The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from March 2001:
They muck you up
Mar 04, 2001; ... Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi Faber, pounds 9.99, 178 pp pounds 8.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 HANIF KUREISHI , whose first novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)was a landmark comedy of multi-cultural London, has since become anacute analyst of broken ...
The medieval superwoman Daniel Johnson on a Life of Hildegard of Bingen, doctor, composer, theologian and mystic
Mar 04, 2001; ... Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks Headline, pounds 15.99, 332 pp pounds 13.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 NOT MANY individuals in history have as many claims tooriginality as Hildegard of Bingen. The first female scientist ...
He wrote it to be famous Celebrity came too late for the author of Tristram Shandy, finds Ian Hamilton
Mar 04, 2001; ... Laurence Sterne: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross Oxford, pounds 25, 498 pp pounds 22 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 "I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them . .. had minded what they were about when they begot me." These, the celebrated opening ...
Paperbacks
Mar 04, 2001; ... The Late Mr Shakespeare by Robert Nye Allison & Busby, pounds 9.99 NO MODERN novelist has been as entranced with Shakespeare asRobert Nye. He has paid memorable homage to him twice already, inFalstaff and The Late Mrs Shakespeare. This third novel has the samecharm ...
Scientists are only human Ray Monk on the acrimony that has often followed scientific discovery
Mar 04, 2001; ... Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science by Michael White Secker & Warburg, pounds 17.99, 417 pp pounds 15.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 AS WRITERS of soap operas and manipulators of the mass media havelong realised, when attention begins to flag, nothing can revive ...
He who must be obeyed Has it always been trouble and strife for wives? wonders Minette Marrin
Mar 04, 2001; ... A History of the Wife by Marilyn Yalom Pandora, pounds 20, 441 pp pounds 18 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE HISTORY OF women as wives is truly astonishing. From thepoint of view of a little girl growing up in the richer, freer partsof Europe today, the story of ...
A Guide to Life Which is the book that has taught you most about what life is really like? Continuing our series, the writer Alain de Botton chooses Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Mar 04, 2001; ... I USED TO think that if someone you love died, you'dautomatically feel very sad and then gradually get less sad as timepassed. Then I read Proust's In Search of Lost Time and was betterprepared for what the death of a loved one might really be like. The day the narrator's beloved ...
Tough times for elitists Opera
Mar 04, 2001; ... Beatrice and Benedict Aida Welsh National Opera has revived its 1994 Elijah Moshinskyproduction of Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict at the New Theatre,Cardiff, and it is still as enchanting. Michael Yeargan's courtyardset, bathed in Sicilian sunshine and later in the glow of ...
How to make flamenco really monotonous Dance
Mar 04, 2001; ... Pura Pasion ENB's Giselle Germs were spread with gay abandon in the foyer of the PeacockTheatre as Joaquin Cortes's kissy-kissy entourage gathered excitedlyfor the premiere of Pura Pasion. And, bless them, this element ofthe audience gave very good value: cheering at every ...
`Jazz is like jumping off a cliff' Artie Shaw was one of the great jazz clarinettists of his time, yet he hasn't played a note of music since 1954. He talks to Michael Freedland
Mar 04, 2001; ... Artie Shaw is one of the great survivors of jazz - even though hehasn't played a note of music for almost half a century. It was in1954 that the man who must rank as the last of the great AmericanBig Band leaders decided to put away in its velvet-lined case theclarinet which had made him ...
The sorrows and wonders of childhood Theatre
Mar 04, 2001; ... The Secret Garden The Daughter-in-Law Under the Doctor Musicals based on well-loved literary works tend to dilute ordistort them, and The Secret Garden (book and lyrics by MarthaNorman, music by Lucy Simon) is no exception. It gives the story anadult slant, and it is ...
Strong and sultry
Mar 04, 2001; ... Meet Me Under The Ombu Tree by Santa Montefiore Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 12.99, 530 pp pounds 10.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 ROMANTIC FICTION may be sniffed at in certain quarters but thedemands of the genre make writing it a difficult trick to pull off ...
