The Independent (London, England) back issues from June 2009:
'We are asking a lot of key talent to take sizeable cuts in their pay'
Jun 01, 2009; ... Unlike her close friends Natasha Kaplinsky, Fiona Bruce andSophie Raworth, the controller of BBC1 Jay Hunt has never remotelyharboured ambitions of appearing on television screens. Indeed,rather inexplicably, she approaches the prospect of having herphotograph taken with the sort of ...
LESLEY TORSON
Jun 01, 2009 ... Dress code FOUNDER OF TRILOGY DENIM BOUTIQUE What are you wearing right now? I'm in my favourite relaxing gear: men's pyjamas and a long T-shirt, drinking a glass of wine, and giggling as I answer thesequestions. Who's your style icon? The beautiful Yasmin Le ...
Memories of oppressing matters
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Monday Book AN ELEGY FOR EASTERLY By Petina Gappah FABER ANDFABER, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from theIndependent Bookshop: 0870 079 8897 Born in Zimbabwe in 1971, Petina Gappah came of age afterindependence in 1980. As a child, she also lived through the ...
Sam Cohn
Jun 01, 2009 ... Briefly Sam Cohn, who died on 6 May aged 79, was a powerful talent agentfor some of Hollywood and Broadway's biggest stars as well as apantheon of directors, writers and playwrights. Cohn's clients atInternational Creative Management constituted a who's who of ...
The happy union of Marx and Enoch
Jun 01, 2009; ... I am overjoyed to report not only that the neo-Cromwellianambitions of Simon Heffer thrive, but that in pursuance of them hehas formed potentially the most significant left-right axis Britainhas known for more than 60 years. As you will know, since this column broke the story a ...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
Jun 01, 2009; ... Dear Virginia, For the last six years I've been having a veryhappy relationship with a divorced German man. Despite the distance,we see each other every couple of months, and he's met my children,family and friends, and they get on brilliantly. But he has adaughter of 25, and he always ...
The economic mess began when profligacy replaced prudence
Jun 01, 2009; ... Saturday 17 October, 1964. Jim Callaghan sat at his desk in 11Downing Street. As the new Chancellor of the Exchequer followingLabour's election victory, it was Callaghan's job to sort outBritain's economic problems. As he went through the arithmetic, itdawned on him that Britain's ...
MEDIA MORSEL
Jun 01, 2009 ... 12 Number of years between the moment Julie Kirkbride left her jobas a Telegraph journalist to ...
Hogan 'must not intrude on daughter's life'
Jun 01, 2009 ... Britain in brief CRIME The family of John Hogan's former wife said yesterday theywould fight to protect his daughter Mia from "unwanted intrusion byher father". Hogan, 36, will return to Britain this week after hewas freed from a Greek psychiatric unit. Hogan killed his ...
Britain's got ... lots of sunshine
Jun 01, 2009 ... Britain in brief Parts of Britain enjoyed the sunniest May for eight years. Thesunniest place was Fair Isle, between Orkney and Shetland inScotland, which enjoyed a total of 279 hours of sunshine ....
New romantic
Jun 01, 2009; ... Tanya Sarne won the loyalty of thousands of women as the designerbehind Ghost. Now she's set to reach a new audience with a range forJohn Lewis. She tells Carola Long about her breezy approach todressing Oh, but you must try it on," says Tanya Sarne, as she shows medesigns from ...
A briefs history of time
Jun 01, 2009; ... The changing shape of our bras and knickers over the past 100years offers intimate insight into women's lives. Harriet Walkerdelves into the nation's drawers The world of women's underwear is as highly scientific andrarefied as it is diverse. Just as men seem to fear the contents ...
Ready to Wear
Jun 01, 2009; ... Men. Don't you just love them. I was having breakfast with afriend (male) over the bank holiday weekend who chose, upon arrivaland rushing in where angels fear to tread, to opine: "Aren't you a bit over-dressed?" Realising, in a split second, (or at least when a cold wind ...
