The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from June 2002:
India has no fear of bombs, unfortunately
Jun 02, 2002; ... The news that India and Pakistan are about to blow each other upwith nuclear weapons has not made much of a splash in this country.One commentator suggested that the two sides are merely makingthreats and that it is racist to suggest that their leaders wouldactually push the button. Why ...
What Lara wants next You don't have to be beautiful to be a war reporter, but it helps. Lara Logan, credited with 'skills Mata Hari might envy', has now signed a $1m deal as a presenter with CBS - but insists her priority in life is to keep her husband happy
Jun 02, 2002; ... I am sitting in a restaurant in north London waiting for LaraLogan to arrive, and failing to get the attention of the surlywaiter. Suddenly the door opens and Logan breezes in. All heads turn.The waiter is transformed. All smiles, he is at our table in a trice. Logan's effect on ...
The riddle in the sands A new book reveals the true story of the exotic explorer who inspired Michael Ondaatje's 'The English Patient'. Was he really a Nazi agent? Did he seduce his best friend's wife? Sandy Mitchell talks to a British officer who knew him in the desert
Jun 02, 2002; ... `I could usually produce a cup of tea within 10 minutes in thedesert," says Brigadier Rupert Harding Newman, aged 94, dashing fromhis drawing-room to switch on the kettle. He strides back - tea madein five minutes flat - with a cup on a gleaming salver inscribed withthe words "British ...
Apply to Cedric for some old-fashioned physick
Jun 02, 2002; ... The disappearance of Gregory's Powder from the chemists' shelves,as I mentioned a fortnight ago, has elicited a chorus of lament aboutthe non-availability of a host of other much-loved remedies:Burgess's Lion Ointment, Bengue's Balsam, Permangante of Potashcrystals, Flowers of Sulphur, ...
Screen queen shakes a leg Dame Eileen Atkins plays Queen Mary this week. But as a child she used to dance 'sexy numbers' in working men's clubs - and a dumbstruck Gyles Brandreth discovers she still can
Jun 02, 2002; ... Dame Eileen Atkins is riding high. Seven years ago she had breastcancer. Last week her oncologist said to her, "Eileen, you're fine."On Tuesday she makes her Jubilee contribution, on ITV, playing QueenMary in a drama about George VI and the Queen Mother. In two weeks'time she is 68 and, ...
Virile two-night orgy Dance
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Kirov Celebration of St Petersburg Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan The Kirov weren't having a London season this year but they cameanyway with two gala programmes chosen by the Maryinsky's ArtisticDirector Valery Gergiev as a celebration of the city of St ...
Rabble-rousers Radio
Jun 02, 2002; ... Which would you have been: a Roundhead or a Cavalier? As aschoolboy, I never had my doubts on this score, but now that I'molder I'm not so sure. It started going wrong after a chat I had withthe historian John Adamson, who assured me that far from being abunch of chippy, unpleasant ...
Heavy-metal blues Television
Jun 02, 2002; ... Readers who don't subscribe to MTV - ie, those of you who cancount backwards from 10 without falling over - won't be able to seeThe Osbournes (Sundays, MTV) until later in the summer when it'sbeing shown on Channel 4. But don't fret. The wait won't kill you. According to the ...
Clash of the titans Out-of-control costs, vast egos - it's a wonder films ever get made in Hollywood. Ex-studio boss Bill Mechanic tells Charles Laurence that some nearly don't
Jun 02, 2002; ... `The business of Hollywood is not for weak minds, weak hearts orweak wallets," says Bill Mechanic. He should know, having got to thetop, run his own studio, made many, many millions of dollars, andthen been fired. On reflection, Mechanic, the head of Fox Studios until 2000, ...
The cosi, cosi approach to Mozart Opera
Jun 02, 2002; ... Cosi fan tutte L'Enfant et les sortileges/Petrushka Mozart treated with some respect and affection by English NationalOpera - what a relief! But let's not get carried away. MatthewWarchus's new production of Cosi fan tutte may be inoffensive andfree from fatuous ...
Antidote to depression Theatre
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Lady's Not For Burning Twelfth Night Life After Life There are plays which come along at the right time, and The Lady'sNot For Burning was one of them. In the grey England of 1948 it waswhat lots of people felt they needed. The phrase "austerity binge"might have ...
Cinema
Jun 02, 2002; ... 40 Days and 40 Nights (15) A teen sex comedy without the sex or the comedy, this stars JoshHartnett as Matt, a young dot.commer who takes a vow of abstinencefor Lent. And that's it. This amazingly limp misfire from theproducers of Notting Hill is more one-note than a dialing tone, ...
