The Independent (London, England) back issues from January 2008:
GEORGE GRIZZARD Dapper, personable actor
Jan 01, 2008; ... The actor George Grizzard made more than 40 films and countlesstelevision appearances, but it was in the theatre that he had hisgreatest triumphs. He created the role of Nick, the young newlywedacademic who finds himself and his wife subject to an evening ofmalicious teasing by an older ...
1 January 1661
Jan 01, 2008 ... Days like these SAMUEL PEPYS writes in his diary: "At the end of the last and thebeginning of this year, I do live in one of the houses belonging tothe Navy Office, as one of the principal officers. I am almostsettled. Myself in constant good health, and in a most handsome ...
A thoroughly modern past master
Jan 01, 2008; ... Visual arts UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE: THE MOON REFLECTED Ikon Gallery BIRMINGHAMHHHH Like the Japanese poetic form, the haiku, with its minimaliststructure devoid of superfluous decoration, the Japanese woodcut isa synthesis of mood, skill, balance and line. Now, in a break ...
1863 THURSDAY 1 JANUARY
Jan 01, 2008 ... US slaves freed President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation legallyfreed ...
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Jan 01, 2008 ... 'Giving power and responsibility to families - of every shape andsize, of every background - is the ...
'The bin men refused to take away anything that looked like paper. It was time to get environmentally serious'
Jan 01, 2008; ... Tales of the City Whatever happened to last year's New Year resolutions? Most ofthem went down the dust-pipe in the first few months. My resolutionto move on from three chords on the guitar and to master severalpopular works ending with Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez didn't ...
SIR HOWARD COLVIN
Jan 01, 2008; ... Architectural historian whose biographical dictionaries laid afoundation for all other scholars in his field Howard Colvin was the greatest architectural historian of his owntime, and perhaps ever. He admired his seniors Sir Nikolaus Pevsnerand Sir John Summerson, but both of them ...
KEVIN GREENING
Jan 01, 2008; ... Radio 1 breakfast DJ with Zoe Ball Kevin Greening's advice to budding radio broadcasters was "learnfrom everyone, copy nobody, skip breakfast". This exemplifies theself-deprecating wit of the presenter best known for partnering ZoBall on the Radio 1 breakfast show from October 1997 ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Jan 01, 2008 ... 'When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it isuseless to ...
Brown risks playing straight into Tory hands
Jan 01, 2008; ... Game over or game on? That is the question politicians are askingof Gordon Brown as he faces the coming year. Many are suggestingthat the game is already up, with the Prime Minister hunkering downfor the long haul until the spring of 2010 and the inevitableCallaghan-style limp to ...
She was a good girl, was Jade. She loved her family - and especially her brother. But not as much as she loved expensive clothes and top- flight haircuts. In an exclusive new short story, Alexei Sayle tells a tale of dark desires and designer labels
Jan 01, 2008 ... Like most girls her age, Jade Suvari had many enthusiasms: popmusic, stuffed toys, video games, horses, make-up and fashion. Jadeand her mum loved to spend the whole afternoon at Cricket in CavernWalk, which was the smartest shop in Liverpool, the place where allthe footballers' ...
Chess By Jon Speelman
Jan 01, 2008 ... A Happy New Year to readers at the end of an exciting 12 monthswhich have seen a change of world champion; progress, nevertheless,by the ousted incumbent; a dramatic revival by a player who a fewyears ago was supposed to have "retired"; a superb run of wins byarguably the world's most ...
Theatre
Jan 01, 2008; ... AN IDEAL HUSBAND Royal Exchange Theatre MANCHESTER HHH There must be a few politicians around today who dread thethought of a dangerous woman like Mrs Cheveley coming into theirlives. The revelation of a long-forgotten misdemeanour would surelyspell disaster for a prestigious ...
Classical
Jan 01, 2008; ... LIFSCHITZ Wigmore Hall LONDON HHHH The 48 preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier are aunique and extraordinary creation. Bach's motives were to master thegenre, to help his students develop their artistry, and to glorifyGod. That word "clavier" has many ...
