The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from March 2005:
I'd rather die than hurt Rupert, says Murdoch share predator
Mar 06, 2005; ... STAYING friends when you are billionaires can be tough. Take JohnMalone and Rupert Murdoch. Mr Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, has all but publiclybegged his once-close friend to take him back after months of limitedcontact. "I would die rather than do anything to ...
Postwatch funding to be linked to complaints
Mar 06, 2005; ... COMPLAINTS about lost or misdirected letters will cost the RoyalMail nearly pounds 50 a time, under a new scheme for funding postalwatchdog Postwatch. The watchdog, which handled 273,000 complaints last financial yearand spent over pounds 10m, or pounds 37 a complaint, has ...
MoD waters down statement on financial support for shipyard
Mar 06, 2005; ... THE Ministry of Defence has backtracked on its insistence thattaking on the risks of a shipbuilding contract at Swan Hunter 18months ago and giving the shipyard pounds 84m to complete the workwas not "financial support". The Conservatives have already called for a National Audit ...
Lloyds hits at rival's 'out-of-body experience'
Mar 06, 2005; ... THE row about banks profiting from delays in clearing transactionsflared up again yesterday when Lloyds TSB chief executive EricDaniels launched an attack on rival HBOS. Mr Daniels, unveiling a 10pc improvement in underlying pre-taxprofits to pounds 3.36billion, made the comments ...
Rover sales fall 50pc but MGs accelerate
Mar 06, 2005; ... SALES of Rover cars fell by nearly 50pc in February, markingRover's biggest monthly sales' fall for at least two years. The newscomes at a sensitive time for MG Rover, which is trying to tie up ajoint venture with Chinese car maker Shanghai Automotive IndustriesAssociation by the end of ...
Murder hunt after banker shot dead
Mar 06, 2005; ... SWISS investigators have confirmed that French financier EdouardStern, who was once in line to become head of investment bank Lazard,was murdered. The high-flying banker was found dead shot dead at his luxuryGeneva flat on Tuesday and investigators have said that it ispossible ...
Smoking ban pays off
Mar 06, 2005; ... PUB operator JD Wetherspoon yesterday claimed its non-smokingpolicy was working as its first two smoke-free bars took more moneythan the company average, though first half profits fell by almost athird. The operator of Wetherspoons and Lloyds No 1 pubs said the twopubs, in Exeter ...
No means no, says Exel on takeover
Mar 06, 2005; ... EXEL yesterday dampened down takeover speculation as it posted a17pc rise in full-year operating profits to pounds 181m, raised thetotal dividend by 18pc to 29.2p and hinted it would return cash toshareholders. The supply chain group, whose shares shot up last month on rumoursUS ...
Exeter calls in administrators
Mar 06, 2005; ... EXETER Fund Managers called in the administrators yesterday as thecompany's directors said they did not believe it had enough money tomeet compensation claims arising from the split capital investmenttrust scandal. The administrators, from Price Waterhouse Coopers, also said ...
Glaxo hit as US impounds drugs
Mar 06, 2005; ... GLAXO Smithkline, the UK's largest drug company, saw its sharestumble 29 to pounds 12.89 yesterday after America's Food & DrugAdministration said it had impounded supplies of key drugs Paxil andAvandamet. The FDA said that the recall was due to unspecified "manufacturingissues" ....
York a step too far for Jarvis finance chief
Mar 06, 2005; ... ALISTAIR Rae, the Jarvis finance director, is leaving theinfrastructure services group with a pay-off and bonuses totalling pounds 225,000 because he does not want to relocate to its newheadquarters in York, the company said yesterday. However, his replacement Alasdair Marnoch, the ...
It's in the blood and it's a passion Fund Manager Nichola Pease launched an equity brokerage business at the age of 23 and cuts more than a dash in her twinset and pearls. But mercifully she is useless in the kitchen THE KATE RANKINE INTERVIEW
Mar 06, 2005; ... `PLEASE don't put me in that category," pleads Nichola Pease. Sheis referring, of course, to another Nicola, the superwoman andshameless self-publicist Nicola Horlick, who became synonymous with"Having It All". "We might share the same name, but I don't want togo beyond that," she adds ....
Moving up the Grid
Mar 06, 2005 ... National Grid Transco said yesterday that new internationalaccounting standards will lead to ...
