The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from September 2007:
Patchouli terrorist
Sep 02, 2007 ... Twenty years after going underground, a radical activist isforced to confront his past My Revolutions Hari Kunzru's third novel can be seen as a departure. While hisglitteringly impressive 2003 debut The Impressionist and the follow-up, Transmission, both took race as ...
How to be happy
Sep 02, 2007 ... Put your energy into the future, not the past "I'm frequently frustrated at work and in my personal life as aresult of my regrets and I find myself constantly lying to cover uphow I am feeling. However, despite all this I still don't know if Ihave the courage or the confidence to ...
Essentials
Sep 02, 2007 ... I'm a great fan of big luxurious leather bags like the Mulberrymaxi Mabel (0207 491 3900, www.mulberry.com). Man bags are fine aslong as you keep them functional and utilitarian - and I feel thesame way about clothes. I always go to Ralph Lauren (1 New BondStreet, London W1, 0207 535 ...
The wife of bard's tale
Sep 02, 2007 ... Was she blind? Was she illiterate? Germaine Greer has fun withthe posthumous reputation of Ann Hathaway Shakespeare's Wife Whatever do we have here? Biography? Social history? For aheartstopping moment it could be a novel, as the jacket photographof a headless Tudor-clad ...
Beauty spot
Sep 02, 2007 ... Bonnie treats for Caledonian princesses Au Lait body milk 5.50, Scottish soaps, www.scottishfinesoaps.com Soothing milk-based moisturiser White magic lip glass 10.50, Harrodstel: 020 7730 1234 Limited-edition lip gloss ...
How to win a box of doughnuts: write a song about ping-pong the word on the web
Sep 02, 2007 ... An Australian five-piece, Operator Please formed especially forthe annual school Battle of the Bands competition, which they won(the prize was a box of doughnuts). It would be easy to say thatthey've only been noticed because they shout louder than everyoneelse, but vocalist Amandah ...
How can I help you, sir?
Sep 02, 2007 ... Trends As shopping moves online, customers are demanding more from thestores left on the high street, which are responding with a returnto old-fashioned service. At Liberty, for example, a new shop-in-shop recreates the feel ofa traditional haberdasher's, with assistants who ...
So much for the benefits of eating fruit...
Sep 02, 2007 ... Before Adam ate the apple, life was a holiday. Now, we'reburdened with work - and a crass new show about it Work, Rest and PlayNational Gallerylondon'And to Adam He said: Because thou hast eaten of the tree,whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not ...
around the uk
Sep 02, 2007 ... 1 St Davids, Pembrokeshire, continues to play host to the ReallyWild Festival today (reallywildfestival.co.uk). Activities includebushcraft and guided foraging. 2 Arts workshops and traditional string puppet performances willbe on offer to children as part of London's Regent Street ...
Let's hope the bank backlash spreads to all financial services
Sep 02, 2007 ... Who has yet to tell their bank to get stuffed? Last week'sdemonstration of consumer power - thousands of students usingnetworking site Facebook to put pressure on HSBC to drop overdraftinterest charges on graduate accounts - is just the latest in agroundswell of unfavourable ...
Puff pieces
Sep 02, 2007 ... Fashion When your mum dragged you around town in early September lookingfor a coat that would "see you through the winter", how often wouldshe try and force you into a practical puffa jacket which would nodoubt render you friendless for the rest of your school life. Well, mum ...
Vicki Woods
Sep 02, 2007 ... Her image will never be off our screens or out of the newspapers -but in the iconography of Diana there is one look that even shecouldn't pull off The odd, late and uncomfortably mismanaged service ofthanksgiving for the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, hasthankfully passed. The ...
