The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from December 2001:
Inside the mind of a monster
Dec 02, 2001; ... There may be people who are uninterested in murder, but if so, Ido not know of them. A man who is tired of murder is tired of life:for the contemplation of this heinous act raises the deepestquestions of human psychology. And murder is the subject of so manyoperas, plays, novels, stories ...
Topof the pipes When does the tuning up finish and the playing start? Jeremy Clarke's ears ring as he watches 10 of the world's finest bagpipe-players battle it out for supremacy
Dec 02, 2001; ... Pinching myself in case it was all just a terrible nightmare, Itook my seat in the Great Hall at Blair Castle, Blair Atholl,Perthshire, for the 28th Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship. Withor without the prospect of an all-day bagpipe competition, the GreatHall in itself is like a bad ...
My turn on the wheel of fortune Time of My Life
Dec 02, 2001; ... The chief wonder of the London Eye is that it is there at all.One recalls the outrage that the project incurred when it was firstmooted: the great wheel would be out of character with itssurroundings; it would ruin the look of County Hall; it would bedangerous; nobody, after the drama of ...
A chip off the old block Interview Viscount Linley earns his living as a carpenter and likes to be called 'Dave'. But he still expects his wife to curtsey to his mother, Princess Margaret, every morning at breakfast - because 'that's the way it should be'
Dec 02, 2001; ... I haven't a clue how to address Viscount Linley, who refuses tostand on ceremony but is, nevertheless, nephew to the Queen. So Iplay safe and just say "Hello" when we meet at Linley, hisfurniture, upholstery and accessories shop on the Pimlico Road inLondon SW1. Later I ask what he would ...
Why we fed heroin to our son When their son became an addict, Ian and Julie Gell felt their only hope was to wean him off the drug themselves. They tell Helena de Bertodano how they were forced to visit dealers, pay for his fixes and strictly control his habit in order to save his life
Dec 02, 2001; ... In the corner of the Julie and Ian Gell's sitting-room is apicture of a handsome young man meeting the Duke and Duchess ofDevonshire. This is Steve Gell in 1998, aged 18, and he haseverything going for him: a good job at Rolls-Royce, a close-knit,supportive family, a girlfriend, his own ...
A wish-list that will put doctors out of practice In Sickness and in Health
Dec 02, 2001; ... The outgoing chairman of the General Medical Council, Sir DonaldIrvine, does, I suspect, protest too much in denouncing, as he didlast Friday, the "dangerous, offensive and unacceptable practices"of the "arrogant and paternalistic" profession for which he has beenprivileged to be the ...
A shining knight at the opera Sir Simon Rattle's 'Parsifal' at Covent Garden is the operatic event of the year. In an exclusive interview, the conductor talks to Michael Henderson about madness, danger and the dark side of leadership
Dec 02, 2001; ... `It's like a vast bird," says the conductor Sir Simon Rattle ofParsifal, as he contemplates the elusive, luminous opera that heconducts at Covent Garden later this week. "It hovers above theground in the most extraordinary way." Then he finds exactly theimage he's looking for: "No, ...
Art of an artful dodger Art
Dec 02, 2001; ... Ed Ruscha Paul McCarthy Mark Wallinger R.B. Kitaj Craigie Aitchison Dodging categorisation is a popular ploy in modern art and one ofthe most artful dodgers is Ed Ruscha. The retrospective Ed Ruscha atthe Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (until January 13) ...
The truth about miracles Theatre
Dec 02, 2001; ... Faith Healer Hock and Soda Water Any doubts that Brian Friel's Faith Healer is a masterpiece arelaid to rest by the new production at the Almeida, directed byJonathan Kent. The play is as good as it seemed when it was lastperformed in London nine years ago; and, as with any ...
Spanish chiller
Dec 02, 2001; ... The Devil's Backbone (15) Hot on the spectral heels of Alejandro Amenabar's The Others, TheDevil's Backbone is a similarly classy chiller, directed by fellowSpaniard Guillermo del Toro. The main difference is that this one iseven better. Set in a remote orphanage in Civil War ...
Criminal capers Cinema
Dec 02, 2001; ... Bandits Zoolander It is Woody Allen, the undisputed master of big-screenhypochondria, who is also the world authority on the phantom tumour:the imaginary swelling that transforms every headache into the firsthello from a terminal illness. Billy Bob Thornton runs with ...
Hogarth goes to Broadway Music
Dec 02, 2001; ... The Rake's Progress Baltimore Symphony It is difficult to put a finger on what prevents Annabel Arden'snew production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress for ENO at theColiseum from being the fizzing success it plainly sets out to be.To update it from 1750 to the 1950s, the ...
