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The Independent (London, England)
The Independent is a Monday to Sunday newspaper, owned and published by Independent Print Ltd and headquartered in London, England. It was first published in 1986 in reaction to the conservative views held by the London Times and the London Telegraph. It has a liberal slant. The Independent's audience is London based, with 54 percent of its readership living in London and its surroundings. Other notable qualities of its readership are: the average reader is 43 years old; 59 percent are employed; 62 percent are married; 48 percent have a college degree or higher; and 73 percent own their own homes. Regions covered include: London and South East, South West, Midlands, North and North East, North West, Scotland, and Wales. The Independent is the youngest of Britain's daily newspapers and is notable for challenging London's more established and conservative daily newspapers. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. In 2010, Simon Kelner, Editor-in-Chief of The Independent, and Johann Hari, a regular columnist in the paper, each received a Comment Award, similar to the U.S. Pultizer Prize. Oliver Wright is Whitehall editor; Oly Duff is home news editor, and Katherine Butler is comment editor.
Articles from April 8, 2003
American Jail Population Hits Two Million
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AMERICA'S PROPENSITY for putting people into jail has clocked up another bleak statistical marker. The Bush government reported yesterday that the total prison population reached two million for the first time last year. Figures from the Federal Bureau...
Ancient Gold Hoard Found in Midlands
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THE WORLD'S largest hoard of ancient gold and silver coins has been discovered in the East Midlands. Preliminary examinations of the material - the most significant find in recent British archaeological history - revealed it was most likely buried as...
Architecture: The Fun in Functional ; Why Does Art Deco Take Second Place to Modernism? TERRY FARRELL (Left) Argues That His Profession Has Always Undervalued the Style - and Its Finest Exponents
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I felt very pleased to be invited to the grand opening dinner for the Art Deco 1910-1939 exhibition at the V&A in London, partly because it is a kind of exotic privilege to wander the eery corridors in the half-gloom and dine surrounded by great volumes...
Asylum-Seekers Routinely Mistreated, Says Prison Chief
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ASYLUM-SEEKERS are subject to routine strip searches, are exploited by unscrupulous legal advisers and receive little help for mental health problems, said the chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers. Just 10 per cent of detainees at Haslar, the removal...
BOXING: Canadian Challenges Lewis
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IT IS a busy time for British heavyweights with an opponent shortly to be named for Lennox Lewis, a new trainer for Danny Williams and a long overdue return to the ring for Herbie Hide. Lewis will make the latest defence of his undisputed world heavyweight...
Brown's Child Trust Funds Will Favour Poorer Families
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GORDON BROWN will approve a scheme tomorrow under which the Government will contribute hundreds of pounds to a savings fund for each baby born in Britain. In his Budget, the Chancellor will announce that the Government will top up the trust fund when...
BT Calls Up a New Logo in Attempt to Escape from `Arrogant' Image
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BT YESTERDAY ditched its distinctive red and blue piper logo after market research found it conjured up an arrogant image of the company "blowing its own trumpet" in consumers' minds. The new logo - a globe made up of six different coloured circles -...
BUSINESS ANALYSISL: Market Rally under Threat Now Easy Gains Have Been Won ; the City's "CNN Traders" Have Preferred to Focus on Military Gains in Iraq Rather Than the Latest Faltering Economic Data
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STOCK MARKETS are prone to self-fulfilling prophesies, and one of the most recent has been that a sell off in the run-up to war would be followed by a rally as the war progresses. So it has proved. After another 121-point gain by the FTSE 100 yesterday,...
Chess
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The quarterly April 2003 rating list came out last week, bringing joy or sorrow to those involved. The top three remain as in January but whereas both Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik have fallen to 2830 and 2789 respectively, Viswanathan Anand has...
City Job Cuts Pull Michael Page Down
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THE LATEST round of job cuts in the City have continued to take their toll on Michael Page, which yesterday revealed that trading in its first quarter had further deteriorated. The recruitment group, which relies on the financial sector for about two-thirds...
Creativity
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We wondered what further shenanigans the Exam Boards will make A- level students endure, this summer? The Invigilator's clock looks like it was designed by Salvador Dali, You are given illegibly handwritten answers and have to typeset and hand in an...
