The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from September 1999:
Review Features: Toad for Mayor! Gyles Brandreth, who was taught athletics by Jeffrey Archer at his prep school, sees him as a modern-day Toad of Toad Hall - heroic, but a fantasist and disaster-prone. In this revealing interview, the man who would be Mayor of London explains why this is his last chance to bounce back
Sep 05, 1999; ... HERE is a question I have been pondering for almost 30 years: whenhe is so ridiculous, why is Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare so muchmore successful than I am? Jeffrey - whom I know quite well and likea lot - is a bizarre phenomenon. Brash, boastful, bombastic,engaging, amusing, ...
Review Features: Violence can be so fascinating Time of My Life
Sep 05, 1999; ... LIKE many other people, I find myself watching television less andless. It is not because the standard has declined, but because thesort of programme that I most enjoy appears less frequently. I like documentaries and simple science. I wish to be shown how ahorse gallops; why the ...
Review Features: Ireland, the IRA and me Dublin's most famous living novelist, known for his working-class comedies, has for his latest book chosen a darker subject: Irish terrorism. `If I'd grown up on the Bogside,' says Roddy Doyle, `I could have been involved'
Sep 05, 1999; ... THERE is no mistaking Roddy Doyle in the bar of Buswells, anelegant Georgian hotel opposite the seat of the Irish parliament inDublin. Although it is his choice of venue, he looks distinctly outof place amid the executive suits. He is dressed in jeans and a zip-up sweatshirt with his ...
Review Features: The brains behind the Code War Cryptographer James Ellis (above) was the first man to devise an unbreakable code, but had to let Americans claim the credit. For the first time, Simon Singh tells his story
Sep 05, 1999; ... CRYPTOGRAPHY, the science of secrecy, is itself a secret science.For 2,000 years cryptographers have conducted their research behindclosed doors and have had to accept that they will never gainimmediate recognition for their ingenious and heroic efforts. Charles Babbage for ...
Review Features: A spiritual script with no stage direction Me and My God Jatinder Verma talks to Mark Palmer
Sep 05, 1999; ... JATINDER Verma used to wake up most mornings to the sound of hismother singing to God from inside a small room in the family homewhich was used as a holy temple. Hardly surprising, then, thatreligious melodies have permeated every aspect of his life since. However, it took a long ...
Review Features: Autism and the measles vaccine: is there a link? In Sickness and in Health
Sep 05, 1999; ... AS REGULAR readers will know, perhaps only too well, I take a dimview of health scares in all their protean manifestations. So mysuggestion a year ago that we should take seriously the possibilityof a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and theonset of childhood autism ...
Style: Stunners and riders Burghley Horse Trials, with its final day today, is the place for quintessential country style. Hilary Alexander admires the jods, boots and dresses
Sep 05, 1999; ... WHETHER you go for the showjumping or the shopping, Burghley Horse Trials have become established as oneof the events for quintessential, understated country style. Temperatures in the high 80s and blazing sunshine may havepersuaded some spectators on Thursday's Opening Day to ...
The Arts: Master of enigmatic cool and the DIY colour chart Art
Sep 05, 1999; ... Gary Hume THIS has been Gary Hume's annus mirabilis. First came hisexhibition as British representative at the Venice Biennale - oftenthe crowning moment in an artist's career. Now, a few months later,this substantial show in the new Dean Gallery, in Edinburgh (untilOctober ...
The Arts: The Colonel and the King He was a con man who created a rock 'n' roll legend. Adam Sweeting traces the twisted relationship between Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
Sep 05, 1999; ... THE day after Elvis Presley died in August 1977, his manager,Colonel Tom Parker, felt no obligation to join in the worldwideoutpouring of hysterical grief. Instead, he flew to New York tonegotiate a deal for the merchandising rights to the name andlikeness of the dead star. A company ...
The Arts: A Scottish tragedy with high kicks Music
Sep 05, 1999; ... Macbeth Wand Mackerras Simon Keenlyside VERDI'S Macbeth was performed at the first Edinburgh Festival in1947. Another production followed in 1976. Now, in the first yearof the Scottish Parliament, it has returned to the festival, in theFestival Theatre, in a ...