Bleeding miraculous Blood will tell: it permeates our bodies, our histories, our cultures and our religions. Martin Gayford visits a new exhibition that gives gore its due
Dec 02, 2001; ... The great 17th-century sculptor and architect Gianlorenzo Berninithought always of the redeeming blood of Christ. According to hisbiographer, he made a drawing of this subject and then had apainting executed which hung opposite his bed, so that he would faceit always in life and in ...
It's modern, it's Belgian, it's full of Eurobabble Dance
Dec 02, 2001; ... Les Ballets C de la B Onegin Upstage, on a tall chest of drawers sits a lone cellist.Downstage, a Tina Turner clone in a pink micro mini is telling usabout how Arab villagers killed a goat in her honour. Centre stage,three men roll around on the floor. It's modern; it's ...
The other red Ken Radio
Dec 02, 2001; ... With Jeffrey Archer banged up, it's all the more a pity that wehear so little of his left-wing equivalent, Ken Follett, these days.Follett had the makings of one of the truly great asses. Allchampagne socialists are inherently ridiculous, but he worked at itas few have ever done. Follett ...
Loose screws Television
Dec 02, 2001; ... We all knew he was bad - but this bad? What Makes Jeffrey Tick?(Wednesday, Channel 5) succeeded in doing something I would neverhave believed possible: make me feel sorry for Jeffrey Archer. Thegist of it was an attempt to prove that Archer is a psychopath.Apparently you don't need to be ...
The fact finding mission Covetable companions, delectable dictionaries - the best new reference books have both good looks and intelligence, says Aileen Reid
Dec 02, 2001; ... REFERENCE BOOKS are such a popular Christmas choice, I think,because they provide limitless uncontentious topics of conversation while the turkey is digesting. Nothing strengthens the family bonds more effectively than the exchange of useless piecesof information ....
Pictures and a few thousand words Cezanne, Matisse, Titian . . . there is still plenty new to say about even the greatest artists, finds Martin Gayford
Dec 02, 2001; ... ANCIENT HISTORY , Voltaire remarked - perhaps a little sweepingly- is no more than accepted fiction. Art history, on the other hand,contains a large dose of received opinion - which means the readerhas to be conscious of whose opinion he or she is receiving. Of nobook is this more true ...
There's stars and then there's icons Alan Stanbrook finds some surprising revelations among the seasonal film and television fare
Dec 02, 2001; ... NOT MANY PEOPLE know this, but Dallas is the reason the SovietUnion fell. Larry Hagman, tongue in Texan cheek, reveals as much inhis autobiography Hello Darlin' (Simon & Schuster, pounds 17.99).Old JR, it seems, had traded pirate Dallas tapes for caviare with aSoviet film-maker and, ...
Uneven playing fields Sporting glory and guts come in many different forms, says Russell Davies
Dec 02, 2001; ... CENTURIES AGO , contests of skill began to replace mortal combat,so that deadly sword-fights turned into fencing, and archeryreplaced the arrow to the heart. Hired "champions" represented theirpaymasters, and professional sport was born. New games weredeveloped, celebrating skills of ...
Know your onions Gina Thomas on the season's most flavoursome cookery books, both traditional and a la mode
Dec 02, 2001; ... AMID THE plethora of books on every conceivable aspect ofgastronomy an essay has yet to be written to explain the discrepancybetween the apparent hunger for cookery books and our imperviousnessto their content. It's depressing to note that despite the ever-expanding literature on Italian ...
High, wide, handsome Cartoons, coffee tables and a cello - Michael Prodger selects the best new gift books
Dec 02, 2001; ... COMPARED WITH Tintin, Harry Potter is a mere Johnny-come-lately.For 50-odd years the adventures of the boy reporter have sold fourmillion copies annually. That makes an awful lot of Tintinologistswho will welcome Michael Farr's Tintin: The Complete Companion (JohnMurray, pounds 19.99), ...
The past with a bright future Historical fiction can be literary too. Jessica Mann defends an unfairly maligned genre
Dec 02, 2001; ... THIS YEAR 's Booker Prize winner was a historical novel, as weremany contenders on the long list. The distant view adds interest andperspective to contemporary preoccupations, so I do not find it atall peculiar that so many writers are in fictional flight from thepresent day. What does ...
