The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from October 2005:
Goodbye to the nine-to-five; Four days in the country. Three days in town. How workers are beating travel chaos
Oct 02, 2005; ... From the family home in ...7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am7:00am This man, fed up with the chaos on our trains, now lives far fromLondon but keeps a pied--terre for his three days in town. More andmore of us are following suit, writes ...
The Ex-cakemaker Who Aims To Cook Schrder's Goose
Oct 02, 2005; ... ANGELA MERKEL'S chances of becoming Germany's first womanChancellor will hinge on the persuasive powers of a former cakemakerwhen voters in the eastern city of Dresden go to the polls today. The bearded and bespectacled Andreas Lmmel has been unexpectedlythrust into the national ...
Brunt Has Last Word
Oct 02, 2005; ... Sheff Wed 3 Coventry 2 THINGS AREN'T as bad as they look, the locals insisted, and on theevidence of this match they might be right. The trouble is that while Wednesday are back in the same divisionas their neighbours, United are undeniably the first among equals,but ...
Smertin adopts novel approach; The Russian, on loan from Chelsea, is revelling in Alan Curbishley's Charlton regime, writes Duncan White
Oct 02, 2005; ... What remedy for England's creative indigestion and chronicconfidence deficiency? Simple, says Alexei Smertin, give Sven-GoranEriksson's side a healthy dose of Danny Murphy. Tord Grip, Eriksson's assistant, has hinted that Murphy may berecalled to freshen up a stodgy midfield ....
Selection Of Mears Favours Skill Over Bulk
Oct 02, 2005; ... Of all the new faces announced by England coach Andy Robinson thisweek, Lee Mears, the Bath hooker, has the best chance of getting onto the pitch when England lock horns with Australia, New Zealand andSamoa in November. Two reasons for that. One: Mears is one of onlytwo hookers in ...
Python with the last laugh Eric Idle claims he turned to comedy 'just to get close to girls'. It still works: now that he's got a Broadway hit on his hands, he's regularly pursued by female fans in the skimpiest of red underwear. Catherine Shoard finds the ex- Python high on his own success
Oct 02, 2005; ... Eric Idle stretches back in his seat like an enormous cat. He sipsa frappuccino the exact same shade as his California-kissed skin andsleepily eyes up an actress at the next table. He strokes his silverOm ring - one of six he's wearing today - and beams. He findshimself, he says, in what ...
And another thing... Just now, my concerns seem utterly poultry
Oct 02, 2005; ... I was going to have a crack at the Government this week butheckling, even from this distance, seems a dangerous activity so, asa tribute to my cowardice, this week I bring you - chicken news. Theworld's chicken population is more than double the human population,yet how often do they get ...
A curious incident of doggerel Mark Haddon's prize-winning novel about a young detective with Asperger's has sold more than 10 million copies. Now, at last, he can afford to return to his first love ...
Oct 02, 2005; ... I started writing poems at university. As people do. They wererubbish. As they usually are. Unfortunately The Literary Reviewpublished one. It was woolly pastoral nonsense. Not quite ''Hellotrees, hello sky'', but in the same ballpark. This encouraged me tochurn out a lot more of the ...
A modicum of wit can sugar the pill In Sickness and in Health
Oct 02, 2005; ... Alan Bennett, chronicler of our age, has been talking this weekabout his bowel tumour, diagnosed back in 1997 (but kept secret"because I did not want to die in the pages of a newspaper''). Heremarked that "cancer, like any other illness, is a bore''. His friend Dr Jonathan Miller, ...
It's doggy paddle and Thai massage My Regime
Oct 02, 2005; ... Although I am not very sporty, I love to swim, and go swimmingfour times a week. I used to swim locally in Islington but the poolbecame too crowded - all those kids drove me mad - so now I use apool in a West End hotel where I am often the only person there. I do a sort of ...
Too scared to stop Oscar Humphries gave up drinking only to become addicted to smoking - and try as he might, this time he's really hooked. Still, he writes, at least he's stopped screaming at strangers
Oct 02, 2005; ... It's been two days since my last cigarette and the euphoria ofquitting has evolved, sluggishly, into the anxiety and emotionalitchiness of withdrawal. A Bangkok airport smoking area seemed asgood a place as any to contemplate my addiction. It was three in themorning, humid, and I was ...
A villain all his life? Fagin is traditionally played as a hook- nosed grotesque. Sir Ben Kingsley tells John Sutherland how he deals with the problem
Oct 02, 2005; ... Oliver Twist, like Don Quixote, is a novel which more people knowthan have ever read. "Please, sir, I want some more'' is, like themad hidalgo tilting at windmills, folkloric. You don't have to haveread the book to recognise that it expresses something fundamentalabout the human ...
