The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from June 2003:
[ There's something horribly disconcerting about flying with an airline that has been losing more than $10m a day ]
Jun 01, 2003; ... There's something horribly disconcerting about flying with anairline that has been losing more than $10m a day. Call me paranoid,but the awful question that nags away is: if this company can't makeenough money to keep up its own trousers, why should I believe thatit'll keep me aloft at ...
Shakespeare knew about war crimes First Person
Jun 01, 2003; ... The day that the accusations against Lt-Col Tim Collins appearedin the newspapers I went to see Henry V at the National. The criticshad said that this modern-dress production was disturbingly topical,but the moment when a British leader in combat fatigues and helmetgives the order to ...
My wicked, wicked ways Interview A self-confessed cad, Rick Marin is New York's male answer to the predatory females in Sex and the City. In his book about philandering, soon to be published here, he proudly recounts his innumerable conquests. But what on earth did they see in him?
Jun 01, 2003; ... When Rick Marin, the author of Cad: Confessions of a ToxicBachelor, opens the door to his Manhattan apartment, I am distinctyunderwhelmed. For a famed womaniser, rumoured to have slept with morethan 500 women, he is hardly the dashing figure you might imagine. Not that he is ugly ...
Inside the heart of Stone The UDA terrorist Michael Stone, whose candid autobiography has just been published, is not ashamed of the killings he carried out. 'I was a soldier,' he tells Olga Craig, 'and in a war soldiers die'
Jun 01, 2003; ... Pulling off his pork-pie hat and dark glasses, Michael Stonestretches out his hand in greeting. "How're ye doing?" he asks, hisvoice full of Belfast bonhomie, his accent unmistakably Ulster. It is the second time we have met: the second time I have staredinto his startlingly ...
Eat more fat and grow thin - official In Sickness and in Health
Jun 01, 2003; ... There is nothing equivocal, no "ifs and buts", about thescientific vindication of Dr Robert Atkins's politically incorrect"high-fat" diet, as reported in this paper last week. For the bestpart of 20 years, legions of nutritionists, doctors, healtheducationists, food faddists and other ...
Instant and fading memories Anyone can take a Polaroid. But only the great photographer Walker Evans could have taken these. Geoff Dyer praises the genius of point-and-click
Jun 01, 2003; ... By the spring of 1973, Walker Evans was in the deep twilight ofhis career. He was almost 70 and his status was assured. It wasn'tsimply that he was one of the great American photographers; his 1938exhibition and book had, quite explicitly, defined what Americaphotographs looked like ....
Great ENO against the odds Music
Jun 01, 2003; ... Tristan and Isolde The Death of Klinghoffer Two Halle concerts Two outstanding presentations of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde arecurrently on offer, one sung in German at Glyndebourne, the other atthe Coliseum by ENO in Andrew Porter's idiomatic translation. If ...
Time-and-motion study Dance
Jun 01, 2003; ... NDT2 ENB It always breaks my heart to see beautiful young dancers in second-rate choreography - like a handsome man in a cheap suit. NederlandsDans Theater's cadet force NDT2 began a British tour last week withtwo rapturously-received programmes at Sadler's Wells. The ...
Murder is an aesthete's game Cinema
Jun 01, 2003; ... Ripley's Game Bringing Down the House Sympathy for Mr Vengeance Dolls Trembling before G-d Everyone loves a well-groomed sociopath. Hannibal Lecter, DorianGray, even James Bond - there's something decidedly exciting aboutthat mix of taste and disdain, ...
Shakespeare's bunch-backed villainess Kathryn Hunter plays the king in the first ever all-female 'Richard III'. She tells Heather Neill how she makes the dogs bark as she halts by
Jun 01, 2003; ... There is nothing commonplace about Kathryn Hunter - except perhapsher name, and that is assumed. Born Aikaterini Hadjipateras, thedaughter of a Greek shipping magnate, she is dainty - a mere 5 ft -with a cloud of dark hair around her open, olive-skinned face. Out ofthis diminutive figure ...
Chaotic, epic and dotty The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Art
Jun 01, 2003; ... Imagine a room-sized installation, containing real carpet andfurniture, lights that really light up, and - most importantly -myriad images, many of them naked, recording intimate details of theartist's family life. The latest shocking piece by Tracey Emin,perhaps? A successor to her ...
Takeaway criminals Theatre
Jun 01, 2003; ... Elmina's Kitchen US and Them Little Baby Nothing Elmina, built in the 15th century, was a fort in Ghana whereslaves were held before transportation. Elmina's Kitchen, which givesits name to Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play at the Cottesloe, is a WestIndian takeaway in ...