Cuban Dissidents Are Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
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THE FIRST Cuban dissidents to be tried after a round-up of about 80 opponents of Fidel Castro's government last month received prison sentences of between 15 and 25 years yesterday, prompting condemnations from the US government and international free-speech...
Deaths from Virus Reach 100 and Hong Kong Fears Thousands More
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DEATHS WORLDWIDE from severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) reached at least 100 yesterday, as China revealed that fatalities had been much more widespread than previously reported. Hong Kong said it was preparing for a leap in Sars cases. Health...
Evans' Behaviour `Cost Virgin Pounds 20m'
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CHRIS EVANS' "destructive" behaviour at Virgin Radio cost the station more than pounds 20m over nearly three years, according to its owner, Scottish Media Group (SMG), the High Court was told yesterday. Trevor Morse, called as an expert witness by the...
FIRST KNIGHT: Meg and Jack Conjure the Spectral Sound of Rock'n'roll
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THE PERFECT ideal for a band that Jack and Meg White lovingly assembled in Detroit obscurity five years ago has put them at rock's pinnacle today. Their fourth album, Elephant, tops Britain's chart on the day their world tour starts, largely because...
FOOTBALL: Ajax Hoping for Reprise of Victorious Vienna Night
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AJAX AND Milan's Champions' League quarter-final, first leg in Amsterdam tonight will see the sides facing each other for the first time in competitive action since the 1995 final. Then, on a nervous May night in Vienna, Patrick Kluivert's goal in the...
FOOTBALL: Classic Tie Brings Memories Flooding Back for Foulkes
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BILL FOULKES will always hold a special place in Manchester United history as a Munich air-crash survivor and the man whose unlikely goal took Matt Busby's team to their first European Cup final. For 18 years Foulkes, now 71, was at the heart of United's...
FOOTBALL: Departing Tigana Is Humbled as Fulham Are Brushed Aside ; Fulham 0 Blackburn Rovers 4
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FULHAM, WITHOUT a home and, as of the end of the season, without their manager Jean Tigana, produced a performance at Loftus Road last night that was, predictably, without confidence. Hakan Sukur's first goals for Blackburn since arriving last December...
FOOTBALL: Ferguson Fuels Real's Anger with Outburst
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`HOOLIGAN FERGUSON' was the headline greeting Manchester United and their manager when they arrived here yesterday afternoon. One of the city's sports tabloids had taken great exception to Sir Alex Ferguson's weekend allegation that Real Madrid's status...
FOOTBALL: Fulham to Replace Tigana `in a Month'
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FULHAM WANT to confirm their new manager within a month - and say they have been deluged with more than 30 job applications to replace Jean Tigana at the end of the season. The Fulham chairman Mohamed Al Fayed told the Frenchman a fortnight ago that...
FOOTBALL: Gravesen Hits Back after Shearer's Criticism
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THOMAS GRAVESEN, the Everton midfielder, has insisted that he never goes out to hurt an opponent amid claims he should have been sent off for a knee-high tackle on Newcastle's Olivier Bernard on Sunday. The Dane has hit back at claims by the Magpies...
FOOTBALL: Icon Beckham Fits Perez Strategy for Real's Global Brand ; Madrid Club's President Reaps Rewards of High-Risk Transfer Strategy as He Attempts to Close Marketing Gap on Old Trafford
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THE BOULEVARD which begins life at Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, and concludes at the Plaza de Castilla, is one of the world's great cultural thoroughfares. Leading north from Picasso's terribly relevant Guernica at the Reina Sofia, it passes the Goyas...
FOOTBALL: Leeds Quash Rumours Linking Kewell with Old Trafford Move
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LEEDS UNITED have categorically denied any approach from Manchester United for Harry Kewell. The Australian international has been linked with a cut-price pounds 6m move to Old Trafford this summer as Leeds look to reduce debts of nearly pounds 80m....
FOOTBALL: Shipperley Gives Wimbledon Edge over Distracted Blades ; Wimbledon 1 Sheffield United 0
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LOSING TO Wimbledon was not exactly Sheffield United's ideal preparation for an FA Cup semi-final but then again when was playing the south Londoners the right preparation for anything? A 60,000 crowd at Old Trafford awaits the Yorkshiremen for their...
