The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from July 2001:
End of the affair In her first interview since she was forced to leave the board of the Royal Opera House, a 'broken-hearted' Dame Vivien Duffield tells David Thomas how she is still trying to come to terms with 'not knowing what's going on'
Jul 01, 2001; ... Dame Vivien Duffield still goes to Covent Garden, she can't keepaway. "I adore opera and ballet. I'm passionate about them," shesays. And then, so quickly and quietly that I almost miss it, sheadds, "That's why it really broke my heart." She gave the Opera House several million ...
My solution for Ireland's troubles Time of my life
Jul 01, 2001; ... Today is a day of reckoning for Northern Ireland, but the historyof the province is composed of endless days of reckoning. Will thetroubles ever end? I have just spent a week in Ulster as a touristinterested in its surviving country houses, but one cannot escapethe politics. Not ...
One that loved not wisely Her passion for Shakespeare's heroines has inspired Susannah York to write a book about them. She identifies with these characters, she says, because of her own emotional crises and 'years of pain'
Jul 01, 2001; ... `There I was, in my blue-spotted wedding dress and straw boater,stumbling down the King's Road in floods of tears," Susannah Yorkrecalls. "I was so terrified of what I was about to do. I was only18, madly in love and scared stiff because my life was never goingto be the same again. I was ...
Demons stole my brother At 14 Michael 'saw the face of God'. Years later he tried to murder his father by burning the house down. Greg Bottoms describes his brother's descent into mental illness and a 30- year prison sentence
Jul 01, 2001; ... I squinted into the darkness. Maybe, at 10, with my eyes barelyopen, I saw the future. Maybe I saw, in the dark of the room, heardin the screams, that one day my brother Michael would be diagnosedas an acute paranoid schizophrenic; that he would frighten women,children, neighbours, us; ...
How a low-fibre diet can soothe irritable bowels
Jul 01, 2001; ... Medicine may be a science-based profession, but sometimes thethirst for knowledge can be less conspicuous than a dogged adherenceto fashionable beliefs. In the 1980s, readers may recall, there wasno belief more fashionable than the one about the virtues of a high-fibre diet. Roughage, in ...
Many hands make light work Ballet
Jul 01, 2001; ... Kirov Ballet Lecherous towel-heads, pirates, a shipwreck, an on-stagefountain, five composers, umpteen choreographers and more slavegirls than you can shake a stick at (if that's your idea of a goodtime). If someone handed you the raw ingredients of Le Corsaire youwould hardly ...
Cool down or melt down? Christie's threw a glittering party last week for their contemporary art sale, yet only half the work was sold. Does this mean hard times ahead for the Young British art market? asks Rose Aidin
Jul 01, 2001; ... A transvestite DJ mixed the pounding music, the champagnecocktails were tinted pretty colours to match the Damien Hirst spot-paintings, and a large stuffed horse - the work of artist MaurizioCattelan - swung gently from the ceiling in the evening breeze. By any ordinary standards, ...
Marital harmony Opera
Jul 01, 2001; ... Intermezzo Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk The opinion, now totally discredited, that Richard Strauss hadnothing new to say after Ariadne auf Naxos in 1912 was blown sky-high operatically by Die Frau ohne Schatten and even higher by hisoutrageous Intermezzo (1924) about a ...
A slob for all seasons Cinema
Jul 01, 2001; ... Shrek Town and Country The Princess and the Warrior The Season of Men Taxi 2 Perhaps in the end success comes down to keeping one's nerve.DreamWorks, the studio behind Shrek (U), displayed formidablebrinkmanship in unveiling its new family movie ...
Pinter through the looking-glass Theatre
Jul 01, 2001; ... Mountain Language Ashes to Ashes School Play Decky Does a Bronco Dinner With Friends To those not yet converted to the politically enraged later worksof Harold Pinter, let me recommend Katie Mitchell's inspired pairingof Mountain Language (1988) and ...
Klezmer comes out of the ghetto Often known as the Jewish Jazz, klezmer used to be the preserve of bar mitzvahs and weddings. Now young Jewish musicians are taking it onto the dance floor. The results are amazing, says Sophie Solomon
Jul 01, 2001; ... Somehow it's hard to take the Ten Commandments too seriously whenthey are tattooed, in Hebrew, on the meaty left arm of a 240 lbTexan tuba player. Especially if he then offers you a slug ofslivovitz from his hip-flask and persuades you - with a cheerfulblast of brass - to forget all you ...
