The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from January 2002:
It's all in the mind Two men have brain injuries: one is now incapable of emotion, the other overflows with it. The neuropsychologist Paul Broks recounts two extraordinary case histories
Jan 06, 2002; ... `Why does raw meat give me a hard-on?" This is Michael, choppingsirloin ready for the stir-fry. Typically, he is going to the troubleof preparing a good lunch: beef in hoi-sin sauce. He's bought somebeer, too. We're drinking straight from the can. Amy, his girlfriend,sits at the kitchen ...
Our island exposed as never before
Jan 06, 2002; ... The most remarkable book published last year was an atlas. Not anatlas in the normal sense, but an aerial survey of the whole ofEngland, less the Isles of Man and Scilly, which may not count asEngland. The book is very large (12in by 17in), weighs a ton becausethe paper on which it is ...
The fun king He is hailed as a post-modern comic genius. But Vic Reeves puts his success down to Northern roots, a love of trivia and a talent for making a fool of himself
Jan 06, 2002; ... `Vic Reeves is stupid and arrogant. I'm just quiet and normal,"says Jim Moir, his inventor and the man who most of us think of asReeves. But it's hard to spot the difference: although Moir isneither stupid nor arrogant, he is not exactly quiet and normaleither. As Vic Reeves, he has ...
How a surgeon cured superstition with 'magic'
Jan 06, 2002; ... The events of last September involving aeroplanes and tall buildings have heightened that rarely acknowledgedelement of superstition that lurks just beneath the surface of ourlives. The Telegraph offices here at Canary Wharf, for example,occupy floors 11 to 16 - with the 13th ...
The other side of the moon Most old rock gods, says David Gilmour, are driven by vanity - but not him. Pink Floyd's guitarist tells David Thomas that he's through playing the multi-millionaire star; all he wants now is to play better
Jan 06, 2002; ... These are not good times for Britain's ageing rock stars. EltonJohn recently told an American concert audience that he was quittingthe record business. Rod Stewart has been dumped by his record label.Even Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger have both seen heavily-promotedsolo albums greeted ...
A museum in search of a plot Art Tate Modern's Winter Displays
Jan 06, 2002; ... I recently wandered round the galleries at Tate Modern with amajor American abstract artist, whose views turned out to bedivertingly grumpy. "I don't know who did that," he would remarkraspingly of a room of video or installation, "and I don't care." Oralternatively simply, "The ...
Cinema
Jan 06, 2002; ... The Last Castle (15) Rod Lurie's manly tub-thumping melodrama stars Robert Redford asthe highly decorated General Irwin - squeaky-brave and super-nice butsent to Colonel Winter's (James Gandolfini) military prison fordisobeying some dodgy Presidential orders. At first, Winter ...
A Punjabi Woody Allen, only better Cinema
Jan 06, 2002; ... Monsoon Wedding Mulholland Drive All weddings are fraught with the bracing potential for disaster,from a possible non-show at the altar to a catering fiasco. But,judging from Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (15), a Delhi nuptial bashhas more scope for both magnificence and ...
Close to the heart of creation Bridget Riley has long owed a creative debt to Paul Klee. By curating a new show of his work, she tells Martin Gayford, she can pay it back
Jan 06, 2002; ... `A lot of talented people," says Bridget Riley, "would like topaint. The problem is where to start. That was my problem, that wasPaul Klee's problem, in many ways that is the problem." We aresitting in Bridget Riley's light-filled London house. All around arethe stripes and swirling ...
Big girl's blouses do it on the beat Ballet
Jan 06, 2002; ... Paris Opera Ballet's La Bayadere, Scheherazade, Petrushka and L'Apres-midi d'un faune Paris was a Nutcracker-free zone this Christmas, yet the 150-strong Paris Opera Ballet still somehow managed to play to two packedhouses with La Bayadere (at the Bastille) and a mixed ...
Fantastically posh Radio
Jan 06, 2002; ... `The Nine are abroad again. They have crossed the river secretlyand are moving westward. They have taken the guise of riders inblack." Either this thrills you or it does not. Many grown-ups are notmuch thrilled. They find it difficult to overlook the fact that TheLord of the ...
Short on peaks Television
Jan 06, 2002; ... My New Year's resolutions are as follows. Number one: no solitarydrinking. Number two: make more money than last year by any meansavailable, up to and not necessarily discounting contract killing.Number three: accentuate the positive; seek out that sunbeam nomatter how ...