Forcing Change through War Rarely Works ; Bush Has Picked Up Woodrow Wilson's Mantle and Is Pledging to Fight for a New Middle East
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The Bush administration has it all planned out. War will lead to the toppling of Saddam Hussein. The fall of the dictator will usher democracy into Iraq. Then the contagion of freedom will spread throughout the region, bringing its people prosperity,...
For Sale: Estate Agent Chesterton Says It May Have a Pounds 17m Buyer
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THE SALE of the upmarket estate agent Chesterton International took a decisive step forward yesterday, as the company confirmed it had received a takeover approach that is expected to value the group at around pounds 17m including its pounds 7m debt....
GOLF: Johnson's Hard Line Risks Erosion of Masters Legacy ; Chairman of Augusta National Would Be Wise to Shift His Ground on Issue of Women Members with at Least a Gesture of Appeasement
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WILLIAM "HOOTIE" Johnson, the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club, which no doubt yesterday welcomed a series of cloudbursts which might have dampened even the spirit of Emily Pankhurst, has known many uncomfortable moments since he decided last...
GOLF: Thunder Keeps Gates Closed for Absent Protesters
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THE MASTERS would never be the same again, they said, but Augusta National remained its usual quiet self yesterday, a refuge away from the world. It is a feeling enjoyed by the (male) members of what is known locally simply as the "National", and their...
GOLF: Torrential Rain Forces Masters to Close Gates on Spectators
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THE MASTERS would never be the same again, they said, but Augusta National remained its usual quiet self yesterday, a refuge away from the world. It is a feeling enjoyed by the (male) members of what is known locally simply as the "National", and their...
Hedgehogs Galore! ; the Fate of 5,000 Hedgehogs on the Western Isles Hangs in the Balance. They're a Menace to Local Birds and It Seems That Culling Is the Only Answer. but Animal-Lovers Are Up in Arms. PAUL KELBIE Reports on the Race to Rescue Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
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This week, a strange scene will be played out on a group of remote Scottish islands. Armed with cardboard boxes and tins of dog food, a crew of rescuers from the mainland will be braving the elements in a race to save the lives of a few thousand spiky-but-...
Hollywood's Scriptwriters Are Already at Work ; the New Versions of `Bravo Two Zero' Will Also Take Account That This Is a New Kind of Caring War
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It would be quite wrong and unfair to suggest that our great entertainment industries have stood idly by as the occupation of Iraq has taken its course. The pages of Variety have been full of heart-rending stories of film premieres being postponed and...
IRAQ CONFLICT: ARMS: Elusive Chemical Weapons Cache Found near Capital, Claim US Sources
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ALLIED EXPERTS were investigating a possible discovery of chemical weapons last night. The find could provide the evidence of weapons of mass destruction which had so far eluded the invading forces. Twenty medium-range missiles were found by US forces...
IRAQ CONFLICT: CIVILIAN CASUALTIES: Amid Allied Jubilation, a Child Lies in Agony, Clothes Soaked in Blood
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THEY LAY in lines, the car salesman who'd just lost his eye but whose feet were still dribbling blood, the motorcyclist who was shot by American troops near the Rashid Hotel, the 50-year-old female civil servant, her long dark hair spread over the towel...
IRAQ CONFLICT: It Seemed as If Baghdad Would Fall within Hours. but the Day Was Characterised by Crazed Normality, Death and Destruction
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IT STARTED with a series of massive vibrations, a great "stomping" sound that shook my room. "Stomp, stomp, stomp," it went. I lay in bed trying to fathom the cause. It was like the moment in Jurassic Park when the tourists first hear footfalls of the...
IRAQ CONFLICT: POST-WAR AGENDA: PM Makes Winning the Peace Priority at Talks in Northern Ireland
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THE SHAPE of a post-war Iraq was at the top of Tony Blair's agenda as he went into last night's talks with George Bush. The unspoken fear at the back of the Prime Minister's mind was: after winning the war, we must not lose the peace. Mr Blair was more...