Straight to the heart of it In a new television series Andrew Graham- Dixon proclaims the vital importance of drawing - not just for artists but in almost every aspect of our daily lives
Oct 02, 2005; ... Drawing has what spin doctors call an image problem. This iscompounded by the fact that its most fervent apologists, those wholament the modern artist's apparently declining standards indraughtsmanship most vocally and melancholically, tend to occupy theextreme right wing of contemporary ...
'The Matrix' on the streets of Moscow A low-budget sci-fi film hailed by Tarantino as 'extraordinary' is about to go on world-wide release. Its director talks to Lee Marshall
Oct 02, 2005; ... Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch is a delirious but hugelyenjoyable fantasy movie, a Russian Matrix, that takes on Hollywoodand beats it at its own game. Made for just over pounds 2 million,it took $6 million on its opening weekend in Russia in July 2004, andwent on to gross pounds 16 ...
Other films
Oct 02, 2005; ... Four Brothers (15) "They came to bury their mother. And her killer.'' There'ssomething irresistible about a tagline like that, so direct in itsmix of a high moral tone and a wildly immoral plotline. The latestrung on the ladder to career hell for John Singleton (Boyz N theHood, 2 ...
The beast that lurks in us all
Oct 02, 2005; ... Cinema A History of Violence Goal! There's a peculiarly American quality of disturbance to the firstscenes of David Cronenberg's new film, like the soft fizz of arotting apple pie. They ooze the kind of transient menace onlyavailable to a vast nation: A History of ...
All that glisters is not gold
Oct 02, 2005; ... Music Cardillac LSO: Kullervo Few major composers have a less cuddly reputation than PaulHindemith (1895-1963), whose lack of hold on the affections of themusical public is as easy to understand as it is disappointing. Afigure who emerged in the world of German ...
Me and my misery
Oct 02, 2005; ... Art Munch by Himself The Royal Academy's principal autumn exhibition, Munch by Himself,consists of a mass of self-portraits by the most famous and mostoverrated of Norwegian painters, set afloat in a bath of lukewarmrhetoric. "With his abiding interest in self-analysis, Munch ...
Doing Dylan
Oct 02, 2005; ... Pop Dylan Tribute Dylan is hot again, for a while. Before everyone gets sick (again)of Bob Dylan, after the Martin Scorsese's Arena documentary hasgranted him some time in the sun, his songs, and his myth, get alittle rehearsal for what's going to happen when he enters ...
Minced words Radio
Oct 02, 2005; ... In a moment of strange good sense, the old atheist Bertolt Brechtobserved: "although the purely biological death of the individual isof no interest to society, dying ought nevertheless to be taught.''What kind of lessons he had in mind, I do not know. And with so manymore pressing ...
Learn to be cool Television
Oct 02, 2005; ... One of the problems with television is that you can never be surewhich lie to believe. Is it the one you're being told, or the otherone you can hear scratching away behind the wainscotting? In RockSchool (Friday, Channel 4), former Kiss front-man, Gene Simmons, wentto Christ's Hospital ...
Is it poetry or is it a bus? Tom Fort finds this paean to a public- service vehicle taking a circuitous route
Oct 02, 2005; ... HOW WE LOVE to mythologise our past, that indistinct, sunlit placewhere boys read the Eagle and stuck in stamps, male teachers wereschoolmasters and threw chalk, where every village had a bakery and abutcher's, where bus conductors wore caps tilted back and friendlygrins and always had ...
Lonely hearts' club band of one Before John and Yoko it was John and Cynthia: Melissa Katsoulis on the travails of the first Mrs Lennon
Oct 02, 2005; ... DO WE NEED another book about the Beatles? Perhaps not, butCynthia Lennon obviously does, for in John she is quick to thank herbusiness manager "for planting the seed of the book''. After herprevious attempt, A Twist of Lennon, failed to dish any dirt or makeany money, she has now put ...
A dedicated hedonist Duff Cooper was the consummate diplomat - except in his love life, says Selina Hastings
Oct 02, 2005; ... IT WAS ONE of the Mitford sisters who memorably remarked that therudest men in England were Randolph Churchill, Evelyn Waugh and DuffCooper, all three notorious for their red-faced rages fuelled byquantities of alcohol. Waugh took a particularly fiendish delight inprovoking "cad ...