Scenes from a model-making boyhood Art
Jul 01, 2001; ... Malcolm Morley Howard Hodgkin BP Portrait Award Malcolm Morley in Full Colour at the Hayward Gallery (untilAugust 27, sponsored by Benoy) celebrates the rare achievement of anEnglish artist who got on his bike as a young man and has made it inAmerica; also of someone ...
Just to hear me is to believe me Radio
Jul 01, 2001; ... The monologue is an interesting form. It invites us to judge thespeaker purely by the way he or she speaks. We don't have any otherinformation and in the course of most monologues nothing actuallyhappens either. We just have to listen and decide. John Humphrys' interviews with ...
The rule book doesn't cover it Television
Jul 01, 2001; ... On Tuesday's Wimbledon (BBC1), John McEnroe was explaining how togo about showing your opponent your new balls. It is not actuallyrequired in the rules, he said, simply a matter of courtesy.However, in the heat of battle people forget themselves and balletiquette can break down ...
Superpower brain power The Cold War was fought between intelligence services and paper was the ammunition, says Alan Judd
Jul 01, 2001; ... The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War SecretIntelligence by Richard J. Aldrich John Murray, pounds 25, 733 pp pounds 23 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 We Come Unseen: The Untold Story of Britain's Cold War Submarines by Jim Ring John Murray, ...
Did he quake in his boots? Andrew Roberts on a study of Wellington as a military commander that sets out to be controversial, and succeeds
Jul 01, 2001; ... Wellington: A Military Life by Gordon Corrigan Hambledon & London, pounds 19.95, 396 pp pounds 17.95 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 IF MARSHAL GROUCHY had marched his troops to the sound of gunfireat Waterloo in the same way that Gordon Corrigan unfailingly ...
They get a buzz out of us The long and on-going war between man and mosquito is a fight to the death, says Kenan Malik
Jul 01, 2001; ... Mosquito: A Natural History of our most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio Faber, pounds 10.99, 247 pp pounds 9.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 DURING THE Second World War the commander of an embattled Britishforce in the ...
A guide to life Which book tells you most about what life is really like? Continuing our series, the writer Colin Thubron chooses Oscar Lewis's The Children of Sanchez
Jul 01, 2001; ... I ALWAYS imagine that "real life" is going on wherever I am not,and that suffering, for some reason, is more "real" than comfort. SoI remain warily grateful for those books which remind me that mostof the world still lives in brutalising poverty. Foremost amongthese works is The Children ...
Goddesses of the gab Gerald Kaufman enjoys the story of the Hollywood actresses of the Thirties and Forties who brought wit to the screen
Jul 01, 2001; ... Fast-Talking Dames by Maria DiBattista Yale, pounds 19.95, 365 pp pounds 17.95 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN THE MOVIE Sunset Boulevard, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson)explained thus the potency of stars of the silent screen: "We hadfaces!" Norma's day ended ...
Working class and learning class Anthony Daniels praises a history of the time when self-improvement was a noble aim
Jul 01, 2001; ... The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose Yale, pounds 29.95, 534 pp pounds 27.95 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 AN INTELLIGENT but uneducated middle-aged working-class manrecently told me that he had gone on a trip to Paris for the ...
The Literary Lide
Jul 01, 2001; ... THIS WEEK saw the publication of the final titles in the EverymanMillennium Library: Proust's In Search of Lost Time, introduced byHarold Bloom; Tolstoy's Collected Shorter Fiction, edited by JohnBayley; and, in a single volume, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angelsand The Blue Flower by ...
My secrets and lies
Jul 01, 2001; ... A Spy by Nature by Charles Cumming Michael Joseph, pounds 9.99, 401 pp pounds 8.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHEN HE left university in 1994, the journalist Charles Cummingwas invited to apply to join MI6, Britain's foreign intelligenceservice. For six months he ...
Once bitten, twice famous
Jul 01, 2001; ... The Fourth Hand by John Irving Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 316 pp pounds 14.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 ONLY JOHN IRVING could have dreamed up the story of a New Yorktelevision reporter, fabled for his dispatches from disaster areas,who gets his hand bitten off by ...
It's a roman-a-clef, old son Tony Parsons has raided his own life for his characters, finds Harry Mount
Jul 01, 2001; ... One For My Baby by Tony Parsons HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 330 pp pounds 14.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 "LIKE NORMAN MAILER , I didn't write any fiction in my thirties.I wanted to rack up a few more experiences and get on top of mycraft", Tony Parsons said at ...
