen the vocabulary of Del "Luvvly Jubbly" Boy and that caricature detective sergeant in the Thin Blue Line, forever denouncing the arty-farty and namby-pamby. Kournikova MournItOver: tennis fan, despondent at his...
Cricket: English Game Must Crush the Culture of Complacency
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THE ENGLAND and Wales Cricket Board has a mission statement. It is to possess the best team in the world by 2007. They have one problem (at least). The Australian team play a quality of cricket that no other side in the world can compete with and the...
Cricket: I Feared for My Sight, Says Battered Tudor
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ALEX TUDOR said that he initially feared he had sustained a serious injury after being hit above the eye by a delivery from Brett Lee near the end of the third Test here. The Surrey seamer spent a night under observation in hospital after having eight...
Deep Sea Halts Shares amid Accounts Quandary
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DEEP SEA Leisure, the aquarium owner, yesterday suspended trading in its shares on the Alternative Investment Market pending the resolution of an accounting quandary that may lead to it restating results. The company, which owns Deep Sea World in Fife...
Deutsche Telekom Cuts Stake in T-Online
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DEUTSCHE TELEKOM yesterday sold a stake in its internet business, T-Online International, to raise cash to help chip away at its EUR64bn (pounds 41bn) debt mountain. The German telecoms giant, which recently appointed Kai-Uwe Ricke as its new chief executive,...
Doctors Charged over `Killing for Kickbacks'
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POLISH PROSECUTORS investigating claims that ambulance workers in the city of Lodz might have killed patients in exchange for bribes said yesterday they had charged two doctors with failing to assist 18 seriously ill people who subsequently died. The...
Emergency Medical Units Get Smallpox Jabs
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BRITAIN IS to become the first country in the world to vaccinate frontline health workers against smallpox. The vaccine will be given to 700 key medical staff in the NHS and the Ministry of Defence who would be deployed in the event of an attack. But...
Ending TXU Contract Costs International Power Pounds 26m
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INTERNATIONAL POWER, the electricity generator, said yesterday that the end of a contract with the collapsed energy group TXU Europe would hit profits by a total of pounds 26.4m in the next two years. The company also said it was taking legal action...
Family Tells How Israelis Buried Deaf Father Alive
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BESIDE THE pile of flattened concrete, all that was left of his home, Maher Salem described yesterday how his 68-year-old father was killed when the Israeli army demolished the house on top of him. When he found his father, Mr Salem said, the old man's...
FIREFIGHTERS STRIKE: STRIKE REPORT - Government Increases Pressure to Reform Working Practices after Military Exceeds Targets
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THE GOVERNMENT stepped up its demands for an overhaul of the working practices of firefighters yesterday when it published a report on how the military had coped during last week's strike. A dossier prepared by the Joint Assessment Cell of Cobra, the...
FIREFIGHTERS STRIKE: THE DISPUTE - Haunted by His Party's History, Blair Remains Defiant ; It Was a Long Time Coming, but the Prime Minister Is Determined to Win His First Major Showdown with the Unions
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IF ANYONE questioned Tony Blair's resolve to resist the firefighters' strikes, his remarks to a Labour fund-raising dinner in Cardiff last Thursday left his audience in no doubt. "What we are never going to do as a government is to go back to the days...
Fire Strike: Union Denies Climbdown ; L Hopes Rise of an End to the Dispute after Firefighters Suspend Strikes
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FIREFIGHTERS' LEADERS unexpectedly suspended an eight-day strike due to begin tomorrow after allegations that they were waging a political war against the Government. Leaders of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and employers are due to meet at the conciliation...
FIRST NIGHT: Hollywood's Goths Have Propulsion but Run out of Gas ; Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club; Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
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TO MANY British music critics California's Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club are a bit of a joke. Why would anyone from the sunshine state so determinedly recreate the sound made by British indie strivers like Jesus and Mary Chain, Spaceman 3 and My Bloody...
Football: Cole Charged by FA over Durkin Protest
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ASHLEY COLE has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association in relation to an incident during Arsenal's match at Southampton on 23 November. The England left-back has been charged under rule E2 which refers to insulting and/or abusive language...