Foolish heroism Cinema
Jun 02, 2002; ... Divided We Fall The Time Machine I have a confession: before I started writing cinema reviews, Iused to experience a faint sinking of the heart when friends waxedlyrical about obscure foreign films. As they urged me to see adepressing but inspiring tale of East German ...
Anthems from the front line Michael Kennedy acclaims the music of Cecil Coles, killed aged 29 in 1918, and now recorded for the first time
Jun 02, 2002; ... Here is a little-known piece of English musical history. On a wargrave at Crouy, north-west of Amiens, are inscribed the words: "Hewas a genius before anything else, and a hero of the first water."The name above this inscription is that of 390653 Bandmaster C.F.G.Coles, Queen Victoria ...
Dutch light on the Italian scene Art
Jun 02, 2002; ... Inspired by ItalyDutch landscape painting 1600-1700 Return of the Buddha George Romney Popular art history boils down to very few names, so it is alwaystimely to have the tendency corrected - Inspired by Italy: Dutchlandscape painting 1600-1700 at Dulwich ...
Still chewing on the grapes of wrath Christopher Tayler assesses one of the quirkier - and more combative - dispatches from the culture wars
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Fruited Plain: Fables for a Postmodern Democracy by Alvin Kernan Yale, pounds 17.50, 260 pp pounds 17.50 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ALVIN KERNAN is Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at PrincetonUniversity. Now, after many years of seething, Professor ...
Diplomat with a difference Orlando Figes on an ambassador's memoirs of the perestroika years
Jun 02, 2002; ... Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down by Rodric Braithwaite Yale, pounds 19.95, 371 pp pounds 17.95 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE MEMOIRS of ambassadors are nearly always dull. All too oftenthey are limited by the codes of discretion that ...
Many films, more women Alan Stanbrook enjoys this Life of Clark Gable, the star who summed up what Hollywood used to be
Jun 02, 2002; ... Clark Gable: A Biography by Warren G. Harris Aurum, pounds 18.99, 408 pp pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 SPENCER TRACY called him "king" and the tag stuck. For 30 years,Clark Gable was the undisputed king of Hollywood, forever ...
Royalty behind the scenes Robert Blake on a critical but not unsympathetic study of Queen Elizabeth II
Jun 02, 2002; ... Elizabeth: The Woman and Queen by Graham Turner Macmillan, pounds 18.99, 214 pp pounds 18.99 (post free) 0870 155 7222 THIS BOOK IS based on a series of articles in The Daily Telegrapha few years ago. They did not go down well with the Royal Family atthe time ....
Don't take me to your leader If you need to read this how-to book on leadership then you are unfit to be a manager, says Chris Woodhead
Jun 02, 2002; ... The New Leaders: Transforming the Art of Leadership into the Science of Results by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee Little, Brown, pounds 17.99, 300 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE MYSTERIES of leadership are all the ...
Love in a literary climate Anne Chisholm praises a perceptive portrait of a much admired but insecure novelist
Jun 02, 2002; ... Rosamond Lehmann: A Life by Selina Hastings Chatto & Windus, pounds 25, 476 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 LIKE IT OR not, the exploration by women writers of theiremotional and sexual lives has been one of the most strikingdevelopments ...
Party loris or drunken dad? There is every shade of fantasy and reality in Dinah Hall's selection of recent children's books, from toddlers to teenagers
Jun 02, 2002; ... THERE'S a definite trend for telling it like it is in children'sbooks' titles at the moment. square triangle round skinny (there mayalso be a trend for losing punctuation and capital letters) byVladimir Radunsky (Walker, pounds 9.99) is a boxed set of four booksin the shapes they ...
Paperbacks
Jun 02, 2002; ... A Double Thread: A Childhood in Mile End - and Beyond by John Gross Vintage, pounds 7.99 JOHN GROSS 's passionate affair with literature began as soon ashe learnt to decode the balloons in Beano. His memory for words andimages dating from 50 years ago is ...
Man and boy's toys Russell Davies on a Life of Frank Hornby, the surprisingly severe inventor of Meccano
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Toy Story: The Life and Times of Inventor Frank Hornby by Anthony McReavy Ebury Press, pounds 17.99, 288 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 NO ASPECT of the New Elizabethan world of 1952 suited short-trousered boys better than the sudden ...