Do the right thing
Jan 01, 2008 ... What single piece of advice should we follow to stay healthy inthe new year? Rob Sharp consults six experts Says Rebecca Russell, of SunSmart, the skin-cancer preventioncampaign If there's one thing you need to do this year, it is to stay awayfrom sunbeds. There is greater ...
Mad about the girl
Jan 01, 2008 ... Sarah Parish is one of TV's most versatile actresses. And despiteplaying an eight-eyed alien, a scheminghairdresser and an out-of-control GP, she's also one of its most popular. James Rampton findsout why I bump into Sarah Parish in the street outside the London officewhere we ...
I always knew that pottering was good for you
Jan 01, 2008; ... You can drop all those wonderful new year's resolutions to go tothe gym more often, to ride your bicycle round the park five times aweek, to fetch the rowing machine down from the attic, to take tosit-ups and abdominal crunches and meals consisting entirely of rawcarrots washed down with ...
A crude subversion of democracy
Jan 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE KENYA Kenya's election result has opened the floodgates to a wave ofviolence. Yesterday there were running battles between armedopposition protestors and police in the slums of Nairobi and Kisumu.More than 100 Kenyans have been shot dead by police, ...
The year a nation drank from the healing well
Jan 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE NORTHERN IRELAND Northern Ireland has so often been a source of negativity that itis well worth reminding ourselves that in 2007 it proved a source ofhuge good cheer. In the course of the year it successfullyunderwent, in the words of its poet Seamus Heaney, ...
We Kenyans are the victims of an outrage
Jan 01, 2008; ... The lights went out on Kenya last night. In what was easily themost tense and exciting moment in our history, every Kenyan withaccess to a television sat riveted in front of it. They werewatching the unfolding drama of the Electoral Commission reading outthe last set of constituency ...
If you want to know what's going to happen in 2008, there are lots of experts who can't tell you
Jan 01, 2008; ... Can you predict how this column is going to end? I can't - andI'm the one who's supposed to know. Please bear this in mind as youplough through the endless pages of "predictions from experts"explaining what is going to happen to the world in 2008. You know the sort of thing: it ...
Badgers and great sand urchins home in on Liverpool
Jan 01, 2008; ... Old Miles's Almanack 2008 Yesterday I brought you Part 1 of Old Miles's Almanack 2008, anexclusive look ahead into the first four murky months of next year,and as all of my predictions have been proved accurate so far, I amtoday bringing you a similarly triumphant treatment of the ...
Why, oh why?
Jan 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE NEW YEAR QUESTIONS It's becoming something of a New Year ritual. For almost adecade, the website www.edge.org has been asking a selection ofeminent thinkers and scholars to answer a single question andpublishing the results on 1 January. In the past ...
Court date leaves Barkley available for start of Six Nations
Jan 01, 2008; ... --rugby union Olly Barkley, the Bath midfielder currently playing the mostconvincing rugby of his career, will be available for England whenthe Six Nations Championship begins early next month. Barkley made abrief appearance before Aylesbury magistrates yesterday, denying acharge ...
Sporting Digest
Jan 01, 2008 ... american football The Washington Redskins rolled into the play-offs with a 27-6home win over the Dallas Cowboys on the final day of the regularseason on Sunday. Clinton Portis rushed for two touchdowns and ToddCollins directed the offense as the Redskins (9-7) earned the finalNFC ...
Main Movers
Jan 01, 2008 ... ARoyal & Sun Alliance Insurance 148.2p (up 2.2p, 1.51 percent)Insurers rise with Friends Provident. ARolls-Royce Group 546p (up 7p, 1.3 per cent) Off the back ofrecent contract wins. ALondon Stock Exchange 1979p (up 23p, 1.18 per cent) Follows newsthat the market attracts ...
A&L banks a rise on rumours of Santander talks
Jan 01, 2008; ... MARKET REPORT So the year ended with a whimper, not a bang. As the last tradingday of the year closed, there was little corporate news, althoughspeculation did touch a few in the FTSE 100. Flirting with top spot in early trading was Alliance & Leicester.The rise followed ...
