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The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
The Independent on Sunday is the Sunday edition of The Independent, a daily newspaper in London, England. The Independent Sunday covers local, national, and international news, sports, business, politics, and weather.
Articles from February 25, 2007
2000 A.D. ; the Great British Sci-Fi Comic Celebrates Its 30th Birthday on Wednesday - and Judge Dredd Has Been Dishing out Rough Justice since Issue Two. Life-Long Subscriber Nicholas Lezard Salutes a Home- Grown Anti-Hero Who Is Ageing Disgracefully
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Thirty years ago, my father, who exported newspapers and magazines, came home from work with the first issue of a new comic being launched by IPC. He thought I might be interested in it. As I had already read about it in The Guardian, with worries being...
24 HOURS IN THE MINAHASA HIGHLANDS ; Spend Your Final Day on Dry Land and Head out of Town Up to the Lush, Volcanic Hills
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Take a tour of the highlands 08.00: You will need to spend some time on dry land before you fly home, so make the most of being in Sulawesi and take a day tour, about $60 ([pound]31) into the Minahassa highlands. Breakfast at your hotel The Tasik Ria...
5,000 Child Sex Slaves in UK ; AN 'IoS' SPECIAL INVESTIGATION ++ Exclusive: Young Children Sold into Prostitution by Criminal Gangs in Britain
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More than 5,000 children are being forced to work as sex slaves in the UK, including thousands trafficked to this country by criminal gangs, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.An important study of global slavery exposes Britain as a major transit...
A Brief History of British Racism ; SUNDAY REVIEW
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AD400-900 British kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia and Wessex fight each other and Vikings (right). 1066 After the battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror ensures Norman control of all levels of government and invites Jews to settle in England to help...
ACROSS NEW FRONTIERS A CHAMPION RIDES OUT ; Grand National Jockey Turned Avid Globetrotter, Richard Dunwoody Did Not Want to Take Life Easy When Injury Forced Him to Retire. He Now Leads Wilderness Riding Tours and Crosses Icy Continents for Charity. Interview by Minty Clinch
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Three times champion National Hunt jockey, Richard Dunwoody, 42, won two Grand Nationals and struck up a memorable partnership in the early 1990s with the snow white Desert Orchid, the nation's favourite steeplechaser. An injury forced him into early...
Africa: A Walk on the Wild Side for Investors ; for All the Economic and Political Risk, Signs of Growth Flicker in Some Parts of the Continent
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From vast expanses of desert, to sub-Saharan savannah teeming with wildlife, to market traders in Marrakesh, perceptions of Africa are shaped by any number of images. Sadly, though, the most startling and enduring pictures are those of war or famine....
After the Pensions Victory, the Wait Goes on ; Final Salary Campaigners Win Their Case in the High Court - but the Government Is in No Hurry to Pay Up
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"It is right and proper that we take the time to study this judgment and consider its implications." On the surface, this House of Commons statement last week from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, John Hutton, didn't sound unreasonable....
Albion Stutter to Summit ; SPORTS WEEK
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Leicester City 1 West Bromwich 1 Half-time: 1-1 Att: 25,581 West Bromwich Albion went top of the Championship table, extending their unbeaten run to 11 games, while Leicester maintained their unbeaten start to life under Milan Mandaric, but neither...
All I Care about Is Me, Myself, I ; JOURNALS ++ Notebooks by Tennessee Williams Ed Margaret Bradham YALE [Pound]27.50
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'I wish I loved Somebody very dearly besides myself." "I don't care I about anyone except myself - that's the horrible thing." "I need a great love for someone beside myself." "I ceasing to be I - Incredible!" Tennessee Williams set up these refrains...
All the Problems in the World ; ... Because There's No Such Thing as a Stupid Question
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Why is a white van man's van white? Who better to ask than white van men themselves? A visit to the www.fordtransit. org forum gleaned these responses: "It hides replacement panels and dents." "It can be sign-written easily." "It's cheaper than some...
A Night of Real Glory - and One Nagging Worry ; CROKE PARK VIEWPOINT
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This was the match that had everything. History, emotion, drama, physicality, pain, hurt... you name it, it was there. And long, long before the end, Ireland had established a psychological supremacy that may take their great foes years to overcome....