The Arts: My excavated inner life Dance
Sep 05, 1999; ... Susan Marshall and Company Cullberg Ballet/ Mats Ek Wendy Buonaventura SUSAN Marshall has been making dances for 17 years. She hasreceived numerous awards in the United States, and her last projectwas Philip Glass's opera Les Enfants Terribles. This, and what ...
The Arts: Shrink wrapped in an enigma As a new batch of celebrities line up to spill their innermost secrets to Anthony Clare, Anna Picard finds the psychiatrist prefers to keep a lid on his own emotions
Sep 05, 1999; ... THE taxi-driver at the airport was surprised when I asked for StPatrick's Hospital. He looked me up and down, clearly wondering if Iposed any danger to him or myself. "That's an unusual request," hesaid tersely, and drove off into Dublin's rush-hour drizzle, castingthe odd nervous glance ...
The Arts: Family life, but not as we know it Cinema
Sep 05, 1999; ... The War Zone Go The 13th Warrior Paperback Hero Yellow Submarine CHILD abuse is one of those subjects devastating to those who havesuffered from it, but of limited interest to those who have not. Weknow it takes place, not least because we keep seeing films in whichit ...
The Arts: `Remember when I die, I'll be back' So sang rap star Tupac Shakur in a song released after he was shot three years ago. But was he really murdered? Plenty of his fans think not, as William Langley discovers
Sep 05, 1999; ... " 4 HE's dead," says Sgt Kevin Manning. "I saw the body with my owneyes. Cold on the slab. Three bullets through him. What more doyou want?" The body belonged to Lesane P. Crooks, better known as TupacShakur, a 25-year-old ghetto poet who, in a life filled withdissonance ...
The Arts: The course of true love cross-dresses Theatre
Sep 05, 1999; ... The Triumph of Love Waiting for Godot Inherit the Wind PIERRE Marivaux was the foremost French dramatist of the 18thcentury, but until recently, for most English theatregoers, he hasbeen barely a name. Now we are beginning to hear more about him; andto judge by ...
The Arts: Just don't shine that light on me Radio
Sep 05, 1999; ... THE first programme in the new series of The Healers (Radio 4,Tuesday) began in the most alarming fashion. The subject was"alternative", or as they prefer to call themselves "complementary"healers - quacks, charlatans and weirdos, as others reckon them. "Do we know that they work? ...
The Arts: How to tackle Beckham Television
Sep 05, 1999; ... I ONCE went to a variety show put on for British troops inBelfast. For a number of reasons the show was not a success. Firstof all, the convoy of armoured cars taking the acts to perform at abarracks on the Falls Road was bombarded with urine-filled condoms bychildren ...
Books: Protestations and poetry Nicholas Bagnall enjoys a disarmingly unflinching autobiography of an idealist
Sep 05, 1999; ... Prince Charming: A Memoir by Christopher Logue Faber, pounds 20, 340 pp WARTS-AND-ALL autobiographies are rare. Politicians never writethem; they owe it to those who elected them to put the best face onthings. Poets are different, of course. But Christopher Logue, ...
Books: Captives on the loose Two former hostages make poor travelling companions, finds Anthony Daniels
Sep 05, 1999; ... Between Extremes by Brian Keenan and John McCarthy Bantam Press, pounds 16.99, 344 pp DURING their four years of captivity by terrorists in Lebanon,Brian Keenan and John McCarthy fantasised about travelling the lengthof Chile and running a yak-farm in ...
Books: Not dancing but drowning Nijinsky's own account of his descent into madness makes painful reading, says Nicholas Dromgoole
Sep 05, 1999; ... The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky ed by Joan Acocella Allen Lane, pounds 20, 311 pp ARE WE still obsessed, or is it just fascinated, by VaslavNijinsky, the sensational male star of the Diaghilev Ballet? Thefirst unexpurgated edition of his diary is now published ...
