The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from January 2005:
THE DAY THAT SHOOK THE EARTH
Jan 02, 2005; ... On Sunday December 26, 2004, a tsunami wave with the power of morethan 1,000 atomic bombs hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean. Thisis the definitive story of the past seven days, from the momentdisaster struck, and of the devastation that followed From Sumatra to Somalia, dawn ...
Players will struggle to take the back-to-back strain
Jan 02, 2005; ... Playing back-to-back Tests two days apart is a great way tomaintain public interest. Anyone who followed South Africa's last-ditch stand in Durban on Thursday afternoon will switch on thismorning to follow the sequel in Cape Town. But starting one Test so soon after another is not ...
FIRST PERSON The secrets of my very own X-Files
Jan 02, 2005; ... A dark secret lurks in the bottom drawer of my office. It is a pile of letters frothing with such hysteria that they should havenever survived beyond the opening of their glued-up envelopes.I can't remember when I began hoarding my "crank" mail. There isan unspoken Fleet ...
We're the clampers, we feel your pain 'Active listening skills' are being taught to that unloved breed - wheel clampers. Adam Lusher learns how to attach a Denver boot in a caring manner
Jan 02, 2005; ... His hair is wild. His face screwed up in fury, and his build, asit advances rapidly in my direction, looks alarmingly powerful. Forsome reason, his car keys are also poking through his (large)clenched fist. Sadly, manners do not appear to be Mr Angry's forte:he offers but a few brief ...
I have let Alexander down Oliver Stone's film about Alexander the Great has been panned by the critics. Normally a pugnacious defender of his work, this time he admits he got it wrong Interview
Jan 02, 2005; ... There is no need to subject Oliver Stone to a painful precis ofthe more cruel comments of the American cinema critics: he can, anddoes, recite them verbatim. Crouched forward, coffee cup in hand, hecloses his eyes as he repeats in an anguished voice: "Puerilewriting ... confused ...
In Sickness and in Health Cut out potatoes and prove Nanny wrong
Jan 02, 2005; ... It was while standing bleary-eyed in the bathroom, popping mycustomary vitamin pill, that it struck me. Here was I, a human beingweighing 11 stone (if I can find the right spot to stand on thescales), about to protect myself against a host of ailments by takinga pill weighing 100,000 ...
Bad people live in small houses A series of BBC films has followed the development of 25 children since their birth five years ago. Tom Payne finds their views of the world - and how they might fit into it - have already been moulded by adult stereotypes
Jan 02, 2005; ... One dolls' house is painted to look like grey stone, with stucco,pillars and maybe five bedrooms, as well as ample reception areas;the other is a narrow, redbrick, two-up two-down terrace house. Thefirst could be from the set of Notting Hill, the second fromCoronation Street. One by one, ...
Steel enters the soul
Jan 02, 2005; ... Cinema Inheritance Koktebel The cinematic offerings this week are perfectly in keeping withthe ascetic spirit of New Year, when one's taste suddenly wearies ofa glut of sugary, overblown confections and craves cleaner fare. Bothfilms - one Danish, one Russian - are ...
Other new releases
Jan 02, 2005; ... Without a Paddle (12A) Matthew Lillard is the goofy chap from Scooby Doo. Seth Green isthe ginger titch from Austin Powers. Dax Shepard I had never had thepleasure of before, but a little research reveals him to have had abit part in the Steve Martin film Cheaper by the Dozen and ...
No fairy-lights at the end of the tunnel
Jan 02, 2005; ... Ballet Opera Bastille Palais Garnier The French do fairy-lights as sweetly as the next person, but theyseem to have escaped the British taste for Christmas Nutcrackers.Instead, the Paris ballet-goer can choose between two programmes ofdance at the Opera Bastille and ...
Ribald all over Television
Jan 02, 2005; ... Long ago, but not so far away from where I am now sitting, Iworked on one of the worst films ever made, a version of The Hound ofthe Baskervilles starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. It wasdirected by a man called Paul Morrissey, who had earned himself aquite undeserved reputation for ...
Radio Broccoli binger
Jan 02, 2005; ... In a thoughtful contribution to the pantomime season, Today hasbeen having "guest editors" again. These untrained celebrities donot, thank heavens, actually edit the programme. Instead, they areallowed to ride their hobbyhorses up and down the show. On Monday, the contribution from ...