The church's dark foundation Radio
Jun 01, 2003; ... I'd been waiting for Devil's Architect? (Radio 4, Thursday) for along time - 18 years, actually. The allegation that our greatestarchitect, Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), was an occultist and ageomancer, obsessed with death, was first made by Iain Sinclair inhis cult book, Lud Heat, ...
The trouble and strife of marriage Television
Jun 01, 2003; ... Kibi and Mark Wright are a couple in their thirties who live inBristol, have two small children and, according to the commentary inMr and Mrs (Wednesday, BBC2), "have decided to share with us theirseventh year of marriage". Why? What did they think they were doing? When people say ...
A High Victorian shocker John Gross on a literary, political and social grandee who was both famous and infamous in his day
Jun 01, 2003; ... Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters by Leslie Mitchell Hambledon and London, pounds 19.95, 292 pp pounds 19.95 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 YOU CAN'T get very far reading about the Victorians without comingacross Edward Bulwer ...
From 'Oxton to Oxford Anne Chisholm admires an unsentimental account of boyhood in London's impoverished East End
Jun 01, 2003; ... Clouds of Glory: A Hoxton Childhood by Bryan Magee Jonathan Cape, pounds 17.99, 343 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ALTHOUGH many successful men give way, in later life, to theimpulse to write about their early lives, they seldom write a ...
How medicinal is marijuana? Richard Davenport-Hines assesses an attempt to blow away the smokescreen surrounding cannabis and its uses through history
Jun 01, 2003; ... Cannabis: A History by Martin Booth Doubleday, pounds 15, 354 pp pounds 13 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 CANNABIS is the most commonly used drug after tobacco, alcohol andaspirin. 147 million people, accounting for 3.5 per cent of theworld's adult population ...
Terrorism with a Tsarist twist This stark account of the skulduggery practised by history's first organised terrorists grips George Walden
Jun 01, 2003; ... The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia by Richard Pipes Yale, pounds 15.95, 153 pp pounds 15.95 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ASSASSINATION plots, a murdered police chief, a triple-crossing bythe revolutionary perpetrator who subsequently lived ...
Moved to tears Which book, poem or play has made you cry more than any other? Continuing our series, the novelist Hilary Mantel chooses Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Jun 01, 2003; ... WHAT MOVES me to tears is often something that goes back beyondwords - a painting's brushstrokes, or a certain quality of light.Landscapes move my heart, including literary landscapes: Dover beachdesolates me, Haworth makes me howl. But Shakespeare is my main manfor crying over; I may be ...
Countess, Duchess, bigamist Frances Wilson enjoys this tale of secret marriage, snobbery and scandal in the Court of George II
Jun 01, 2003; ... Elizabeth: The Scandalous Life of the Duchess of Kingston by Claire Gervat Century, pounds 16.99, 306 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH , later known as either the Countess ofBristol or the Duchess of Kingston - depending on ...
Up to a point, Lord Deedes In this memoir, W. F. Deedes seeks to rebut the rumour that he inspired Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop' . . . Max Hastings almost believes him
Jun 01, 2003; ... At War With Waugh: The Real Story of `Scoop' by W. F. Deedes Macmillan, pounds 12.99, 134 pp pounds 11.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE Etonian's motto, it used to be said, was that "a gentlemanshould not be seen to try". Bill Deedes was a Harrovian, but he ...
Life in the Grand Manner Michael Prodger warms to the sunny personality of Joshua Reynolds, innovator in art and art education
Jun 01, 2003; ... Joshua Reynolds: The Life and Times of the First President of theRoyal Academy by Ian McIntyre Allen Lane/Penguin Press, pounds 30, 608 pp pounds 26 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE DECLARED AIM of the first President of the Royal Academy, SirJoshua ...
Paperbacks
Jun 01, 2003; ... Thirty-Six Murders & Two Immoral Earnings by Ludovic Kennedy Profile Books, pounds 8.99 LUDOVIC KENNEDY has been rooting out miscarriages of justice fornearly half a century, ever since the teenager Derek Bentley washanged for a murder he hadn't committed. As these ...
Paperbacks
Jun 01, 2003; ... I Don't Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson Vintage, pounds 6.99 IT IS NOT hard to see why this likable novel rocketed up the best-seller lists. As a fictional stereotype, Kate Reddy, successfulcareer woman and harassed mother, is as instantly recognisable ...