Laughs from both sides of the face Theatre
Jan 06, 2002; ... Alone It Stands The Lieutenant of Inishmore Twelfth Night In recent times, every year in the London theatre has had a strongIrish component, and the current year opened last week with twocontrasting faces of Ireland - one wearing an amiable smile, theother a ...
Coming to a bookshop near you . . . David Robson scours the publishers' catalogues for some of the new titles worth looking out for in 2002
Jan 06, 2002; ... THERE IS nothing like a good row to get the publishing year off toa flying start. No Ordinary Man (January, Hodder & Stoughton), the"authorised" biography of the late George Carman by his son Dominic,has already been vehemently denounced by Karen Phillips, the womanwho lived with the ...
Citizen of the ancien regime Julian Barnes's elegant essays deal with a France that no longer exists: quel dommage, says George Walden
Jan 06, 2002; ... Something to Declare by Julian Barnes Picador, pounds 8.99, 138 pp pounds 7.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THERE ARE a million students in our universities (some of thempresumably learning French), eight million British visitors to Franceeach year, and the ...
Growing up in Arcadia, aka Norfolk Nicholas Bagnall enjoys an unsentimental account of a 1920s childhood
Jan 06, 2002; ... Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill Granta, pounds 12.99, 169 pp pounds 10.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS LATEST instalment of her autobiography - the previous one,Stet, was her account of life as a publisher's editor with AndreDeutsch - takes Diana ...
Twelve very angry people This insider's view of an American jury shows that, against the odds, the system works, says Trevor Grove
Jan 06, 2002; ... A Trial By Jury by D. Graham Burnett Bloomsbury, pounds 14.99, 205 pp pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHAT REALLY goes on in the jury-room? In this country only thosewho have done jury service know the answer - and we are forbidden bylaw from ...
Central casting in academe This account by a high-profile don of his journey from high altar to high table is highly coloured, finds Noel Malcolm
Jan 06, 2002; ... The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton Allen Lane/Penguin, pounds 9.99, 178 pp pounds 8.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE BEST PARTS of the best autobiographies, from De Quincey toBertrand Russell, are almost always the childhood years. Somehow ...
Rake's progress in reverse
Jan 06, 2002; ... The New You Survival Kit by Daisy Waugh HarperCollins, pounds 5.99, 293 pp pounds 5.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 FROM TIME to time, reading accounts of the exciting lives of thefashionable young in the glossy magazines, an idle thought floatsinto the ...
Paperbacks
Jan 06, 2002; ... Marcel Proust by Jean-Yves Tadie Penguin, pounds 12.99 MARCEL PROUST was surely the greatest novelist of the 20th centuryand Tadie is generally regarded as the world authority on the Frenchwriter. His scrupulously researched, definitive biography redefinesthe way we ...
Dark side of the toon Aileen Reid enjoys the latest corpse-strewn outing for Detective Inspector John Rebus
Jan 06, 2002; ... Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin Orion, pounds 17.99, 440 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 AT SOME point in every Ian Rankin novel, our hero, DetectiveInspector John Rebus, falls out with his bosses. Insubordination,drinking on the job, doing deals ...
The extended appeal of short leases
Jan 06, 2002; ... The short lease, which for many years has been the favoured formof tenure at some of London's smartest addresses, could be extinct bythe summer, if the Government's Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Billbecomes law. The Bill removes most of the obstacles which in the pastprevented some ...
The white-collar nomads Unable to afford to rent or buy a flat, young professionals are having to live out of suitcases and sleep on friends' sofas. Ross Clark reports
Jan 06, 2002; ... In the three years since Katie Pinchbeck left college she has had,she thinks, nine or 10 addresses. She is not really sure. But the onething the 24-year-old is quite certain of is that none of them hasbeen home. "I started out living in my sister's sitting-room," she says ....
Good news in the post Village post offices, rescued from the brink of extinction by a change of policy, are attracting buyers in search of a rural income. Anthea Masey reports
Jan 06, 2002; ... After a tumultuous end-of-year for the postal service, the futureat least looks brighter for the village post office. Confidence wasshattered following the Government's decision two years ago to scrapgiros and benefit books in favour of paying benefits directly intobank accounts from ...
Royal residence, suitable for squeaky-clean millionaire Diary of an estate agent
Jan 06, 2002; ... MONDAY Make myself a strong cup of coffee and log on to our website tocheck the property details are correct. The 1,000-acre dairy farm inHampshire, valued at pounds 3.5 million, has already raised interestfrom someone wanting to know whether it is suitable for water buffalo- ...
