The Independent (London, England) back issues from September 2008:
Chess
Sep 01, 2008; ... Vassily Ivanchuk is the winner of the Mikhail Tal Memorialtournament in Moscow after closing it out in the final round with aquick and easy draw against the bottom marker Alexei Shirov. Asdescribed last Thursday, Ivanchuk had moved into the driving seatwith two rounds to go, when he ...
Bridge
Sep 01, 2008; ... There were two strange happenings among the Open teams at the2008 European Championships: Italy failed to win for an eighthconsecutive time; and France did not finish in the top six to claima berth in next year's World Championship Bermuda Bowl. Today's handis from the match between ...
The Ten Best Money boxes
Sep 01, 2008; ... 1 V&A 6.50 Produced from hand-made layers of Japanese kimono silk, thislittle owl combines the design heritage of the V&A and the cutenessof a cuddly toy. www.vandashop.com; 020-7942 2696 2 Freya Design 19 Encourage your child's imagination - and their saving - ...
The shapes of things to come
Sep 01, 2008; ... Just two years since graduating, Aitor Throup is already makingan impact with menswear that's conceptual, but also eminentlywearable. Hywel Davies meets him There are few contemporary menswear designers who confront theconventions of the genre. While notable visionaries such as ...
Ready To Wear
Sep 01, 2008; ... It might be a universal law of fashion that trends work incycles, but there are some items so derided, so naff, that they seemdestined never to return to the catwalk. And then they do. Welcomeback, leather trousers. The legwear favoured by goths, NewRomantics, Eighties balladeers, and ...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
Sep 01, 2008; ... Dear Virginia,My five-year-old son has a best friend who oftencomes round for tea or a sleepover. My problem is his mother, whoasks my son back in return. I am nervous of letting him go. She hasa large 'tame' dog and the children are allowed to roll around withit. She feeds them piles of ...
'I felt Matthew was ready to move on from Beijing, so I told him I'd been made a steward at the village flower show'
Sep 01, 2008; ... Days Like Those I could tell that Matthew was distracted when I phoned him inLondon. I wanted to give him the news that I had been asked to be asteward at the flower show in the village in Dorset where we haveour c ottage. But he was busy weeping and wailing "She's, ...
1 SEPTEMBER 1939
Sep 01, 2008 ... Days like these Neville Chamberlain addresses the House of Commons: "The time hascome when action rather than speech is required. Eighteen months ago ... I prayed that the responsibility might not fall upon me to askthis country to accept the awful arbitrament of war. I fear that ...
There's something philosophical hidden in the woolshed
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Monday Book THE PAGES By Murray Bail HARVILL SECKER, Pounds14.99 Order for Pounds 13.49 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897 There are a few theories, early on in this quietly fascinatingbook, as to why Australia has produced no major philosophers. (It'snot doing badly for novelists, ...
Book Now
Sep 01, 2008 ... Vertigo While Paris steels itself for war and occupation, formerpoliceman Roger Flavires accepts a commission to shadow a femme whoproves doubly fatale. Returning to the novel that inspiredHitchcock, Jonathan Holloway has Flavires re-enact his terrifyingstory under hypnotic ...
Classical
Sep 01, 2008; ... PROM 57: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC / MAAZEL Royal Albert Hall LONDON*** The Rite of Spring came later, but the New York Philharmonicbowed in with something beginning a little like the rite of summer.Steven Stucky's Rhapsodies for Orchestra began with an "awakening"not unlike the ...
POP
Sep 01, 2008; ... BIG STAR Shepherds Bush Empire LONDON *** Alex Chilton was a teenybopper pin-up via his first band The BoxTops. In 1971 Chilton teamed up with Chris Bell, an old mate fromhis home town of Memphis, Tennessee, to join a band called Icewater.He changed the name to Big Star, and they ...
Theatre
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE BOGUS WOMAN Theatre by the Lake KESWICK *** Theatre by the Lake's newly enlarged 100-seat traverse studiooffers, for those in search of darker drama to fit the mood of theLakes, something more substantial than the plays in its main house.Here, Martin McDonagh's savagely comic ...