Fall of the house of Shah
Jun 02, 2002; ... Blood Against the Snows: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty by Jonathan Gregson Fourth Estate, pounds 16.99, 226 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 POLITICAL VIOLENCE is a fixture of the age, yet inured as we areto it, the events that took ...
Scatological Scots
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Man Who Walks by Alan Warner Jonathan Cape, pounds 10.99, 280 pp pounds 10.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS NOVEL tells the story of a chase through the Highlands. It isnot, however, a Buchan esque adventure complete with mansions andaristocrats but ...
The master and Clarinda
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Kiss by Joan Lingard Allison & Busby, pounds 15.99, 252 pp pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 AS YOU might guess from the title, The Kiss is inspired by thesculpture of that name by Rodin. Gwen John, the painter, was besottedby Rodin, a passion ...
Stone walls do not a prison make
Jun 02, 2002; ... Gould's Book of Fish, A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan Atlantic Books, pounds 16.99, 404 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE ADVANCE publicity for Gould's Book of Fish, the third novel bythe Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan, ...
Page turner What is the most exciting book you've ever read? Continuing our series, the crime writer Ian Rankin chooses James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia (1987)
Jun 02, 2002; ... I'D ALREADY published four or five crime novels when I bought myfirst James Ellroy novel. It was The Black Dahlia, and I read the whole thing in a couple of breathless sittings. The languagewas outrageous: staccato and bleakly poetic. The story was like a car-crash: grotesque, yet ...
Undiplomatic dilemmas Mark Sanderson enjoys this unflinching tale about sex and diplomacy
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Swing Around by Barbara Anderson Jonathan Cape, pounds 16.99, 304 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 BARBARA ANDERSON may be married to a diplomat but she still speaksher mind. Her novels - which include such wonderful works as ProudGarments ...
Cheyne Walk on the wild side - for pounds 5m
Jun 02, 2002; ... Among the gracious, wisteria-clad Chelsea faades, No 15 CheyneWalk looks like a sad old dowager who has lost a few teeth and andprobably most of her marbles. The imposing double-fronted Queen Annehouse is that rarest of things: a Grade II* wreck in need ofrenovation in one of London's ...
The wreck rescuers It takes years and costs a fortune, but they go ahead and do it anyway. Caroline McGhie meets the enthusiasts who are dedicated to restoring listed buildings
Jun 02, 2002; ... When Chris Parsons bought his derelict maltings in Goodnestone,Kent, thousands of starlings were nesting in the roof and the guanowas a metre deep. It had no windows or stairs, and its unusual squarekilns were missing the cowls, which should have sat on top of themlike dunce's ...
Afloat on a tide of expectation The Cornish port of Falmouth, in the run-up to the opening of its new Maritime Museum this autumn, is seeing the county's biggest price rises, finds Graham Norwood
Jun 02, 2002; ... As Cornwall's tourist industry fires up for another hot summer,the county's property prices are warming up nicely, too. The averagehome now costs pounds 103,000, according to the Halifax, which meansprices there are above the national average for the first time.Regeneration has been ...
Electronic house-buying promises a faster future
Jun 02, 2002; ... Imagine this. You want to move house and you find exactly the homeyou want. You make an offer. Then, instead of months of tedious paper-shuffling between solicitors, mortgage lenders and local authorities,everyone communicates electronically, calling up the necessarydocuments from ...
Character house with owner, and stuffed badger, to match Diary of an estate agent
Jun 02, 2002; ... Carter Jonas Marlborough, Wiltshire MONDAY The world and his wife ring to request particulars of a minusculetwo-up-two-down cottage in the Pewsey Vale. No one believes me when Iwarn them you can touch both sides of the living-room at once, andeveryone presses for a ...
Return to single panes Ask Jeff
Jun 02, 2002; ... I have read your comments about failed double-glazed units andwonder if I have interpreted them correctly: does this mean that Ishould be able to have my failed (misted-up) units replaced by singleglazing? I have already contacted a glazing company locally, askingthem to replace the ...
Pipes that go glug Ask Jeff
Jun 02, 2002; ... I read your column on irritating plumbing noises. My kitchen sink,when the water is let out, makes a loud "glug glug glug", which goeson and on. Could anything be done to stop it? JC, Carmarthen Jeff replies This usually happens when the waste pipe to the soiland vent stack ...
Double-glazing enigma Ask Jeff
Jun 02, 2002; ... Neighbours had a stone thrown at their double-glazed PVC-U door.Strangely, the outer sheet of glass didn't break but the inner oneshattered, looking like a spider's web. How is this possible? I wouldbe grateful for your help in solving this puzzle. EN, by e-mail Jeff replies It ...