Visionary composer for our time The centenary celebrations for Michael Tippett give us a chance to get closer to the music of this complex man, writes Michael Kennedy
Jan 02, 2005; ... Michael Tippett was born 100 years ago today. But he does not seemsome remote figure from the past, for he was active and composingalmost until the day of his death only seven years ago on January 8. Many will have memories of this lithe, youthful-looking, energeticand ...
The Queen of Mean
Jan 02, 2005; ... Theatre Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Romeo and Juliet Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? The main attraction in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at theVictoria Palace, is Lily Savage (also known as Paul O'Grady) as theWicked Queen. Savage's ...
Art Drama in salvage
Jan 02, 2005; ... Jannis Kounellis Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus, the port of Athens, threeyears before the outbreak of the Second World War. He lived therethroughout that conflict, and then through 10 years of the GreekCivil War, before leaving his native country to seek a more ...
Tortoises and hares of 2005 Novels by Ian McEwan and John Updike, memoirs by Lauren Bacall and Tracey Emin . . . David Robson surveys the year ahead
Jan 02, 2005; ... HOW HARD DO writers work? It is the sort of question that politepeople normally refrain from asking. But it becomes unavoidable whenyou browse through publishers' catalogues and see some writersworking flat out while others, seemingly, dawdle. Take Peter Ackroyd and A. N. Wilson, ...
Multi-faceted history John Preston on the diamond that added sparkle to the lives of kings and queens
Jan 02, 2005; ... FOR ALMOST 400 years the Sancy Diamond was the biggest whitediamond in Christendom. "Larger than a nugget of charcoal", it waslusted after by Elizabeth I, as well as by Catherine de Medicis, andturned into a giant hatpin by James I. The Sancy was used to financecivil wars, pawned to ...
They were afraid of the big, bad wolf Americans' misplaced terror of wolves led them to hunt them to extinction, finds Jonathan Bate
Jan 02, 2005; ... "WHEN I CONSIDER that the noble animals have been exterminatedhere," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his journal in 1855, "- thecougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, thebeaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in atamed, and, as it were, emasculated ...
What lay behind the iron veil? Noel Malcolm looks at how 'European' the Ottoman Empire was at its height
Jan 02, 2005; ... DOES TURKEY belong in (or to) Europe? In the few days since the EUdecided that it would permit negotiations over Turkey's admission, Ihave been at more than one dinner party where this question has beendebated, without yielding any clear answer. On the anti side there isthe argument that ...
The consolations of German philosophy Daniel Johnson on studies of two philosophers who helped shape modern Germany and the way Germans feel about the war
Jan 02, 2005; ... WHAT WAS it like to be a German in 1945 - to belong to a peoplethat has committed the worst crime in history? Basil Fawlty'scatchphrase - "Don't mention the war!" - encapsulates what was, infact, by far the most common German response to the Holocaust. Morehigh-minded, but no less of an ...
Before a note was even sung Peter Reed assesses a fact-filled account of what it took to get five great operas on to the stage for the first time
Jan 02, 2005; ... FOUR YEARS ago Thomas Kelly, professor of music at YaleUniversity, published First Nights: Five Musical Premieres, whichgave the social, political and musical backgrounds leading up to thefirst performances of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Handel's Messiah,Beethoven's Choral Symphony, Berlioz's ...
The Literary Life
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE NEXT 12 months will see numerous centenaries and anniversariescelebrated. H.E Bates, Henry Green, Geoffrey Grigson, ArthurKoestler, Anthony Powell, Jean-Paul Sartre and C.P. Snow were allborn in 1905. Jules Verne, meanwhile, died on March 24, 1905. It was a great year for ...
Rock CDs
Jan 02, 2005; ... Diplo: Florida (Big Dada, pounds 13.99). Gosh, dance music reallymust be dead, because this time I'm not even going to bother with mytraditional New Year's round-up of dance compilations. Diplo is muchmore interesting, anyway. He's a Mississippi-born DJ, raised inFlorida, and his debut ...
Classical CDs
Jan 02, 2005; ... Tippett: Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 BBCSO/ Tippett (NMC D104, pounds12.99). A spate of Tippett recordings may be expected during hiscentenary year. NMC are first in the field with this reissue of adisc of two of his symphonies conducted by the composer which wasfirst available in 1995 to ...
Concerts
Jan 02, 2005; ... Wigmore Hall, 020 7935 2141, Tue, 7.30pm: The Lindsays markTippett's centenary year with performances of his String Quartets 1 &3, and Mark Padmore is accompanied by Andrew West in the song-cyclesThe Heart's Assurance and Boyhood's End. Wed, 7.30pm: The Lindsays play the Tippett's ...