Assault on Buyout Firms to Intensify ; PRIVATE EQUITY_UK Industry in Damage Limitation Exercise
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The withering attack on the private equity industry will escalate this week when the GMB union flies protesters to Germany to demonstrate outside the Super Return Conference in Frankfurt, the industry's annual flagship event. Workers made redundant or...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Modern Life. by Dr Cecilia d'Felice ; Answers Page ++ How to Be Happy
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Richard, a 29-year-old freelance film-maker (details changed), writes to tell me that he is suffering from information overload. "I go on to the internet and I find myself six clicks later deeply involved with yet another website that I find fascinating....
Attacks on Private Equity Are Unwarranted ; for All the Fuss over Fat Pay Cheques, They Can Make Better Owners Than Plcs
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It is understandable that the private equity industry is coming under a sustained assault from a few ambitious Labour MPs and the massed ranks of the unions. Partners in these companies trouser vast salaries, and many do so while overseeing swingeing...
A Woman of Stature, versus a Woman Who Needs a Statue ; COMMENT & DEBATE
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On Thursday evening, dozens of people packed into a gallery and bookshopinwest London for a book launch. There's nothingunusual about that,except thatmost ofus arrivedfeeling bereft- painfully aware of the absence of a graceful, vibrant woman. Mai Ghoussoub,...
Bank Customers May Rage, but Profits Set to Soar Higher Still ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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UK banking profits for the coming year are set to soar far beyond those reached this year, adding to the heat on the industry as it faces the outcome of at least three inquiries into the sector and growing consumer criticism. James Hutson, an analyst...
Basra Betrayed ; Special Report: British Troops in Iraq ++ When the British Leave, Will the Mahdi Army Replace Them? ++ Britain's Withdrawal from Iraq's Second City Is Being Seen by Some as 'Criminally Irresponsible'. by Kim Sengupta and Raymond Whitaker
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Tahir al-Hussein and his three brothers returned to their family home in Basra this month to find it wrecked, looted and festooned with graffiti proclaiming the glory of the radical Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr. When they fled the city last summer, Sunnis...
Being Beautiful Can Be Murder ; Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Trs Rebecca Copeland HARVILL SECKER [Pound]17.99
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Recently, Japanese crime fiction has been following the same disturbing lines as its cinema, dissecting urban lives in clinical detail, and creating imagery that conjures sensations of alienation and melancholia. Natsuo Kirino broke new ground with Out,...
Beleaguered & Bewildered ; Special Report: War on Two Fronts ++ the Prospect of Defeat Looms for British Army ++ Overstretched, Ill-Equipped, the Military Are Caught in the Crossfire of a Mission Impossible. by Raymond Whitaker
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When Tony Blair rose in Parliament last week to announce that 1,600 troops would be withdrawn this spring from Iraq, he did not say that an almost equal number would be sent to Afghanistan at roughly the same time. That news only emerged a day and a...
Bent's Brio Just What Hammers Are Missing ; Home Striker Is Toast of Those Curbishley Left Behind. Ronald Atkin Reports from the Valley
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A talisman was what he was labelled in the Charlton programme, and Darren Bent lived up to the reputation, right up to the hilt. Proudly flaunting the captain's armband he had worn until damaging his left knee against Aston Villa at the very end of last...
'Big Brother' Clocks in at the Royal Mail ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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The Royal Mail, which earlier this month revealed an 86 per cent plunge in profits, is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds installing television screens in every delivery and sorting office in the country. Management will use the screens to convey...
Blair Missed His Chance on Iraq ; COMMENT & DEBATE
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There is a sense of desperation among our armed forces. The tasks never end, and the troops and kit are looking pretty frayed at the edges. Last week Tony Blair tinkered with the deployment in Iraq by announcing the withdrawal of some 1,600 troops soon....
Blair's Moral Failure ; LEADING ARTICLE
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There is a long tradition in this country of scepticism about moralising politicians. It is a tradition to which this newspaper - alone among quality Sundays - gave voice in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq. It is worth recalling the reasons for...
Blood & Bling at the Oscars ; Not All the Stars Will Be Dripping with Diamonds If Campaigners Have Their Way
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This was supposed to be the year that the jewellery at the Oscars, at least, would be conflict-free. Hollywood loves a cause, and the movie Blood Diamond - which has garnered Leonardo DiCaprio a nomination for best actor - gave the industry a perfect...
Bo Ncers ; SPECIAL REPORT ++ CLUBS AND CRIME ++ It's an Open Secret That Some of the Men Who Guard Nightclubs Use Their Jobs as Cover for Crime. with Huge Amounts of Money at Stake, There's Little Wonder That the Underworld Won't Let Go of Such a Lucrative Business. Tony Thompson Reports
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The gunman lured his victim to a disused towpath by a canal and shot him twice in the back. As the body lay sprawled on the ground he fired twice more, into the prone man's head. This was not a gangland killing, or part of a turf war between drugs dealers....