IRAQ CONFLICT: THE SKETCH: A Funny Thing Happened to Hoon on the Way to the Commons
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THE WAR must be going very well indeed. Geoff Hoon has grown so much in confidence that he ventured into the most dangerous territory a minister of defence could. He made a joke. His reputation may not recover. Mr Hoon is known, for reasons always unclear...
IRAQ CONFLICT: US Visit to `Peaceful' Ulster Fuels Hopes for Breakthrough on Arms
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THE IRISH peace process will be a secondary issue to the war in Iraq at the Bush-Blair summit. The extraordinary irony is that Northern Ireland, previously such a dangerous place, is now one of the safest places outside the US for George Bush to meet...
It Is Still Possible to Hate the War, but to Give Thanks for Regime Change ; Even Now, as the Troops Move Softly into Baghdad, the Humanitarian Cost of This Invasion Remains Incalculable
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Among the jumble of justifications, aims and excuses, surely one outcome can be looked upon by everyone, pro-war and anti-war, with some satisfaction. As US troops wander the presidential palaces or Baghdad airport's VIP lounge, as evidence of Saddam's...
It's Brand New York - as Mayor Buys into a Scheme to Balance the Budget
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WELCOME TO Manhattan, the metropolis that melts in your mouth! This will be the banner billboard straddling the main road after you have flown in. Hopefully you will have had a smooth passage through Customs- by-Kit-Kat at British Airways International,...
LAST NIGHT'S TELEVISION ; Dambusters C4; the Planman ITV1
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On Sunday night, that anaemic old cliche about "blood-spattered imagery" was given a startling transfusion. As the cameraman accompanying John Simpson tried to steady his camera to capture the aftermath of the friendly-fire incident, a large crimson...
Law: The Battle Not to Fight ; What Happens When Soldiers Refuse to Go to War? as Two British Servicemen and One American Voice Opposition to the Gulf Conflict, ROBERT VERKAIK Looks at the Laws regarding Conscientious Objection
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The legal authority on which we are waging war on Iraq is suddenly no longer a question just for the academics. Two British soldiers have been sent home from the front after expressing concern that the lack of a second United Nations resolution meant...
Leading Article: The Allied Forces Have a Duty to Prevent Looting
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THE DIPLOMATIC arguments raging about the role of the United Nations in post-war Iraq have obscured one crucial aspect. No post- war arrangements, whether under the auspices of the UN, the US or an interim Iraqi government, will come into force before...
Leading Article: When Saddam Is Ousted, the UN Inspectors Should Be Sent Back in to Iraq
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ALMOST THREE weeks into the military campaign, the capital and second city of Iraq are coming under increased Allied control. The US administration's objective of "regime change" appears close to being realised. The chief purpose of the military operation,...
Market Movers Schroders Back in Fashion + Investors Desert New Look + Broker Boosts Lloyds Tsb + Redrow Bid Fails to Appear
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bSchroders 548.5p (up 55p, 11.1 per cent). Fund management firms find themselves back in the vogue as investors return to equities. bXstrata 540p (up 53.5p, 11.0 per cent). Launches pounds 2bn takeover of Australian coal and base metal miner MIM Holdings....
MARKET REPORT: JP Morgan Jolts Scottish Power by Urging Switch into Rival
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CAUTIOUS COMMENTS from JP Morgan meant that Scottish Power not only missed out on the stellar gains achieved by the wider market yesterday, but saw its shares fall 2.25p to 391.75p, one of just three blue-chip stocks to lose ground JP Morgan returned...
Media: Morgan's Dilemma ; the Daily Mirror Stayed Anti-War. Its Readers Didn't. the Editor, Piers Morgan, Tells IAN BURRELL How the Paper Has Softened Its Line - but Kept Its Integrity
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Hold the front page. It's week three of the second Gulf War and Piers Morgan sits in his office and confesses that he misjudged the mood of the British people and - more importantly - the sympathies of the readers of the Daily Mirror. Taken aback by...