Bitter words hit the sweet spot
Jun 01, 2009; ... THEATRE AUNT DAN AND LEMON Royal Court, London **** There's a stunning moment in this extraordinary 1985 play byWallace Shawn - revived on the stage where it was first seen - whenJane Horrocks, addressing us like the lady on Listen with Mother("Are you sitting comfortably? Then ...
FIVE BEST { Plays }
Jun 01, 2009 ... A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW) An outstanding revival of Arthur Millers play. You can feel thegrease dripping off Ken Stott as troubled Eddie Carbone, a rolling,Punch nosed punchbag of a doomed docker. (0870 060 6647) Mon to 6 Jun A DOLLS HOUSE (DONMAR ...
POP
Jun 01, 2009; ... MANIC STREET PREACHERS Roundhouse, London **** This part of the evening's been made possible by Mr Richard JamesEdwards," singer James Dean Bradfield simply observes. As the ManicStreet Preachers play their new album, Journal for Plague Lovers,through, its lyricist, Richey ...
CLASSICAL
Jun 01, 2009; ... MITSUKO UCHIDA Royal Festival Hall, London **** Mitsuko Uchida loves to journey in her recitals; but it's theconnections she makes on the way - intellectually, psychologically,emotionally - that throw up the most telling insights. Her signatureMozart is always a good place to ...
One night on paradise island
Jun 01, 2009; ... POP ISLAND LIFE Shepherd's Bush Empire, London **** Staging a month-long series of gigs might have been the only wayto reflect the rich and diverse legacy of Island Records, theindependent company Chris Blackwell founded in Jamaica 50 years ago.As it was, the week of events held ...
Boom and bust survivor
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Weekend's Television KATIE PRICE: THE JORDAN YEARS SUN BBC3BENIDORM SUN ITV1 I don't know about you but I find it a little strange that DrJeya Prakash still has Jordan's first set of breasts in his desk. DrPrakash is the man who took Katie Price from 3C to a 3D and thoughhe ...
Critic's Choice
Jun 01, 2009; ... Dispatches: Orphans of Burma's Cyclone 8PM CHANNEL 4 A rare glimpse into the lives of ordinary Burmese citizens, astwo cameramen face an automatic 30-year jail term filming undercoverover the course of the year following the catastrophic CycloneNargis. Eight orphans are ...
Film Choice
Jun 01, 2009; ... Sicko 6.10PM SKY MOVIES INDIE (Michael Moore, 2007) Michael Moore's documentary, aboutcorporate US healthcare, may not seem as relevant to a Britishaudience as his others, but it is still a cleverly assembled andentertaining polemic. It also has a section on our own NHS, ...
Radio Choice
Jun 01, 2009 ... Governors Needed 11AM RADIO 4 School governors are the largest volunteer body in the UK. ReetaChakrabarti sets out to discover what it means to be one. Newfangle 11.30AM RADIO 4 Set hundreds of thousands of years ago among proto-humans, whoare ...
ROH MOO-HYUN
Jun 01, 2009; ... President of South Korea whose period in office was riddled withproblems Born into a poor farming background in the south east of SouthKorea, Roh Moo-hyun began studying law as a way to escape poverty.As it was, for a young man whose parents had been unable to pay forhis ...
PROFESSOR WALTER LEDERMANN
Jun 01, 2009; ... Highly respected mathematician with an eclectic range ofinterests A sweet and gentle little man" whom students found "charming,friendly, understanding and delightful" and whose lectures "weremasterfully presented". These quotations, taken from the web, werewritten by an American ...
Janet Ganguli
Jun 01, 2009; ... Lives Remembered Janet Elizabeth Ganguli, a writer, passionate peace and humanrights campaigner and caring mother, died on 7 May 2009 at her homenear Cambridge, after battling cancer for four years. She willalways be loved and remembered by many here in the UK and ...
Holly come lately?
Jun 01, 2009; ... Anna Friel has been cast as the lead in an upcoming stage versionof Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's a brave actress who will step intothe role immortalised by Audrey Hepburn, says Rhoda KoenigThe audience at the stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany's thatopens this September may ...