Braising the Steaks ; When Skye Gyngell Has Friends Round, Often She'll Cook a Hearty Meal with Braised Meat. It's a Simple Technique and a Great Way of Getting the Best out of Cheaper Cuts. Pictures by Lisa Barber
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At this time of year, with a little bit of time and patience, really good, comforting dishes can be produced using cheaper cuts of meat. Slow, gentle cooking or braising, can yield dishes of real substance that are among some of the most satisfying meals...
Britons' Love Affair with 'Mood Foods' Now a [Pound]1.1bn Market ; HOME NEWS
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It is a chocoholic's dream. Not only can they indulge in their favourite treat, but they can also say, honestly, that it is doing them good. "Mental Balance Chocolate Gaba" is not just any chocolate, however. It is one of a number of products being pushed...
Carrot Fishing Rods - What's Up, Docs? ; FISHING LINES
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Fifteen things you never knew about carrots: They are the world's secondmost popular vegetable, afterthe potato. You canget them in any colour, including black. Thelongest, recorded in 1996, was 5.14 metres and the heaviest weighed nearly 19lb. Carrots...
Casey Runs out of Steam as Rose Wilts ; GOLF. Imperious Defending Champion and World No 13 Immelman Put Down English Charge
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The British challenge at the Accenture Match Play Championship petered out in Arizona yesterday when Paul Casey and Justin Rose surrendered in meek fashion. Rose was unable to muster sufficient resistance to the maturing Trevor Immelman, who caught fire...
Championship Round-Up ; Sports Week
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Colchester Utd 0 Burnley 0 Steve Cotterill's Clarets have not won for 14 games but will be happy with this point carved out in doughty fashion at Layer Road. "We more than deserved our point and it's something for us to build on," Cotterill said. "It...
CONTINUATION: Is Africa Fertile Ground? ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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New Star Hidden Value fund. Although this is focused on the UK, he has 7 per cent of his portfolio invested in African mining firms - attracted by mineral deposits including copper in the Congo and gold in South Africa and Botswana. "Many of the companies,...
CONTINUATION: Network Rail in Dock over Death Crash ; Special Report: The Cumbria Rail Crash
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in the dark to a farmhouse, where they were given cups of tea and painkillers. Rescue services praised local people who helped.The passenger who died, Margaret Masson, was in the first carriage, where her niece and nephew were among 11 others seriously...
Curbishley Falls into Valley of Doom ; PREMIERSHIP. Unhappy Return for the Former Charlton Manager as Visiting Fans Yearn for Spurned Pardew
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Charlton Athletic 4West Ham Utd 0Half-time: 3-0Attendance: 27,111Referee: Rob Styles (Hampshire)Charlton didn't just take three points from West Ham yesterday. They over-ran them, destroyed them and crushed any remnants of dying belief that they can...
DAYS OUT ; Port Lympne Animal Park, Hythe, Kent by Natalie Holmes
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The Venue Any child with a TV will be familiar with Port Lympne, the setting for the CBBC series Roar!. The show is a children's version of Animal Park, documenting the daily dramas of the 50 species and their keepers. The 400-acre park was founded by...
Death by Poultry: A Preview ; RADIO
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Listeners of a nervous disposition who tuned into Radio 4 last Wednesday without checking what time it was first might have had a rather nasty turn. They would have heard John Humphrys telling them that a cordon had been placed around an English village;...
Discs ; ABC
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ROCK Kaiser Chiefs Yours Truly, Angry Mob B-UNIQUE What is it with Noughties indie bands beginning with K, and the compulsion to grow facial hair between their first and second albums? Both The Killers' Brandon Flowers and Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson...
Divided We Stand ; the Race Issue ++ It's Britain's Most Segregated Town, a BNP Stronghold Where Many Asians and Whites Only Meet to Riot. but on Burnley's Frontline, One Brave Woman Is Beginning to Make Difference. Peter Stanford Goes on Patrol with PC Susan Sanderson. Photographs by Abbie Trayler-Smith
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What are you called? "Idi Amin." The answer is shot straight back at me and the gang of Asian teenagers shake with laughter at their mate's quick-fire wit. Admittedly it isn't my best ever question, but it's six o'clock on a cold, wintery Monday evening...