MEDIA: MY GREATEST MISTAKE #51 DONAL MACINTYRE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ; `My Only Job Was to Write Down the Lottery Numbers Accurately, but They Appeared Incorrectly'
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In the early stages of the national lottery in Ireland, the most important job of any journalist in the country wasn't reporting on the conflict in Northern Ireland. It was all about the results of the national lottery. The lottery figures came out in...
Media: On the Right Wavelength ; Who Would Want to Listen to the Radio When You Can Watch the War Live on TV? Millions, Jenny Abramsky, the Head of BBC Radio and Music, Tells LOUISE JURY
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During the last Gulf conflict, Jenny Abramsky had the idea of a rolling-news radio station to fill the gaps between bulletins for the families of the troops and anyone with an insatiable appetite for war. Scud FM - as Radio 4's News FM network was popularly...
Media: `Remember the Local Staff Who Make War Reporting Possible' ; THE MEDIA COLUMN
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This column is for the unsung heroes of war journalism: the local drivers, fixers and translators who make it possible for correspondents from Western news organisations to gain access and understanding they could not otherwise obtain. It is dedicated...
Media: The Word on the Street
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In a lavish marketing campaign, The Daily Telegraph is boldly running mugshots of key members of staff under the headline "best- selling authors". The description may apply to the recently signed columnists Anne Robinson and Irvine Welsh. But should...
Media: To Show or Not to Show ; as Non-Stop War Footage Is Fed Back to the UK, JOHN SPARKS Is among Those Who Decide What Is Fit to Be Seen on TV
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When you watch the television news you can often see the newsrooms behind, where faceless individuals scurry around. It's a voyeuristic experience of limited value, but these figures seem an important part of the set as we focus on the intonations of...
Metronet Fines Capped at Pounds 4m for Tube Closure
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THE PRIVATE sector consortium that has taken over two-thirds of the London Underground network disclosed yesterday that the maximum penalty it faces is a 48-hour fine even if an entire line is closed down for months on end. Metronet, which has taken...
MOTOR RACING: Formula One Faces Rethink after Tyre Selection `Farce' ; Drivers, Manufacturers and Team Heads Consider Changes to Regulations after Chaos at Brazilian Grand Prix
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FORMULA ONE can count itself lucky that the accidents which made the chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix so exciting for television viewers across the globe did not end with more serious consequences. Those responsible were the team principals, who voted to...
Obituary: Anthony Caruso ; Popular and Versatile Screen Villain
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ANTHONY CARUSO was one of the cinema screen's notable villains and one of the most versatile, portraying not only Italians but many ethnic figures including Native American, Greek, Mexican, Spaniard or Slav. His ruggedly handsome looks, gravelly voice...
Obituary: Edwin Greenman ; Art-School Principal and Portrait Painter
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EDWIN GREENMAN brought twin gifts to his career as an artist. As a teacher and administrator he oversaw the expansion of a notable London art school and helped streamline one of its oldest exhibiting societies. As a painter, he completed many notable...
Obituary: General Ali Hassan Al-Majid ; Cousin and Henchman of Saddam Hussein Known as `Chemical Ali'
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IN JANUARY, Saddam Hussein's first cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid visited Damascus to shake hands with the Syrian President, Bashar al- Assad, before going to Beirut, where he used foul language and cursed "other Arabs" who were not coming to Iraq's aid...
Obituary: Sir Peter Pain ; Judge with a Social Conscience and Founding Father of Employment Law
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TO BE appointed a High Court judge at the age of 62 after over 30 years in practice might be considered an achievement in itself. To continue as a High Court judge for another 13 years is remarkable. The last five years of Peter Pain's judicial office...
OPEC Calls Crisis Meeting to Cut Production as Oil Price Tumbles
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THE OIL cartel Opec is considering an emergency cut in production to prevent a free-fall in the oil price, which yesterday tumbled to a five-month low as the US-led Allied forces scored fresh gains in Iraq. Opec is growing increasingly worried that a...
Opera Review: THE HANDMAID'S TALE Coliseum London
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If a week is a long time in politics, 20 years must seem an age's difference in prospect. For Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, 2005 became the year in which a right-wing fundamentalist takeover of the USA led one of its dissident "handmaids",...