Sash replacement Ask Jeff
Jan 06, 2002; ... My flat in a converted early Victorian house has a large 12-panesash window which is rotting at the bottom. It won't close properly,so I have a permanent two-inch gap at the top. Does the whole window have to be replaced and what is the likelycost? I am on the first floor, so I ...
Which lock? Ask Jeff
Jan 06, 2002; ... Does a mortice sash lock provide the same security as a morticedeadlock? Insurance company literature always seems to specifydeadlocks, with no mention of the frequently used sash locks. GH, Bolton Jeff replies First of all, the term "mortice lock" means a lockcut into, and ...
Secondary glazing Ask Jeff
Jan 06, 2002; ... We have a 1910 house with its original windows. Most of ourneighbours have had theirs replaced by horrible-looking plasticdouble-glazing. We do not want to do this. On the other hand, wewould like some of the benefits of double-glazing, such as morewarmth and less noise. What can we ...
All fired up by a picture of glowing logs On the level - a builder who gives it to you straight
Jan 06, 2002; ... According to American television ratings, almost half-a-millionviewers tuned in to the New York station WPIX on Christmas morning towatch its two-hour shot of a burning yule log. This outstripped itsnearest competitor, Good Morning America, by 80,000 viewers, makingit by far the most ...
Shell-shocked investors still head for refuge in cash Isas
Jan 06, 2002; ... LARGE numbers of shell-shocked investors are expected to stickwith cash when they choose their Isa this year, according to researchby NOP. The survey, commissioned by Fidelity, the UK's biggest Isa seller,found that one in two investors intending to take an Isa before theApril 5 ...
Rush to withdraw causes National Savings backlog
Jan 06, 2002; ... HUNDREDS of investors with maturing National Savings certificatesare facing delays of up to a week following a flood of applicationsto withdraw money in December. National Savings admitted that the large number of requests hadcaused a backlog and that it was still dealing with ...
Sainsbury's links with esure on motor cover
Jan 06, 2002; ... SAINSBURY'S Bank is in discussions with the cut-price motorinsurer esure, about launching an own-brand motor policy for its 11mcustomers in the spring. The policy will offer a range of options tosuit different types of driver, it said. Since Tesco forged a similar link with Direct ...
More with-profits bonus misery
Jan 06, 2002; ... INVESTORS in with-profits policies face further misery as theannual round of bonus rate declarations gets under way. Eagle Star last week announced a 0.5 percentage point cut inannual bonuses on its unitised with-profits policies, and hasscrapped some terminal bonuses altogether ....
Abbey unveils sterling US mortgages
Jan 06, 2002; ... ABBEY National is piloting a new sterling-based mortgage forpeople wishing to buy a holiday home in Florida. If successful, thedeal will be rolled out nationally in March. Abbey, which claims to be the first UK bank to offer a sterlingmortgage on American properties, said the aim ...
N&P comes top of Tessa league table Best payer will challenge ombudsman's judgement in court
Jan 06, 2002; ... NORWICH & Peterborough Building Society will next week emerge asthe best Tessa provider in Britain. The news comes as N&P preparesfor a courtroom tussle with Walter Merricks, the Financial ServicesOmbudsman, over his ruling that the society had been treating itsTessa savers ...
ITV fails all five of its own tests
Jan 06, 2002; ... ITV has failed to meet the five key performance targets it setitself 12 months ago. ITV's self-declared main goal a year ago was to maintain its five-year average of a 7.5 per cent lead over BBC1 on peak-time viewing.But last year that lead shrank to 6.9 per cent, according to ...
P&O Princess poison pill 'will cost $400m'
Jan 06, 2002; ... SHAREHOLDERS in P&O Princess, the cruise business seeking to mergewith Royal Caribbean, face losing $400m because of poison pillarrangements inserted in the Royal Caribbean merger terms. Thisallegation will be made this week by Carnival Corporation, the rivalcruise ...
SES plans to raise $500m
Jan 06, 2002; ... SES, the world's largest satellite operator, is seeking to raiseup to $500m in a secondary offering which would see its shares listedon the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which in Novemberacquired General Electric's Americom satellite operations for $4.3bn,is also considering a ...