Football: FA Charges Cole as Campbell Misses Old Trafford Trip
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ASHLEY COLE has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association in relation to an incident during Arsenal's 3-2 defeat at Southampton on 23 November. The England left-back has been charged under rule E2 which refers to insulting and/or abusive...
FOOTBALL: Roeder on the Brink as Beattie Sinks Hammers ; West Ham United 0 Southampton 1
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FOOTBALL'S CRUELTY is as compelling as its beauty, and for aficionados of pain last night's match at a deeply troubled Upton Park was an exquisite delight. After West Ham had put heart and soul into losing the tag of being the only team in the four English...
Football: Troussier on Republic List
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PHILIPPE TROUSSIER, who coached Japan at the World Cup finals, has declared an interest in succeeding Mick McCarthy as the Republic of Ireland manager. The Football Association of Ireland has denied any contact so far with the Frenchman, who is the sort...
FOOTBALL: West Ham Fighting Redknapp for Ferdinand Signature
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WEST HAM are making a move for the veteran Tottenham striker Les Ferdinand, but face competition from Harry Redknapp for his signature. The Hammers' manager, Glenn Roeder, has inquired about Ferdinand as a standby striker and plans to take him to Upton...
Forgive Me If I Lack Faith in This New Archbishop
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Swept along by the greatest tide of media approval since William Temple was installed as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1942, is anyone allowed even a faint voice of doubt about the Most Reverend Rowan Williams' accession to Primacy of All England. Anyone,...
Franco-German Axis Revived in EU Tax Reform Plan
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FRANCE AND Germany have bolstered their rejuvenated diplomatic alliance with plans to push important tax harmonisation measures through the European Union. The initiative, which would cover corporate tax and VAT, is part of a concerted effort by the...
Girl of Eight to Back Mother in Murder Appeal
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AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl is expected to tell the Court of Appeal today how her mother stabbed her abusive father to death after he threatened her with a hot iron. The girl's evidence will support her mother's claim that she acted in self-defence or that...
Glaxo Claims Levitra Is Real Threat to Viagra
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GLAXOSMITHKLINE and Pfizer stepped up their war of words yesterday, bragging about the prowess of their rival treatments for impotence. GSK, the UK's biggest pharmaceuticals group, presented new scientific data that it hopes will make its new drug, Levitra,...
Government Attacked for Bid to Block Anti-Tobacco Law
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THE GOVERNMENT faces renewed criticism over its business links after unsuccessfully trying to block new European Union anti- tobacco measures which will ban cigarette sponsorship of Formula One a year earlier than planned. Britain and Germany were the...
Heads Say Councils Deprive Schools of Pounds 100m in State Aid
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FIFTY LOCAL councils are underspending on school services by a total of more than pounds 100m a year, a new survey suggests. The results, to be published today, show one in three of the country's local education authorities is spending less on its schools...
Highland Gold Set for Pounds 200m Listing
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LORD DARESBURY, a member of the Greenall brewing dynasty that became the De Vere hotel group, yesterday revealed plans to float a Russian gold mining company on the AIM exchange. The AIM listing will help Highland raise up to pounds 25m to expand its...
HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ: DISSIDENTS - Hatred and Menace in City That Dared to Challenge Leader
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HIDDEN AWAY from the dusty main road, along a narrow twisting lane, a rundown shack has become a makeshift shrine to Nazzar Kadhim al- Bahadli. Flowers are left daily, and, discreetly, people come to pay their respects to the young man executed by the...
HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ: REFUGEES - Blair Hears Women's Stories of Abuse and Suffering
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TONY BLAIR heard Iraqi women tell harsh stories of suffering inflicted by Saddam Hussein yesterday as part of the Government's campaign to help force the Iraqi President to relinquish his weapons of mass destruction. The Prime Minister and his wife,...
HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ: THE REPORT - `Iraq Is a Terrifying Place to Live. Fear Is Saddam's Method for Staying in Power'
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DETAILED ACCOUNTS of systematic torture, rape, arbitrary arrests and killings are outlined in the Foreign Office's 24-page dossier on human rights abuses in Iraq. Beheading, eye gouging, acid baths, drilling through hands and other lurid examples of...