Outlook: BT Logo Change
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I'VE BEEN long enough in this business to remember British Telecom's last corporate logo change, when the dancing piper was first introduced. The rebranding was a much grander and costlier affair than the present one, an image change deliberately designed...
Outlook: City Watchdog Sounds the Death Knell for Soft Commissions
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THE BROKING and fund management industries have had a miserable time of it this past three years and now here comes the Financial Services Authority to make it that little bit worse. Prompted presumably by the Iron Chancellor, the FSA has been getting...
Outlook: Suckers' Rally
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THE WAR rally in stock markets continues apace, apparently oblivious to the warnings that winning is the easy bit, it's during the subsequent peace that the real trouble begins. Stock markets are not entirely irrational in their behaviour, and although...
Paris Pulls Back from Extra Powers for Corsica
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PARIS HAS offered Corsica a chance to choose its own political institutions for the first time but has made no concessions to demands for independence, or even limited autonomy, from France. Corsicans will vote in a referendum on 6 July on whether to...
Pop Review: STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES Shepherd's Bush Empire London
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In wartime, artistic courage, it seems, is the first thing to crumble. Madonna has withdrawn the military chic of her American Life video for fear of causing offence. The Dixie Chicks have apologised for daring to criticise George Bush, and Kelly Rowland...
Pressure Mounts for a Rate Cut ; ECONOMY Financial Services Industry Cutting Jobs at Fastest Rate for Six Years as Growth Fears Increase
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THE BANK of England should cut interest rates this week to tackle growing "economic weakness", a leading think-tank said yesterday as it emerged that finance companies had taken an axe to their workforces. The National Institute of Economic and Social...
RACING: Perfections Is Flawless in Rehearsal for Guineas
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DEPENDING ON preferences this is either the week when you dust down your lightweight suit - checking the pockets optimistically for ante- post slips - and rub your hands together at the return of real racing, Flat racing, and the Classic trials at Newbury...
Rape Trials Threaten to Destroy South Sea Island
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THE FUTURE of the tiny Pacific island of Pitcairn is in doubt after nine men - a quarter of the population - were charged with sex crimes against girls from their own community. The charges affect nearly every family on Pitcairn, a pinprick of volcanic...
RUGBY LEAGUE: Warrington Looking to Replace Injured Duo
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WARRINGTON COULD be forced to bring in new players after suffering two long-term injuries at Bradford at the weekend. The Wolves coach, Paul Cullen, fears that he could have lost two important players, the centre Ben Westwood and his loose forward, Sid...
RUGBY UNION: BBC's Boasts on European Cup Are Baseless
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THE COMING weekend is the most important so far in the Heineken European Cup. Only eight teams are left, and the competition is at its knock-out stage. On Friday Llanelli play Perpignan; on Saturday Toulouse play Northampton and Leinster play Biarritz;...
RUGBY UNION: Toulouse Present Testing Task for Wounded Northampton
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NORTHAMPTON COULD use a little good news right now, having just completed a grand slam of domestic cup final defeats at Twickenham and moved within one abject failure of equalling Leicester, their nearest and dearest, as the most prolific runners-up...
Sahara Tunnels Could Solve Mystery of Missing Tourists
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DESERT NOMADS were reported yesterday to have discovered an abandoned vehicle and a network of tunnels in a remote region of southern Algeria thought likely to provide clues about the mysterious disappearance of 29 western tourists in the Sahara over...
Sales of Isas Flounder as Equities Stay Unpopular
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THIS YEAR'S Isa season, which ended at the weekend, is expected to turn out to have been a flop. Retail investors continue to shy away from equity investing. Some fund managers had kept their phone lines open until midnight on Saturday to handle last-minute...
Shellys Shoe Chain Sold for Just Pounds 1.5m
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SHELLYS SHOES, the shoe retailer and designer whose creations have been worn by stars such as Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue and Geri Halliwell, has been sold for a knock-down price of pounds 1.5m.The loss-making group, which has 11 stores and a highly...
Steel Crisis Helps Britain Beat Target on Greenhouse Gas
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EMISSIONS OF the main greenhouse gas by British companies fell by 13.5 million tons, almost three times further than the Government's target last year. But the reductions in carbon dioxide output were principally due to falling steel production as Corus...