SANCTUARY FANCIES A LICENCE FROM KYLIE
Jan 06, 2002; ... SANCTUARY GROUP is in talks to buy Bravado, one of the world'sleading licensors of intellectual property, in a deal worth aboutpounds 7.5m, writes Grant Ringshaw. Bravado licenses items such ascalendars and tour merchandise for Kylie Minogue (above), the singerand actress who ...
Crunch for Weetabix as it loses key supermarket contracts
Jan 06, 2002; ... WEETABIX, Britain's leading breakfast cereal company, has seenprofits slump and costs soar in 2001 while losing crucial supplycontracts with UK supermarkets to a new competitor, thought to beGranoVita of Germany. Sir Richard George, chairman and managing director of the ...
UK car sales soar to record 2.5m Cheap credit and price competition fuel demand from private customers
Jan 06, 2002; ... NEW car sales in Britain last year soared to a record of almost2.5m compared with 2.2m in 2000. The extra volume was fuelled byheavy discounting by manufacturers and a credit-driven consumer boom. Figures to be released tomorrow by the Society of MotorManufacturers and Traders are ...
Ignore the froth and heed the warnings
Jan 06, 2002; ... MANNA from heaven has appeared in the form of PPL Therapeutics'revelation that five "knock-out" piglets were born on Christmas Day.Such a capitalist nativity inspired punters to push up PPL's marketvaluation by about 50 per cent. But I was more interested in what the wise men from ...
Equitable's policyholders on the horns of a dilemma
Jan 06, 2002; ... HERE's a metaphorical situation. Guess what it relates to. A womanis running frantically to and fro on the deck of a liner. She isobviously very upset about something. She is muttering to herselfunder her breath. What is she saying? Listen: "I think the blue onesshould all be on the port ...
Benchmark buys WC2 office
Jan 06, 2002; ... BENCHMARK Group, the property company specialising in the West Endof London, has won full control of 90 Long Acre, the largest officebuilding in Covent Garden, for pounds 55m. The move is seen as a voteof confidence in the stagnant London office market. Benchmark, with its funding ...
Broadview puts itself up for sale
Jan 06, 2002; ... BROADVIEW, the American investment banking boutique, is believedto have called in bankers to sell off the business in a deal whichcould be worth more than $500m. Broadview, known for specialising in technology, telecoms andmedia deals, is understood to have appointed the American ...
Laura Ashley licenses Saks
Jan 06, 2002; ... LAURA Ashley, the womenswear retailer, is to export a new range ofclothing and accessories to the United States in a deal with SaksInc, the US department store group which owns Saks Fifth Avenue. The agreement gives Saks Inc exclusive rights to distribution ofLaura Ashley clothing ...
BA tries to woo back business passengers
Jan 06, 2002; ... BRITISH Airways will this week unveil the biggest promotionalcampaign in its history to woo back business travellers into theairline's premium seats as it begins a commercial fightback after theevents of September 11. On Friday BA reported a "measurable improvement" in ...
Water groups want help with pounds 9bn Brussels bill
Jan 06, 2002; ... THE new European Water Framework Directive will cost the UK up topounds 9bn to bring raw water quality up to required standards, withthe customer footing much of the bill. The investment is over andabove the pounds 15bn to be spent by the water industry in the fiveyears up to ...
Banks 'are profiteering on the euro'
Jan 06, 2002; ... THE cost of cross-border transactions, including withdrawing moneyfrom a cash machine and switching funds between accounts, are still17 times higher than similar arrangements in a domestic market inspite of the introduction of the euro last week. Evidence that the introduction of ...
Asda to overhaul its home delivery service
Jan 06, 2002; ... ASDA, the supermarket chain acquired by Wal-Mart in a pounds 6.7bndeal in June 1999, is to restructure its home delivery service in adesperate bid to cut costs. Asda has begun by closing down its two 45,000 sq ft warehouses inCroydon and Watford, used as dedicated picking centres ...
Get your finances into shape Put your New Year's resolution into practice. Liz Dolan introduces four pages of advice and tips on how to make the most of your money
Jan 06, 2002; ... Is your home strewn with Christmas tree needles, dead hollyberries, empty wine bottles and broken toys? Relax. It's January.Time to throw out the rich food and booze and settle down to aserious bit of dieting, detoxes and ambitious fitness programmes. And, while you're getting the ...
Spend, spend spend Consumers gave retailers a bumper Christmas, but, Lauren Mills and Grant Ringshaw ask, how long can the spending spree last?