Class war and classrooms Katie Owen on an atmospheric satire of the 1970s
Mar 04, 2001; ... The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe Viking, pounds 14.99, 405 pp pounds 12.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS NOVEL , a portrait of 1970s Britain, could be called acompanion piece to Jonathan Coe's hilarious satire of the 1980s,What A Carve Up!. But that would be ...
An evening of `blood and sperm' Charles Spencer says that the `in-yer-face' theatre of the late-1990s was gruesome but salutory
Mar 04, 2001; ... In-Yer-Face Theatre by Aleks Sierz Faber, pounds 9.99, 274 pp pounds 8.99 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 OVER THE PAST few years, theatre-goers have learnt, like Macbeth,what it is to sup full with horrors. At the beginning of the 1990snew writing for the theatre was ...
A woman's place . . . Young, solvent, single women are shrewd players in the property game. Caroline McGhie finds out what they are looking for, and where they can get it
Mar 04, 2001; ... Bridget Jones, that tortured female soul that so many twenty- andthirty-somethings identify with, is now a powerful force in theproperty market. High-earning, independent single women are provingto be sharp movers when it comes to snapping up the prettiest andsmartest flats and ...
The great and good, and wrong This history of the schools inspectorate will please the teaching profession, says Chris Woodhead
Mar 04, 2001; ... The Inspectors Calling: HMI and the Shaping of Educational Policy 1945-1992 by Stuart Maclure Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 25, 350 pp pounds 22 (free p&p) 0870 155 7222 STUART MACLURE is a fully paid up member of the educationalestablishment. He ...
Diary of an Estate Agent
Mar 04, 2001; ... MONDAY Great start to the week. Two asking price offers come in on afour-bedroom house that we first sold in 1995 for pounds 185,000,then again in 1997 for pounds 250,000. It's now on the market atjust over pounds 500,000. The rivals agree to put their best offersforward and the ...
Cracks in the ceiling Ask Jeff
Mar 04, 2001; ... Is there anything that can be done to improve ceilings thatappear to be just plasterboard whitened with emulsion paint, andwhere you can see the joins. JK, Broadway, Worcs Jeff replies Many recently built homes are not plasteredinternally, and the plasterboard walls and ...
Radiator corrosion Ask Jeff
Mar 04, 2001; ... I understand that in central heating systems where steelradiators are connected by copper pipes it is advisable to addinhibitors to the water to slow down corrosion. How is the inhibitorfluid added to the "combi" boiler system? RF, Chelmsford Jeff replies The corrosion you ...
Stop pipes freezing Ask Jeff
Mar 04, 2001; ... Many years ago I came across an electrical wiring system known as"Trace Heating", which was used to ensure that water supplies onfarm land and within exposed farm buildings did not freeze in coldweather. I believe the system involved an electrical heating cablebeing secured to the length ...
Gritty plaster walls Ask Jeff
Mar 04, 2001; ... We are about to re-wallpaper our interior walls but have noticedthat the plaster is very sandy and gritty. We have been advised toprime the walls with either a water-based stabilising solution or anoil-based alkaline-resistant primer. From your experience, do theseactually work, or could ...
Predator Owen now a provider By setting up England's opening goal, the Liverpool striker proved there is more to his game than just goal-poaching
Mar 04, 2001; ... A touch, a turn, a pro longed thrust into the heart of theMoroccan defence - and the ball was in the net. Thus did MichaelOwen, aged a little under 18 1/2 , become the youngest player toscore for England. Soon a variation on the theme, splashed across an infinitelybroader canvas, ...
Van Nistelrooy's return puts United on full alert Jack Carroll on last night's impressive comeback from injury of the much sought after Dutch striker
Mar 04, 2001; ... TEDDY SHERINGHAM, start watching your back, for Ruud VanNistelrooy has returned. The PSV forward, who was on the verge of anpounds 18.5 million transfer to Manchester United last season beforea ruptured knee ligament ended his chances of a move to the PremierLeague champions, came ...