No stone left unturned Christopher Tayler on the many-layered story of William Smith, 'the father of English geology'
Jul 01, 2001; ... The Map that Changed the World: The Tale of William Smith and the Birth of a Science by Simon Winchester Viking, pounds 12.99, 338 pp pounds 10.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 SIMON WINCHESTER' s last book, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, toldthe ...
Adam Smith with spin Noel Malcolm is impressed, if not entirely convinced, by this re-appraisal of the great economist
Jul 01, 2001; ... Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild Harvard UP, pounds 30.95, 353 pp pounds 28.95 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 WOULD ADAM SMITH have been reluctant to join the Adam SmithInstitute - the adventurous Right-wing think-tank ...
Boardrooms close as bedrooms take over Many fine city buildings are reverting from offices to private homes, as Caroline McGhie finds in Chichester
Jul 01, 2001; ... Walk down many of the best streets in our prettiest towns and youwill find that the grand Georgian houses long ago turned intooffices and shops are now changing back into homes. A domestic humis replacing the hush of office life. Ordinary homebuyers first began to move out of town ...
These foolish things You don't have to be mad to buy a folly, but it helps. Ross Clark finds there is no shortage of buyers ready to risk their sanity - and their savings - on a whim
Jul 01, 2001; ... Folly, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, means "thequality or state of being foolish; want of good sense, weakness orderangement of mind; also unwise conduct". Hence, "a name given toany costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder". But is the folly ...
Monument to concrete
Jul 01, 2001; ... It takes a brave man to walk into a traditional Somerset towncentre and build a futuristic house to demonstrate the benefits ofpre-cast concrete. But that is what William Akerman did 150 years ago; and the househe built (below) is now in need of an equally brave person to ...
Blasted back to glory When Ben Tompsett acquired Crittenden farmhouse in Kent, he used gelignite to help him restore the original 17th-century garden. Ross Clark reports
Jul 01, 2001; ... Indebted farmers forced to sell their holdings to well-heeledmiddle-class commuters fleeing from the smoke and noise of London:it isn't a picture of the present but of the Kentish Weald in theearly 1930s. Caught up in it were the Tompsetts of Fowle Hall nearPaddock Wood, who had been ...
Floored by a nightdress but not by fleas and bats Diary of an estate agent
Jul 01, 2001; ... Batcheller & Thacker Battle, West Sussex MONDAY My first visit of the morning is in Ashburnham, which is one ofthe most rural pockets of the South-east, a bit like Devon. Thelanes are Devonian, too, with big potholes and places where theTarmac has subsided completely ...
Upkeep of PVC windows Ask Jeff
Jul 01, 2001; ... I have been very interested in your comments on PVC not being"maintenance free", as I live in a block of flats in which somewindows are PVC and some are not. Would it be desirable for the PVCwindows to be repainted when the other windows and the rest of thewoodwork are redecorated every ...
Is polystyrene a hazard? Ask Jeff
Jul 01, 2001; ... Our homebuyer's survey advised us to remove the potential firehazard of the polystyrene covering on one wall of the bedroom of ourbungalow, which is in a very exposed rural location. Assuming thepolystyrene was to reduce the cold effect of the outside wall, wouldit be practical to ...
Windy wooden floor Ask Jeff
Jul 01, 2001; ... My house has wooden floors and copious amounts of airbricks.While I am aware of the importance of the airbricks, there is adefinite chill around the ankles in icy and windy weather, so Iwonder whether it would be practical to install baffles, about 2inlarger than the airbricks, to stop ...
Where there's copper there's brass On the level - a builder who gives it to you straight
Jul 01, 2001; ... Everything is supposed to be recycled these days. Or rather, berecyclable - which is not quite the same thing. For example, aplastic bag may bear the legend "This bag is recyclable". Yes, buthow? Do you have a plastic-bag recycling container on the corner ofyour street? No, me neither ....
NetNet fund manager quits
Jul 01, 2001; ... CHRIS Bell, fund manager of Framlington's troubled NetNet unitand investment trusts, is to leave the company. Framlington carried out a review of the dotcom-focused fund inMay and decided to draft in another fund manager, Nick Evans, towork alongside Bell. But now Bell has decided ...
Banks revolt against OFT
Jul 01, 2001; ... BRITAIN'S high street banks are poised to stage a major rebellionagainst attempts by the Office of Fair Trading to force them tocomply with financial advertising laws. John Vickers, director general of fair trading, despatched 41"stop now" letters - to almost every financial ...