Death-defying thrills Toby Harnden on the war cameramen who found the risk of death the spice of life
Oct 02, 2005; ... REMEMBER THOSE eerie images of a US Army Bradley tank burningafter a direct hit from an Iraqi missile, that were filmed throughnight vision goggles from a nearby vehicle? It was the only genuinejournalistic combat footage of the 1991 Gulf War. To get it, Vaughan Smith, a former ...
The Literary Life
Oct 02, 2005; ... THE SEEMINGLY unstoppable rise of book clubs across the nation hasmet a formidable opponent in the form of Howard Jacobson. The sharp-tongued novelist recently declared that the motivation behind women'sreading groups was not a love of literature (or even conviviality anda glass of wine) ...
Too many detours A celebrated London walker is less than sure-footed when following the poet John Clare, finds Neil Powell
Oct 02, 2005; ... ENGLISH WRITERS have always been captivated by roads. Literarytravellers such as Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett and J.B. Priestleyturned their journals into memorable books; novelists from HenryFielding in Joseph Andrews onwards used the road (and its strangeencounters) to shape their ...
Broken promised land Noel Malcolm on Simon Schama's account of the plantation slaves who became British soldiers
Oct 02, 2005; ... FIND AN American with a smattering of knowledge about the AmericanRevolution, mention the term "Loyalist'', and ask what it conjuresup. The answer will probably include high-born reactionaries; pettyplace-holders; and those who lacked either the stomach for a fight,or the principles to ...
TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front
Oct 02, 2005; ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE's Im Westen nichts Neues - "Nothing New inthe West'' - was given its English title by Herbert Read, his Englisheditor. As Read wrote to Remarque in 1929: "[We] had a discussion ...and we came to the conclusion that 'All Quiet on the Western Front'was not so bad ... I ...
Cunning linguistics Aileen Reid is charmed by this compendium of funny foreign words
Oct 02, 2005; ... NOT LONG ago The Daily Telegraph ran a column which told youthings such as the word for a fear of being tickled by feathers(pteronophobia), or offered a diagram of "How to Wrap a Sari''. Inbook form Schott's Original Miscellany and its culinary and sportingoffspring have sold more than a ...
Crime
Oct 02, 2005; ... MINETTE WALTERS creates a sense of palpable menace in her novels.The Devil's Feather (Macmillan, pounds 17.99) begins in Freetown,Sierra Leone, where several women have been brutally murdered. Alocal man is accused, but Connie Burns, a war correspondent, suspectsa British mercenary with ...
Please yourself then
Oct 02, 2005; ... ARNOLD WESKER is not your usual "old man with a book in him'': heis 73 and has written 45 plays but this is his first novel and he hasbeen wanting to write it for a long time. Honey tells the story of Beatie Bryant, the heroine of Roots, hisplay about "self discovery'' which was ...
The bad boy's sensitive side Bret Easton Ellis's new novel finds room for parenthood alongside guts and depravity, says Christopher Cleave
Oct 02, 2005; ... IN THE SOLAR system of modern literature Bret Easton Ellis is thedelinquent moon, a dark satellite whose appearance in the night skyis a portent greeted with wailing, trepidation and the locking-up oflivestock. And after six silent years, he's back. Ever since the sexy, burned-out ...
Paperbacks
Oct 02, 2005; ... The Strange Death of Tory England by Geoffrey Wheatcroft Penguin, pounds 8.99 HOW IS it, asks Geoffrey Wheatcroft, that the party which had heldpower for the best part of the 20th century now finds itself with solittle popular support? What went wrong? One obvious villain ...
Paperbacks
Oct 02, 2005; ... Seven Types of Ambiguity Elliot Perlman Faber, pounds 7.99 THE TITLE, of course, is pinched from William Empson; and when adog called Empson puts in an early appearance, one braces oneself foran avalanche of clever-clever literary references. Instead, althoughthe novel is ...
Zeus with plasma blasts
Oct 02, 2005; ... "WHAT'S OLDEST is most valuable'', declared Aristotle - but evenas the philosopher made this assertion, Greek poets were giving up onthe ancient gods. Epic and tragedy had begun to wither; a new era,characterised by mock heroic and scholarly commentary, was dawning.Intellectuals in ...
Hold 'em, game of choice
Oct 02, 2005; ... Sometimes I flick on the tube, and shake my head in ponderousastonishment to see poker. It wasn't many years ago that seeing agame on TV was rare, and when you did, it was usually part of a moviewhere the actors wagered unrealistically, using plastic chips that Ihaven't seen in a serious ...
Opening this week Richard II
Oct 02, 2005; ... Trevor Nunn's production of Richard II opens on Tuesday at the OldVic Theatre (to Nov 26, tickets 0870 060 6628) and the real crowd-puller here will be the theatre's artistic director, Kevin Spacey(above), who has never done Shakespeare before, playing theoverthrown monarch. Shakespeare ...