Last-chance saloon looms at Lilleshall Teenagers consigned to the scrapheap in the Premiership face a nervous wait as they seek a second opportunity
Mar 04, 2001; ... Wednesday morning, Lille shall, a cold wind blows flecks of snowacross two football pitches. Sixty-four boys are split into fourteams, they will get just 60 minutes' football each and they areplaying for their lives. They all want to be professionalfootballers and for many, this is the ...
Arsenal at low ebb as the stakes rise Clive White on a must-win game for the Gunners against a side their manager rates higher than Manchester United
Mar 04, 2001; ... For a side still coming to terms with their six-goal mauling byManchester United, Arsenal could probably have done without havingto beat a team on Tuesday who their manager rates as "the best wehave played since the start of the season". Anything less than victory against Spartak ...
Woods leaves door ajar for chasing pack Bruce Critchley in Dubai sees the world's No 1 golfer lead while fine tuning his preparations for the Masters
Mar 04, 2001; ... TIGER WOODS is probably the man least concerned that he has notwon a golf tournament this year. Nevertheless, as he always has toface the press at the end of every round, a win today in the DubaiDesert Classic would be welcome, if only to stop all the questionsabout his apparent lack of ...
Banks slams Government's plans for Picketts Lock Exclusive: The former sports minister tells Owen Slot why building a new stadium `on the cheap' is not the answer
Mar 04, 2001; ... TONY BANKS, the former sports minister, will go public this weekwith his opinion that Picketts Lock, the north London site hisGovernment is championing as the venue for the 2005 World AthleticsChampionships, is a hopeless cause. "Picketts Lock is not feasible," Banks told The ...
British lamb and pork stocks `set to run out' SHOP SUPPLIES
Mar 04, 2001; ... SUPPLIES OF British lamb and pork will have run out across thecountry by tonight and beef stocks will be exhausted by the middleof this week, food industry experts predicted yesterday. Jon Bullock, a spokesman for the Meat and Livestock Commission,said: "We believe lamb and pork ...
`Soap dish' bought for 25p is worth pounds 6,000
Mar 04, 2001 ... A "soap dish" bought at a bric-a-brac stall for 25p two years agohas been identified as a rare bleeding bowl used by surgeon barbersand worth pounds ...
Terror killing inquiry
Mar 04, 2001 ... Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, willtravel to Athens tomorrow to discuss the investigation into ...
Red kites alert
Mar 04, 2001 ... RAF pilots have been asked to avoid the breeding grounds of redkites near Llandrindod ...
Slash and grab
Mar 04, 2001 ... Thieves slashed the tyres of three police cars before driving astolen Range ...
The egg yolk is decidedly on us
Mar 04, 2001 ... Your report on the perfect way to crack an egg (News, February25) reminded me of my days in the Navy, when cooks used egg powder,whose taste bore little resemblance to fresh eggs. One cook, whenmaking ...
The egg yolk is decidedly on us
Mar 04, 2001 ... It would be difficult to crack a yoke, which you referred to. Mydictionary defines it as a (wooden) contrivance for joining ...
Churchill's European army
Mar 04, 2001 ... Christopher Booker claims that Winston Churchill's remark "We arewith Europe, not of it" was first made in 1953 (Notebook, February25). In fact he used the words in a newspaper article in February1930. Some of the great man's other remarks, for example in Zurich in1946, were more ...
Britain's sensible and sober youngsters
Mar 04, 2001 ... Three cheers for Dominic Lawson. It is rare to see the alcoholmisuse by a minority of British consumers, of whatever age group,put into perspective and the blatant misuse of statistics exposed soneatly (Comment, February 25). We already have a much moresophisticated picture of teenage ...
The famous Crowes are actually Kiwis
Mar 04, 2001 ... The film star Russell Crowe is not Australian but a citizen ofNew Zealand (International News, February 25), born and raised thereby his parents with his famous cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe, whohave both captained the New Zealand ...
Shall I compare thee to a sum?
Mar 04, 2001 ... I was so appalled at Andrew Motion's census poem (News, February25) that I wrote one myself. Ignore the other 93 that hopeful poetshave sent you - this is not only a strict Shakespearean sonnet butit is bloody good. Who are you, then? Where were you born? And may We ask what ...