Oddities and the odd laugh Oliver Pritchett enjoys the company - and humour - of Alec Guinness, Auberon Waugh, Matt, and others
Dec 02, 2001; ... IN THIS YEAR 's selection of the funnies, the emphasis is perhapsa little more on the peculiar than the ha-ha. There is also a largedose of Little Known Facts - the sort of weird information that canstop Christmas conversation dead in its tracks. The first oddity is Alec Guinness: ...
So are estate agents workshy? Most country estate agents provide a poor level of service to both buyers and vendors, a survey reveals. Caroline McGhie reports
Dec 02, 2001; ... Country estate agents may not always be the gentlemen we believethem to be. According to new findings, some display a shocking lackof service, can be "arrogant" and fail to make even the most basic security checks. Undercover research was carried out by David Adams, a ...
The next shoot's at our place Homeowners with photogenic rooms can earn up to pounds 1,000 a day. Anthea Masey explains how to hire out your home for magazine shoots
Dec 02, 2001; ... The growing number of fashion and interiors magazines has broughtwith it opportunities for people to rent out their homes forphotographic shoots. With rates of up to pounds 1,000 a day beingpaid for smart London loft "locations", there are now homeownerswho, when they move or redecorate, ...
Asbestos garage roof Ask Jeff
Dec 02, 2001; ... My 1979 corrugated asbestos-cement garage roof needs replacing.My local builder has suggested corrugated metal sheets, but haspointed out that there could be condensation in the winter months,and to overcome this he intends to put insulating sheets ofpolystyrene beneath the metal ...
Sagging flat roof Ask Jeff
Dec 02, 2001; ... The 19-year-old flat roof of felt and gravel on my houseextension is sagging in a couple of places. I have heard about somesort of thick plastic sheeting that is supposed to do the trick,guaranteed to last many years. If true, it sounds like the idealsolution. What is your ...
Leaking shower Ask Jeff
Dec 02, 2001; ... I have a shower in a first-floor extension that has a small leak.Fortunately, it leaks directly below into our car port, but, sincethe shower is used infrequently, it took about a year before Irealised it was leaking. The original plumber would not come backafter such a delay, and I have ...
How to stay on top of your chimney On the level
Dec 02, 2001; ... Chimneys are an integral part of our image of house and home.Look on the walls of any primary school classroom, and you will seethat many of today's children, who have known no source ofartificial warmth other than central heating radiators, still drawidealised pictures of detached ...
Opening this week Parsifal
Dec 02, 2001; ... What is proving to be an outstandingly successful season by theRoyal Opera reaches its halfway mark on Saturday when Wagner's lastopera, Parsifal, is performed in a new production (shared with TeatroReal, Madrid) by Klaus Michael Gruber, designed by Gilles Aillaudand conducted by ...
Classical CDs
Dec 02, 2001; ... Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor, etc Elora Festival Singers/Edison (Naxos 8.554826); British Choral Music Christ ChurchCathedral Ch./ Darlington (Nimbus NI 5691/5, 5 CDs). The EloraSingers, from Canada, were formed in 1980 and are the professionalcore of Toronto's famous Mendelssohn ...
Rock CDs
Dec 02, 2001; ... Bubba Sparxxx Dark Days, Bright Nights (Beat Club/Interscope). Itwould be a bit unfair to call Bubba Sparxxx the new Eminem becausehe doesn't swear nearly as much and his lyrics have more to do with pig-wrestling, tobacco-chewing,gazing vacantly from porches and other traditional ...
DVDs
Dec 02, 2001; ... Merci pour le chocolat (Artificial Eye, pounds 19.99, 15). ClaudeChabrol at his mischievous best, with a delicious cup of poisonedcocoa. A piano student discovers she was switched at birth with afamous soloist's son, but her new stepmother (Isabelle Huppert),head of a chocolate empire, ...
Theatre
Dec 02, 2001; ... A Room of One's Own Hampstead Theatre 020 7722 9301, to Sat. Thesocial assumptions of Virginia Woolf's feminist classic are in someways remote, but since it is a work of art rather than a tract, itremains fresh throughout. Patrick Garland's adaptation (which healso directs) brings out ...
Concerts
Dec 02, 2001; ... Barbican Hall, 020 7638 8891 Wed & Fri, 7.30pm: Anne-SophieMutter plays the first four of Mozart's Violin Concertos over twoconcerts with the LSO under Sir Colin Davis, who also performMozart's Symphonies 32 and 38. Royal Festival Hall 020 7960 4242, today, 7.30pm: in the ...