The gigs they are a-changin'
Sep 01, 2008 ... POP CONOR OBERST AND THE MYSTIC VALLEY BAND Electric BallroomLONDON **** Conor Oberst seems happiest when he's on the move. The US indie-folk figurehead, more often known by the stage name of Bright Eyes,implied as much in a recent interview in this paper. Last year'sBright Eyes ...
Standing in the way of control
Sep 01, 2008; ... Charming, mercurial and neurotic about the way he's perceived,The Killers' Brandon Flowers wants everything just so. He tellsJames McMahon about his obsessions Here's a puzzler for you: what does Brandon Flowers have incommon with Kim Jong-Il, Isaac Asimov, pro-wrestling legend ...
Fit for purpose
Sep 01, 2008; ... From London to Tokyo, Los Angeles to Milan, the Design Museum iscelebrating the works that most reflect the global style of the past150 years. By Rob Sharp A Le Corbusier villa, David Chipperfield coffee cups, 1931Citro*2CV ... in writing, the best works of design are just names ...
By George, he's good...
Sep 01, 2008; ... We may think we've got the measure of the 43rd President of theUnited States, the most unpopular man to have occupied the WhiteHouse in modern times. But we'd be wrong, argues Rupert Cornwell. Athome and abroad, the Bush years have seen real achievements - andhistory may judge him far ...
You write the reviews
Sep 01, 2008; ... HER NAME IS SABINE (12, Sandrine Bonnaire, 85mins) ICA Pounds11.99 **** In this moving and acutely personal documentary, the elegantFrench actress Sandrine Bonnaire delivers a deeply affectingportrayal of the way she and her younger sister, Sabine, have dealtwith the latter's ...
When the truth is just too close to home
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Weekend's TV FIONA'S STORY SUN BBC1 THE CONSPIRACY FILES:LOCKERBIE SUN BBC2 Like the policemen who showed up at 6am to shatter Fiona's life,Fiona's Story held its credentials to the glass before entering."The following is a work of fiction inspired by many true ...
Lace and favour
Sep 01, 2008 ... Forget the frilly, frothy stuff - the fabric of the season istextured, sophisticated and full of drama and intrigue Web of delight (clockwise from top left): cashmere polo neck,49.99, Marks & Spencer (0845 302 1234); lace dress, 149, Linea fromHouse of Fraser ...
BEST OF THE REST
Sep 01, 2008 ... Pop: Silver Apples (Shakespeare, SHEFFIELD) The New York psychedelic electronica pioneer Simeon is touringthe UK. (0114-279 9655) tonight Classical: Nishat Khan (Royal Albert Hall, LONDON) The sitar player joins the BBC Singers under David Hill at ...
FIVE BEST Exhibitions
Sep 01, 2008 ... Radical Light (National Gallery, LONDON) Segantini, Volpedo, Previati? Discover the Italian Divisionists,who, between 1891 and 1910, linked their pointillist paintingtechniques with left-wing politics. (020-7747 2885) to Sun Hadrian (British Museum, ...
FIVE BEST Plays
Sep 01, 2008 ... Her Naked Skin (NT: Olivier, london) A deeply affecting and rousing drama by Rebecca Lenkiewicz aboutthe suffragette movement at its militant height before the FirstWorld War. Lesley Manville stars. (020-7452 3000) to 24 Sept The Female of the ...
FIVE BEST Films
Sep 01, 2008 ... The Wackness (15, Jonathan Levine, 98mins) Ben Kingsley excels as a messed-up, sex-obsessed shrink in thispitch-perfect rites-of-passage film, set in New York in 1994. JoshPeck co-stars. Nationwide Badlands (15, Terrence Malick, 93mins) Rerelease ...
Merryn Somerset Webb
Sep 01, 2008; ... MY LIFE IN MEDIA Merryn Somerset Webb, 38, is the editor of MoneyWeek, the UK'sbest-selling financial magazine. She has taken the magazine'scirculation from 8,000 in 2003 to 35,000 today, and can regularly beseen and heard on BBC current affairs shows discussing the ...
'HIS STYLE TAUGHT ME WHAT I COULD DO TO MAKE MY LISTENERS FEEL I AM THERE IN THE ROOM'
Sep 01, 2008; ... MY MENTOR GRAHAM DENE ON BRIAN JOHNSTON I had never been a huge cricket fan but something made me listento Test Match Special on Radio 4 around the time that I was startingout in radio in the 1970s. It was fantastic broadcasting, just theway it should be, and I was mesmerised by ...