A builder's duty - to watch the match On the level - a builder who gives it to you straight
Jun 02, 2002; ... By the time you read these words the waiting will be over.England's first World Cup match finishes at lunchtime today, andEngland's builders will be able to turn their attention back to thereal business in hand - that is, how to get to watch the England-Argentina game, which kicks off at ...
Woolwich in blunder bonanza
Jun 02, 2002; ... NUMBER crunchers at Barclays Bank have scored a hat trick of owngoals in less than two months. An undisclosed number of borrowers learned last week that theyhave been paying too little for their Woolwich Open Plan mortgagesfor the past few months due to an "administrative error" ....
Holiday-makers 'pay pounds 250m too much for insurance'
Jun 02, 2002; ... BRITISH holiday-makers are being cheated of pounds 250m by travelagents and tour operators who sell them inferior and expensiveinsurance policies, according to a damning report to be publishednext week. Major household names, such as MyTravel (formerly Airtours), LunnPoly and ...
Equitable directors' pension furore
Jun 02, 2002; ... WHILE Equitable Life pensioners face further cuts in their already-depleted income, former directors of the society hold valuable final-salary pension benefits that cannot be touched, it has emerged. According to the annual report and accounts, submitted at the240th annual general ...
UK exports house price inflation Brits send European hot spot prices soaring
Jun 02, 2002; ... CONTINENTAL property prices are soaring in holiday hot-spotsfavoured by the fast-growing number of Britons buying second homes inthe sun. The increased demand is causing an explosion in house prices inpopular areas, prompting fears that we are "exporting" the currenthousing boom ...
League letters undermine ITV suit
Jun 02, 2002; ... THE Football League has admitted that Carlton Communications andGranada did not provide guarantees to back up ITV Digital's pounds315m television rights deal, according to letters sent by the League. The letters seen by The Sunday Telegraph, appear to undermine theLeague's pounds ...
DTI advice line wasted millions
Jun 02, 2002; ... MINISTERS have been officially reprimanded for wasting taxpayers'money on a business advice line that cost more than pounds 100 acall. The telephone hotline - which was criticised by businesses forfrequently giving incorrect information - closed in March, less thana year after ...
Scoot directors pocket pounds 1.3m golden goodbye
Jun 02, 2002; ... FORMER directors of Scoot.com, the troubled directory businesswhich admitted in 2001 that it was on the verge of bankruptcy,received payoffs and bonuses totalling pounds 1.3m last year. In total the former directors received remuneration of over pounds2m - nearly half Scoot.com's ...
LSE and Nasdaq seek merger concessions
Jun 02, 2002; ... THE London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, its US rival, have asked theSecurities and Exchange Commission, the American regulator, for aseries of regulatory concessions as a precursor to a merger betweenthe two exchanges. According to a US official, the concessions include a request ...
BT launch jeopardises Yell float Directory services unveiled by telecoms giant will threaten pounds 2bn market debut of former offshoot
Jun 02, 2002; ... BT is poised to spoil the pounds 2bn-plus flotation of Yell bylaunching a rival classified advertising and directories business indirect competition with the Yellow Pages business. It is a particularly aggressive move by the UK telecommunicationsgroup, since it sold Yell to venture ...
New models make VW look attractive Taking stock
Jun 02, 2002; ... HOW seriously is it worth taking the opportunity to deal inforeign shares in London? Market makers such as Winterflood are allowing private clientbrokers to deal in sterling and settle via Crest. Instead of thepounds 50 to pounds 100 a trade that some stockbrokers have chargedfor ...
House prices are due for a right royal slump
Jun 02, 2002; ... WHERE was I when the Queen was crowned? Watching it on TV. Thememory is vague. I was two and a half, the screen was about 3insquare, the flickering black and white figures looked like ghosts ina snowstorm - and I hadn't a clue what was going on. A short time later, I remember ...
Smith's brief
Jun 02, 2002; ... POOR old Andrew Smith. What ever did he do to deserve beinglumbered with having to sort out the pensions mess? There he was,quietly chugging along as as chief secretary to the Treasury - or,more specifically, settling down to a well-earned break in Italy -when the message arrived that he ...
Generic headache for drugs giants The spread of copycat medication is cutting into the profits of the pharmaceuticals. Lauren Mills takes the pulse of the sector
Jun 02, 2002; ... GlaxoSmithKline's share price is looking more than a little sick.The ultimate defensive stock has fallen from more than pounds 20 lastsummer to just over pounds 14, its lowest level since the company wascreated through a jumbo-transatlantic merger in 2000. The malady was ...