Opera
Dec 02, 2001; ... Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Sir Simon Rattle conducts KlausMichael Gruber's production of Wagner's Parsifal (Sat, 4pm) with Stig Andersen in title-role, JohnTomlinson as Gurnemanz, Violeta Urmana as Kundry and Thomas Hampsonas Amfortas. ENO Coliseum 020 7632 8300. Barry Banks ...
Rock
Dec 02, 2001; ... So Solid Crew The sound of young Britain today - and never mindthe fuss about the violence that surrounds them. Norwich UEA, Wed,01603 508 050; Cardiff University, Thur, 029 2023 0130; Leicester DeMontfort University, Fri, 0116 233 3111; and touring. Nitin Sawhney With his ...
Dance
Dec 02, 2001; ... George Piper Dances Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1, 020 79604242, Tue-Thur. Former Royal Ballet principals Michael Nunn andWilliam Trevitt conclude their British tour with Live and Uncut,which includes a new work by Charles Linehan, plus RussellMaliphant's edgy male duet Critical Mass, ...
Cinema
Dec 02, 2001; ... Spy Game (15). Robert Redford and Brad Pitt are reunited in TonyScott's pacey, intelligent CIA thriller. Redford plays Nathan Muir,a retiring CIA veteran who hears that his one-time protege TomBishop (Brad Pitt) has been caught on a rogue operation, trying tofree a prisoner from a ...
Art
Dec 02, 2001; ... Kathleen Hale (1898-2000) Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, W1,020 7734 1732; www.redfern-gallery.com, to Dec 19. Memorialexhibition showing how much more there was to this talented artistthan Orlando the Marmalade Cat. James Castle (1900-77); Thierry Renard Mayor Gallery, 22a ...
Six Continents targets Starwood
Dec 02, 2001; ... SIX Continents, the hotel and pubs group formerly known as Bass,has drawn up audacious plans to make a $5.3bn bid for StarwoodHotels and Resorts, the US hotels group that owns brands includingSheraton and Westin. The deal would create a pounds 10bn hotelsgroup. Six Continents has ...
RBS takes pounds 600m Enron hit
Dec 02, 2001; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland and Barclays, two of Britain's threelargest banks, are understood to have a combined loan exposure ofalmost pounds 1bn to Enron, the stricken energy trading giant whichis on the verge of bankruptcy. The figure is likely to unnerve investors who have ...
Setback for BA American link
Dec 02, 2001; ... PLANS by British Airways to forge a business alliance withAmerican Airlines suffered a setback last week when a key witness inthe US Government's investigation condemned the tie-up. Michael Levine, a Harvard law professor and the architect of USairline deregulation, attacked the ...
M&S stores to raise pounds 327m
Dec 02, 2001; ... MARKS & SPENCER will tomorrow announce it is raising pounds 327mfrom securitising a portfolio of its stores, as the latest stage inits cash-raising campaign. With this deal M&S will have almost completed its disposalprogramme and is now preparing to announce details of its pounds ...
Railtrack on Paddington charge Health & Safety action starts as institutions begin pursuit of Byers
Dec 02, 2001; ... RAILTRACK is to be prosecuted by the Health & Safety Executivefor its part in the 1999 Paddington rail crash, which claimed 31lives and injured a further 500 people. The prosecution, on the grounds that Railtrack failed to ensurethat the public was not at risk, could result in the ...
Halifax cheats savers to boost mortgages
Dec 02, 2001; ... THE HALIFAX has been slashing savers' rates in order to pay forlower mortgage rates, new figures have revealed. Since the beginning of the year, rates on all established Halifaxaccounts have been cut by more than 2 percentage points - the amountby which the bank base rate has ...
IHT trust ploys can backfire
Dec 02, 2001; ... PEOPLE who use life insurance policies to avoid inheritance taxheadaches could leave heirs with an even bigger tax bill. Financial advisers have cited cases where the special trusts inwhich the policies have to be wrapped have not been set upcorrectly, or have not been adapted to ...
OFT fires broadside at hard selling debt managers
Dec 02, 2001; ... THE OFFICE of Fair Trading is to crack down on fee-charging debt-management companies. Rules to be published this week will offer protection againstdebt-consolidation companies for the first time. Some companies prey on people in financial difficulties, pushingthem further ...
Stakeholder sales soar but thousands of companies face late fines
Dec 02, 2001; ... SALES of stakeholder pensions showed a marked improvement inOctober, according to figures to be released tomorrow by theAssociation of British Insurers. The figures are expected to show that more than 73,000 individualstakeholder pensions were set up in October, compared with ...