Is This the Skull That Proves That the First Americans Came from Europe?
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SCIENTISTS IN Britain have identified the oldest skeleton ever found on the American continent in a discovery that raises fresh questions about the accepted theory of how the first people arrived in the New World. The skeleton's perfectly preserved skull...
Last Night's Television
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I'm Alan Partridge V BBC2 Real Life: Fighting for Danny V ITV1 "Do you chat to any other men?" asked a crestfallen Alan Partridge, after discovering that his friend Michael had been exchanging small talk with another customer. Michael admitted that he...
Law: Beware Bosses Bearing Gifts ; When Should You Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth? PENNY LEWIS Explores the Etiquette and Rules on Accepting Work-Related Gifts
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With Christmas looming a good present for employers to give to staff would be a calculator, so that they can determine how much tax to pay the Inland Revenue on gifts that they receive at work. The donation of unwanted royal trinkets to staff by Prince...
Leading Article: If Saddam Is Such a Monster, Why Did We Arm Him and Trade with Him?
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ACCORDING TO the Foreign Office dossier, Saddam Hussein: crimes and human rights abuses, "Iraq is a terrifying place to live". It certainly is, and even the most vociferous anti-war campaigner would have to agree that Saddam heads a brutal, cruel, murderous...
Leading Article: There Is No Need to Impose a High-Tax Culture across Europe
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SINGLE MARKET, single currency, single tax system. The progression seems natural enough. The Single European Market, completed in 1992, can only function efficiently if transaction costs are minimised and transparency maximised. That implies a single...
Letter: MPs Must Protect the Broadcasting Citizens Need
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Sir: Despite five years of consultation, the Communications Bill (which returns to The House of Commons for second reading on 3 December) continues to give concern to the UK's leading international development and environment charities, and to others...
Market Movers
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FTSE 100 risers Price(p) Change(p) %Change Cable&Wireless 87.25 5.25 6.40 Sage 163 6.25 3.99 mmO2 52.75 1.75 3.43 Kingfisher 228.25 6.5 2.93 Amvescap 487.5 13.5 2.85 Wolseley 558.5 12.5 2.29 Alliance UniChem 450 9.5 2.16 Xstrata 640.5 12 1.91 Johnson...
MARKET REPORT: Morgan Stanley Downgrade Sends AstraZeneca Sliding
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ASTRAZENECA SHARES came under heavy selling pressure yesterday as a leading broker warned investors that near-term newsflow will most likely be far from positive for the pharmaceutical giant. AZ shareholders have enjoyed a great run recently. Since September...
Media: Lord Help Them ; the Catholic Church Is in a Hole Again. and Cardinal Cormac Murphy- O'Connor and His Press Team Just Can't Seem to Stop Digging, Reports PAUL DONOVAN
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The Roman Catholic Church is under heavy fire. It has got itself into another mess with the media over accusations about the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor and paedophile priests. Now, the spotlight is on those who have been...
Media: MY GREATEST MISTAKE - `What Advantages Can You See to Having Hitler as Your Father?' ; #35 SIMON TIFFIN EDITOR OF `ESQUIRE'
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On leaving university, I was floundering around watching too many episodes of Take the High Road. My flatmate was working in the City and kept telling me he was making more and more money. I was still living like a student and wanted a slice of this...
Media: Publish and Be Damned ; Conrad Black Has Wreaked Venomous Revenge on His Former Editor Max Hastings - in the Guise of a Book Review
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Any spectators of the relationship between Max Hastings and Conrad Black, proprietor of the Telegraph newspapers, always had it down as one of the great partnerships of newspaper history. Two giant egos, both driven and eccentric, but temperamental opposites,...
Media: The Early-Evening Blues ; BBC 1's 7pm Slot Isn't Working, and BBC 2 Has Lost the Simpsons. the Corporation Is Desperate to Find Some New Hits. KEELY WINSTONE Asks the Channels' Controllers How They Intend to Fill the Gaps
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A select group of BBC entertainment executives has been on a week- long brainstorming summit with the aim of creating new shows for key schedule slots. The pressure is on to find BBC 2 a sure-fire replacement for The Simpsons and BBC 1 a weekday regular...