Nationwide and Halifax face inquiry over mortgage rates
Jul 01, 2001; ... THE Consumers' Association is investigating claims thatNationwide Building Society and Halifax have acted unfairly byrefusing to move customers with discount mortgages on to their newcheaper mortgage rates. The investigation was requested by the Office of Fair Trading. Itpassed ...
Barclaycard drops its annual fee Bank cuts credit card rate but levies swingeing extra charges in small print of new contract
Jul 01, 2001; ... BARCLAYCARD, Britain's biggest credit card provider, isabolishing its pounds 10 annual fee and cutting some interest rates.At the same time, it is introducing a host of additional charges. Barclays is in the process of writing to its 7.9m card holdersinforming them of the changes ....
Thomas puffs away with Guinness Records
Jul 01, 2001; ... THOMAS the Tank Engine is about to steam into the Guinness Bookof Records - not for being the world's best known locomotive butbecause the shiny blue locomotive is about to become the book's newowner in a deal worth pounds 49m. Diageo, the global drinks group, is poised to sell its ...
Interbrew and Carlsberg hold talks to carve up Bass
Jul 01, 2001; ... INTERBREW, the Belgian brewing group, is holding talks withCarlsberg, its Danish rival, to sell its parts of Bass Brewing in adeal it hopes will enable it to overturn a Competition Commissionruling that it must sell the business. The companies are thought to be discussing a ...
BNFL asks minister to take back Magnox
Jul 01, 2001; ... BRITISH Nuclear Fuels, the troubled nuclear energy group, is toask the Government to take Magnox, its ageing power stationbusiness, off its hands to enable it to press ahead with a partialprivatisation. Hugh Collum and Norman Askew, the chairman and chief executive,are said to ...
City Dock for sale at pounds 250m
Jul 01, 2001; ... TAYLOR Woodrow has put its St Katharine's Dock development inWapping on the market with a price tag of pounds 250m. Early bidders are believed to include Catalyst Capital, the fundmanager and investor formerly known as Greenwich Group, with LehmanBrothers; JE Roberts, the US fund; ...
Mulcahy faces revolt over Corbett axeing
Jul 01, 2001; ... SIR Geoff Mulcahy, chief executive of Kingfisher, faces ashowdown with the incoming non-executive directors of Woolworthstomorrow. They will threaten to walk out unless he backs GeraldCorbett, the former head of Railtrack, as chairman. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that ...
Nomura plots Unique pubs sale Hands orders strategic review of pounds 1.3bn chain in shake-up of Japanese bank's investment portfolio
Jul 01, 2001; ... GUY HANDS, the head of Nomura International's principal financegroup, is plotting a pounds 1.3bn sale of the Unique Pub Company,one of Britain's biggest licensed estates, after he launched astrategic review of the operation on Friday. The review is being led by Mike Kinski, the ...
Don't listen to the doomsayers; there's life in the tech sector yet Taking stock
Jul 01, 2001; ... MERRILL Lynch, the global stockbroker, painted a confusingpicture last week. I refer not to Tuesday's warning that its secondquarter earnings will be down by 50 per cent from a year ago, but toits advice on technology stocks. A strategist at Merrill was reported as saying: "I think ...
Stop this witch hunt. Leave the FSA to do its job MONEY COMMENT
Jul 01, 2001 ... THE Association of British Insurers has really done it this time.Mary Francis, its super-paranoid director general, has written tothe Financial Times accusing the Financial Services Authority ofhatching a nasty Popish plot to stop people buying insuranceproducts. I joke not. What ...
Porvair fuel-cell grant
Jul 01, 2001 ... PORVAIR, the quoted UK technology company, will announce thisweek that it has been awarded a $6.1m grant from the US Departmentof Energy to develop components for fuel cells. Fuel cells generate electricity by splitting hydrogen intoelectrons and protons. The cells, although ...
Media online offer
Jul 01, 2001 ... DPO, an online investment service, will offer its first privateplacing to retail investors this week. Media Generation Group, whichspecialises in ...
Gibraltar bookie deal
Jul 01, 2001 ... BETANDWIN.COM, the listed Austrian internet company, has boughtSimon Bold, the Gibraltar-based offshore bookmaker, for pounds 1.2m.The internet ...
Bridgeman enters consultancy
Jul 01, 2001; ... JOHN Bridgeman is poised to set up his own regulatory consultancyunit only months after stepping down as director-general of theOffice of Fair Trading. He has agreed to join Cardew & Co, a London public relationsfirm, to advise companies on regulatory issues. He starts this ...