Jan 06, 2002; ... The chill winds blowing through Britain's high streets last weekdid little to cool the ardour of shoppers hunting for a bargain.Retailers, until recently unnerved by talk of recession, weresalivating over the prospect of the best festive season for 15 years. This Christmas it was ...
Byers takes a break from rail - wish we all could
Jan 06, 2002 ... A new year has dawned and we are right in the middle of the pantoseason. Nevertheless, Stephen Byers is still the biggest joker ofthem all. Over the past week, while many thousands of commuters inthe South of England have had to endure the misery of rail strikes,the transport secretary ...
It's a good time to detox your debts Endless bills can mean a serious headache but, Emma Simon says, you can make it better
Jan 06, 2002; ... If you are getting your finances in shape for 2002, you areprobably looking to trim some unwanted pounds from your overdraft andcredit card bills. Christmas is expensive and all indications point to a surge inconsumer confidence this year, with shoppers happy to spend ...
Hopes and fears for 2002
Jan 06, 2002; ... FOR practitioners of the black art of economic forecasting, thisis the time of year when crystal balls are gazed into with more thanusual intensity. I have to confess that mine seems a little cloudy at the moment.Nevertheless, I feel obliged to tell you what it suggests about ...
Phyllis shows women the way
Jan 06, 2002; ... MANY important books have been published about London, but themost useful must be the Geographers' A-Z Street Atlas. For over 65 years this book has been the bible for anyone whoneeded to navigate the capital's confusing streets. Next to HarryBeck's diagrammatic tube map, it is the ...
Don't lose out by following the herd Investors are like lemmings, says Paul Farrow. They rush into a rising sector and then stick with it as it falls
Jan 06, 2002; ... It's just atavistic, I guess. People always seem to invest at thepeak of a stockmarket cycle, and not at the bottom, despiteconsistently being urged to do the reverse. Why else did thousands of investors pile into technology funds atthe beginning of 2000 after a long period of ...
Whose side is this euro knight on?
Jan 06, 2002; ... I was initially delighted to learn that Niall FitzGerald,Unilever's chairman, had been awarded an honorary knighthood. He'sone of business's most genial figures, who has shaken up the foodgiant's archaic management and brought clarity to its product range.Better still, he loves football, ...
Clouds break for tour operators Despite the terrorist strikes last year, holiday companies are looking forward to a bumper summer, and a new round of mergers, says Damian Reece
Jan 06, 2002; ... Package holiday companies are preparing their annual assault on ashivering nation whose frozen-boned consumers are again dreaming ofsummer sun. This week the holiday selling season gets under way inearnest and, after a disastrous four months for the travel industry,the tour operators are ...
Halifax cuts deep
Jan 06, 2002; ... I HAVE a Web Saver account with the Halifax Building Society.Following the latest two reductions in Bank base rate (by 0.25 percent and 0.5 per cent) it has cut the rates on the account by 0.35per cent and 0.6 per cent. This is a significant erosion of interestat a time when rates are ...
Inheritance tax error
Jan 06, 2002; ... A RECENT letter referred to an inheritance tax avoidance schemewhereby assets, including a half share of the family home, were leftto the children on the death of the first partner in a discretionarytrust, thereby making use of both partners' nil-rate tax band. You stated that this ...
A 10-year bond loss
Jan 06, 2002; ... MY pounds 15-a-month bond with Family Assurance matured last yearafter 10 years, after total contributions of pounds 1,800. OnNovember 1 2000, it was valued at pounds 1,555. This was invested ina new series of units which, in December 2001, were worth pounds1,532. Why the loss of ...
Pig of a problem for PPL In an exclusive interview, Ron James tells Edward Simpkins how PPL will ride out the cloning storm
Jan 06, 2002; ... It has been a roller-coaster week for for PPL Therapeutics. Thelittle-known Scottish biotechnology firm that shot to stardom in 1996when it produced Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal,seemed to have scored another world first with the birth of fivelittle cloned pigs ....
It's time to crack down on travel insurers
Jan 06, 2002; ... January is the month in which families with school-age children,and anyone else who wants to take a holiday at peak times, sits downwith the brochures and chooses their summer break. As you fill in the booking form, spare a second to consider travelinsurance. This area always ...
House prices rise by 14pc
Jan 06, 2002 ... AVERAGE house prices soared by nearly 14 per cent last year,according to figures from Nationwide. There is still no sign of ahousing recession. The average price is expected to rise by 6 percent this year. The average house price rose by 1.9 per cent during December,bringing the ...