Rock
Jan 02, 2005; ... The Bays. Genre-defying revolutionaries who include electro-funk,dub, techno and jazz in their highly danceable live shows. With ahealthy love for spontaneity, they claim never to rehearse and opposethe idea of a set-list. London Camden Jazz Cafe, Fri, Sat, 020 79166060. James ...
Cinema
Jan 02, 2005; ... The Aviator (12A). Martin Scorsese strained to make an epic filmwith the sentimentalised Gangs of New York: he has achieved itinstead with this, the glittering story of the young Howard Hughes(Leonardo DiCaprio): pioneering aviator, film-maker, and lover ofstellar women from Katharine ...
Theatre
Jan 02, 2005; ... Aladdin Old Vic, 0870 060 6628, to Jan 22. The big attraction isIan McKellen as Widow Twankey. No one could fault the zest with whichhe throws himself into the part, or his mastery of music hall skills.He makes a startlingly vivid first appearance, and for a time hespreads around a good ...
Dance
Jan 02, 2005; ... English National Ballet London Coliseum, 020 7632 8300, to Jan 8.A revival of their Nutcracker with designs by the cartoonist GeraldScarfe. New Adventures Sadler's Wells, London EC1, 0870 737 7737, to Jan15. Matthew Bourne's award-winning Swan Lake. The increasinglyassured and ...
Art
Jan 02, 2005; ... Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2004, Natural History Museum,London SW7, 020 7942 5000, to Apr 17. Nature at its best and itsworst, taken by photographers of all ages. Holbein to Hockney: Drawings from the Royal Collection. TheQueen's Gallery, Edinburgh, EH8, 0131 556 5100, to ...
DVDs
Jan 02, 2005; ... 16 Years of Alcohol (Tartan, 18, DVD only pounds 19.99). Anambitious directorial debut by former rock star Richard Jobson. Told,like Sunset Boulevard, from beyond the grave, it charts an Edinburghalchoholic's bid to buck the habit, renounce violence and inspireaffection. Realism and ...
Critics' Choice Opening this week 'Alexander' directed by Oliver Stone
Jan 02, 2005; ... For cinema-goers in an epic frame of mind, Oliver Stone'sAlexander (15), his account of the sweeping progress of Alexander,King of Macedonia, hits the UK this week. The director's cherishedproject has reportedly cost more than $150 million to make, andinvolves thousands of extras, ...
Who did what in your new place? All sorts of things you never imagined may have been going on in your brand-new home. Sarah Lonsdale reveals the secret life of not-so-virgin properties
Jan 02, 2005; ... One of the selling points of new homes is that they are virginterritory, completely unmarked by previous occupants. As the newowner steps across the threshold, they know that they are not goingto find grubby fingerprints in the dazzling new bathroom, or unevenmarks in the walls, where ...
A builder gives it to you straight On the Level Mark of indistinction
Jan 02, 2005; ... Midnight on New Year's Eve saw the undignified demise of the much-criticised Quality Mark. This was the government initiative that wassupposed to raise standards in the domestic building sector by givinghouseholders access to reputable, competent tradesmen. It had beenlaunched in 2001, ...
Ask Jeff Why is my wife's hair green?
Jan 02, 2005; ... Four weeks ago we moved into a house that we had had extensivelyrefurbished, including new plumbing throughout. In addition, as thehouse is in a hard-water area, we had a salt-based water-softenerfitted. Last week, my wife went to the hairdresser, who remarked thather blonde-tinted hair ...
Illusions of grandeur National Trust properties have inspired new ranges of furniture and fittings. But be careful, says Tim Hitchcock, a Jacobean ceiling may devalue your 1930s semi
Jan 02, 2005; ... Anyone who yearns to turn their house into a miniature statelyhome is about to find that dream easier to accomplish. From thismonth, they will be able to decorate their home with sumptuousarchitectural features copied from grand properties owned by theNational Trust. Until ...
WMC to reject pounds 2.9bn bid from Xstrata
Jan 02, 2005; ... WMC, the Australian copper, nickel and uranium miner, will thisweek launch a robust defence to fight off the hostile A$7.4bn (pounds 2.9bn) bid from Xstrata, the London-listed mining group. WMC will claim that Xstrata's A$6.35 per share offer isopportunistic and inadequate and does ...