Tale of Revolutionary English Princess Wins `Independent' Fiction Prize
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THE REMARKABLE true story of an English princess who helped provoke a revolution and almost overthrew a monarchy inspired the novel that won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Last night, the Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist took the award...
Taylor & Francis Enters Fray for Bertelsmann Journals Unit
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TAYLOR & FRANCIS, the publisher, will this week formally enter the EUR1bn (pounds 700m) bidding war for Bertelsmann's scientific books and journals business. The British science publisher, which has teamed up with Apax, the private equity house, is thought...
Theatre Review: A Persuasive Sister Act ; THEATRE THREE SISTERS Playhouse London
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It's sobering to think that 14 years have passed since Michael Blakemore's landmark production of Uncle Vanya in the West End with Michael Gambon and Greta Scacchi. In the meantime, he has stayed on Chekhov's case with Country Life, a movie that took...
The Best Films
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Russian Ark (U, Alexander Sokurov, 96mins, below) Three centuries of Russian history swirl past in one great dance of the dead, as a waspish 19th-century French nobleman tours St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum. This film is unique: it's choreographed...
THE INVESTMENT COLUMN: Northern Rock Is Living Up to Its Price Premium
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NORTHERN ROCK, the mortgage bank based in Newcastle upon Tyne, has had a storming run in the past 12 months, outperforming the market by a substantial margin. It's an uncomplicated business, focusing on plain vanilla mortgage lending and savings and...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: Carnage, Courage and the Spectre of Chemical Weapons
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The speed and audacity that has characterised the American advance across Iraq reached new levels yesterday with a series of daring thrusts into the heart of Baghdad and into Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces. But Day 19 was also a day that seemed...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: Chalabi Calls for Uprising as He Joins Exiles in Iraq ; RECONSTRUCTION
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THE IRAQI opposition, for so many years waiting in exile, was back in central Iraq last night with more than 700 of its fighters, flown in by the US to help the Allied forces with their push to topple Saddam Hussein. Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the London-based...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: Looters Run Amok in Basra as Troops Can Only Stand by ; SOUTHERN IRAQ
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BASRA APPEARED to fall finally into British hands yesterday. Emerging from their tanks, parked besides a Saddam Hussein mural, the British soldiers accepted yellow and pink carnations from a crowd of people who cheered and gave them the thumbs-up. It...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: Political Survivor with Connections to Republican Right
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AHMED CHALABI is one of the great survivors of Iraqi opposition politics. He has a controversial past, a long list of enemies but is also politically agile, tough and persistent. He comes from a wealthy Iraqi Shia banking family, who moved to Lebanon...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: The Ultimate Humiliation: Allies Drive Their Tanks through the Hands of Victory
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SOMEWHERE, IN a fortified bunker hideaway, Saddam Hussein is clinging to a semblance of power, directing resistance to the "infidels" as his regime enters its death agony. But above ground, all across Iraq, grandiose projects built by the despot are...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: They Were Monuments to a Mighty Tyrant. Now Saddam's Palaces Symbolise a Crumbling Regime
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my works ye Mighty and despair! No thing beside remains. Round the decay, Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. THEY ARE the echoing monuments to Iraq's own...
THE IRAQ CONFLICT: UK Military Believe They Have Body of Chemical Ali
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THE DEATH of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam Hussein's most feared enforcer, was all but officially confirmed yesterday. The British military are confident they have the body of the man better known as Chemical Ali - for his use of poison gas to slaughter...
THE IRAQ WAR: Fanaticism, Debt and the Man with the Fastest Finger
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BENEATH THEIR smart suited and polished appearances, Charles Ingram, his wife, Diana, and Tecwen Whittock were three obsessives about a quiz show, which with its carefully structured format has become one of the most successful of its type and - at its...
THE IRAQ WAR: `Millionaire' Trio Guilty of TV Quiz Coughing Con
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THE MAJOR. . . HIS WIFE. . . . . .AND THE LECTURER CHRIS TARRANT, the host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, condemned the "sheer greed" of three people who tried to cheat their way to his top prize last night after a judge spared them prison sentences...