The island that went bang John Preston praises an account of the volcanic eruption that destroyed Krakatoa - and 30,000 people
Jun 01, 2003; ... Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester Viking, pounds 16.99, 432 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ON MAY 20, 1883 a German ship called the Elisabeth was passingthrough the Sunda Straight between Java and Sumatra when the ...
Spirits in an ancient land
Jun 01, 2003; ... The Voices by Susan Elderkin Fourth Estate, pounds 16.99, 323 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 SUSAN ELDERKIN was nominated as one of Granta's best young Britishnovelists on the strength of her first book. The judges were lookingfor artistic, ...
Looking back at lechery
Jun 01, 2003; ... The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories by Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, pounds 14.99, 247 pp pounds 12.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE MEN in these six stories, like Theroux himself, aresixtysomething Americans who look back at their younger ...
A spinster left high and dry
Jun 01, 2003; ... Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller Viking, pounds 14.99, 243 pp pounds 12.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ZOE HELLER might not thank me for making the comparison, but thereare times, in Notes on a Scandal, when it could be Anita Brooknerwriting. Barbara, the ...
No end of conflict
Jun 01, 2003; ... Loot and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 240 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 NADINE GORDIMER'S lifetime of writing and political commitment hasbeen crowned with success: she has lived to see the end of apartheid,and ...
Land of hope
Jun 01, 2003; ... Someone to Run With by David Grossman tr by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz Bloomsbury, pounds 10.99, 384 pp pounds 10.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 VERY LITTLE Israeli fiction is read in the West. David Grossman,along with Amos Oz, who is a generation ...
Destined for higher things David Robson enjoys this third part of a saga 'a clef'
Jun 01, 2003; ... Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg Sceptre, pounds 17.99, 490 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ADMIRERS of The Soldier's Return and A Son of War will need littleprompting to buy the third instalment of this marvellous saga. Itcovers the years ...
Opening this week The 56th Aldeburgh Festival
Jun 01, 2003; ... The 56th Aldeburgh Festival (01728 687110) begins on Saturday atthe Snape Maltings with a staged concert performance of Britten'sGloriana (also June 9), written for the Coronation 50 years ago whenits first performance on June 8 was a classic example of the wrongopera for the wrong ...
Classical CDs
Jun 01, 2003; ... Paul Lewis plays Schubert Piano Sonatas in A major & B flat(Harmonia Mundi HMC 901800, pounds 13.99). This is a disc for whichone can only roll out all the superlatives. The quality of therecorded piano tone is a triumph, while the performances of the lasttwo sonatas are in a class with ...
Rock CDs
Jun 01, 2003; ... Audio Bullys Ego War (Source, pounds 12.99). Surrey faux-yobsSimon Franks and Tom Dinsdale (aka Audio Bullys) are the sound ofthis year's summer, which is fine by me because they're catchy andbouncy and jack-the-lad charming: the sort of thing that puts a bigsmile on the face the moment ...
Rock
Jun 01, 2003; ... Busted Hunky ex-public schoolboys now the snappiest boy band ofthe year. London Hammersmith Apollo Mon, Tue, 020 7403 3331. Marilyn Manson A bit like tiresome old Michael Moore, only withmusic and in make-up. London Brixton Academy Wed, 0870 771 2000. Jet Aussie rockers ...
DVDs
Jun 01, 2003; ... Merchant Ivory Movies (World Cinema, pounds 19.99 each, only onDVD). The first three in a collection of films by the high priests ofheritage: two Henry James adaptations - The Europeans (U) and TheBostonians (PG) - plus their early India-based Shakespeare Wallah,with the young Felicity ...
Art
Jun 01, 2003; ... Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th-century Photograph TateModern 020 7887 8000, Thur to Sep 7. I'm not at all sure that a largearray of realist photography is going to add up to an excitingexhibition (indeed, I have misgivings about photo shows altogether,as photographs often look as ...
Cinema
Jun 01, 2003; ... The Matrix Reloaded (15) Part 2 of the Wachowski brothers' science-fiction trilogy: a mixof kung-fu fighting, computer technology, Greek mythology,Christianity, abstruse philosophising - and last but by no meansleast outstanding special effects. Keanu Reeves plays Neo, The Onewho ...
Opera
Jun 01, 2003; ... Glyndebourne 01273 813813. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Puccini's Laboheme (tnt, Tue, Fri). Robert Gambill and Nina Stemme as Wagner'sTristan und Isolde (Thur). Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Revival of Elijah Moshinsky's 1977production of Wagner's Lohengrin (Tue, Sat) with Robert Dean ...