Murphy heads Mackay's shortlist for Kingfisher
Jun 02, 2002; ... FRANCIS Mackay, the chairman of Kingfisher, the B&Q and Cometretail chain, has started making a list for his latest shoppingexpedition. This time he is not looking for flat-pack beds or stereosbut hopes to return home with a new chief executive. Having decided that Sir Geoff ...
M&S finds Kings buyer
Jun 02, 2002; ... LUC Vandevelde, chairman and chief executive of Marks & Spencer,is just weeks away from completing the international restructuring ofthe retail group, which has been a central part of his turnaroundplan. M&S is close to completing the sale of its Kings Super Marketschain in the ...
Lattice directors waive pounds 4m in bonuses
Jun 02, 2002; ... TOP executives at Lattice, the gas pipeline company which ismerging with the National Grid, are to waive bonuses of almost pounds4m. They would have been entitled to the payouts on completion of thepounds 15bn deal later this year. A quartet of Lattice directors has decided to ...
AstraZeneca loses taste for Quorn
Jun 02, 2002; ... ASTRAZENECA, Europe's second largest pharmaceuticals group, hasput its Quorn food business up for sale as part of chief executiveTom McKillop's drive to focus solely on blockbuster drugs. The Anglo-Swedish drugs company has hired Goldman Sachs to auctionits Marlow Foods subsidiary ...
Mansfield lobbies to sue MacKenzie
Jun 02, 2002; ... DAVID Mansfield, chief executive of Capital Radio, is trying torally support among radio companies for legal action against KelvinMacKenzie, head of the rival Wireless Group and former editor of theSun. Mansfield believes Mackenzie should be sued after his recentattacks on the ...
High income funds hit the rocks Paul Farrow says fears are mounting for funds which offer guaranteed levels of high income
Jun 02, 2002; ... The Financial Services Authority is investigating whetherthousands of Lloyds TSB customers have been "inappropriately" soldguaranteed income bonds devised by Scottish Widows, a subsidiary ofthe bank. Lloyds is now reviewing the way the plans were sold. It couldultimately be ...
ARM fights for FTSE100 survival
Jun 02, 2002; ... SIR ROBIN Saxby, the executive chairman of ARM, has embarked on atour of the City in a last ditch attempt to avoid relegation from theFTSE100 index. ARM, a former City darling and standard bearer for the UK'sbeleaguered technology sector, is just one place away from theFTSE100 ...
Ailing Vodafone faces price war
Jun 02, 2002; ... VODAFONE is braced for a fresh price war in the fiercelycompetitive mobile market as arch-rival Orange is to increase handsetsubsidies by up to 25 per cent. The news comes days after Vodafoneannounced a pre-tax loss for last year of pounds 13.5bn, the largestin UK corporate ...
The risk of market meltdown from life reform
Jun 02, 2002 ... The world may at last be ready for "Stockbroker-balls", a columnhighlighting the profundity of thinking in the securities industry.My broker chums show a talent for solecism as honed as that of DavidColeman and other assorted round-ball philosophers. Here is what the head of an ...
The great with-profits fudge The FSA's report on its investigation into the with-profits industry falls well short of what is needed, writes Emma Simon
Jun 02, 2002; ... Before the Financial Services Authority published the findings ofits year-long investigation into the with-profits industry last week,consumer bodies had been optimistic that the regulator would call fora radical overhaul of a sector that had been beset by criticism andscandal ....
Judgement day for Monti If the court sets aside his decision on Airtours, Super Mario may find that he has to change his ways
Jun 02, 2002; ... THESE are nailbiting days for Mario Monti. Not only does Europe'sCompetition Commissioner have all that football to look forward to;Super Mario also faces a ruling this week by the European Court ofJustice that could curb his predilection for blocking mergers ...
Rate rises are in the air again
Jun 02, 2002; ... AFTER the news from Nationwide that house prices are now rising atalmost 18 per cent, pressure is building on the Bank of England to dosomething. Some brave souls have speculated that the rate rise couldcome at this week's Monetary Policy Committee meeting, neatlycoinciding with its ...
Whatever happened to dear old profit?
Jun 02, 2002; ... In the beginning - before the accountants and auditors succeededin making company results impenetrable to anyone other than, er,accountants and auditors - there was a nifty little item calledprofits before tax. PBT was once the standard measure of how well businesses ...