Hurdle passed
Mar 06, 2005 ... Two of three dissidents seeking election to the Standard Lifeboard have received enough support to stand for nomination at theinsurer's annual meeting in April. David Stonebanks, a ...
Bourse threat
Mar 06, 2005 ... Atticus, which owns 5.5pc of Deutsche Bourse's shares, said itwill attend the ...
Market 'no'
Mar 06, 2005 ... Controversial plans by a Lehman Brothers' backed property firm todemolish buildings next ...
Boeing clear
Mar 06, 2005 ... The US Air Force has lifted a 20-month ban prohibiting Boeing frombidding on satellite launch contracts, saying that the ...
Ardana float
Mar 06, 2005 ... Biotechnology company Ardana, which makes testosterone tablets,floated on the ...
Botox deal
Mar 06, 2005 ... Biocompatibles Int is buying Germany's CellMed for ...
Banks settle
Mar 06, 2005 ... Four investment banks, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse FirstBoston, Goldman Sachs and UBS Warburg, have become ...
Pssst! Have you heard about this amazing sausage?You invited me just so you could buzz me? What makes a person want to become a secret agent - for advertisers? Helena Echlin reveals the seductive power of the strange new consumer trend that drove her to sing the praises of 'Al Fresco Chicken Sausages'
Mar 06, 2005; ... `Have you got any Al Fresco Chicken Sausages?'' I trilled to theman behind the supermarket meat counter. ``Al what?'' ``Al Fresco Chicken Sausages.'' He shook his head. ``We don't stock them.'' ``Well, you should.'' I told him. ``They're delicious! And ...
Little wonder teenagers are so desperate
Mar 06, 2005; ... All teenagers are ``emotional wrecks'', according to the teenagegirls' bible Bliss. I find this hilarious. We're teenagers, for God'ssake -- aren't we supposed to be emotional wrecks? Surely it's derigueur in adolescence. I admit I'm a bit unstable myself, it being GCSE year. My ...
The last gasp of a diarist Simon Gray was once famed for louche living. But with a new play and volume of memoirs under way, he says he is more workaholic than bon viveur. His only vices are organic chocolate, rice pudding - and a mere 65 cigarettes a day
Mar 06, 2005; ... Simon Gray wakes every day at 1pm and breakfasts on a little ricepudding. He has a look at the papers, checks the cricket scores andpootles round Holland Park, west London, until 7pm, when he and hiswife, Victoria, go to a play or a restaurant with friends. Back homeat midnight, he might ...
Adventures of a Cape crusader He talked John Lennon into print, discovered John Fowles and was accused of having an affair with Meryl Streep. Tom Maschler gives chapter and verse on his colourful literary life
Mar 06, 2005; ... The letter came from James Kinross, a small literary agency. Themessage was brief: ``I am sending you a book called The Collector byJohn Fowles. I hope you like it. I look forward to hearing.'' It wasleft to me to inform Mr Kinross that I not only liked the book butthe author was ...
In Sickness and in Health This simple tube saves thousands of lives
Mar 06, 2005; ... The Pope's tracheotomy may seem a straightforward solution to hisbreathing difficulties, but when first attempted for this purposeback in the 1950s, it marked a pivotal moment in medical history. The scene is the children's ward in Copenhagen's Blegdams Hospitalin the middle of ...
Back in Sixties heaven
Mar 06, 2005; ... After everything they've been through over the past 40 years, fromthose times in the Sixties when they were on top of a dreamworldalongside the Beatles and Beach Boys to the times when they weren't,it's fascinating simply to see David Crosby and Graham Nash walk outtogether onto the ...
His name is brilliance squared Lang Lang's LSO debut will help us decide if he's more poet of the piano than barnstorming virtuoso. He talks to Michael White
Mar 06, 2005; ... Little known to anyone except the staff, the Wigmore Hall has anupstairs practice room it keeps for musicians passing through the UKwith an hour or so to kill before the next plane and in need of apiano. So the chances are that while you're listening to Fred Bloggsdown below, you're ...
The old dilemma of style
Mar 06, 2005; ... Zurich Opera brought its production of Monteverdi'sL'incoronazione di Poppea to the Festival Hall on Thursday for aconcert performance conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. London hasdone well with this great opera recently. Late last year RenI Jacobsdirected it at the Barbican and perhaps ...