Dance
Jun 01, 2003; ... Northern Ballet Theatre Grand Theatre, Leeds 0113 222 6222, Tue-Sat. David Nixon's attractive company dance a ballet version ofWuthering Heights complete with leather-trousered Heathcliff andsundry whippings. Royal Ballet Royal Opera House 020 7304 4000, tmw. Last chance tocatch ...
Theatre
Jun 01, 2003; ... Absolutely! (perhaps) Wyndham's 020 7369 1736, to Aug 23. Directedby Franco Zeffirelli, starring Joan Plowright, how could thisPirandello revival fail to be a grand occasion? And the productionhas plenty of panache, with an arresting set, designed by Zeffirellihimself. But there is less ...
Concerts
Jun 01, 2003; ... St John's, Smith Square 020 7222 1061) Today, 7.30pm: in Ludwig'sGhosts, the Peabody Trio plays Beethoven's Piano Trios Op 70 Nos 1(Ghost) and 2, and Elizabeth Mansfield reads poems from Goethe'sWestostlicher Divan. Sat, 7.30pm: launching this year's Lufthansa Baroque ...
This farmer could go to jail. His crime? Trying to save three historic cottages Bitter wrangles, intimidation and 'the worst neighbour in Britain' - Jonny Beardsall reports on an extraordinary planning battle over a beauty spot in Herefordshire
Jun 01, 2003; ... On the edge of the woods at Tower Hill, waves of blossom sweep thehedgerows and the trees are clothed in new leaves. To the sides ofthe muddy track, wood anemones carpet the short verges. It isgloriously pastoral and, overlooking the Frome Valley, as rural anidyll as you could wish for ....
Postcode of the Week PL29 Port Isaac area, Cornwall
Jun 01, 2003; ... The Cornish village of Port Quin has twice been abandoned, oncebecause of the failure of pilchard stocks and once after every adultmale in the village drowned in a fishing accident. Now, the villageand its larger neighbours, Port Isaac and Port Gaverne, are onceagain being abandoned by ...
Word on the Street
Jun 01, 2003; ... If estate agents lie somewhere between body-snatchers andprofessional hitmen in the list of least popular professions, itshould come as no surprise, according to the Consumers' Association.In a damning report, "The Real Estate Agents", it accuses theprofession of defrauding its clients ...
Join the treasure hunt The millionaire owner of Oak House in Sussex was murdered 60 years ago. The cache of gold he is rumoured to have hidden in the mansion has never been found. In which case, says Ross Clark, it looks a snip at pounds 3.5m
Jun 01, 2003; ... With the Allied forces about to begin the invasion of Italy, therewas little room in the newspapers in July 1943 for mystery andintrigue. Yet the murder of Sir Harry Oakes, gold prospector andCanada's richest citizen, still managed to find its way onto thefront pages. On the ...
A whole new house It makes sound economic sense to convert buildings divided into flats back to single homes - but only if the conditions are right, advises Cheryl Markosky
Jun 01, 2003; ... Last October, Jenny and Roger Jones watched as builders ripped out30 skips of rubbish from their home. It was the start of theirproject to turn a once dilapidated, squatter-filled hovel -consisting of a lower-ground-floor flat and six bed-sits - back intoa fine four-storey Victorian ...
Cheap for a Reason
Jun 01, 2003; ... Picture the scene: an English summer's evening, swallows under thethatch, leaves rustling, fishing in the crystal-clear chalk stream atthe bottom of a lawned garden. Peace. Except, that is, for the roar of the A303 from London via the M3to the West Country. It thunders just 10-15 ...
Tales of an Estate Agent The con man
Jun 01, 2003; ... On the day we won the instruction to market eight luxury homes, anoverseas investor visited our office and said he'd like to buy fourof them. The developer and I had a glass of wine to celebrate. Thenext day, we recommended a reputable, and meticulous, local solicitorto the investor, ...
My Propery Nightmare Loft aversion On the level
Jun 01, 2003; ... After seeing a neighbour's successful loft conversion, Susan Hallwas inspired to have the same work done to her own one-bedroom semi-detached home in north London. "I just wanted an extra room and abalcony," she said. "But what I got was a dirty, damaged andexpensive mess." Susan ...
Scratched glass repairs Ask Jeff
Jun 01, 2003; ... We recently moved house, and it wasn't until we moved in that wenoticed scratches on the double-glazed patio doors, obviously made bythe previous owner's dog. I was wondering if you know of any remedialtreatment that would avoid the expense of having new doors fitted.PL, by ...