Don't Call Them Asset Strippers ; Even as They Generate Massive Returns for Pension Funds, Private Equity Firms Are Being Dubbed 'Amoral' Money-Grabbers. It's Good to Talk but Does the Industry Know How?
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It has been a year of unprecedented success for the global private equity industry. Buyout firms have raised more money than ever before for buying under-performing companies, restructuring them and selling them on. The returns have been outlandish....
Don't Get Mad, Get Even Sneakier ; THE HACKER
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Since golf is the hardest game to play and the easiest to cheat at, it is a wonder it manages to retain its proud reputation as the most honest and disciplined of all sports. From the best to the worst, golfers learn from the outset to play rigidly by...
Dvd & Video ; ABC
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning DVD retail & rental Leatherface gets the Batman Begins treatment in this prequel-to- the-remake-of-the-horror-classic. Look, here he is getting his very first chainsaw! And, bless him, here he is sewing his very...
Dynamic Duo Strike to Douse Murty's Passion ; SPORTS WEEK
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Middlesbrough 2Reading 1Half-time: 1-0Attendance: 26,412Referee: Mark Halsey (Lancashire)It was meant to be the day when Graeme Murty reminded the people of Middlesbrough why he was once rated one of their town's finest prospects at a time when Gary...
England Bow to History and a Green Machine ; SIX NATIONS 2007. Vickery and Co Broken on an Irish Anvil of Pride, Passion and Brilliance as the Croke Park Factor Turns O'Driscoll's Team into Irresistible Force
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Ireland 43 England 13 Half-time: 23-3 Att: 82,000 England retreated from Dublin last night in some disarray, their hopes of mounting a decent challenge in the Six Nations' Championship, let alone a worthy defence of the World Cup in eight months'...
Film: Also Showing ; ABC
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Secret agents don't smile The Good Shepherd Robert De Niro 165 MINS, 15 Robert De Niro's second film as director is a fictionalised history of the CIA, an organisation which should have the motto "you don't have to be paranoid and alienated to work...
Fletcher and Graveney in Schofield's Line of Fire ; ASHES FALLOUT. Fractured Relationship between Selectors' Chairman and Coach at Heart of the ECB's Review
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England will play in the World Cup while a revolutionary inquiry into the state of the team is being conducted. Whatever happens in the Caribbean in March and April, the self-styled Team England may never be the same again, with the jobs of the coach,...
Found: Tolstoy's Short Version of 'War and Peace' ; at 1,500 Pages, It Is Truly an Epic. but the Original Was 600 Pages Shorter, with a Surprising Ending. Now It Is to Be Published, Sparking Controversy
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With its exhaustive dissection of 19th-century Russian society, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is arguably the greatest, and certainly one of the longest, novels ever written. Now, for those unable to face wading through its 1,500 pages, there is hope....
France Leave Wales Looking Wooden ; SIX NATIONS 2007. Glory in Sight for Les Bleus, Ignominy for the Dragons
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France 32 Wales 21 Half-time: 23-14 Attendance: 80,000 France's World Cup party will be months in the making, and though Wales popped a few balloons with a couple of early tries, the bunting was all blue long before the end. The Welsh were not humiliated,...
From Russia with Loathing ; CLASSICAL ++ Khovanshchina WELSH NATIONAL OPERA ++ LSO/ Elder/ Joshua Bell Barbican LONDON
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Khovanshchina, left unfinished and structurally vulnerable at Mussorgsky's death, is an opera of profound ideological disillusionment. In the years before Peter the Great's accession, three would-be leaders expound nationalism, liberalism and religious...
Gerrard Makes the Blades Pay Penalty ; PREMIERSHIP. Liverpool Captain Wins Two Contentious Spot-Kicks as Reds Give a Reminder of the Class Divide
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Liverpool 4Sheffield Utd 0Half-time: 2-0Attendance: 44,198Referee: Steve Bennett (Kent)What is it with penalties and Sheffield United when they meet Liverpool? They were denied a win in the opening fixture of the season by a contentious spot-kick and...
Gevaert Geared Up for Rematch with Her Nemesis Thanou ; SPORTS WEEK
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It was back in August 2002, in the bowels of Munich's Olympic Stadium, that doubts were first placed on public record about the authenticity of Katerina Thanou's high-speed achievements. Speaking to the Belgian press after the Greek sprinter had beaten...