MEDIA: THE MEDIA COLUMN - `Our Political Editors (like Our Police Officers) Are Some of the Finest in the World'
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My eldest daughter and I now inhabit two different cultural worlds, and - as ever - hers is the one that prevails. There are two sorts of TV programme that she likes to watch and upon which she will insist with an obduracy that makes mules seem biddable....
MILES KINGTON: SPRINGTIME IN DECEMBER ; `I Am in Favour of Global Warming as Much as the Next Man, but Aren't Primroses, a Spring Flower, Blooming in December Going Too Far?'
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Books about British wildlife, especially introductory books about British wildlife, tend to have titles such as The Year in the Country, or The Country Month by Month, or The Changing Seasons of the English Year. That means you can go through the year...
Mr Gilchrist Has One Last Chance to Save His Union from Destruction
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Maybe it was just a Freudian slip. But it was a copybook error for the leader of a union on a national strike even to hint that he wanted to change the character, let alone the leader, of the government of the day - as his subsequent protestations that...
My Conscience Is Clear, Says Deepcut Sergeant Linked to Bullying Allegations
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AN ARMY sergeant at the centre of bullying and intimidation allegations at a barracks where four young recruits were found dead with gunshot wounds dismissed the claims against him last night as "without foundation" and declared: "My conscience is clear."...
Nurse Is Jailed for Causing Death of Millionaire Banker
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AN AMERICAN male nurse accidentally caused the death by asphyxiation of the millionaire banker Edmond Safra when a hare- brained attempt to impress his boss went tragically wrong, a court in Monaco decided yesterday. Ted Maher, 44, was sentenced to 10...
Nursing: A Perfect Match for Many Types ; the National Blood Service Is an Excellent Career Path for Ambitious Nurses with Good Communication Skills, Says KATE HILPERN
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When cyclist Paul Montague got knocked off his bike and crushed under a 30-ton truck, he sustained critical injuries and was bleeding to death. But thanks to receiving 718 units of blood and blood products - the equivalent of his own blood supply 90...
Nursing: UNISON COMMENT - Practical Impact of Minister's Rhetoric
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Just when you thought radical reforms of primary care services were complete, Alan Milburn decides the time has come to announce his intention to break up the monolithic one-size-fits-all structure of social services to directors of social services at...
Oasis Singer Loses Teeth and Faces Jail after `Drunken Fight with German Police'
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THREE MEMBERS of the band Oasis were bailed for 250,000 euros (pounds 160,000) yesterday for provoking a nightclub brawl in which Liam Gallagher allegedly "stuck the boot" into a police officer. Twenty armed officers were called after a fight broke out...
OBITUARY: Bill Sparks ; Last of the `Cockleshell Heroes'
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ONE OF the most daring raids of the Second World War took place on the night of 11 December 1942, in the enemy-occupied port of Bordeaux. The raid, known as Operation Frankton, culminated in the crippling of vital German merchant shipping due to carry...
OBITUARY: Boris Schapiro ; Bridge Player of Mischief and Vigour
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WHEN, IN 1998, in partnership with Irving Gordon, Boris Schapiro won the senior pairs at the World Bridge Championships in Lille, he became the oldest world champion at any sport. He was 89. It was 66 years earlier, in 1932, that he won his first Contract...
OBITUARY: Wolfgang Preiss ; Distinguished-Looking Actor with a Speciality in Military Roles
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WHEN CLAUDE Chabrol made his tribute to the German fantasy thrillers of Fritz Lang, Dr M (1990), he included a cameo appearance by Wolfgang Preiss - then aged nearly 89 - in acknowledgement of Lang's final film, Die Tausend Augen des Dr Mabuse (The Thousand...
Open Eye: BRENDA GOURLEY VICE-CHANCELLOR, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY - Top- Up Fees May Be Acceptable to Protect Quality, but Elitism Is Not
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There are few issues in higher education that arouse as much public angst as the subject of top-up fees. Maybe some perspective from someone from another part of the world may be instructive. The challenges to universities here in the UK are similar...