Darling dashes hopes of big annuity change
Dec 02, 2001; ... ALISDAIR Darling, secretary of state for work and pensions, lastweek poured cold water on hopes that the Government is planning toscrap - or at least relax - rules that compel people to buyannuities by the age of 75. A review of annuities, unveiled by Gordon Brown, Chancellor ...
Betonsports delay
Dec 02, 2001 ... BETONSPORTS, the Costa Rica-based online bookmaker, has pulledplans to float on Aim. The float, which was expected to put a pounds100m price tag ...
Intelliplus pounds 3.5m buy
Dec 02, 2001 ... INTELLIPLUS Group, the Aim-listed telecoms operator and ISP hasacquired Medius Networks for around pounds 3.5m in an all-sharedeal. Mike Neville, an Intelliplus non-executive, will ...
ZincOx to list on Aim
Dec 02, 2001 ... ZINCOX, a mining company that has its own technology forprocessing zinc oxide ores, is to float on Aim within the next twoweeks with an expected value of ...
MacHale takes chair at Orbis
Dec 02, 2001; ... JOE MacHale, the former chief executive of JP Morgan in Europe,the Middle East and Africa, is to return to the City as chairman ofOrbis Capital, a structured finance boutique backed by AlchemyPartners, the private equity specialist. Orbis focuses on delivering insurance-based ...
Stagecoach wants to run SW Trains' track
Dec 02, 2001; ... STAGECOACH Group will this week unveil proposals to take over therunning of the tracks in its South West Trains franchise fromRailtrack. The radical plan for the biggest shake up in the structure of therailway industry since privatisation has already been handed toStephen Byers, ...
Lazard plots move from the City
Dec 02, 2001; ... LAZARD, the investment bank, is in talks with Hammerson, theproperty group, about moving out of the City as the first stage in amajor redevelopment of its Moorgate site. Such a move would be a huge blow for the Corporation of Londonsince Lazard is one of the last remaining ...
EXTRA SPORTS RESOURCES FOR UK ATHLETICS
Dec 02, 2001 ... SPORTS Resource Group has signed a pounds 50m deal with UKAthletics, the sports governing body, to be its marketing and mediapartner until 2006. The deal replaces and extends the company'sagreement with UK Athletics, which has already led to a pounds 20msponsorship deal with Norwich ...
Hermes in the dock over EFM bid
Dec 02, 2001; ... A BITTER row has broken out between the directors of Hermes andEdinburgh Fund Managers (EFM), two of Britain's best-known fundmanagement firms, with one accusing the other of breaching TakeoverPanel guidelines and corporate governance standards. Advisers to EFM are preparing a ...
Why I steered clear of the Orbis orbit Taking Stock
Dec 02, 2001; ... SMALL companies can be lucrative - but the story of Orbis showssome classic pitfalls of which you need to be aware. Thematically, property protection appears an attractive growthmarket, even recognising that security can be competitive too. Theprevious Orbis management kindly gave ...
Equitable's members cheer the rumble of tumbrils
Dec 02, 2001; ... VANNI Treves, Equitable Life's chairman, has never made anysecret of his desire to amass enough evidence to pursue formerdirectors, auditors and lawyers through the courts. It appears thatHerbert Smith, the solicitors he appointed to carry out theinvestigation, has already dug up enough ...
A new regime?
Dec 02, 2001; ... LAST Friday, the Financial Services Authority became a grown-uporganisation. It now has a whole raft of new powers with which toclobber City wrong-doers. Should we care? Of course we should. Anyone with a pension, a savings plan or a ...
Acambis set for 60m UK vaccines
Dec 02, 2001; ... ACAMBIS, the bio-technology company, is in talks with theGovernment to produce 60m doses of smallpox vaccine to protect everyperson in Britain from the threat of bioterrorism. The deal with the Department of Health, which could be worth upto pounds 100m, follows the announcement ...
MWB looks at break-up
Dec 02, 2001; ... MARYLEBONE Warwick Balfour, the property company which combinesthe Liberty department store with serviced offices, hotels andproperty fund management, is to make 90 people redundant and isactively considering breaking itself up. The decision marks a reverse in direction for the ...
Bennett Brothers return with Phase Eight
Dec 02, 2001; ... MAURICE and Michael Bennett, the brothers who sold the Oasisfashion group to its management in July, are to stage a retailcomeback as co-chairmen of Phase Eight, the womenswear chain foundedby clothing designer Patsy Seddon 22 years ago. The fashion retailing veterans are expected ...