Compass sues FA over Wembley row
Jul 01, 2001; ... COMPASS, the catering group, is suing the Football Associationafter a row over the catering contract for Wembley, deepening thewoes surrounding the ill-fated stadium. Letherby & Christopher, a subsidiary of Compass that specialisesin hospitality catering at sporting events, claims ...
Reed plots bid for Vivendi titles
Jul 01, 2001; ... REED Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch media group, is consideringbidding for a pounds 250m portfolio of European construction andproperty magazines being sold by Vivendi, its French rival. The publisher is thought to be looking at the business and is intalks with Lazard, the investment ...
The ombudsman gets an earful Robert Watts looks at the growing levels of complaints about financial services
Jul 01, 2001; ... Ripped-off, cheated, misled, victims of mis-selling or just plainconned we may be, but more and more of us are taking action againstbanks, insurers and other financial institutions. In its first year as an integrated service, the FinancialOmbudsman's Office was bombarded with 1,000 ...
Bank swoops on Bonnier's shares
Jul 01, 2001; ... ROBERT Bonnier, the former chief executive of Scoot.com, has hadhis 7 per cent stake in the troubled internet business seized by abank in order to repay his debts. Bonnier stepped down as chief executive of Scoot.com last weekafter a strategic review revealed that the loss-making ...
Amec lands big Exxon deal
Jul 01, 2001; ... AMEC, the engineering and support services company, is tipped tohave won a $500m contract with ExxonMobil to build a floating oiland gas processing facility off the west coast of Africa. The floating production, storage and offloading vessel, known asan FPSO, will operate in deep ...
S&N to post full year losses of pounds 180m
Jul 01, 2001; ... SCOTTISH & Newcastle, the country's biggest brewer, will thisweek announce losses of about pounds 180m at its full year resultsafter being forced into exceptional charges of about pounds 600mfollowing a string of sales over the past year, including CenterParcs, and a restructuring of its ...
Church of England to turn back on Provident
Jul 01, 2001; ... THE Church of England has decided to sell its pounds 5.2m holdingin Provident Financial and ban its investment funds from buyingshares in any door-to-door credit company after deciding that thebusiness does not fit in with its Christian beliefs. In a statement expected to be ...
Friends takes the costly route to market
Jul 01, 2001 ... AMID all the current market turmoil and gloom, one life insureris steadily chugging its way to the stockmarket, like a boat in astorm. Like all demutualisations, Friends Provident has taken solong to come to the market it would be madness to stop now. But I'msure that Keith Satchell, the ...
Reed wreckers
Jul 01, 2001 ... ON THE page opposite , we reveal that Reed Elsevier is leadingthe bidding for a promising lump of the media empire that VivendiUniversal is shedding. All well and good for a fast-moving mediagroup with a habit of making value-enhancing acquisitions - exceptthere is a spanner in the ...
What's brewing?
Jul 01, 2001 ... ELSEWHERE I hear that Interbrew, that other regulatory victim,has suffered a strange rush of common sense to the head. You mayremember that this is the Belgian brewer which thought it could buyBass and Whitbread, capture a third of Britain's brewing market, andno one would give a ...
Morton's successor
Jul 01, 2001 ... THERE is a great hullaballoo about the impending retirement ofSir Alastair Morton, chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, whichwas first flagged up in these pages a few weeks ago. Officially,Morton says he will go when his contract expires in March.Unofficially, he is prepared to step ...
Derivatives protect your portfolio Paul Farrow explains how to use futures and options in your investment strategy
Jul 01, 2001; ... Private investors are shunning the derivatives markets, despitethe potential rewards they can offer to an investment portfolio. According to the London Financial Futures Exchange, less than 10per cent of its business is from private individuals. This is in stark contrast to ...
Ego, power or just the cash? Some have to be the boss to satisfy their vanity. They enjoy creating empires in their own image
Jul 01, 2001; ... WHAT motivates someone to risk everything in pursuit of the dreamof starting a business? Why chase this vision when most suchcompanies fail? What extraordinary urge forces entrepreneurs to keeptaking the plunge, despite terrible odds? This question ofmotivation has always fascinated me; ...
Gloom but not doom
Jul 01, 2001; ... IF YOU can keep your head when all those about you are losingtheirs . . . then you don't realise how serious things really are. Around the world the gloom seems to be gathering, withmacroeconomic numbers from Japan to Germany looking weak andcompanies such as Merrill Lynch and ...