God Help France If It Falls for the Charms of Ms Royal ; EXPERT VIEW
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The French farce that is currently passing as the presidential election campaign across the Channel continues to throw off laughable gaffes, extraordinary revelations and some of the best examples of "doublethink" in contemporary politics. And if the...
Green Giant O'Connell the Croke Commander ; SIX NATIONS 2007. Ireland's Finest Hour Is a Blend of Brawn and Brilliance
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You can go on about your O'Driscolls, your O'Garas, your D'Arcys, who knows, one day, your Strettles even. But on nights like yesterday's in Dublin they are merely the icing. The cake is made up by the vital ingredients of the O'Connells and the Easterbys....
Heard the One about Bremner Fooling Beckett? ; HOME NEWS
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Margaret Beckett has been tricked by the impression-ist Rory Bremner into think-ing he was Gordon Brown in a hoax call that led her to make indiscreet comments about colleagues. In a taped conversation, the Foreign Secretary was taken in by a telephone...
Heels Are the World's No 1 Fetish ; So Says the Largest Ever Global Survey of Sexual Kinks
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Madonna's preferences might be surprising, but they are clear: "Shoes are better than sex because they last longer." But, according to the latest research, surprisingly large numbers of men and women see no reason to separate the two. Results from the...
Henin Makes Herself at Home ; TENNIS
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Justine Henin was born in Belgium and lives in Monte Carlo but there can be nowhere in the world where she feels more at home on a tennis court than here. The world No 2 has played 16 matches in the Dubai Duty Free Open and last night preserved her 100...
Her Indoors: Sanders Has Golden Look ; EUROPEAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS. the New Merry Takes Step into the Unknown to Lead Britain out of Wilderness ++ but Nicola the 400m Favourite Is Taking Nothing for Granted
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Nicola Sanders is sitting in the coffee lounge at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Birmingham, clutching a two-litre container of Evian. It remains to be seen whether the young Buckinghamshire woman will have the bottle to grasp the European indoor 400m crown...
Heroin on the NHS and a Document Too Hot to Handle ; Secret Home Office Brief to Tony Blair and David Blunkett Urges Dramatic Steps to Counter Rising Criminality
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Some of the proposals are political dynamite, so it is small wonder the Home Office briefing paper is marked "restricted". Its contents dare to say what ministers cannot. On drugs, for example, it reports: "There is mounting evidence of the impossibility...
He's Richer, She's Poorer When Couples Tie the Knot ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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Marriage is out of fashion and as yet shows no sign of recovery. The number of marriages in Britain last year fell to the lowest level since the 1860s, when the population was much smaller. The number had been rising slightly prior to that, and the explanation...
He Wants to Buy but London Life Leaves No Leeway ; WEALTH CHECK
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The problem: How to start saving to get on the housing ladder Although Matt Manners, 25, earns a decent salary, the cost of living in London has left him with no spare cash to put towards buying his first home. Working as a communications consultant,...
HEY MUM, LET'S HAVE A REAL EXPERIENCE ; ARE WE THERE YET? ++ Holidays with Children by Katy Holland
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Half-term is drawing to a close, and my kids can look back on the week with a real sense of achievement. I don't like to boast, but they've had some pretty action-packed adventures in the past few days: motorcycle racing, snowboarding, skiing and white...
Hey, Small Spender - Lloyds Will Punish You ; MONEY NEWS ++ Credit Cards
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Lloyds TSB credit card customers who rarely use their plastic are to be charged annual fee of [pound]35 for their inactivity. The bank has written to these people explaining that they will have to pay the fee from 1 March. A spokeswoman said the move...
Home-Grown Manga ; TALK OF THE TOWN ++ JAPANESE MAKE-OVER ++ Openings, Closings, People and Places
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Hear the words "comic-book Shakespeare" and you might utter a little groan. Or you might imagine another school crib book, complete with cheerful pictures and a modern English translation. Well, think again. The latest reinvention of the Bard may be...
Home Office Backs Heroin on the NHS in Effort to Cut Crime ; HOME NEWS
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Heroin is to be prescribed on the NHS to hard-core drug addicts under secret plans being prepared by the Government.The move to use injectable heroin follows the success of trials in London, Brighton and the North-east on drug users who fail to respond...
I Am the Music Man ; Chuck Klosterman Is Considered One of America's Top Music Journalists
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Feted by Stephen King, Douglas Coupland and Bret Easton Ellis, he has published four collections: 'Fargo Rock City' (2001), on his boyhood love of hair metal; 'Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs' (2003); 'Killing Yourself to Live' (2005), about rock'n'roll death...