Books: The descent of the biologists Colin Tudge on two scientists aiming to make sense out of the tangled history of genetics
Sep 05, 1999; ... Genome: The Autobiography of a Species by Matt Ridley Fourth Estate, pounds 18.99, 344 pp Almost like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones Doubleday, pounds 20, 402 pp IN THE mid-19th century, Gregor Mendel in a ...
Books: Bestsellers
Sep 05, 1999; ... Non-fiction 1 Drivng Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia, Chris Stewart(Sort of Books, pounds 6.99). Week's est sale: 3,688. 2 Stalingrad, Antony Beevor (Penguin, pounds 12.99), 3,544. 3 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman (Flamingo,pounds 8.99) ....
Books: Her uphill struggle Chris Woodhead on what led a young mother to risk - and lose - her life climbing
Sep 05, 1999; ... Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves by David Rose and Ed Douglas Michael Joseph, pounds 16.99, 290 pp ALISON HARGREAVES's ascent of Everest, solo and without bottledoxygen, made her the most famous woman mountaineer in ...
Books: Millennium Reputations Which are the most overrated authors, or books, of the past 1,000 years? Continuing our series, the novelist Hilary Mantel nominates George Eliot's Silas Marner
Sep 05, 1999; ... SILAS MARNER is one of George Eliot's lesser novels - in terms ofsize - but is equal to any in terms of humbug. Miserable miser Silashas his gold stolen, but finds golden-haired toddler Eppie asleep onthe floor of his humble weaver's cot. He adopts her and isspiritually restored. Eppie's ...
Books: Stages in Glenda's career It has only been a change of role for the actress-turned-MP, says Gerald Kaufman
Sep 05, 1999; ... Glenda Jackson: The Biography by Chris Bryant HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 292 pp BEFORE she left the Government, I often used to see Glenda Jacksonin a Commons lift, hemmed in by a pile of ministerial red boxes.When I mentioned that her officials were piling ...
Books: Architect of his own reputation John Soane's greatest monument is not his buildings but his museum, says John Adamson
Sep 05, 1999; ... John Soane: An Accidental Romantic by Gillian Darley Yale, pounds 25, 358 pp WITH A major exhibition of his work about to open at the RoyalAcademy and a string of recent books devoted to his life and thought,Sir John Soane (1753-1837) - Georgian England's most ...
Books: Heroes carrying microscopes David Wootton enjoys a study of the men - and women - who founded modern science
Sep 05, 1999; ... Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine Little Brown, pounds 25, 444 pp THE IDEA that there was a "scientific revolution" in the 17thcentury was first proposed in 1939 and became commonplace followingthe scientific breakthroughs ...
Books: Eminently unreadable George Meredith the novelist deserves to be remembered but not, perhaps, the novels, says John Gross
Sep 05, 1999; ... The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith by Mervyn Jones Constable, pounds 20, 311 pp WHEN George Meredith died in 1909, he was widely regarded - amongthe cognoscenti, at least - as having been the foremost literary figure of his time. Probably ...
Books: Homeric homecoming
Sep 05, 1999; ... The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 16.99, 346 pp IMAGINE a reworking of the Odyssey, in which the hero returns tohis Penelope, only to get itchy feet six months later, and you willhave the flavour of Melvyn Bragg's new novel. For Ithaca, ...
Books: Paperbacks
Sep 05, 1999; ... The Langhorne Sisters by James Fox Granta, pounds 8.99 THE five daughters of Chiswell Langhorne, Virginian millionaire,were all Southern Belles, and the most famous was the young woman whobecame Nancy Astor. Nancy's correspondence with her beloved sisterPhyllis (who ...
Books: Families that fall apart
Sep 05, 1999; ... With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore Viking, pounds 16.99, 249 pp IT IS a remarkable thing that politicians of all persuasionsshould continue to tell us, with such frequency and conviction, thatthe family is both the cornerstone and the emblem of a ...
Books: Almost history Jane Shilling finds Roddy Doyle making a new myth for Irish nationalism
Sep 05, 1999; ... A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle Jonathan Cape, pounds 16.99, 344 pp RODDY DOYLE's new novel is vastly more ambitious than any he haswritten before. You know this, even before turning to the titlepage, because it says so in the publicity blurb. One's first ...