Amfoot backs Abbas call for full peace confejin jikiasa18,6
Jan 01, 2008; ... By Thomas Keppell The Washington Redskins rolled into the playoffs with a 27-6 homewin over the Dallas Cowboys on the final day of the regular seasonon Sunday. Clinton Portis rushed for two touchdowns and Todd Collinsdirected the offense as the Redskins (9-7) earned the final ...
Flights of fantasy
Jan 01, 2008 ... From dead-end job to brink of stardom Kirk Shepherd is a penniless sheet metal worker from Kent.Tonight he stands one win away from pocketing Pounds 100,000 asdarts world champion. Paul Newman reports on a life-changing journey Kirk Shepherd lives at home with his parents, ...
Why has no clear favourite emerged in the 2008 presidential election?
Jan 01, 2008; ... Why are we asking this now? On Thursday, voters across Iowa become the first in the nation tohave their say about the Republican and Democratic candidates forthe White House in 2008. By now, two likely winners should haveemerged from the pack, but the Iowa race is still wide ...
Agree on a resolution, and change the world
Jan 01, 2008; ... Let me suggest a novel problem with resolutions - not thefamiliar drawback that we all face at this time of year, which istheir pitifully short shelf-life, but a problem that only becomesapparent if you think of the resolution-making instinct operating ata different order of ...
'Darts is a major sport, not a pub game any more'
Jan 01, 2008 ... A new breed of fan has been created at the new home of theprofessional game, writes Paul Newman Some things never change at the darts. Referee Russ Bray stillsounds like a polar bear with laryngitis (only Wayne Mardle's shirtsare louder), Peter Manley continues to play the bogeyman ...
Fabregas leaves beautiful game in gutter when he should be looking to the stars
Jan 01, 2008; ... It was not as though Cesc Fabregas was without "form". A primesuspect in the notorious "Pizzagate" affair, a kid with as muchattitude as skill to spare and with more than a handful of unsavouryincidents against his name, including an allegation backed by somecompelling video evidence ...
Hodgson puts safety ahead of 'beautiful football'
Jan 01, 2008; ... The most decorated manager in the Premier League, or so heeffectively claimed yesterday, takes his first game in charge today,although Roy Hodgson admitted that he still has a point to proveafter the trauma of his last spell of working in England. Fulham's new manager said he had ...
Celtic call off Old Firm derby after O'Donnell tragedy
Jan 01, 2008; ... --Scotland Tomorrow's Old Firm derby between Celtic and Rangers at Parkheadhas been postponed as a mark of respect for Phil O'Donnell, theMotherwell captain and former Celtic midfielder who died on Saturdayafter collapsing on the pitch. The cause of death has yet to be ...
Mort slams 'tedious' speculation over future of Allardyce
Jan 01, 2008; ... Amid another rash of speculation on Tyneside, and beyond,regarding Sam Allardyce's future at Newcastle United, the club'schairman Chris Mort has described the conjecture as "tedious. Allthis makes me laugh. There is a different name every week and thereis just no truth in ...
Eriksson spins web to lure Pounds 7m 'Spider-man'
Jan 01, 2008; ... Manchester City are interested in signing Jonas Gutierrez, theArgentina international winger who would cost around 7m from theSpanish club Real Mallorca. With the transfer window opening at midnight last night, City,along with Chelsea, are set to be one of the Premier ...
Capello must look past the image and choose Bentley
Jan 01, 2008; ... David Bentley is not exactly a pin-up boy of English football. Hehas never attended the David Beckham school of public relations. AtArsenal he had reputation for being, how shall we say it, a littlehigh on himself - and when he announced that he was "too fatigued"to go on an England ...
Belichick the perfect machine lacks champion's heart
Jan 01, 2008; ... The historic 16-0 perfect season of the New England Patriots is,according to their defensive end Richard Seymour, evidence of a teamthat has "the heart of a champion". Perhaps, however, in therelentlessly technical age of the gridiron, it speaks morepersuasively of the head of a ...