Tom Parker Bowles
Jun 01, 2009 ... Work: Food writer for the Mail on Sunday, Tatler and now GQ.Presents Market Kitchen on UKTV Food. Life: 34, married with onedaughter. Lives in west London. Balance: Wandering around London andthe occasional very gentle jog TELL US ABOUT YOUR NEW ROLE I've just joined GQ as a ...
You can't give them away - the demise of the free press
Jun 01, 2009; ... Before Twitter, free newspapers seemed a brilliant way for theinternet generation to keep up. Abandoning cover price foradvertising revenue alone looked like an economic model tailor-madefor the digital era. Free titles were launched around the world amid predictions thatthey ...
MEDIA MORSEL
Jun 01, 2009 ... 100,000 Amount in damages being sought by Professional FootballersAssociation chief ...
'Oprah's just invited me back on - I'm one of her favourites'
Jun 01, 2009; ... 'She'll have a couple of years selling albums and doing TV showsand then she'll be forgotten," comments Vicki Peerless, a salesmanager from Tunbridge Wells queuing for tickets for Saturday'sgrand final of Britain's Got Talent. Her assessment of the marketability of Susan Boyle, ...
For the record
Jun 01, 2009 ... "Our traditional model is bankrupt, unviable, finished. Thenewspaper industry hasn't changed much since the hot metal days,"David Montgomery looks on the bright side Throw in the towel So farewell then, Arline Usden, who leaves that most refined ofmagazines, The Lady, after ...
Vote now for the real stars of Creative Britain!
Jun 01, 2009; ... Will Turner sits at the heart of Britain's creative industriesand, right now, he is as fearful for their futures as he is proud oftheir achievements. A former BSkyB executive, who now runs theCovent Garden-based media hub that is The Hospital Club, he isrecently returned from Cannes ...
'Tell 'em about the power of television, mummy'
Jun 01, 2009; ... I was going to write about Susan Boyle. About the power oftelevision to build a brand out of nowhere, or at least out of WestLothian. Television did do that for Susan Boyle. Brand Boyle looked for awhile there as though it could be a marketing case study for ourtimes: a few ...
In this age of the unthinkable, we must act like revolutionaries
Jun 01, 2009; ... What's the connection between Michael Moritz, Silicon Valley'sleading venture capitalist, and Hizbollah, the Middle East's leadingterrorist organisation? According to Joshua Cooper Ramos, the author of the stimulatingThe Age of the Unthinkable (Little Brown 2009), Moritz and ...
The Ten Best Women's sunglasses
Jun 01, 2009; ... George With all the hallmarks of the Seventies, you could be forgivenfor thinking these were vintage. These gold-edged maroon frames are,in fact, from George. Price: 5 0500 100 055 French Connection The clashing colours of these shades will brighten up ...
Chess
Jun 01, 2009; ... The solution to this, the regular competition problem for TheIndependent set on the first Monday of each month, should be sent toJim Grevatt of the British Chess Problem Society at Lazybed, HeadleyFields, Headley, Hampshire GU35 8PS to arrive by 27 July. White'sfirst move only is ...
Bridge
Jun 01, 2009; ... I'm grateful to Michael Byrne, non-playing captain of the EnglandUnder 25 team, for alerting me to some excellent plays by juniors atthe 2009 Schapiro Spring Foursomes. This was the bidding: WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH pass 12 pass 14 pass NT (18-19) pass 35 pass 34 ...
Concise Crossword #7058
Jun 01, 2009 ... Across 1 Old unit of length (3) 3 Blaspheme (5) 8 Savoury jelly (5) 9 Small marine fish (7) 10 Slavery (7) 11 Demon (5) 12 Small destructive beetle (6) 13 Burning fiercely (6) 16 Japanese mattress (5) 18 Foreboding ...