If You Jump on a Waterbed, Expect Waves ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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Relations between banks and their customers have never been stickier. As First Direct - part of HSBC - levies its first [pound]10 monthly charge, the air is thick with talk of an end to free banking, ahead of an imminent ruling by the Office of Fair...
If You Want Something Doing, Then Don't Do It Yourself ; from Renewing Your Passport to Walking Your Dog, the Services That Have Sprung Up for People in a Hurry
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"So much to do, so little time." For those who live life at a million miles an hour, many tasks don't seem to fit into their day. And the temptation is there to pass them on to someone else. Until recently, the only real outlet for this was the "concierge"...
I Overheard One Boy Saying, 'Her Mum's a Lesbian' ; PERSONAL COLUMN ++ A PARENT COMES OUT ++ Anna Carlsson Was Nine Years Old When, in the 1980s, Her Mother's Partner Moved in. She Soon Learned Not to Tell People That She Had Two Mums
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I can't remember wishing my mum was "normal", but then normality never worked for me anyway. At school I was a bit of an outsider: I wore glasses, I was keen on my schoolwork, and I was a bit of a bookworm, so my mum being a lesbian became just another...
I Read the Tabloids Every Week. It's So Trashy, but I'm Absolutely Addicted ; THIS CULTURAL LIFE ++ NAOMI WOLF ++ from Celebrities to Civil Liberties, the Writer and Feminist Certainly Has an Eclectic Reading Habit
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What do you cling on to from childhood? Certain rituals. My parents used to make signs with decorations welcoming people home whenever they took a journey, and so I like to be welcomed home with a sign, and I welcome the children home with signs and...
Ismail Amaan & Rabbi Herschel Gluck ; How We Met ++ 'The Other Thing I Admire about Him Is That His Cheesecakes Are Fantastic'
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Rabbi Herschel Gluck (right), 48, runs a humanitarian and educational charity, and works to achieve peace and reconciliation all over the world. He co-founded the Muslim Jewish Forum. Born in England, he lives in London's Stoke Newington, with his wife...
Italian Rhapsody in Blazing Azzurri ; SIX NATIONS 2007. Scotland Serve Up First Away Win with Suicidal Opening and a Steamrollering in the Scrum
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Scotland 17 Italy 37 Half-time: 10-24 Old Hadrian must have been turning in his Roman tomb, wondering what all the fuss had been about. The land where Romans feared to tread rolled out the red carpet for Italy yesterday. After seven years of campaigning...
It's Hollywood, So Yes, There's a Lot of Sex ; FICTION ++ Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley FABER [Pound]16.99
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Today is Oscar Sunday. Your attitude to this annual schlock-fest may already be shaping your answer to the next question: do you want to spend 10 days (or their fictional equivalent of 449 densely packed pages) trapped at Jane Smiley's Hollywood house-party?...
Jose Given New Hope by Terry ; CARLING CUP FINAL. Mourinho Bleats Too Soon about a Weakened Chelsea Side
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When Rotherham United reached the two-legged final of the inaugural League Cup in 1961 and Rochdale matched them a year later, the otherwise unloved new competition did at least look like an exercise in footballing democracy. Once the crucial decision...
Jura Lodge ; HOUSE OF THE WEEK ++ the Hebridean Island That Inspired George Orwell and the KLF Also Offers Jura Lodge. Once the Home of a Whisky Distiller, the Five-Bedroom Residence Is Perfect for Houseparties and Bracing Country Walks
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As the climbers, hikers and sailors who stop off on Jura each year know, this small Hebridean island has an otherwordly feel to it. Little wonder George Orwell came here to write Nineteen Eighty- Four or that, 50 years later, The KLF turned up to burn...
Last Hurrah of an Ailing Firebrand ; out of America ++ Today's Nation of Islam Rally Is Expected to Be Louis Farrakhan's Final One as Leader
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As new leaders emerge, so old ones fade away - in black America like anywhere else. This column has written enough of late about Barack Obama, who is taking presidential politics by storm. But let us note what may be the public leave-taking of a very...
Les Miserables Anglais ; Unhappy, Ignorant, Violent, Disrespectful and Obsessed with Celebrity and Money - That's How the French Writer and London Resident Agnes Poirier Sees Us
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I grew up in the late 1970s and 1980s in one of Paris's quietest and most unfashionable eastern quarters, the kind of place where nothing happens. My parents rented their flat (they still do); my school was a 10-minute walk away, and I knew all the shopkeepers...