Open Eye: How to Be a Wizard Family ; the Harry Potter Books Have a Message for Parents and Professionals Involved in Child Protection. by JANE MATTHEWS
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It may not have required magical powers to predict that the latest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, would be a huge success when it was released two weeks ago, but now one Open University academic is suggesting that, like the...
Open Eye: The Return of the Red-Robed Crusader
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Until it unfolds in a courtroom, the law is a dull and dusty set of rules. Ancient laws governing when members of the royal family can appear in court are utterly irrelevant to us until they are animated in a court case like the Paul Burrell trial. The...
OUTLOOK: Enron One Year On
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SOME YEARS ago I attended a lecture at which an eminent US economist described what was then the very recent spate of economic and financial crises in emerging markets as a crisis of crony capitalism, by which he meant, corrupt, dictatorial government...
OUTLOOK: Last Cut Is the Deepest as Pru Again Takes Axe to Bonuses
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LIFE INSURANCE companies have been some of the strongest performing shares in the stock market over the past, month long rally. Unfortunately, the fact that the stock market has finally come to accept that the sector is not about to turn over and die...
Pandora
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An embarrassment for the e-literate minister VAs Trade and Industry Secretary in a government that likes to think it's leading the charge on the information superhighway, Patricia Hewitt is constantly to be heard banging on about the importance of technology....
POLITICS AND PARLIAMENT: EMPLOYMENT - Enlargement of EU Will Provide 300,000 New Jobs, Minister to Tell Business Leaders
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ENLARGEMENT OF the European Union will provide up to 300,000 new jobs which could be secured by British firms, Patricia Hewitt, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, will tell businesses today. But she will reject warnings that competition from...
POLITICS & PARLIAMENT: Home Secretary Shows Us His Qualities: He's Flat, Monotonous and Thick
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WHAT A plank he is, really, I hope the French don't think we're all like him. The Home Secretary in the House yesterday had all the suave charm of high-density flooring material: flat, monotonous and thick. Those qualities are attractive in our close...
POLITICS & PARLIAMENT: LORDS REFORM - House Leaders Aim to Block Plan for More People's Peers
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LABOUR'S LEADERS in the Houses of Parliament, Robin Cook and Lord Williams of Mostyn, are trying to block Tony Blair's grand project of creating people's peers until reform of the second chamber is complete. A struggle between Downing Street and the...
Racing: Mullins Plans the Perfect Christmas Celebration
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AN AUDACIOUS tilt at a windmill worth pounds 100,000 was being planned here yesterday on a frying pan high in the Co Carlow countryside. Willie Mullins, master of Closutton stables, has his sights fixed on the six- figure bonus on offer to any trainer,...
Radio DJ `Offered Woman Pounds 200 to Display Her Breasts,' Tribunal Told
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A PRODUCTION worker for one of the country's most popular commercial radio stations was subjected to a sustained campaign of sexual harassment by DJs and other staff, a tribunal has been told. Wendy Browne-Osibo, 24, claimed yesterday that she was groped...
Receivers Take Control of `Fastest Growing' Church
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ONE OF Britain's biggest churches was under the financial control of receivers last night after the Charity Commission raised concerns over the "possible misapplication" of funds by its trustees. The Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) attracts...
Royal Butler under 24-Hour Guard after Arson Attack
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THE FORMER royal butler Paul Burrell said yesterday that his family were receiving around-the-clock protection after his flower shop was damaged in a suspected arson attack. Mr Burrell reportedly received a number of threatening telephone calls after...
Rugby Union: Blaikie's Omission Leaves Cambridge Blushing
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CAMBRIDGE SUFFERED an inauspicious and embarrassing start to their build-up for next Tuesday's Varsity Match at Twickenham - the 121st in this series between Oxford and Cambridge. The Light Blues captain, Duncan Blaikie, committed an historic howler...
Rugby Union: Twickenham Trilogy Threatens Six Nations
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IN ALL the justified excitement about England's Grand Slam against the southern hemisphere, we tend to forget the performances put up by the other nations of these islands, which is understandable enough. Ireland beat Australia, Scotland beat South Africa...