Pandora
Sep 01, 2008 ... Labour maverick fires a parting shot The Labour MP Ann Cryer's decision to stand down at the nextgeneral election has robbed the House of one its last truecharacters. So it is somewhat apt that Cryer, an outspoken critic of forcedmarriages, should take a parting shot at some ...
'I cannot understand now why I wasn't killed'
Sep 01, 2008; ... The oldest member of first-class cricket's most exclusive clubrecalls his dangerous hooking instincts, a never-to-be-repeatedstint as England wicketkeeper and how he was almost sent home fromWest Indies BRIAN VINER INTERVIEWS Tom Graveney Tom Graveney is not a man to pull rank, ...
A Baker with a ban on pies
Sep 01, 2008; ... INTERVIEW DANNY BAKER Having authored scripts for Chris Evans andJonathan Ross, Danny Baker has written a feature film and isreturning to Radio 5 Live. He tells Ian Burrell of his Amerciandream and why football is more theatrical than gags about pies andhaircuts "Look at this ...
The boys in blue
Sep 01, 2008; ... INSIDE STORY A quarter of a century after it began, Britain'smost famous television police drama is almost an industry in its ownright. Rob Sharp reports A young copper is brandishing a piece of police equipment, as hereasons with a heavily-armed adversary, sporting a bandana ...
The family who chose to reside under surveillance
Sep 01, 2008; ... BROADCASTING DOCUMENTARY Television director Jonathan Smithwanted to persuade an ordinary family to allow 21 cameras to beinstalled in their home so that he could watch them for four months.Here is how he managed to do it. On 16 December last year, I watched the Hughes family walk ...
Radiating energy, flushed with pride
Sep 01, 2008; ... ADVERTISING GARRY LACE Once the star of adland, Garry Lace isn'tashamed to sell billboards in toilets. Ian Burrell hears his pitch Garry Lace is one of the most controversial figures inadvertising and so it was to be expected that his recent re-emergence at a company specialising ...
Making a scene
Sep 01, 2008; ... Television drama BBC drama chief Ben Stephenson answerscriticisms that his department is obsessed with costumes, bonnetsand wigs. Interview by Sophie Morris TELEVISION DRAMA Ever since Mr Darcy emerged from that icy pool, dripping wet, ithas been a truth universally acknowledged ...
Sony's online, DIY entertainment makes a chilling vision for agencies
Sep 01, 2008; ... ON ADVERTISING After an August in which almost the entire ad industry turned offthe lights and headed for the sun, it's back-to-school time foradland this week. Expensive tans are wearing new season Mad Mensuits (now even clients are sporting T-shirts it's time for thecreative ...
Could the big fish at ITV learn a lesson or two from the minnows?
Sep 01, 2008; ... ON BROADCASTING Two commercial broadcasting minnows from the Celtic fringe, SMGand UTV, have just reported financial results, and guess what? Theyhave done much better than their old mother ship ITV plc inrecessionary times. SMG's core television business, home of Taggart ...
The Mosley ruling is not the final word on our lives' private parts
Sep 01, 2008; ... ON THE PRESS M r Justice Eady, whose verdict in the Max Mosley privacy casehas cast the whole of our red-top press into limbo, guards his ownprivacy pretty well. His Who's Who entry doesn't mention anyrecreations (presumably not S&M) or even his address. Yet, theMosley decision ...
Fashion does not need to reinvent the wheel
Sep 01, 2008; ... FASHION MAGAZINES Launching a magazine in a shrinking economy isa bold move, but if you find a niche that even industry leaders wishthey had thought of ... maybe you are on to something. By SophieMorris "It's such a brilliant idea, I was a little peeved I hadn'tthought of it ...
The war on terror is not a figure of speech. It is real
Sep 01, 2008; ... Podium These are busy times for the nation's defenders, because we're atwar with an enemy that hit us first, hit us hard, and has ambitionsto cause ever greater destruction inside our country. In two weeks, we'll mark another anniversary of September 11th,2001 - and we'll ...
Is Prince Charles right about GM crops, and do you believe in God?