Sky hatches secret plan for advert-free TV New technology will have dramatic impact on revenues of ITV and Channel 4 and could prompt competition concerns
Jan 02, 2005; ... BRITISH SKY Broadcasting, the satellite television company, hasdrawn up secret plans for a service to allow viewers to avoidwatching adverts. If implemented, the technology could transform the UK televisionindustry and pose a huge threat to ITV, Channel 4 and Five, whichrely ...
Deutsche Borse presses LSE to open its books
Jan 02, 2005; ... DEUTSCHE BORSE will this week press the London Stock Exchange toallow it to carry out due diligence into a key contract as it seeksways to significantly increase its proposed cash takeover offer of pounds 1.35bn. Werner Seifert, the chief executive of Deutsche Borse, ...
Former Selfridges boss tries on LK Bennett for size
Jan 02, 2005; ... PETER WILLIAMS, the former chief executive of Selfridges, thedepartment store group, is in talks with private equity houses aboutheading a bid for LK Bennett, the 46-store upmarket shoe, clothingand accessory chain. Williams, who quit Selfridges last February after it was bought ...
Yukos targets banks over 'illegal' auction
Jan 02, 2005; ... YUKOS, the Russian oil giant, last night called for aninvestigation into the role of the Western banks that had planned tofinance a $10bn ( pounds 5.3bn) bid by Gazprom, the state-controlledgas giant, for Yukos's key production unit. Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer who represents ...
Ocado seeks pounds 20m to fund expansion
Jan 02, 2005; ... OCADO, the online food retailer aiming to float on the stockmarket within three years, has drawn up plans to raise up to pounds20m in the next few months to fund its aggressive expansion. Shareholders in Ocado, which is 43 per cent owned by the JohnLewis Partnership, the ...
Carbon trading is accounting minefield
Jan 02, 2005; ... THOUSANDS of companies are facing an accounting headache as aresult of the European Union's carbon emissions trading scheme, whichcame into force yesterday. The scheme limits the amount of carbon dioxide that energyintensive users are allowed to produce. Companies that produce ...
Foresight eyes Aim floats for three tech investments
Jan 02, 2005; ... FORESIGHT Venture Partners, the venture capital trust specialist,is planning to float three of the technology companies in which ithas invested on the Alternative Investment Market in the firstquarter of this year. The companies are expected to have a combined value of between ...
Oil giants resume Libyan adventure The former pariah wants Western help to exploit gigantic reserves, writes Sylvia Pfeifer
Jan 02, 2005; ... The world's biggest energy companies are preparing to fight it outfor a stake in Libya's lucrative oil and gas industry. Less than ayear after it was welcomed back into the international fold, Libyawill later this month hold a multi-billion pound auction of drillingrights to some of the ...
Standard Life boosts funds total to pounds 100bn
Jan 02, 2005; ... STANDARD LIFE, the mutual life insurer that is preparing to floaton the stock market in 2006, has increased its funds under managementto a record pounds 100bn. The news comes after a troubled year for the 179-year-old Scottishlife insurer, which has slashed almost 2,000 of its ...
Boeing's new 7e7 sales struggle to take off
Jan 02, 2005; ... BOEING, the US aerospace and defence giant, has failed to meet itstarget of booking 200 orders by the end of 2004 for its 7e7 mid-market jet. By the close of business on December 31 the company hadsecured just 56 firm orders, excluding commitments for another 70planes and several options ...
High street suffers post-Christmas blues
Jan 02, 2005; ... RETAILERS' hopes of a post-Christmas spending spree appear to havebeen dashed. Although the number of shoppers hitting stores last weekrose compared with the year before, the amount of money spent felldramatically. Sales on the high street fell by an average of more than 5 ...
Hollinger avoids delisting as NYSE extends deadline
Jan 02, 2005; ... HOLLINGER International, the media group once controlled by LordBlack, has escaped being delisted from the New York Stock Exchangeafter being given a further three months' grace to file its accounts. The company had faced being delisted after it missed a December 30deadline imposed ...
Car sales rev up for fourth record year
Jan 02, 2005; ... LAST YEAR was another record year for car sales with almost 2.6mvehicles sold, according to motor industry executives. With sales in the final days of December still being counted, andan official figure for the year not expected before the end of thisweek, executives said car ...
Why Aberdeen is an object lesson in survival
Jan 02, 2005; ... When a company agrees to pay out a whopping pounds 78m incompensation, most sane people would struggle to see this as a goodresult. But this is the price that Aberdeen Asset Management ispaying for its part in settling the long-running and tortuousinvestigation by the Financial Services ...