Slump in Export Orders Leaves Manufacturing Sector at a Standstill
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GROWTH IN UK manufacturing stalled in November as export orders declined at their fastest pace for almost a year. The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply's index fell to 50.0 in November, compared with 50.6 in October. It is the lowest reading...
Stock Exchange to Investigate Leak of Stanley's Casinos Bid
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THE LONDON Stock Exchange was yesterday considering launching an investigation into irregular trading in London Clubs International shares after the price rose by 40 per cent in the two weeks before the company received a bid from rival Stanley Leisure....
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Sell Over-Priced ARM
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TWO MONTHS after its devastating profits warning, should ARM Holdings be back on investors' shopping lists? Yes, reckon the technology analysts at Merrill Lynch who upped their recommendation on the chip designer to a "buy" yesterday. Yes, reckoned the...
The Man Who Gave Middle Britain the Pleasure Principle
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HIS FRIEND, the art dealer Kasmin, once said Terence Conran's problem was that he wanted the whole world to have "a better salad bowl". By the time he resigned, exhausted, from the board of Storehouse in 1990, the public had decided it didn't necessarily...
The Truth about Those Christmas Book Lists
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The newspapers, around this time of year, start to fill up with "Books of the Year" supplements, to the general bemusement of the reading public. What, you imagine them asking, is going on here? Why should I be interested in a recommendation or two from...
THE TUESDAY BOOK: The Art of a Self-Made Icon ; VThe Art of Tracey Emin Mandy Merck and Chris Townsend (Editors) Thames & Hudson, 12.95
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SHE'S COME a long way, has "Mad Tracey from Margate", the girl with "big tits" who bunked off school, shagged older men behind the beach huts, had an abortion or two and walked out of a TV interview, drunk. Not only does she make mucky beds for the Tate,...
Thick Black Carpet of Oil Greets Spanish King as Fears Grow over Slicks from Sunken Tanker
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THERE WAS no red carpet on the beach at Muxia yesterday for the visit of King Juan Carlos, but there was a black one. You might say a thick-pile. It consisted of the foul-smelling, inches-deep sticky gloop that is the spilt fuel oil from the wrecked...
Tuesday Law Report: Deliberate Obstruction of Footpath and Refusal to Remove Obstructions Was Relevant ; 3 December 2002 Regina (on the Application of Ashbrook) V East Sussex County Council ([2002] EWCA Civ 1701) Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justice Schiemann, Lady Justice Arden and Lord Justice Dyson) 20 November 2002
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THE FACT that obstruction by a landowner of a public footpath was deliberate, and that the refusal to remove the obstruction was in flagrant breach of notices issued by the local highway authority and orders of the magistrates' court, should have been...
UK to Take in 1,200 Migrants as Sangatte Is Closed
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THE HOME Secretary, David Blunkett, boasted of having moved the British border "across the Channel to the French coast" yesterday as he announced that 1,200 migrants from the controversial Sangatte camp in France would be allowed to come to Britain....
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
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THIS WEEK'S DILEMMA Six months after her husband's death, Gina has found herself obsessively attracted to a 20-year-old friend of her daughter's who came to help her with the garden. Should she declare her feelings? VIRGINIA'S ADVICE I do wish that sexual...
Whatman Ousts Chief and Two Directors over Pounds 10m Write-Down
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WHATMAN, THE struggling filter producer, yesterday announced sweeping boardroom changes including the immediate resignation of its chief executive ahead of an expected pounds 10m write-down this year due to ongoing problems at its blood transfusion business....
Woman `Considered Suicide' after Having Cosmetic Treatment
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A WOMAN considered suicide after she was "pressurised" by a doctor to have anti-wrinkle treatment that left her face marked and swollen, the General Medical Council (GMC) was told yesterday. The woman, known only as Ms H, was signed off work with clinical...
Yachtsman Sails on Alone after His Brother Drowns in Atlantic Race
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A YACHTSMAN was facing a 1,000-mile solo journey across the Atlantic last night after his brother was washed overboard by a huge wave. David Hitchcock, 52, who lives in Spain, was advised for his own safety to abandon his brother Philip after he was...