Long Live the Queen, Long Live Dame Helen! ; COMMENT & DEBATE
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Apristine copy of the triumphant British Oscar nominee, The Queen, made by our board member Stephen Frears, has just been lodged in the British Film Institute's collection. Today's blockbusters are tomorrow's archive. As audiences, we have an apparently...
Loose Bolts Found at Scene of Death Crash ; Special Report: The Cumbria Rail Crash ++ It Seems to Have Been a Faulty Line - Again. Another Disaster Is Added to the Disturbing Track Record of Britain's Rail Network
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A faulty line was to blame for the Cumbria rail disaster, insisted crash investigators, railway workers and Sir Richard Branson last night. As rain poured down on the remote floodlit scene, Network Rail was coming under huge pressure again for its record...
Magic Johnson Underscores the Skill Gulf ; SPORTS WEEK
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Watford 0 Everton 3 Half-time: 0-2 Attendance: 18,761 Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire) Watford last night had the opportunity to lift themselves off the bottom of the Premiership and failed. Once again it would be difficult to criticise them for trying...
Man for Man Marking at Croke Park ; Sports Week
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Ireland Star performer Paul O'Connell 9 A tour de force that began with the assertion of his authority in the line-out and peaked with the destructive savagery of a wrecking ball in the loose. Girvan Dempsey 6 Not really stretched as the last line...
Marching on Swindon, Via the Ho Chi Minh Trail ; SUNDAY REVIEW
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I'm in Hanoi for the weekend. I know North Vietnam is a fairly unusual destination for a short break but I'd already done Bruges, and Barcelona is so last year. Actually, the real reason I'm out here is that I needed a bolthole. I was on Anita Anand's...
Market Whispers ; Business & Money
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Rumours were flying around last week of Tesco's latest move: into standalone mobile phone stores. Love it or loathe it, the supermarket giant has repeatedly broken new ground: it already sells many techie gadgets, including mobile phones, and has dedicated...
Martin Denies Dowie Taste of Hero Status ; COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP
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Norwich City 1 Coventry City 1 Half-time: 0-1 Att: 24,220 "There are some good blocks to build on," was Iain Dowie's verdict on his first six days in charge at Coventry City. Two wins out of two would have made those blocks even better but maybe it...
Media Diary ; Business & Money
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Cockerell's coup In this Tuesday's episode of Michael Cockerell's BBC TV documentary on Tony Blair, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly our man in Iraq, is interviewed claiming a "vacuum" was left in Iraq after the invasion because "no police force was established"....
Miller Keeps Keane on Course ; COCA-COLA CHAMPIONSHIP. Derby Lose Top Spot as Sunderland Gain Promotion Momentum
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Sunderland 2 Derby County 1 Half-time: 1-0 Att: 36,049 The growing conviction on Wearside that Sunderland will crown Roy Keane's first season in management with promotion to the Premiership gained strength with Liam Miller's last-gasp winning goal...
Ministers Quash Reports of [Pound]9bn London Olympic Bill ; HOME NEWS
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The Government moved to scotch reports that the final bill for the 2012 Olympics could reach [pound]9bn - nearly four times the figure set out in the city's original Games bid. Ministers described the figure as "just the latest" of many figures to surface...
Mixing It ; Purism in Music Is out; Eclecticism Is in. but No One Does It Better, or with More Genuine Enthusiasm, Than Joanna MacGregor, Says Phil Johnson - She's a Pianist as Thrilling with Bach as with Moondog
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Everyone has heard the music of Louis Hardin (1916-1999), the blind American composer known as Moondog. A few years ago, a piece he wrote in the Fifties to mark the death of his friend Charlie Parker was remixed by the cult DJ Mr Scruff. All wobbly-legged...
Mocot's Food Is Brazilian, but the Spirit Is Sadly Muted, Says Terry Durack ; Eating Out
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Getting a Brazilian in London used to mean undergoing a ruthless and intimate form of hair removal. Then it referred to transfers of fleet-footed Latin American footballers. Now it means going out to dinner. The wave of recent fashionable South American...
Model Pampering with Marie Helvin ; Brief Encounter
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We paddle in the hot whirlpool, two tan and slender legs, two pale stumps. Has she heard of the Japanese pedicure where you put your feet in a pool and fish nibble off the dead skin? She squeals with delighted horror. "That cannot be! Half those myths...