Laugh it up, funny guys
Sep 02, 2007 ... Parties The If.comedy Awards - formerly the Perrier Prize - boosts onecomedian's career immeasurably and gives all the others a terriblehangover. Basically, it's a posh wrap party for the EdinburghFestival Fringe, at the Jam House. The party started at 11.30pm, andsoon filled up ...
poker By Nic Szeremeta
Sep 02, 2007 ... What is the hold 'em hand most likely to beat a pair of pocketaces in an all-in-before-the-flop situation? Well, it is not pocketkings or any other pair, for that matter. The rank of the lower pair is almost irrelevant, and a pair of 2sis as about as good as a pair of kings ....
chess By Ken Simon
Sep 02, 2007 ... White to play. What's the most efficient and elegant way tocomplete victory? See his final move below. Apart from the winner, Michael Adams, who played his usualpowerfully controlled game, the British contingent at the recent 5thStaunton Memorial Tournament generally had a rather ...
bridge By Maureen Hiron
Sep 02, 2007 ... Declarer was in a position to guarantee his slam, but failed toappreciate the value of one card in his hand. South opened the bidding with Two No-Trumps (20-22), and Northbid Three Diamonds, a transfer to hearts. South, with a maximum handand four hearts, cue bid Three Spades, and ...
Is buying my first home the impossible dream?
Sep 02, 2007 ... Meet Tom McTague, a graduate with plenty of debts, no spare cashbut a vision of getting on the ladder by becoming a landlord in theNorth-east I'm a 23-year-old graduate struggling on [pounds]20,000 a year inLondon, loaded with debt (just over [pounds]10,000 is now the"average" ...
'I've split with my partner. How can I own our home outright?'
Sep 02, 2007 ... --would like advice on buying an ex-partner out of a home.Although the house is in his name, a court order gave me permissionto stay in the home with my children and take over the mortgage,after he had accumulated arrears. We have shared equity in theproperty. How would I go ...
'The decor fuses fine heritage with Mal style' hotel of the week
Sep 02, 2007 ... During the golden age of steam, Reading's Great Western RailHotel was one of the city's smartest establishments. Partly designedby Brunel, it dates back to 1844. But like so many station hotels ithad fallen into decline. That was until last month, when theMalmaison hotel group unveiled ...
'Hey mum, take us to muggle mecca'
Sep 02, 2007 ... Are We There Yet?KatyHolland Harry Potter - aren't you sick of him? Well, no actually. Atleast, not as far as my kids are concerned. They're still as HP-madas ever: I even caught them searching for flying broomsticks on theinternet the other day. (No joy, although it hasn't stopped ...
New tastes for the last days of summer food of the week
Sep 02, 2007 ... Take advantage of "back to school" flight offers to explore someof Europe's most exciting hotel restaurant openings. Try prawn sushi under the stars at Amo.te restaurant, Pine CliffsResort, Pinhal do Concelho, Apartado 887, 8200-912 Albufeira,Algarve (00 35 1 289 500 100; ...
credit cards_Warning sounded over rising charges
Sep 02, 2007 ... Credit card operators have been finding ways of clawing back lostprofits since a cap of 12 was imposed on their penalty fees by theOffice of Fair Trading, the consumer body Which? reports. Examples include a hike in transfer fees - for switching abalance - from a typical 2 per cent ...
banking_Over-55s leave the high street for cyberspace
Sep 02, 2007 ... The over-55s now represent the largest group of new customersswitching to internet banks, research from UK payments body Apacsshows. Some 3.6 million people in this age group logged on to run theirfinancial affairs last year - up from just 800,000 in 2001. Fastbroadband speeds ...
We're ready to rock. But where has all the roll gone?
Sep 02, 2007 ... Peter Schaufuss's mission is to popularise ballet - but not eventhe Rolling Stones can bring this dead show to life Satisfaction Apollo Theatre LONDON No one can fault the soundtrack. It is compiled from some of thebest-known rock'n'roll hits of all time, but choreographer ...
banking_Student power forces HSBC U-turn on overdrafts
Sep 02, 2007 ... A student internet campaign has forced HSBC into a climbdown. The bank has gone back on plans to end interest-free deals forgraduates after a co-ordinated protest on the social networking siteFacebook. The "Stop the Great HSBC Graduate Rip-Off" campaign began lastmonth but ...
There's this Krazy Kat on the radio - and he's making me listen to ragtime jazz
Sep 02, 2007 ... Krazy KatRadio 4 Among the numerous emails I received last week informing me thatthe compulsory digital switchover does not apply to radio, there wasa press release. Normally, the best way to keep a secret is to sendit out to journalists as a press release but this one had ...