Pension pessimists
Jan 02, 2005; ... HERE'S a sobering thought courtesy of those seasonal merchants ofdoom Deloitte. Although the overall value of UK shares rose last year, ourpension funds are even deeper in the red. According to the numbercrunchers, deficits in pension funds in FTSE100 index companies roseby ...
'I never expected it to be as bad as it was' Steven Norris tells Edward Simpkins how Jarvis was rescued from the brink of collapse
Jan 02, 2005; ... Steven Norris says his worst hour in a roller-coaster of a year aschairman of Jarvis came last June when it looked as though thebeleaguered construction and rail services group might go bust. Thetiming could not have been worse, coming just days before Norris wasdue to contest the London ...
A happy New Year? I don't think so
Jan 02, 2005; ... IT IS that time of year again, the time for forecasters to throwcaution to the winds. Every sane adult knows that the future isunknowable, so we soothsayers are bound to be wrong much of the time.It is a matter of doing our best - then doing it again. Here goes. On the ...
Slowdown ahead
Jan 02, 2005; ... For some time, the world has been living on borrowed time andAmerica on borrowed money. America's current account deficit hangsover the world like the sword of Damocles. The longer it remains atthis size the greater the risk of a financial crisis in which thedollar falls sharply, ...
Rash forecasts
Jan 02, 2005; ... Against this backdrop I expect inflation to continue to besubdued, with the rate remaining comfortably below the 2 per centtarget. This gives monetary policymakers some room for manoeuvre. IfI am right about the overall picture and, in particular, right aboutthe housing correction, then ...
Don't do silly things, play safe
Jan 02, 2005; ... I have always felt that forecasting the stock market a year aheadis a slightly odd enterprise, and I've done it often enough to know. It might seem all the odder now because the market is so deeplyout of fashion. All the action today is in complex derivatives orhedge funds of ...
York should remember the twin towers
Jan 02, 2005; ... The city is fully of chirpy tales of bankers spending their lavishbonuses on Ferraris and Maybachs, iPods and Cartiers, and this weekthe New York Times gave a rare four-star review to a new sushi jointwhere there is no menu but the bill begins at $350 a person. All fineand dandy, but ...
Solid returns in a tricky year for investors
Jan 02, 2005; ... INVESTING in UK equities has been a tricky task in the past 12months - rising interest rates, more selling of UK shares by biginstitutions and the weak dollar have all presented challenges. As in2003, smaller companies trumped blue chip stocks - the FTSE100 indexrose by just 7.7 per cent ...
WINDOW ON WORLD MARKETS
Jan 02, 2005; ... THE number of mortgages approved by British banks during Novemberdropped to the lowest monthly level for four years, according to datapublished by the British Bankers' Association last week. New loansagreed for house purchases fell to 47,095 during November, 20 percent down on the ...
CITY AGENDA
Jan 02, 2005; ... MONDAY BANK HOLIDAY. No major announcements. TUESDAY THE BANK of England publishes data on lending to individuals forNovember. Last month the Bank showed that the number of new mortgagesfor house purchases had fallen by 40 per cent over the past year. Thelatest ...
Will Christmas ever be the same? James Hall looks at the reasons for the unseasonal woe on the high street
Jan 02, 2005; ... In a recent message to staff Sir Stuart Hampson, the chairman ofJohn Lewis Partnership, joked that shoppers had taken the title ofthe re-released Band Aid song Do They Know It's Christmas? a littletoo literally. "We might be forgiven for thinking that the reissue of the BandAid ...
Magnificent seven
Jan 02, 2005; ... IT WAS the day before Christmas and London's streets were awashwith last-minute shoppers. But amid the seasonal pandemonium on Christmas Eve, there was asmall oasis of calm at a room in Westminster where MyTravel - thestruggling tour operator more commonly known as MyTrouble - ...
Last year's model
Jan 02, 2005; ... BRENT HOBERMAN, the debonair founder of Lastminute.com, is nothappy. Those pesky journalists at the essential - no, honestly -Management Today have drawn up a list of Britain's 100 topentrepreneurs and the dashing Mr Hoberman is not on the list. Nor ishis former sidekick, the ...
Deadpan DTI
Jan 02, 2005; ... IF YOU, like us, can't help chuckling at some of the policies andverbiage emanating from the Department of Trade and Industry, you maynot be surprised to hear that the department has its own in-housecomedienne. We refer not to the trade and industry secretary, Patricia ...