Sep 01, 2008 ... You ask the questions John Beddington The Government's chiefscientific advisor Given a five-year electoral cycle and a 30-year lead time for CO2emissions to affect climate, is there any way to make politicianslisten in time? NIGEL WEISS via email I have been ...
Why go to a concert if all you want to do is film it? You should be dancing...
Sep 01, 2008; ... The offer was, to someone of my age and culture, irresistible.Madonna was touring with a show in her old, grand style. I'd alwayskicked myself for not making the effort to see the great BlondeAmbition tour, nearly 20 years ago now. She was coming to Zurichwith a show called Sticky and ...
ON TRACK: A NEW GOLDEN AGE
Sep 01, 2008; ... Glamorous rail journeys that evoke a bygone era have never beenmore popular. Now they are being joined by the Danube Express,thebrainchild of a former BR employee. By Cahal Milmo Luxury traintravel Howard Trinder was bitten by the railway bug when he stood as achild in a Paris ...
Concise Crossword #6826
Sep 01, 2008 ... Across 1 Juicy fruit (5) 4 Sheepdog (6) 8 Formal (7) 9 Japanese food (5) 10 Cognisant (5) 11 Stumbled (7) 12 Disfigure (6) 14 Parody (Informal) (4-2) 17 Abandon (7) 18 Walk slowly (5) 20 Military fabric colour ...
MATT RAWLE
Sep 01, 2008; ... MY WEEK IN MEDIA Last week I read ... Fantastic Man magazine, a quarterly style journal which is fullof well-written pieces on some unusual or unexpected topics. TomFord is on the cover, which might not appeal to everyone, but thenthere's a piece on a top auctioneer, a travel ...
Why the hounding of Glitter must stop
Sep 01, 2008; ... MEDIA DIARY And so it goes on, this unutterably obscene danse macabre, as TheSun chases Gary Glitter across the country in what seems ever lessmistakably a premeditated attempt to bring about his death by hisown hand or that of a reader. "You Can Run But You Can't Hide" wasone ...
McClaren left frustrated as Twente let lead slip
Sep 01, 2008; ... *EUROPE Anders Oper dashed former England coach Steve McClaren's hopes ofa winning start to his first Dutch League campaign as FC Twente wereheld to a 1-1 draw at Roda JC. Eljero Elia had put McClaren's menahead but Oper struck with six minutes to go. Heracles Almelo came ...
Cerny's new freedom has security benefits for QPR
Sep 01, 2008; ... BRISTOL CITY 1 QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS 1 Radek Cerny is enjoying his relaxed new lifestyle and new senseof freedom at Queen's Park Rangers compared to the stressful way ofliving he experienced at Tottenham Hotspur. The Czech Republic goalkeeper and former Slavia Prague ...
Catching up with Akii-Bua, sprint king of Uganda
Sep 01, 2008; ... SPORT ON TV I caught up recently with The Last King of Scotland, the 2006film based on Giles Foden's novel about a Scottish doctor in Ugandawho gets too close to the tyrant Idi Amin. Garrigan, the doctor, wasvery loosely based on Bob Astles, the military man who eventuallywent ...
'Martin Johnson is the right man. He has it by the scruff of the neck'
Sep 01, 2008; ... An email conversation with James Simpson-Daniel What are your goals for the new season? They are two-fold,really. We have to try to win something at Gloucester, to justifythe huge potential we have at the club. I just want to play well forGloucester and, hopefully, add to my tally ...
Wachman continues rise in training ranks with Moyglare win
Sep 01, 2008; ... John Magnier himself was once known only as someone's son-in-law -he sowed the seeds of the Coolmore empire in partnership with one ofthe greatest trainers in history, in Vincent O'Brien - so he willhave a delicate sense of both the privileges and pressures shapingthe career of David ...
Beattie bouncing again but in battle for starting role
Sep 01, 2008; ... SHEFFIELD UNITED 0 CARDIFF CITY 0 Twenty-two goals last season or not, James Beattie has beenwarned of a battle to return to Sheffield United's starting line-upthe other side of the international break. The striker, sidelined since April with a knee injury, threatenedto make ...
Thought for the day
Sep 01, 2008 ... 'Ambition can creep as well as soar' Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish ...