1 JUNE 1950
Jun 01, 2009 ... Days Like These MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Republican senator making her "Declarationof Conscience" in the US senate: "I would like to speak briefly andsimply about a serious national condition. It is a national feelingof fear and frustration that could result in national suicide ...
How to flirt successfully
Jun 01, 2009; ... Life Support ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR THE MODERN WORLD RELAX This is a lot easier when you don't actually fancy the personyou're flirting with. When you are deep in the throes of a sweaty-palmed crush, stringing together a coherent sentence can seem like achallenge. A good way ...
THE FASHION AUDIT 01/06/09
Jun 01, 2009; ... We love: Marcus Lupfer Relaxed modern tailoring and pretty grunge are what Marcus Lupferis known for, with his unique combination of chic pieces andcartoonish motifs. His collection hit Selfridges a few weeks ago forthe first time, and is flying off the racks, so hurry ...
The Life Browser
Jun 01, 2009 ... ON THE WEB TODAY ... Cyber comedy Pozzitive, the production company behind shows like Not the NineO'Clock News, has today launched an online encyclopedia of Britishcomedy. The site features never-seen-before videos, images andbackstage stories from the UK comedy vaults ....
'Edward Cullen/RPattz was created specifically to drive teenage girls wild'
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Couch Surfer Last week the web spent about five minutes going totally loopyfor a pair of very brief YouTube virals. One is a six-second clip ofa yellow Porsche driving down a cobbled street in Italy. The otheris also a six-second clip of the yellow Porsche driving down ...
Get the picture
Jun 01, 2009; ... When artists Justin Gignac and Christine Santora want an iPod,they simply paint it - and sell the canvas for the same price.Charlotte Philby talks to a couple with a creative take on economics What do you do if you really want something, but you just can'tafford it? If you're New ...
Cry for freedom
Jun 01, 2009; ... Twenty years ago, a peaceful student protest in China's capitalsparked a massacre that was broadcast across the globe. But did itreally change anything? Eyewitness Mary Dejevsky looks backThe Western world had been on "death watch" for weeks, preparingfor the demise of Ayatollah ...
Credit crisis diary
Jun 01, 2009 ... A cheaper London is still expensive Good news and bad for Londoners. Research by Halifax Banksuggests prices have fallen faster in the capital than anywhere elseover the past two years, with the cost of goods in shops falling by2.8 per cent. But it says London is still easily the ...
Diary Economics
Jun 01, 2009 ... Today: Manufacturing purchasing managers' index for May. Tomorrow: Net consumer credit for April; mortgage approvals forApril; construction purchasing managers' index for May; M4 moneysupply for April. Wednesday: Services purchasing ...
Monty's surrender doesn't mean that the press has lost the war
Jun 01, 2009; ... The other day a very senior and successful Fleet Street figuretold me that in 15 years there will only be two national newspapers:The Sun and the Daily Mail. All the rest will disappear under aburden of debt, after years of making losses. Two newspapers! It is the bleakest ...
The mysterious case of the Israeli spy ring, Hizbollah and the Lebanese ballot
Jun 01, 2009; ... Spying is as familiar in Beirut as it was in post-war Vienna -there's even a giant "Third Man"-type ferris wheel here - but theevents of the last few days are growing more mysterious by the hour.Over the past two weeks, a special unit of Lebanon's InternalSecurity Force (ISF) has been ...
Quotes of the day
Jun 01, 2009 ... 'The Prime Minister is not going to be ousted. The Prime Ministeris secure in his job.' Jack Straw tries to quell rumours of a Labour Party leadershipchallenge 'I mean, what else do you want to do, for God's sake? Womenastronauts. Women miners. Women dentists. Women doctors ....
You can't reform the European constitution without a ballot
Jun 01, 2009; ... Minor misdemeanours should not distract us from great crimes.Many voters believe that the political system has betrayed them. Soit has. But this is not a matter of bath-plugs or Remembrance Daywreaths, or even of embezzled mortgage payments. It is a breach oftrust, arising from a broken ...