The oddly alluring exploits of a teenage peeping tom
Sep 02, 2007 ... Hallam FoeDavid Mackenzie95 mins, 18 Since his mother's death, the eponymous Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell)has been brooding in a treehouse on his family's country estate,wearing lipstick warpaint and a badger's skin on his head.Eventually he is forced to abscond to Edinburgh, where he ...
the housing market_Price growth to shrug off the sub-prime effect - for now
Sep 02, 2007 ... The UK housing market is well placed to ride out the sub-primelending crisis gripping the US, at least for now. Nationwide building society said the crisis, which has sparkedworld stock market turmoil, was unlikely to have a big "effect onthe rate of growth of house prices in the ...
A blast of cleanliness in a field of muddy urchins
Sep 02, 2007 ... Interpol, that perfect iPod band of nattily dressed New Yorkers,take their brooding sound to the great outdoors Interpol/The Gossip Reading Festival The difficulty with Interpol has always been in taking them quiteas seriously as they take themselves. From the very ...
Richard and Judy fans: the ruin of indie rock
Sep 02, 2007 ... The Enemy reading Festival You know the people you see at festivals and wonder what they'redoing there? Polo shirt by Nickelson or Hackett, three-quarter-length shorts by Top Man, sunburn by Thomas Cook, paunch byWalkabout, trainers by slave labour? Well, The Enemy is what ...
also showing
Sep 02, 2007 ... No Reservations (104 mins PG) Hollywood reheating of a German comedy, 'Mostly Martha'.Catherine Zeta-Jones plays a perfectionist New York chef whoseordered life is shaken up when she has to share her apartment withher late sister's daughter, Abigail Breslin, and her kitchen ...
Ethical funds show rivals a clean pair of heels
Sep 02, 2007 ... Ethical investment funds are beating their mainstream rivalshands-down, a survey from financial information group Moneyfactssuggests. Over the past year the average UK ethical fund has grown by 18.3per cent, against 13.7 per cent returned by non-ethical funds. Overthree years, ...
Fields full of willows as power stations switch to energy crops
Sep 02, 2007 ... Most UK coal-fired power stations have announced plans to burnmore energy crops such as willow chippings in their boilers. Recentchanges to the subsidy scheme for renewable energy have boosted theattractiveness of wood and dried grasses to supplant coal. Drax, the Yorkshire power ...
The spectator
Sep 02, 2007 ... Stiff upper lips at the 'Statesman' as budgets are slashed Freebie endgame looms Honan on her way, again Don't tell Dacre, but ... Double-decker mysteryDespite the genial ownership of Geoffrey Robinson, the 'NewStatesman' is not ...
Worried, rich or just wet? Hiscox has a question for you
Sep 02, 2007 ... The rich are always with us. And they do a good job spreading itaround. They called it the trickle-down effect in the 1980s - theidea of selfless rich people as "wealth-creators" who'd createsomething miraculously new out of a few old loaves and fishes andthen leak it over the rest of us ...
The City Diary
Sep 02, 2007 ... Look out, Murdoch: Virgin space invaders are after your'Battlestar' It turns out that James Murdoch (right), the chief executive ofBSkyB, is a bit of a science fiction geek. Our man in telly landtells us that one of theDigger's son's favourite programmes is'Battlestar ...
stand
Sep 02, 2007 ... 'After Cahill: the awkward silence' 'Each exchange is a virtual monopoly' 'Nesting spaces for headless chickens' 'The Fed said: "Enough already!"' James Harding in 'The Times' on the exit of Edward Cahill fromBarclays Capital. "The awkward silence surrounding ...
Russian magnate guns for Arsenal Business Briefing
Sep 02, 2007 ... London could soon have another Russian billionaire football clubowner. Metals magnate Alisher Usmanov, with an associate, bought a14.6 per cent stake in Arsenal. He paid the club's former vice-chairman, David Dein, 75m for the holding. Who is he? Mr Usmanov made much of his ...
2.75% the number_
Sep 02, 2007 ... HSBC has found itself in hot water with the Advertising StandardsAuthority (ASA) for misleading customers in a TV advert. The bank claimed HSBC Bank Account Plus customers would not becharged a transaction fee for using cash machines overseas. In theadvert, which featured six ...
Oligarch seeks Arsenal seat
Sep 02, 2007 ... By Tim Webb Alisher Usmanov, the Russian oligarch who bought a 14.6 per centstake in Arsenal last week, is seeking a seat on the board of thenorth London football club. The multi-billionaire has said he wantsto increase the stake but insists he has no plans to mount a ...