Historic lime render Ask Jeff
Jun 01, 2003; ... Our local church is very old and very beautiful. We have spenttens of thousands of pounds on it recently, but when I asked aboutwhether the render on parts of the north wall should be taken off ornot, I was told there was a problem with disagreeing experts.Apparently, the architects say ...
Bathroom condensation Ask Jeff
Jun 01, 2003; ... We have a big problem with condensation in the window area of ourbathroom. It runs off the tiled windowsill and wets the wall below,causing the paint to peel off; and there is black mould growing inthe window recess. The window is already double-glazed, and I wonderwhether fitting ...
Don't cut corners on your house survey On the level
Jun 01, 2003; ... In spite of predictions of a crash in the market, the annual home-buying season seems to be in full swing again. "For Sale" boardssprout from walls and gate-posts along every street, and estateagents are busy posting flyers through my letter-box telling me thatdozens of prospective ...
Garden Solutions Green Architecture
Jun 01, 2003; ... Most of us live in properties which have a flaw - an uglyextension, a flat roof or bleak windowless walls. Covering up theeyesore with a fabulous, concealing climber is by far the mostpopular remedy - but I have seen it backfire many times, usuallybecause the new plant draws the eye to ...
URBAN GARDENER
Jun 01, 2003; ... Two years of anticipation are coming to a head as the echium in myLondon front garden finally bursts into bloom. Echium pininana is anative of Las Palma in the Canary Islands, where it thrives on sunnyhillsides overlooking the sea. It is a biennial, producing nothingbut a rosette of ...
Rowland seeks backing for pounds 50m Austin Reed bid
Jun 01, 2003; ... JONATHAN ROWLAND, the son of David "Spotty" Rowland, the legendaryproperty developer and City financier, is seeking backing for apounds 50m bid for Austin Reed, the upmarket fashion retailer. Rowland's advisers have met major Austin Reed shareholders in anattempt to force the ...
Government refuses to rule out 'fat cat' legislation
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE GOVERNMENT will this week re-ignite the debate over fat catpay with the launch of a long-awaited paper on payment for failure.It will show that ministers have not ruled out the option oflegislation to stamp out large payoffs for executives in spite ofintensive lobbying from business ...
Blair urges Bush to buy Westland helicopters
Jun 01, 2003; ... TONY BLAIR has urged President Bush to buy the EH 101 helicoptermade by Agusta Westland for his presidential aircraft fleet. In anunusual move, the prime minister has written to Bush within the pastfew weeks, advocating the merits of the helicopter against that ofthe incumbent supplier, ...
British Energy to write down pounds 3.5bn on plants Nuclear generator blames shock move on relentless price squeeze
Jun 01, 2003; ... BRITISH Energy, the troubled nuclear generator, will this weekannounce a dramatic write-down of around pounds 3.5bn on the value ofits power stations, pushing it to a record loss of more than pounds4bn. The company, which was plunged into financial crisis last year,will blame the massive ...
Dixons prepares to log off Freeserve and switch to BT or AOL
Jun 01, 2003; ... DIXONS, the high street chain, is on the verge of severing alllinks with Freeserve, the internet service provider. The move wouldend a relationship from which the retailer has made more than pounds600m. Dixons has held secret talks with both AOL and BT as it draws upplans to dump ...
Pensioners shun annuity choice
Jun 01, 2003; ... THE NUMBER of people buying an annuity from a firm other thantheir pension provider has fallen to its lowest level for two years,despite new rules to encourage pensioners to shop around. In the first quarter of 2003, just 31 per cent bought an annuityfrom someone other than their ...
Lloyds TSB pays pounds 30,000 for selling 'unsuitable' bond
Jun 01, 2003; ... A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH reader has been awarded pounds 30,000compensation from Lloyds TSB after the bank agreed he should not havebeen sold a stockmarket-linked bond by one of the bank's advisers. Sidney Windsor, a 66-year-old from Essex, learned on Friday thathe is to be compensated ...
Equitable members who gave up right to sue get only 0.5pc
Jun 01, 2003; ... UP TO half a million Equitable Life members who gave up legalrights to compensation by signing the compromise document last yearwill receive just 0.5 per cent uplift for the sacrifice - not the 4per cent many were expecting. People without guaranteed annuity rights (known as ...
Fidelity to launch funds that cut risk near maturity
Jun 01, 2003; ... FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, the UK's biggest seller of Isas, this weekwill launch a range of funds that aim to reduce risk as they getcloser to a set maturity date. The Fidelity Wealthbuilder Target range will comprise three "fundsof funds" each with different maturity dates - 2010, 2015 ...