Ruskin in the land of the rising sun The Arts and Crafts movement had many imitators, but it was Japan that really took it to heart, as Aileen Reid discovers at a new V&A show
Mar 06, 2005; ... The Arts and Crafts movement has a bit of an image problem. Thinkof William Morris and what comes to mind? A fat, beardie man withdubious personal hygiene, cuckolded (in the comfort of his own home,no less) by his wife and the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Or thinkoak furniture, as ...
You may call me Sir
Mar 06, 2005; ... A 25th anniversary revival of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser, at theDuke of York's Theatre, finds it in excellent shape. Its emotionalimpact is undiminished, its entertainment value undimmed. Itcontinues to perch, precipitously but successfully, on a fine linebetween serious drama and ...
A fold in the fabric of space
Mar 06, 2005; ... Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse remarked, ``I am made upof everything that I have seen.'' A new exhibition at the RoyalAcademy, Matisse: His Art and His Textiles (until May 30), exploresjust one part of the spectrum of his visual experiences. Modest inscale, if not in ambition, ...
Scottish reeling
Mar 06, 2005; ... Swan Lake was already a twinkle in Matthew Bourne's eye when heand the seven dancers of Adventures in Motion Pictures set to work onHighland Fling which had its premiere at Sadler's Wells's tiny LilianBaylis Theatre in 1994. The current revival tour by Bourne's NewAdventures returned to ...
All in the name of science
Mar 06, 2005; ... Despite his obsession with dredging, sorting and codifying themysterious matter of sex, Dr Alfred C. Kinsey (played here by LiamNeeson) only came to the act itself at the age of 25, when he marriedhis wife Clara (Laura Linney). His gauche attempt to consummate themarriage, as depicted in ...
How to get the girl
Mar 06, 2005; ... Hitch (12A) Will Smith plays Alex Hitchens, Manhattan's premier ``datedoctor''. For a not-so-small fee, this suave man-about-town instructsclueless chaps in how to get the girls of their dreams, right fromfirst meeting to last underwear clasp. It's testimony to Smith'stalent that ...
It's payback time
Mar 06, 2005; ... Giles Wemmbley Hogg has reached the end of the road (GilesWemmbley Hogg Goes Off, Radio 4, Tuesday). As he told us: ``I'vetried being a chalet girl. I've rebuilt the Great Wall of China formy Duke of Edinburgh's Award. I've found myself, and my rucksack, inThailand and been fishing in ...
A cleavage ever so slightly artificial cleavageanging cleavage please
Mar 06, 2005; ... Eighteen months ago I had the pleasure of interviewing the actressand ``possessor of the world's most famous cleavage'', PamelaAnderson. Rather unexpectedly, we spent most of the interviewdiscussing the Bible. For reasons that were never entirely clear, shehad decided to read the entire ...
Pope, Pole and philosopher These reflections show John Paul II to be haunted by totalitarianism, evil and the country of his birth, says Damian Thompson
Mar 06, 2005; ... GEORGE WEIDENFELD is a man who, famously, does not take no for ananswer, and somehow he has managed to coax a final sliver ofautobiography out of his friend the Pope. Memory and Identity may notquite live up to its billing as ``a truly historic work that leavesfor posterity the ...
The cheery pessimist Alain de Botton salutes Schopenhauer's ability to make us feel better by pointing out the worst
Mar 06, 2005; ... IF SCHOPENHAUER still merits our attention today, 144 years afterhis death, it is because few writers have ever matched the depths orelegance of his pessimism. Even among German philosophers, ArthurSchopenhauer stands out as an icon of despair. His motto was: ``It'sbad today, and it will ...
She couldn't say 'No' Men, women, unmemorable films - Tallulah Bankhead was omnivorous, says Gerald Kaufman
Mar 06, 2005; ... TALLULAH BANKHEAD's greatest asset was her name - Tallulah. Shewas distinctively attractive, with prominent cheekbones and a huskyvoice, and drew crowds to the often creaky theatrical vehicles inwhich she starred for eight years in London and then on Broadway. Shedied a millionairess, ...
This Literary Life
Mar 06, 2005; ... THIRTY million copies of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionaryhave been sold since it was first published in 1948. That averagesout to one copy sold every minute and is now the UK's biggest bookexport. The dictionary was originally published in Japan in 1942 asthe ``Idiomatic and ...
Germany's terrible twins The Kaiser's dictatorial warlords have much to answer for, says Christopher Clark
Mar 06, 2005; ... FIELD MARSHAL Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich von Ludendorffpersonified the fortunes of First World War Germany. They were theauthors of the momentous victory at Tannenberg in August 1914, whenGerman forces on the eastern front shattered the invading Russianarmies and drove a ...