This confrontation is a calamity for the capital
Sep 01, 2008; ... We could call it the "Bonfire of the Vanities", but that literarycliche feels glib for what is happening in the Metropolitan Policetoday. Two responsible, mature men, holding the most critical jobsin the capital, upon whose judgements and actions millions depend,bust up in public. We are ...
A windfall fuel tax is only fair
Sep 01, 2008; ... This week, the Government is expected to announce measures tohelp poorer consumers hit by the rocketing prices for energy. Itshould go further and impose a one-off windfall tax on the unearnedprofits of the energy companies - a measure which has the backing of100 Labour MPs. The ...
Normandy Notebook
Sep 01, 2008; ... Village life gets a ringing endorsement For the first time in several years, the bells of our villagechurch have counted out the lazily passing hours of a Norman summer.The old bells had worn out. The commune - which, like most communesin France, owns the church - could not agree ...
JAMES ORR
Sep 01, 2008; ... Private secretary to Prince Philip JAMES ORR was Private Secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh from1957 to 1970. The two had first met as pupils at Gordonstoun inScotland in the 1930s where Orr, who had dropped out of Harrow,became head boy or, in the Platonic idiom adopted by the ...
1983 THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
Sep 01, 2008 ... USSR shoots down Korean airliner A South Korean Boeing 747 strayed into Soviet ...
Hays profits under pressure despite solid year
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE WEEK AHEAD Hays, the FTSE 250-listed recruitment group, is due to publishfull-year results tomorrow. Following a positive fourth-quarterupdate last month, Panmure Gordon is anticipating evidence of a"solid" performance in the year to June, forecasting adjusted pre-tax ...
Rain fails to dampen Ohuruogu's sparkle
Sep 01, 2008; ... The rain poured down on Gateshead International Stadiumyesterday, but there have been post-Olympic parades of a moredampened nature for British athletics teams. Back in 1976, there wasjust the one British medal winner to present to the capacity 15,000crowd at the International Athletes' ...
City fans' returning hero revels in good Kompany
Sep 01, 2008; ... SUNDERLAND 0 MANCHESTER CITY 3 The delirious chanting from the Manchester City fans was allabout Shaun Wright-Phillips. "Shauny's coming home," they sang. Wright-Phillips did so onFriday, for 9m, having left three years ago for Chelsea for 21m.That deal got sweeter by the ...
Redknapp makes strong case for Crouch and Defoe
Sep 01, 2008; ... EVERTON 0 PORTSMOUTH 3 Harry redknapp and Fabio Capello appear to have made up, andjudging by their current mutual interests that may be no bad thing. The Portsmouth manager joked on Saturday evening that the Englandmanager had informed him, in response to his acerbic ...
Barton's cameo causes offence as Keegan appeals for clemency
Sep 01, 2008; ... ARSENAL 3 NEWCASTLE UNITED 0 Newcastle's manager, Kevin Keegan, did not want all the after-match discussion to centre on his miscreant midfielder Joey Barton,which prompted the obvious question of why he was brought on in the89th minute, when the visitors were 3-0 down. On ...
New 'improved' deal may not suit Owen
Sep 01, 2008; ... Reacting to reports in Sunday newspapers, Newcastle Unitedyesterday released a statement saying that they have offered MichaelOwen a new and improved three-year contract. On the surface, it is adevelopment that manager Kevin Keegan has been waiting for sinceApril, when he raised the ...
Windass lashes out at lack of starting place at Hull
Sep 01, 2008; ... HULL CITY 0 WIGAN ATHLETIC 5 The striker Dean Windass has forged a career from dealing withadversity but to be deemed not good enough for a Hull side thisinept must have felt like a new low. These two clubs have long laboured under the shadow of rugbyleague and Wigan, once ...
ABIE NATHAN
Sep 01, 2008; ... Political activist who campaigned for peace in the Middle East ABIE NATHAN was a one-time Israeli bomber pilot who went on todevote decades of his life to pursuing a career of agitprop in thecause of peace and dialogue in the unpromising circumstances of theMiddle East. His ...
Lives Remembered
Sep 01, 2008 ... Obituary pages should encompass not just the lives of the greatand good, but also those which may not have caught the public eyebut are still worth recounting. Accordingly, we will considercontributions from friends and family members of the recentlydeceased. Please send ...