26.08.07-01.09.07 Bonuses soar by a third in the Square Mile
Sep 02, 2007 ... City bonuses have hit a record this year, with payouts up 30 percent on last year to 14bn, just as it emerges that one-third ofBritish businesses are not paying tax. More than half of the 14bnbonus pot has been earned by the one million workers in thefinancial services sector who are ...
Environment Agency to take stronger lead in fighting floods
Sep 02, 2007 ... By Tim Webb The Government has reacted to criticism of its management offlood control and prevention with plans to give the EnvironmentAgency new powers to deal with future crises. It comes after the devastating floods in Yorkshire and the Westof England this ...
banking_Barclays 'error' hits ABN bid
Sep 02, 2007 ... Barclays faces a struggle to win the battle for ABN Amro, itsDutch rival, after its shares continued to dip. Last week the bankwas forced to borrow 1.6bn from the Bank of England after a"technical error" meant it ...
Delta Two to make new bid for Sainsbury
Sep 02, 2007 ... Retail_Qatari fund aims to woo directors with new offer forsupermarket group, which may be unveiled this week By AndrewMurray-Watson Delta Two, the Qatari-backed investment fund, is set to make arevised bid for J Sainsbury, the supermarket group. The new offer is ...
Witter's bitter body blow forgotten champion
Sep 02, 2007 ... Senior Junior of battling British trio looks on in dismay withHatton now out of reach By Alan Hubbard boxing Correspondent For years he has harangued Ricky Hatton, unsuccessfully trying toentice the evasive Hitman into the ring. Hatton always claimed thathe had bigger ...
The guns of Brixton vs the moaning rock stars of Staines...
Sep 02, 2007 ... Hard-Fi Once Upon a Time in the West Necessary As you've doubtless learned already, the allegedly unique thingabout Hard-Fi's second album is that it doesn't have any cover art.Instead, it has the words "NO COVER ART" where the artwork ought tobe. In this, the Staines ...
Healy: natural-born thriller
Sep 02, 2007 ... Shearer hails striker who is rapidly rising up the ranks ofinternational scorers By Michael Walker Nat Lofthouse, Tom Finney, Denis Law, Kenny Dalglish, AlanShearer; when David Healy flicked his head to nod in the firstNorthern Ireland goal against Liechtenstein 11 days ago, ...
Prince Naz comeback? Sorry, no Khan do
Sep 02, 2007 ... Naseem Hamed, who has not fought for five years, five months ofwhich were spent in prison, wants to make a comeback - against AmirKhan. The former world featherweight champion, now 33, has toldpromoter Frank Warren he is determined to fight again, with Khan histarget. I understand that ...
Book of the Week
Sep 02, 2007 ... Thirty Bulliesby Alison Kervin Publishing a history of the Rugby World Cup four days before thestart of the next tournament seems a curious decision - it leavesprecious little time to read up on the past before the actionstarts, and renders this book out of date in a matter of ...
You can stick your al fresco salami, thank you
Sep 02, 2007 ... I've become a bit of a wimp traveller. I'm so used to swanningaround the world with a film crew in tow that I've forgotten how tolook after myself. I'm in Corsica, desperately trying to have apicnic. I'm not very good at having picnics. I'm just not organisedenough. I'm a spontaneous ...
words
Sep 02, 2007 ... CleaveVerbHere's another of those single-syllable words our crazy languageuses to mean quite different things - an extreme example this one,since cleave can mean one of two total opposites. A "from" or a "to"might be the only guide. We don't have the excuse that ...
Virgo23 Aug- 22 Sept Your week poppy folly
Sep 02, 2007 ... Sunday 2 September Venus square Moon Be passive. Wait. Watch. Not yet. Birthday: Jimmy Connors Monday 3 SEPTEMBER Venus sextile Mars Now. Fulfil your erotic ambitions. Birthday: Charlie Sheen Tuesday 4 September Sun square ...
Strangely the Wallabies may offer England and Wales their best chance world cup: the big picture
Sep 02, 2007 ... For months we've been examining the possibilities of this WorldCup, and the longer we've looked the more difficult it has been tosee beyond the big four occupying the semi-final places. But now it is almost upon us, I get the feeling that maybe one ofNew Zealand, France, South ...