Travel: Castles and caviare Europe's future was once decided at a Tsarist palace on the Black Sea. Now, finds Diana Preston, Yalta is a resort buzzing with yachts and chic visitors
Sep 05, 1999; ... WINSTON CHURCHILL liked Yalta's dozing stone lion so much hewanted to buy it. With its crumpled, jowly face resting contentedlyon great paws, all it needed to resemble him completely, thoughtChurchill, was a cigar. The lion still guards the steps of themagnificent Vorontsov Palace where ...
Travel: Everyone's driving on the wrong side `Did you know that 30 people a week die on Greek roads?' said the car rental agent. One terrifying holiday weekend Julie Davidson found out just how
Sep 05, 1999; ... FORGET THE treacherous swamp, the roaring rapids, the warringtribe, the hostile wildlife. The great women travellers of the pastmay have taken them all on the chin, but the Lady Hester Stanhopesand Isabella Birds were spared one hazard: they never had to drive ahired car in Greece - or ...
Travel: There's a stranger at the table . . . and it's me Out of the Rat Race
Sep 05, 1999; ... WEEK 44 Melbourne Ailments sore throat Addresses collected 2, Richard and Ben Money spent so far pounds 6,828 NO ONE has said "g'day" to me yet. Except for a Chinese man whoworks in the 7-Eleven supermarket around the corner, and I reckonhe's as ...
Travel: Castles and cottages
Sep 05, 1999; ... Best of the Rest THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND (NTS) has more than 30 self-catering holiday lets across the country, including my six favouriteslisted below. For further details and bookings on Mar Lodge and allother properties, contact the NTS (0131 243 9331; ...
Travel: These roofs are made for stalking Why not visit Scotland in style? Tom Bruce-Gardyne stays in apartments at Mar Lodge, one of the Highlands' most extraordinary hunting lodges
Sep 05, 1999; ... IMAGINE a gingerbread cottage on a palatial scale, place it in alarge sporting estate beside Balmoral and you begin to get an idea ofMar Lodge. When this extraordinary building was created for PrincessLouise, wife of the Duke of Fife and daughter of Edward VII, it wasto be the grandest, ...
Travel: The land that got back on its bike Vietnam has the lot - mountains, forests, beaches and the most amazing manners on two wheels. War, finds Bill Powell, is just a bad memory
Sep 05, 1999; ... "AMERICAN beard too strong," says the girl leaning over me withthe cut-throat razor. I'm flat out in a home-made barber's chairseveral sizes too small, and all I can see is one big brown eyereflecting the barbershop doorway and part of the Hanoi-Ho Chi MinhCity highway outside. A lorry ...
Travel: My passage back to India The sea voyage, the pungent smells and the heat were unforgettable. On a return visit, Catherine Milner recalls her childhood years in Delhi
Sep 05, 1999; ... I HAD a boil on the back of my neck the day the SS Arcadia setsail for India. I was five and my mother and three brothers and Iwere travelling to Delhi to join my father who was correspondentthere for the BBC. As the boil got worse so the ministrations of my mother becamemore and ...
Travel: Running free, running wild Ireland offers some of the best, and cheapest, salmon fishing. Jonathan Young tries his luck on the River Bann; then casts his net more widely, offering helpful advice for the novice angler
Sep 05, 1999; ... PLEASE God, let it rain. Ireland is loveliest in the rain. Realrain that churns rivers, soaks shirts and mushes your Marlboros. Itclears the stage of everyone but the players - the fishermen and thefish - as it sends the message to the Atlantic: "Run boys, run." Thesea-trout and salmon ...
House & Home: Cottage hideaways Want to escape the hordes and bag a bargain? A second home in an area no one has discovered could hold the key. Sara McConnell unearths some rural and coastal secrets
Sep 05, 1999; ... YOU ARE back from your holidays and a grey winter in the citystretches ahead of you. Wouldn't it be lovely just to be able tofling a couple of suitcases in the car every weekend and escape to alittle cottage in the country? And wouldn't it be even better to buyin a part of the country ...