Berbatov in shop window as Spurs seek to plug gaps
Jan 01, 2008; ... If the Tottenham Hotspur chairman, Daniel Levy, is adamant in hiswish to hang on to Dimitar Berbatov, he might have preferred a lower-profile start to 2008 than the one awaiting Juande Ramos' sidetoday. Judged by the breathless recent standards of the two sides,Spurs' trip to ...
Don't believe everything you read: For players this is the not so festive season
Jan 01, 2008; ... I'm sure many of you are waking up this morning feeling somewhatthe worse for wear. For a lot of people the holiday period can turninto a series of major celebrations with the best, the one on NewYear's Eve, saved for last. Aside from the partying, the festive period is a great ...
Ferguson pits wits against his protege
Jan 01, 2008; ... The last thing Sir Alex Ferguson probably needs, after the defeatat West Ham on Saturday which put Arsenal back in charge at the topof the Premier League, is to encounter a manager who is privy tomore of his methods than most in the game. But Alex McLeish, whobrings a Birmingham side ...
Revitalised Upson out to impress Capello
Jan 01, 2008; ... Fabio Capello does not start work officially until Monday but thenew England manager's holiday viewing has consisted not of TheWizard of Oz and Love Actually but DVDs of every Premier Leaguematch played over the seasonal period. Given Arsenal's only Englishman, Theo Walcott, is ...
NHS 'constitution' urges good health
Jan 01, 2008; ... The nation will be urged to keep itself in trim and avoid gettingtoo fat under a list of patients' responsibilities to be drawn up aspart of the first "constitution" for the National Health Service. The document being considered by Gordon Brown will urge people totake ...
Forecasters warn of blizzard conditions
Jan 01, 2008; ... After one of the mildest and greyest Christmases on record,forecasters are predicting that 2008 will start with a wintry snap,bringing travel chaos across parts of Britain as icy, north-easterly winds send temperatures plummeting to as low as minus 10C. Snow and sleet is expected ...
On the menu at McDonald's: 78 additives (some may be harmful)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Best-selling burgers and drinks popular with children atMcDonald's restaurants are loaded with controversial chemicals,including some known to cause behavioural problems. Analysis by The Independent reveals that Britain's biggest burgercompany pumps a total of 78 different ...
'Nimbyism' blocking the spread of wind farms
Jan 01, 2008; ... Local planning logjams are preventing renewable power projectsbeing given the green light, according to research that reveals twoout of three applications for onshore wind farms are being rejected. Thirty three schemes have been turned down by local authoritiesin the past 18 ...
King can start year with Blazing glory
Jan 01, 2008; ... The sumptuous gaffe that ended the racing year may remind sternercritics that men - and, specifically, jockeys - will never lackscope for self-improvement. But it also showed the laughter thatwould be missed, if ever they achieved perfection. Pulling up their mounts after a ...
'It's going to take forever - the other day was awful too'
Jan 01, 2008; ... The irritation etched on the harassed mother's face illustratedexasperation felt by tens of thousands of rail travellers yesterdayas they tried to negotiate major engineering works. "I'm going toManchester and it is going to take forever," she called behind her."It was bloody awful the ...
Nation poised to assert its status as 2008 marks coming of age
Jan 01, 2008; ... CHINA 2008 Here comes the world's newest superpower. The rest of the worldis gloomily contemplating economic slowdown and even recession. Notin Beijing. China is set to make 2008 the year it asserts its statusas a global colossus by flexing frightening economic muscle ...
Their spending power may save us all from recession
Jan 01, 2008; ... In 2008, China will contribute more to world economic growth thanthe United States. Were it not for China, in other words, the worldwould be staring at a recession right now. Untroubled by the creditcrunch, China is still set to grow in the next year by somethinglike 10 per cent. At that ...
Critics give superchef Ducasse a skewering
Jan 01, 2008; ... At 250 for a meal for two with wine, great things may be expectedof Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester. But one of the world's top chefshas been blamed by critics for being behind one of the mostdisappointing restaurant openings of 2007. With a restaurant empire spanning from Tokyo to ...