Rock
Oct 02, 2005; ... The Subways Engaged pairing Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper arefast becoming the Posh and Becks of Nirvana-inspired Britrock.Bournemouth Old Fire Station Tues, 0871 220 0260; London Astoria Wed,0871 220 0260; Colchester University of Essex Thur, 01206 863 236;Stoke Keele University Sat, ...
Art
Oct 02, 2005; ... The Twentieth Century, Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street,London W1, 020 7629 5116, to Oct 22. Works by most of the big namesin 20th-century British painting, such as Graham Sutherland, EricRavilious and Ben Nicholson, are on sale. Cornelia Parker, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, ...
Cinema
Oct 02, 2005; ... Howl's Moving Castle (U). From Hayao Miyazaki, the director of theOscar-winning animation Spirited Away (2001), comes this adaptationof the Diana Wynne Jones children's novel. The English version (it isalso made in Japanese) is voiced by an internationally stellar cast.Sophie (Emily ...
Concerts
Oct 02, 2005; ... Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 0870 160 2515. The tenor GiuseppeSabbatini gives a recital (tonight); the Orchestra of the Age ofEnlightenment begins its Listening in Paris series with MarcMinkowski conducting Anne Sofie von Otter in Berlioz, plus Faur andBeethoven (Wed); the South Bank ...
Theatre
Oct 02, 2005; ... Nathan the Wise Hampstead Theatre, 020 7722 9301, to Oct 15. Gotthold Lessing's play is the satisfying tale of a clever, kind Jewliving in Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. So good a humanbeing is he that he wins the love and admiration of an anti-semiticKnight Templar and Saladin, ...
Dance
Oct 02, 2005; ... Birmingham Royal Ballet 0870 730 1234, Wed to Fri. David Bintley'scompany unveils its latest triple bill: Kenneth MacMillan'sSolitaire; John Cranko's The Lady and the Fool and a welcome revivalof Ninette de Valois's clever and combative 1937 piece Checkmatescored by Arthur ...
Opera
Oct 02, 2005; ... Royal Opera House, London, 020 7304 4000. Wagner's Ring cyclecontinues with Keith Warner's new production of Siegfried, with LisaGasteen, John Treleaven and John Tomlinson conducted by AntonioPappano (today at 3pm, and Fri); Michael Schnwandt conducts DavidPountney's production of ...
DVDs
Oct 02, 2005; ... Amen (Path, PG, DVD, pounds 15.99). Costa-Gavras's engrossingfilm of the controversial Rolf Hochhuth play The Representative,based on the true story of an SS officer (Ulrich Tukur) and aCatholic priest (Mathieu Kassovitz) who tried in vain to alert theVatican to the ...
Classical CDs
Oct 02, 2005; ... Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Bell, Berlin PO/ Tilson Thomas (SonyClassical SH 94829, pounds 13.99). Do we need more recordings ofthis concerto? When they are as good as this, the answer can only bean emphatic yes. Recorded live in Berlin last January, Joshua Bell'sperformance is ...
Rock CDs
Oct 02, 2005; ... Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino, pounds13.99) With several decades of collective experience at the lower end ofthe indie-rock food-chain between them, glam/disco archdukes FranzFerdinand have access to a huge database of the pitfalls to beavoided by ...
Yes, there's still life in buy-to-let
Oct 02, 2005; ... A landlord dipping his toe into today's buy-to-let market is abrave investor indeed. House prices are slipping. According toHometrack, they dropped by 0.2 per cent in September, to an annualrate of 1.8 per cent growth, the lowest since May 1996. The boom ofthe past 10 years, when even a ...
The house with 10 extensions It started as a tiny farmhouse, but then just grew and grew. Is this piecemeal approach to planning clumsy - or canny? Cheryl Markosky investigates
Oct 02, 2005; ... Mark Lilly's brick-and-tile house in the village of Sandhurst,Kent, would be unremarkable but for all the changes it has seen.Built in 1988, Boxhurst Farm has been extended no fewer than 10 times- or roughly once every one-and-a-half years. There was the conservatory added in 1995 ...
On the Level A sickening sales pitch
Oct 02, 2005; ... Arecent report from the Royal Commission on EnvironmentalPollution has focused attention once more on the excessive - andsometimes reckless - use of chemical pesticides. For years thechemical industry has insisted that pesticides are safe, and hasrefused to countenance the possibility ...