House & Home: The good food guide to buying a flat For house-hunters with gourmet tastes, a restaurant downstairs is the order of the day. Caroline McGhie reports on a hot selling point
Sep 05, 1999; ... WHO LEADS the way in the property market? Property developers orrestaurateurs? No one wanted to live in Shad Thames, on the SouthBank near Tower Bridge, until Sir Terence Conran moved in and openedup his trendy feeding troughs. No one thought Notting Hill was allthat wonderful until it ...
House & Home: Brushes with danger On the level
Sep 05, 1999; ... IT HAS been reported that some members of the Royal Family havegrown up thinking that the world outside smells of fresh paint. Thisis because every place they visit in the course of their officialduties has been spruced up for the occasion, with the final touchesto the decorations often ...
House & Home: Mary Killen's Household Tips
Sep 05, 1999; ... Tape tip Necessity is the mother of invention, as a friend found when achild she was supervising got a splinter in his foot and no tweezerswere to hand. "Faute de mieux I put some Scotch tape over it," says my Americanfriend, "and then pulled it off. I have since found that ...
House & Home: `Baby Balmoral' grows up Changing Values Craigendarroch House, Ballater, Aberdeenshire
Sep 05, 1999; ... SCOTLAND may or may not have been launched on an unstoppable pathto becoming an independent state, but one thing is for sure: itshousing market is rapidly diverging from the English market. WhileLondoners bicker and fight even over the dingiest and most rancid ofbasement flats, the Scots ...
House & Home: From black spot to hot spot Diary of an Estate Agent
Sep 05, 1999; ... MONDAY A busy morning meeting with lots to talk about from the weekend.Several houses have been sold, although some of the chains still needchecking out. The problem is that we have too many people chasingtoo few houses. It is only about six years ago that Luton was dubbedthe ...
Education: `I was bullied continually from 10 to 15' As Sarah May's seven-year-old son goes back to school, she recalls the anguish of her own youth, made miserable by her cruel classmates
Sep 05, 1999; ... ONE moment I was trying to dramatise the rules of "It" for thebenefit of a French exchange student, the next I was stood in frontof someone I barely recognised, with blood on my hands. The Frenchstudent moved away, no longer so enthusiastic, and there were alreadya few drops of blood in ...
City: Royal to shake up life business
Sep 05, 1999; ... ROYAL & Sun Alliance, the insurance group, is poised to announce afar-reaching shake-up of its life insurance operations, which isexpected to lead to the sale of its tied agents business and the lossof several hundred jobs in the direct sales force. RSA's life insurance staff have ...
City: Vickers wants S African group
Sep 05, 1999; ... VICKERS is in talks to acquire Reumech, the South African armouredcar manufacturer, for up to pounds 50m. The deal is one of up to sixmoves to be announced by Vickers within the next two weeks. Anotheris expected to be an alliance or joint venture with Mowag ...
City: Interest rate split puts Bank on policy spot
Sep 05, 1999; ... SOARING house prices are putting pressure on the Bank of England'sMonetary Policy Committee to raise interest rates to avoid a surge inspending and inflation. But the committeee is so divided that it may not even be able toagree a statement at the end of Wednesday's meeting - ...
City: ONdigital rebels form TV rival
Sep 05, 1999; ... A GROUP of renegade directors of ONdigital are leaving to set upwhat is thought to be Britain's first independent, interactivebroadcasting company. Ashley Faull, who quit as programming boss of ONdigital last week,is behind the new company, called Sit-up Entertainment. He ...
City: M&S sends for Hague's style consultant
Sep 05, 1999; ... MARKS & Spencer, the struggling retailer, is drafting in some ofBritain's best-known designers to tempt customers back into itsstores after more than a year of flagging sales. Among the team creating women's clothes for the group is KatharineHamnett, William Hague's style guru, and ...