House share
Mar 04, 2001 ... Nigel Nicolson asks why Peter Mandelson should declare the loanhe was given to buy a house, saying it was a private matter (Review,February 25). When you fill in an application form for a ...
Milosevic's crime was to fail
Mar 04, 2001 ... John Simpson's analysis "Kosovo terror shows need for Balkanrethink" (International News, February 18) managed to spoil myfriends' and my own weekend mood. It was not his point of view thatwe found upsetting - after all, he only said openly what manysuspected that he was thinking during ...
The root causes of foot and mouth
Mar 04, 2001 ... The possible spread of agricultural disease by humans during thefoot and mouth outbreak (News, February 25) raises several aspectsof public policy: Should rambling and the "right to roam" be encouraged as much asthe Government wishes? Should rights of way which cross pasture ...
The root causes of foot and mouth
Mar 04, 2001 ... As a an importer of livestock, I have watched with equal concernand amazement the unfolding of the foot and mouth outbreak. I andother importers of stock have to conform to very strict importguidelines, although I am convinced that livestock is arriving bydevious routes to avoid the ...
The root causes of foot and mouth
Mar 04, 2001 ... As a small-scale livestock breeder for some 40 years, I believethat your observation that "the intensive farming practices requiredby modern food markets mean, in truth, that most livestock exists ina permanent state of low-level sickness, kept at bay by ever-increasing dosage of ...
The root causes of foot and mouth
Mar 04, 2001 ... Your statement about the "ever increasing dosage of antibioticdrugs" beggars belief. Farmers have a statutory requirement to keepa medicines record and the sale of meat and milk containing tracesof antibiotics is illegal. Farmers use these products only whenabsolutely necessary ....
The root causes of foot and mouth
Mar 04, 2001 ... Foot and mouth is an airborne disease and burning carcasses isthe most dangerous way of spreading the infection. A ...
The terror we tolerate A Sikh activist is more likely to be arrested than an IRA thug
Mar 04, 2001; ... The anxious meeting between Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, theIrish Prime Minister, last week was haunted by a hard, cold voicefrom South Armagh. The voice belonged to Brian Keenan, the chief IRAtactician, and it was telling the harsh truth about thatorganisation's strategy. Mr ...
What a piece of work is man Hal could never suffer angst; he could never be religious or write the works of Shakespeare
Mar 04, 2001; ... It must be an interesting life if you are in the drugs squad inStratford-upon-Avon. Some 17th-century clay pipes have been dug upthere, and laboratory tests have revealed that they contain tracesof a number of illegal substances, including cocaine, hallucinogensand possibly cannabis ....
William embarks on African adventure
Mar 04, 2001; ... PRINCE WILLIAM has left for a three-and-a-half month visit toAfrica on the latest stage of his "gap year" between school anduniversity. The 18-year-old will spend some time on safari and willalso become involved in game conservation, learning about Africa'swildlife and ...
Mass cull if BSE spreads to sheep SLAUGHTER PLAN
Mar 04, 2001; ... EVERY sheep in Britain will be slaughtered if just one isdiagnosed with BSE under a "Doomsday plan" to be published by theGovernment next month. The Food Standards Agency report, which will further depressfarmers, has been drawn up over the past few months amid fears that"mad cow ...
Seven nuclear plants for UK
Mar 04, 2001; ... BRITISH ENERGY, the nuclear generator, is drawing up secret plansto build a chain of seven nuclear power stations in Britain toreplace its existing plants, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. The company, which six years ago appeared to have signed thedeath warrant for the UK nuclear ...
Peter Mandelson is cleared of lying by official inquiry `I have no reason to doubt his honesty' declares Hammond as spotlight turns on Blair and Straw
Mar 04, 2001; ... TONY BLAIR and Jack Straw face acute embarrassment this week whenthe official inquiry into the "cash for passports" affair willcompletely clear Peter Mandelson of having lied, The SundayTelegraph can reveal. Sir Anthony Hammond, QC, who was appointed by Tony Blair toinvestigate ...