Scientist who warned Blair of climate dangers steps down
Jan 01, 2008; ... Sir David King stepped down yesterday as the Government's chiefscientific adviser after seven years at the centre of the Whitehallmachinery governing science-related topics as diverse as flooding,badger-culling, nuclear power and climate change. As the top science adviser to the ...
Anger as rail fares rise by up to 14.5%
Jan 01, 2008; ... Train companies have been accused of imposing "unjustified andunfair" price increases of up to 14.5 per cent from tomorrow amidwarnings that the cost of many season tickets will go up by manytimes the rate of inflation. Campaigners said that many fare rises would be far higher ...
Coming your way: the headline-makers
Jan 01, 2008; ... Pandora's People to Watch in 2008 BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS --Ellen Page Going to be Hollywood's Big Thing in 2008, following her GoldenGlobe-nominated performance as the brassy pregnant 16-year-old inJuno, out in February. The 5ft 1in, 20-year-old Canadian has anacting ...
Deep thinkers reveal that they, too, can change their minds
Jan 01, 2008; ... It takes a lot to admit that you have changed your mind aboutsomething but dozens of leading scientists, scholars andintellectuals have done just that for a New York-based website thatdescribes itself as an influential on-line salon for free thinkers. This year's annual question ...
New cultural revolution arrives in Britain on a wave of creativity and confidence
Jan 01, 2008; ... Skyscrapers reach into the air above Shanghai, a symbol ofemergent economic might. In Beijing, the "birds nest" stadium iswoven into the urban landscape, serving notice of a sportingrevolution. Yet China's astonishing domination of the world stagethis year will have a third dimension, ...
Robber shoots woman officer
Jan 01, 2008; ... A woman police officer has been shot by a robber fleeing from apub raid. A 29-year-old dog handler Katie Johnson was blasted in the legwith a shotgun as she responded to a 999 call from the Hospital Inn,in Bamber Bridge, near Preston, at 8.15am yesterday. Her injurieswere not ...
KAPOW! A HERO FOR OUR TROUBLED TIMES
Jan 01, 2008 ... He's battled bad guys on the streets of New York for decades. Butnow Spider-Man has been signed upto help save the world. SimonUsborne reports 'Walloping webslinger' to the rescue Spider-Man's challenges have so far been pretty small beer. Sincehe first spun his web in the ...
'Despair hits me at 3am, but I feel better in the morning'
Jan 01, 2008 ... The 5-minute Interview Anne Perry Novelist Anne Perry (born Juliet Hulme), 69, was found guilty of murderingher best friend's mother in 1954, in the case that later formed thebasis for Peter Jackson's film 'Heavenly Creatures'. This yearPerry, now a best-selling ...
British wildlife in steep decline as man-made activities take their toll
Jan 01, 2008; ... Several of Britain's best-known animal species, ranging from thehedgehog to the harbour seal, are now suffering declines thatrequire serious conservation action, according to a comprehensivereport on the status of British mammals. The report, from the Mammals Trust UK, which is ...
'Her faults have been ignored to make her a martyr'
Jan 01, 2008 ... HAVE YOUR SAY on Pakistan's future after Bhutto Benazir's faults and flaws have been overlooked in favour ofexalting her to the status of some kind of martyr for freedom anddemocracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The appointmentof her son as the chair of the PPP is just ...
n Wedding bells for Piper
Jan 01, 2008 ... Home News IN BRIEF Billie Piper and her husband, Laurence Fox, leave St ...
Bloomberg tempted by open race for the US presidency
Jan 01, 2008; ... The already topsy-turvy race for the White House took on an evenmore complicated hue last night amid fresh signs that MichaelBloomberg, the billionaire Mayor of New York, may quietly beaccelerating preparations to enter as an independent candidate. Speculation about a possible ...
Rebels 'lying' over hostages
Jan 01, 2008 ... World News IN BRIEF --VILLAVICENCIO Colombia has accused Marxist rebel leaders oflying and dragging their feet to delay a deal brokered by Venezuelafor the release of three ...