The queen of British hearts Boudica led a small East Anglian tribe; it was later generations who made her into a legend, says John Adamson
Mar 06, 2005; ... OF ALL VICTORIAN England's public icons of womanhood, perhaps noneis more arresting than the vast bronze sculptural group of Boadiceain her war-chariot which adorns the Thames Embankment by the approachto Westminster Bridge. Begun in 1856 by Thomas Thornycroft (1816-85), the sculpture of ...
Bard of the boulevards Jonathan Bate looks at how Shakespeare overturned national stereotypes to conquer France
Mar 06, 2005; ... THE FRENCH have always cared more for the authority of traditionthan have the empirical English. That is one reason why they undergorevolutions - political and cultural - while we muddle happilythrough with evolution, surprising ourselves with our social mobilityand cultural ...
England, Israel and me Jessica Mann on how a liberal atheist came to embrace being Jewish Continuing our series, we look at the story behind Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Mar 06, 2005; ... JONATHAN FREEDLAND quotes an ``eleventh commandment'': one shouldgo on being Jewish to spite those who tried to erase Judaism from theface of the Earth. For many people, that depressingly negative motiveis the only justification left for claiming an identity that has lostother ...
TITLE DEED
Mar 06, 2005; ... MOBY-DICK was a real whale. In the 19th century sailors were inthe habit of giving names to individual whales who were particularlydangerous or unkillable; among them were ``Timor Jack'' and ``NewZealand Tom''. One of the most famous was ``Mocha Dick'', named afterthe island of Mocha off ...
Brains in the Bronx George Walden on the latest novel by a writer shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize
Mar 06, 2005; ... THIS IS AN unusual and intriguing novel by Cynthia Ozick, whofeatures on the International Man Booker shortlist. We are used tostories about immigrant America in the Twenties and Thirties,normally of the down-and-out makes good variety. We are lessaccustomed to following the domestic ...
Deep waters run fast This pacy novel is a near-perfect marriage of style and content, says David Robson
Mar 06, 2005; ... THIS IS the novel that Tim Parks was born to write. He sets a paceas a narrator which none of his contemporaries can match, driving hisstories forward at helter-skelter speed, capturing the complexity ofeveryday life through the quicksilver brilliance of his writing.Rapidity is his ...
In search of chillier climes Mark Sanderson enjoys this quest to find the mythical frozen land of Thule
Mar 06, 2005; ... ULTIMA THULE, like Jonathan Swift's Laputa, is an island that doesnot exist. However, this has not stopped countless explorers anddreamers searching for it. Supposedly the northernmost point of theknown world, a land of endless night in winter and perpetual day insummer, Thule is an icy ...
Paperbacks
Mar 06, 2005; ... Swimming with My Father: A Memoir by Tim Jeal Faber, pounds 7.99 TIM JEAL's 1950s middle-class childhood, brutal prep school andall, was conventional enough for its time, as were the classprejudices of his well-born mother's family. But his father was a one-off, a mystically ...
Paperbacks
Mar 06, 2005; ... Eve Green by Susan Fletcher Harper Perennial, pounds 7.99 THE SUDDEN death of her mother not only devastates eight-year-oldEvie, who is packed off from her home in Birmingham to a remote farmin Wales, but leaves her head spinning with riddles. Why do adultsnever tell the ...
Dance
Mar 06, 2005; ... Nihon Buyo Peacock Theatre, London WC2, 0870 737 0337, Fri, Sat:British debut of the company specialising in this 1,300-year-oldJapanese dance tradition. Peter Schaufuss Palace Theatre, Manchester, 0870 401 3000, Tue-Sat: Diana the Ballet, the life and death of the late Princess ...
Concerts
Mar 06, 2005; ... Queen Elizabeth Hall, 0870 382 8000, today, 3.30pm: pianistCristina Ortiz plays Villa-Lobos, Schumann, Ravel and Brahms. The Sage Gateshead, 0870 703 4555, Hall 2: today, 3pm; Thur,7.30pm; next Sun, 3pm: the Lindsays complete their Tippett quartetcycle with Nos 3, 4 and ...