THE IRAQ WAR: Why There Are Some Deadly Drawbacks to Smashing the Enemy's Command
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WARS ARE won by shattering the morale, cohesion and military command and control of the opposition; by physically smashing them, terrifying them or simply making the command structure incapable of passing orders down. The ultimate outcome of the US 3rd...
THIS EUROPE: Squatters Solve Eviction Problem: Sleep on It
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A FLOURISHING arts centre in a run-down part of Madrid, hailed as Europe's most active squat, has organised a massive sleep-in to avoid the threat of eviction today. Eviction would mark the end of a remarkable self-management operation that has organised...
Tuesday Law Report: Correct Approach in Non-Accidental Injury Cases Where Perpetrator Uncertain ; 8 April 2003 Re O and N (Children) (Non-Accidental Injury), Re B (Children) (Non-Accidental Injury) ([2003] UKHL 18) House of Lords (Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Millett, Lord Scott of Foscote and Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe) 3 April 2003
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ON APPLICATIONS for care orders in cases where there had been non- accidental injury to a child and the perpetrator was uncertain, if the facts found at the preliminary hearing left open the possibility that a parent or other carer was a perpetrator...
Victory Is in Sight, but So Many Enemies Remain ; ANALYSIS; Iraqis Are Exhausted by Years of War and Deprivation, and the US Must Ensure They Face a Brighter Future. but the Omens Are Not Good
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Even Saddam Hussein, arch-survivor though he is, must see that the end of his regime is near as American columns easily penetrate the heart of Baghdad after a war in which the US and Britain have so far lost no more than 121 dead. But ordinary Iraqis...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
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THIS WEEK'S DILEMMA Sammi's eight-year-old daughter eats so much that she's teased at school about her weight, and cries. But Sammi doesn't want her to associate self-denial with benefit, or to encourage an eating disorder by getting her to diet. What...
Visual Art: ART FOR SALE ; NICK ARCHER: FOREVER ENGLAND @ SARAH MYERSCOUGH FINE ART
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For many who do not inhabit the narrow confines of the art world, the word "artist" still conjures up the image of a painter. Yet painting struggles to hold its own for a younger generation of artists for whom video, installation and photography often...
Visual Art: Britart by the Book ; Anya Gallacio Featured in Freeze, the 1988 Show That Defined Britart. but Her Latest Exhibition of Natural Materials Is More Cliche Than Cutting Edge, Says TOM LUBBOCK
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Anya Gallacio's work is exemplary. It is absolutely standard, on the level. If you were a novelist, and you had a contemporary artist character, and you wanted to furnish this fictional artist with some work, and your intention was not to be sharply...
Walker on Defensive over Shares Probe
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MALCOLM WALKER, the Iceland frozen foods entrepreneur, yesterday continued his war of words with the company he founded as he responded to suggestions that the details of his controversial pounds 13.5m share sale had been passed to the Serious Fraud...
WAR! WHAT IS ITS GOD FOR? ; `War Gods Were like Commanding Generals, Persephone Added; They Expected All the Fighting and Dying to Be Done by Someone Else'
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Yesterday I brought you some of the minutes of the latest session of the United Deities, the symposium of gods past and present which surveys our planet's mad goings-on. Today I have some more for you. 1. The chairgod said that before they turned to...
Watchdog Gets Tough on Soft Commissions
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FUND MANAGERS will no longer be able to bundle the costs of research and other overheads into their fee to clients unless they have the customers' express permission to do so, under new rules put forward by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) yesterday....
Xstrata Unveils Pounds 2bn Bid for MIM Holdings
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XSTRATA, the mining group that listed in London last year, has gained the "support" of the Australian Prime Minister for its pounds 2bn acquisition, announced yesterday, of the country's MIM Holdings.The deal, which comes with a pounds 900m deeply discounted...
Zenith Predicts Advertising Revenue Will Contract This Year
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THE FEEBLE recovery underway in the advertising sector suffered a hiccup yesterday after one of the leading forecasters slashed its outlook for Europe and warned that the UK market would contract in real terms in 2003. Zenith Optimedia, the media buyer,...