More Money for Mauresmo Is Not a Giant Leap for Womankind ... ; EDITOR-AT-LARGE
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I suppose I should be celebrating the long-awaited news that Wimbledon has finally decided to pay women tennis players the same prize money as men. This is great for the likes of Amelie Mauresmo (pictured below), but I can't see that it represents a...
Move Fast for 6% Tax Free on Savings ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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Anyone with money to save - and who hasn't yet used up their annual allowance - should waste no time in getting it stashed away in a mini cash individual savings account. Fail to make use of this tax-free savings wrapper and you are in effect handing...
Mr Meacher Is Far from Being a Louse or a Flea. but He Is a Mite Too Puritanical for Me ; COMMENT & DEBATE
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My first acquaintance with Michael Meacher goes back to that darkest of Dark Ages, the day before yesterday. Or, rather, it was the day before that. It was in 1970, when Mr Meacher had just become the youthful MP for Oldham West and RHS Crossman had...
My Part in the NHS Funding Crisis ; Hypochondria Is Expensive, Exhausting and Worst of All, It's Catching. I Am the Latest Victim
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I wonder how many people were glued to Channel 4's Hypochondriacs: I Told You I Was Ill last Monday. Although nobody likes being called a self-deluding malingerer, many of us will admit in private that the description fits like a hand-tooled, Florentine...
No, Tony Has Not Lost His Marbles. He Just Knows That He Must Not Say the Unsayable ; COMMENT & DEBATE
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There is method in the madness of Tony Blair. He cannot say sorry for the invasion of Iraq, because he does not accept that he made the wrong decision. This is a reasonable view, although many readers of this newspaper may disagree with it, but the Prime...
Now It's Dave the Deadly Deer Stalker ; HOME NEWS
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David Cameron has a secret love of stag shooting it emerged last night, and is considered an expert at one of the most controversial blood sports. The Conservative leader is said by those who have hunted with him to be a keen shot who can fell two deer...
Oil Bonanza Stays in Western Sights after Cosmetic Change to Iraqi Deals ; BUSINESS & MONEY
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The final draft of Iraq's controversial hydrocarbons law has been submitted to the Iraqi Cabinet ahead of its presentation to Parliament for ratification next month. Iraqi officials have attempted to defuse the backlash caused by last month's revelation...
ON A NORTHERN MOOSE HUNT ; Intriguing Wildlife Lurks in the Forests of Eastern Canada's National Parks. Mark Hillsdon and Family Took to the Lakes on Their Trail
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Four hours' drive from Toronto, Algonquin Provincial Park is a vast outdoor playground, a land of mountain tracks and kayak routes, of dark, unfathomable lakes and the promise of wild encounters. We set off full of enthusiasm for sightings of moose,...
'One Day All Keepers May Have to Wear a Headguard like Me' ; He Is Regarded as the Best No 1 in the World. the Chelsea Perfectionist Talks to Jason Burt about His Recovery from That Injury Trauma ++ THE INTERVIEW ++ Petr Cech ++ THE CZECH WHO BOUNCED BACK TO INVINCIBILITY
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'If I decide to play," says Petr Cech, "then I don't look for excuses." The Chelsea goalkeeper, given the traumas of this season, could be forgiven the odd attempt at mitigation. But then he would have to make a mistake for that to happen. Just look...
Pakistan Prepare to Lose Shoaib and Asif ; WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN
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One of the Cricket World Cup's larger potential scandals appeared to recede yesterday. Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, the fast bowlers controversially exonerated after failing dope tests and included in Pakistan's squad for the tournament, are unlikely...
Paperbacks ; ABC
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After Blair By Kieron O'Hara ICON [pound]8.99 The book that is to "compassionate Conservatism" what Will Hutton's The State We're In was to New Labour, After Blair was published in hardback in 2005, and favourably reviewed in The Guardian by the "up-and-coming...
Parity of Pay - but Still a Disparity in Appeal ; THE NICK TOWNSEND COLUMN
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There may be many valid explanations why the organ-isers of Wimbledon have bowed to the demands for equal pay for women players. But Tim Phillips, the chairman of the All England Club, could scarcely have appeared less convincing in expressing them....
Pharma Group Shire Splashes out on New River ; THE WEEK THAT WAS
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After months of speculation, Shire, the UK's third-largest drugs company, finally pulled the trigger when it agreed to pay $2.6bn ([pound]1.4bn) for New River Pharmaceuticals. The American group has developed Vyvanse, a replacement for Shire's current...