Cinema
Mar 06, 2005; ... Hotel Rwanda (12A). Don Cheadle stars in Terry George's true storyof Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu hotelier with a Tutsi wife (SophieOkonedo), who at the height of the Rwandan killing frenzy in 1994managed to save the lives of more than 1,200 Tutsi and Hutu refugees.George evokes a jumpy, ...
Theatre
Mar 06, 2005; ... Tynan Arts Theatre, 020 7836 3334, to March 26. Corin Redgravetakes on the life of Kenneth Tynan in a monologue based on thecritic's diaries, which he considered his best work. Adam Bede, Orange Tree, Richmond, 020 8940 3633, to April ...
Opera
Mar 06, 2005; ... Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Wagner's Die Walkre (Wed 5, Sat 4)conducted by Antonio Pappano, with Bryn Terfel as Wotan and LisaGasteen as Brnnhilde. ENO Coliseum 020 7632 8300. Rossini's Barber of Seville (tmw,Wed), last perf of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito (Tue), Bernstein's ...
Rock
Mar 06, 2005; ... Camden Crawl, 0871 222 1049. Over 25 up-and-coming bands in nineCamden venues in one evening, including the Departure, Magic Numbers,Nine Black Alps and The Go! Team. Embrace. The `Coldplay effect' helped reboot their career, butthese melancholists have about two months left before ...
Art
Mar 06, 2005; ... Caravaggio: The Final Years, National Gallery, London WC2, 0207747 2885, to May 22. Fifteen highly charged paintings. August Strindberg, Tate Modern, London SE1, 020 7887 8888, to May15. Paintings, photographs and illustrated manuscripts by the Swedishpolymath better known for his ...
DVDs
Mar 06, 2005; ... Being Julia (Columbia TriStar, 12, to rent on DVD). Adapted byRonald Harwood from a Somerset Maugham novella, this tribute to theLondon stage is a showcase for Hollywood actress Annette Bening, whocamps it up in RADA tones. Enjoyably directed by Hungary's IstvAnSzabS. De-Lovely ...
The Witches at Wyndhams Theatre Opening this week
Mar 06, 2005; ... `In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and blackcloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale.This is about real witches.' Thus begins The Witches, Roald Dahl'smasterfully savage story about a secret coven of hags who hatechildren with `a red-hot ...
Classical CDs
Mar 06, 2005; ... Elgar/Walker: Piano Concerto & other works Norris, BBC Singers &Concert Orch./ Lloyd-Jones (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7148, pounds 11.99).Since most of us have accepted Anthony Payne's performing version ofElgar's Third Symphony, there can be no valid ethical reason why weshould not accept ...
Rock CDs
Mar 06, 2005; ... Rufus Wainwright: Want Two (Dreamworks, pounds 10.99). Want Twois like some Rococo masterpiece that Brian Sewell has just beenraving about, and you're standing there scratching your chinthinking, `Yes, well I can quite see why it's a work of genius whichI really ought to like if only I ...
TIME TO PLAN YOUR NEST EGG House purchases could be put straight into a tax-free personal pension under proposed new rules. Caroline McGhie looks at where the best investments are to be found
Mar 06, 2005; ... The temperature is below zero and the Royal Docks in London,plastered with posters advertising yet-to-be-built flats, look likeone large, godforsaken building site. Mortgage-lending has slumped,property prices have flattened, so how many people will show up for aproperty seminar telling ...
Word on the Street
Mar 06, 2005; ... `A towering monument to wealth and excess,'' was the kindestdescription that one reporter could give to Updown Court, theBerkshire mansion which, with an asking price of pounds 70 million,has just been labelled as Britain's most expensive house. Many mightprefer the term ``ghastly'' ....
An estate of grace This new country house in Dorset enjoyed an unexpectedly smooth passage through the planning process. Its owner tells Jonny Beardsall why, having risked all to build it, he is now selling up
Mar 06, 2005; ... Where once there were two pebble-dash 1950s cottages and aderelict hilltop dairy, now there is Nettlecombe House. Finished twoyears ago and already for sale, the ravishing seven-bedroom pile isan unlikely addition to the Dorset Downs skyline. For in a climate inwhich such ``starter ...
We're looking for... a place in Pembrokeshire
Mar 06, 2005; ... ANGLE West Pill The glorious views from this former farmhouse take in Angle Bayand the mouth of the busy Milford Haven waterway. The property has a28ft first-floor drawing-room, a dining-room, three bedrooms and twobathrooms. A track leads down to a shingle beach, and a sandy bay ...