City: Greenalls in pounds 1bn Swallow talks Beleaguered group wants to form one of Britain's biggest hotel chains
Sep 05, 1999; ... GREENALLS is planning a pounds 1bn merger of its De Vere hotelsbusiness with rival hotel operator Swallow Group. This will form oneof the country's biggest hotel companies, once the sale of its pubsand restaurant division to Scottish & Newcastle is completed. Greenalls, led by Lord ...
City: Cerebrus drops plans for flotation
Sep 05, 1999; ... CEREBRUS, an unquoted biotechnology company set up by Chris Evans,the technology entrepreneur, and chaired by George Poste, theSmithKline Beecham director, has abandoned plans to float on thestockmarket. Instead Lehman Brothers, the financial adviser, has been broughtin to sell ...
City: US giant eyes Harrison Drape
Sep 05, 1999; ... McKECHNIE, the engineering group, is close to selling its consumerproducts division to Newell, the giant US housewares conglomerate,for pounds 60m. The sale of the division includes Harrison Drape, the curtaintrack and pole business, and the general hardware business ...
City: Eastern buys 50 pc of Drax output
Sep 05, 1999; ... EASTERN Group, the UK's largest regional electricity company, isnegotiating to buy up to half the output of the 4,000MW Drax powerstation in Yorkshire, which is being sold by National Power to AES ofthe US. The deal, which is thought to be for seven years, would be a coupfor ...
City: BG offers financial services abroad
Sep 05, 1999; ... BG, the pipeline and international arm of the former British Gasempire, is to enter the financial services market by offering a rangeof products to up to 3m customers overseas. The company will launch credit cards and a range of insuranceproducts initially to existing customers, ...
City: GE buys MEPC portfolio
Sep 05, 1999; ... MEPC is in advanced talks to sell a pounds 200m portfolio toAmerica's GE Capital in what will mark the final stage of theproperty group's refocusing on large UK investments and developments. It is understood that GE Capital, the powerful financial andinvestment subsidiary of ...
City: Hunter moves into toys
Sep 05, 1999; ... TOM Hunter is investing part of the pounds 290m he raised byselling his Sports Division retail chain to JJB Sports, in a newonline business called Toyzone.co.uk. with a start up value of aboutpounds 1m. The business aims to replicate eToys, the US online retailer,which has a ...
City: Blue Square heads for pounds 50m float
Sep 05, 1999; ... CITY Index, the spread betting business owned by IntercapitalGroup, is considering a pounds 50m stockmarket flotation of BlueSquare, its fixed-odds internet betting venture. Michael Spencer, chairman of Intercapital Group who owns a 50 percent stake in Blue Square, is keen to raise ...
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Sep 05, 1999; ... BRITISH Biotech, the disgraced flagship of the biotechnologysector, is close to astounding its critics by announcing a multi-million pound licensing deal for its lead product, Marimastat, theanti-cancer treatment, with one of the world's largest drugs groups. Insiders involved in ...
City: BRDC rebels call for talks
Sep 05, 1999; ... REBEL members of the British Racing Drivers Club, which ownsSilverstone and faces a pounds 43m takeover bid from rival BrandsHatch Leisure, have formed an action group demanding that the BRDCboard open negotiations with Brands Hatch. The minority group is led by Sir John Whitmore ...
City Comment: NatWest has got it right at last
Sep 05, 1999 ... If NatWest is up to something, it will all end in disaster. Thatwas the knee-jerk reaction of the City last week when it learnt thatthe bank was buying Legal & General. After all, it has never paid togive NatWest the benefit of the doubt. The benefits nevermaterialise and the doubts ...
City Comment: French connection
Sep 05, 1999 ... THREE years ago I was one of the judges of the Hanson/SundayTelegraph Management Award. The panel was chaired by Archie Norman,Asda's chairman, and all day we sat in an airless boardroominterviewing a succession of Britain's finest young executives. The odd one out was a ...
City: Edward's thoughts on enterprise were right
Sep 05, 1999; ... In most liberal Western democracies there is a subtle, continuousguerrilla war being waged by certain elements of the politico-mediacomplex against industry and business. The offensive takes severalforms: the confiscation of money via taxes; ever-increasingregulation of business by ...