Max Property gives Aim the feelgood factor
Jun 01, 2009; ... Small Talk There was a time when a new IPO on the Aim market wouldn't raisea flicker of interest. The London Stock Exchange would hardly markthe occasion, save for counting the revenues and inviting the nexttiny oil and gas explorer, or mirco-cap biotech group through thefront ...
Buoyant B&Q set to lift Kingfisher's results
Jun 01, 2009; ... The Week Ahead Kingfisher may post a better than expected first-quarter updatethis week, as cost-cutting initiatives and the benefits of morestable trading conditions feed through to the DIY retail group'sprofits. Deutsche Bank expects Kingfisher's first-quarter profits to ...
Murder suspect may have fled by boat
Jun 01, 2009; ... Polish millionairess's boyfriend was at a boatyard buyingnavigation equipment THE fugitive boyfriend of a Polish millionairess who was foundmurdered may have tried to escape by boat. It emerged yesterday thathe had recently bought a satellite navigation system and charts ...
Rock against racism - the comeback
Jun 01, 2009; ... First Night Love Music Hate Racism Britannia Stadium, Stoke *** Imagine Donna Summer turning out for a "Rock Against Racism" gigin the late Seventies. That is essentially what we had in Saturday'sline-up in Stoke-on Trent, which brought in former Destiny's Childmember Kelly ...
1979 Friday 1 June
Jun 01, 2009 ... White rule ends in Rhodesia The government of Ian Smith ended 90 years of white ...
Dating the Obama way: dinner and a show in the Big Apple
Jun 01, 2009 ... Spontaneous it was not. If you are the President, spoiling yourwife - dinner and a show on Broadway - requires some organising.Never mind the tickets and a table, the Gulfstream jet had to bereadied (Air Force One was too big) as well as the helicopter to getfrom JFK Airport to ...
Why a degree is still worth the loan
Jun 01, 2009; ... Study shows the student influx has not forced down the value ofdegrees GRADUATES ARE still earning the same "cash premium" from having adegree despite the expansion of higher education which has seen thenumber of students double in recent years. A study of two different sets ...
Cut emissions or acidity will kill coral reefs, scientists say
Jun 01, 2009; ... 'Underwater catastrophe' is imminent without action Rising acidity in oceans is leading to a global catastrophe thatwould be unparalleled in tens of millions of years, according to thenational science academies of 69 countries which want governments totake the issue more seriously ...
Great drama - but can you hear a single word they are saying?
Jun 01, 2009; ... Study will investigate whether viewers are turned off TV becausethe dialogue is inaudible Whether it's the street corner drug-dealing culture of Baltimore,as seen in The Wire, or the Bristol teen life witnessed in episodesof Skins, modern television drama production prides itself ...
THEY SAID IT...
Jun 01, 2009 ... 'Their commitment to Vauxhall production ... in the UK is firm.' Lord ...
Footfall slips in May as shoppers stay away
Jun 01, 2009 ... Briefing RETAIL Shopper numbers fell by 2.4 per cent in May year-on-year,with Wales and the South-west suffering the largest falls of 8 percent, according to Experian. While footfall typically falls in Maybecause there ...
Factory job losses forecast to reach 188,000
Jun 01, 2009; ... Some 188,000 factory workers will lose their jobs this year -more than 40,000 above what was forecast just two months ago.Alongside its latest grim prediction on jobs, the manufacturers'organisation EEF is forecasting an 11 per cent contraction in outputover 2009, an estimate revised ...
ECB set to push ahead with version of quantitative easing
Jun 01, 2009; ... Bank of England to hold rates but press on with QE The European Central Bank is expected to reveal a departure inmonetary policy this week and pursue its own version of quantitativeeasing, the so-called printing money option, to try to fuel arecovery in the ailing eurozone ...
Signs of recovery for UK house prices emerge
Jun 01, 2009 ... Briefing PROPERTY House prices remained unchanged in May - the first timein 20 months that there was no month-on-month decline in prices. Acombination of increasing sales, continued buyer interest and adwindling supply of property had ...