Almunia is looking after number one premier league previews
Sep 02, 2007 ... Arsenal's reserve goalkeeper has waited patiently for his chance -now erratic German may have handed it to him By Steve Tongue football correspondent He is a Spanish waiter called Manuel; he waits and waits for JensLehmann to miss a match or two. Fortunately, Manuel ...
A first in store for Collingwood, the Last Night of the Proms Calendar
Sep 02, 2007 ... TodayEngland poised for cricket triumph The fifth one-day cricket international between England and Indiaat Headingley gives new captain Paul Collingwood the chance to winhis first series. On Friday Ravi Bopara and Stuart Broad helpedEngland to a 3-1 lead in the seven-match ...
Wolves will be lambs to slaughter world cup: the little guys
Sep 02, 2007 ... Portugal will need two types of damage limitation against the AllBlacks, physical and statistical. By Hugh Godwin One of the unique aspects of the World Cup preamble is that amidthe cautious posturing of the leading contenders there are otherswho expect to get hammered. Portugal's ...
As they say at Fawlty Towers, 'Pretentious? Moi?'
Sep 02, 2007 ... Oh dear, we have been named and shamed this week in a new editionof a book about words which takes us and our sister paper to taskover importing inflated-sounding foreign phrases into our columns. Icannot imagine how the following got passed our editors, but it did:"Janet Street-Porter ...
Forget about a Red Rose defence, it's looking All Black and Bleu rugby world cup preview
Sep 02, 2007 ... New Zealand must endure the bruising weight of expectation onceagain, which may play into the hands of the hosts. By Tim Glover The gambler who put 90,000 on New Zealand at 4-9 to win the WorldCup would possibly have seen it more as a blue-chip investment thana fun bet. After all, ...
Return to Kirrin - with lashings of Lagavulin! the famous five
Sep 02, 2007 ... TV firm Twofour plans to recreate the Famous Five books, with thecentral characters as grown-ups and with a descendant of Timmy thedog. 'The Independent on Sunday' has seen a script: Summer Holidays: It was the end of term, and most parents atGaylands school were anticipating the ...
six to watch at No 10
Sep 02, 2007 ... DANIEL CARTER (NEW ZEALAND, above): The world's number one No 10,who destroyed the Lions in 2005. Get Carter? Even Richie McCaw, theAll Blacks' Captain Fantastic, would be hard pushed. frederic michalak (france): Prodigy returning from injury. A flopfour years ago, he is now ...
'I suspect Martha Stewart has a soft spot for Charles'
Sep 02, 2007 ... Nigella Lawson used the Radio Times to get her own back onAmerica's domestic goddess Martha Stewart for calling her"whatsername who married the Saatchi". "I know her, and I suspectshe has a soft spot for Charles. I'm ...
Tables will turn as Rovers march onwards and upwards
Sep 02, 2007 ... By Guy Hodgson Early tables hold a myriad of distortions, but the Premier Leagueare disguising Blackburn Rovers' form as effectively as combatcamouflage. This morning Mark Hughes' side lie in the bottom half,which is unflattering given the current upbeat mood at Ewood ...
'Amy and Blake don't see themselves as drug addicts. It's abject denial' interviews
Sep 02, 2007 ... 'They believe they are recreational users of drugs and they arein control' The parents of Amy Winehouse and those of her husband, BlakeFielder-Civil, clashed on Radio 5 Live over their offspring's druguse. "It's abject denial," said Blake's stepdad, Giles. "They don'tsee ...
'People wilfully choose hectic lives to avoid their own company'
Sep 02, 2007 ... Nirpal Dhaliwal tried to spoil our return to office life afterthe bank holiday by railing against "busyness". In the EveningStandard, he wrote: "Slower-paced people like me - childless andworking from home - can see the modern obsession with busyness forwhat it really is: the new ...
Can we reclaim our streets from gangs?
Sep 02, 2007 ... The Government claims crime levels have fallen, but DavidCameron calls the killing of Rhys Jones part of 'a crisis of order'.Who is right, and does society at large have anything to fear in itsown communities? Message Board """ Carmen What is happening in ...