John Diamond - a printed voice heard loud and clear
Mar 04, 2001; ... JOHN DIAMOND, The Sunday Telegraph columnist and televisionpreviewer, died on Friday in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London,four years after being diagnosed with oral cancer. Dominic Lawson, the editor of The Sunday Telegraph, said: "Anatural broadcaster, John lost his voice in the ...
No need for six-monthly dental check, say ministers
Mar 04, 2001; ... THE GOVERNMENT is preparing to abolish the six-monthly NHS dentalcheck-up which has been common practice for 50 years. There is a growing consensus between dental academics and healthministers that twice-yearly visits to the dentist are a waste oftime and money. Now the ...
Brown plans pre-election Budget spree of pounds 4bn
Mar 04, 2001; ... A pounds 4 BILLION Budget giveaway to the elderly, workingfamilies, hauliers, hospitals and the police will be announced bythe Chancellor this week. Gordon Brown's pre-general election package will target areaswhere Labour is at risk of losing votes. The middle classes willalso ...
Parliamentary report condemns `dirty' teenage magazines
Mar 04, 2001; ... AN ALARMING number of schoolgirls read older teenage magazinesthat contain sexually explicit material, a parliamentary study hasfound. The report, carried out for the Lords and Commons Family andChild Protection Group by the Family Matters Initiative, found thatthousands of girls ...
Charlie accepts pounds 14m garden challenge TV presenter will help to design Duchess's 14-acre project
Mar 04, 2001; ... CHARLIE DIMMOCK, the television gardener, has been enlisted bythe Duchess of Northumberland to help to build the most expensivenew garden in modern Britain. The presenter, who is noted for creating water features in theBBC television series Ground Force, was approached to help with ...
Conservatives pledge pounds 25m for hospices
Mar 04, 2001 ... The Conservative Party promised an extra pounds 25 million a yearfor hospices if it wins the next general election. Dr Liam Fox, the shadow health spokesman, speaking ...
Protest against judge
Mar 04, 2001 ... A group of fathers surrounded the home of Judge Christopher Tyrernear Princes Risborough, in ...
Blackman body
Mar 04, 2001 ... A second post mortem examination will be carried out on LucieBlackman, who was murdered in ...
First kiss
Mar 04, 2001; ... STAND BY for a slurpy session of tonsil-tickling between ZoeWanamaker and Anna Chancellor. These two fine actresses are to playa pair of lesbians in David Mamet's play Boston Marriage, to bestaged at the Donmar Warehouse later this month. The gamine Miss Wanamaker, who is happily ...
pounds 3.4m Dome auction
Mar 04, 2001 ... The auction of items from the Millennium Dome raised more ...
Give us a reply, Mr Morley FISHING FIASCO Christopher Booker's Notebook
Mar 04, 2001; ... I owe an apology to our fisheries minister, Elliott Morley, formistakenly accusing him last week of being ignorant about sandeels,the small sea-bed creatures that are the basis of all the North Seafoodchain. Mr Morley is understandably sensitive about sandeelsbecause they are the key to ...
Contraceptive coil can lower female fertility
Mar 04, 2001; ... CHILDLESS women who use the contraceptive coil, or IUD, may havedifficulty conceiving when they try to start a family, doctors say. Researchers at Oxford University who studied the medical recordsof more than 1,000 women over the 1980s and early 1990s have found adirect link ...
Spiritualists' powers turn scientists into believers Laboratory research has raised new questions about mediums
Mar 04, 2001; ... A UNIQUE series of scientific experiments has produced evidencethat some "spirit mediums" may indeed have paranormal talents. Scientists involved in the study at the University of Arizona saythat the findings are so extraordinary they raise fundamentalquestions about the survival ...
Minister spent taxpayers' money to promote Labour
Mar 04, 2001; ... A GOVERNMENT minister yesterday admitted to The Sunday Telegraphthat she had misused taxpayers' money and breached parliamentaryrules by sending out party political literature using House ofCommons postage-paid envelopes. Gisela Stuart, the health minister, sent out leaflets urging ...