Par for the course? Ask Jeff
Oct 02, 2005; ... Two years ago I had my drive block-paved. The builder raised thedrive level to within one brick of the damp-proof course. Am I likelyto have problems later? FC, Nottingham Jeff replies External ground surfaces are supposed to be kept atleast 150mm (6in - or two ...
My Property Nightmare The rain in Spain
Oct 02, 2005 ... Two years ago, Andy and Sue Le Cornu decided to move from Jerseyto Spain with Sue's parents. But far from escaping from it all, thecouple hit a string of costly hurdles, writes Cheryl Markosky. The couple were not new to buying in Spain. Three years earlier,they had bought a ...
GARDEN SOLUTIONS Taking roots
Oct 02, 2005; ... It's one thing arriving at your new house to find that theprevious owners have done the dirty and removed every working lightbulb, but is it acceptable for sellers to take garden plants andtrees when they move? Just how mean-spirited is it to uproot yourtreasures and take them with you? ...
Garden Notebook
Oct 02, 2005 ... BOOK OF THE WEEK Lift your spirits in anticipation of the treats to come in thegarden next year with Gardening with Tulips, by Michael King (FrancesLincoln, pounds 25). King, who lives in Amsterdam, writes of theflower's history, suggests ideal companion plants, lists his top ...
URBAN GARDENER Autumn purples
Oct 02, 2005; ... Red, orange and yellow are the most obvious colours of autumn, butthere is always a fair amount of purple in the garden at this time ofyear. I don't just mean the dahlias, hebes, salvias, eupatoriums andoccasional morning glory bloom still hanging on from summer, butplants for which ...
Hancock faces axe as MFI admits bank covenants may be breached
Oct 02, 2005; ... JOHN Hancock, the chief executive of MFI, will this week befighting to keep his job, after he discloses on Monday that thefurniture group is close to breaching the covenants on itsborrowings. Sales at the group's famous UK furniture chain have collapsed overthe past few weeks, ...
Billion pound sweetener for Boots shareholders Merger with Alliance Unichem to create pounds 7bn pharmacy giant is clinched in late- night talks
Oct 02, 2005; ... BOOTS, the high-street retailer, is preparing to hand pounds 1bnin cash to its shareholders as part of its pounds 7bn merger withrival Alliance Unichem. The bumper payout, from the sale of its healthcare arm, is ineffect a sweetener for shareholders as part of the bold deal, ...
Market predicts pounds 1.7bn payments to Parmalat
Oct 02, 2005; ... PARMALAT, the Italian dairy group that collapsed two years agofollowing the discovery of a euros14bn ( pounds 9.5bn) accountingblack hole, is poised to relist this week with a likely value ofaround euros5bn. Only around half of that valuation is accounted for by its dairyand ...
Evans urges contacts to 'say something nice'
Oct 02, 2005; ... SIR Christopher Evans, the biotechnology entrepreneur and anadviser to Tony Blair, has written to his business contacts askingthem "to say something 'nice' about me to anyone''. The request, made in an e-mailed letter sent last week, followsrevelations that his investment fund, ...
Bollor ups the ante in pounds 1.5bn Aegis battle
Oct 02, 2005; ... VINCENT BOLLOR, the French financier, has taken his stake in Aegisto more than 11 per cent, making it much more difficult for a bidderto acquire the pounds 1.5bn British media planning and marketresearch group. Aegis is in preliminary merger talks with Publicis, the ...
Compass struggles to find a sense of direction The global giant is going back to its origins in contract catering after the latest in a stream of profit warnings. Its outgoing chief executive, Mike Bailey, explains why to Edward Simpkins
Oct 02, 2005; ... Compass, the world's largest catering company, announced recentlythat it would be reducing the amount of human antibiotics fed to thepigs that produce the pork it feeds to thousands of school children,executives and travellers. But it wasn't the revelations about what'son its plates that ...
Here's the plan, Stuart ...
Oct 02, 2005 ... PHILIP GREEN, the billionaire owner of BhS, the high-streetretailer, is pictured here with Stuart Rose, the chief executive ofMarks & Spencer, discussing the future of Oxford Street, writesSylvia Pfeifer. They were two of a group of leading retail bosses attending a freeparty ...
Footsie bosses' pay tops pounds 2m mark
Oct 02, 2005; ... THE chief executives of the UK's largest blue-chip companies aretypically paid more than pounds 2m a year, according to a newreport. The study by New Bridge Street, the executive pay consultants,shows that the remuneration of the "highest paid director'' (nearlyalways the chief ...
DAT seeking pounds 6m via deep discount issue
Oct 02, 2005; ... DAT GROUP, a technology business chaired by the financier JohnGunn, is attempting to raise pounds 6m in cash in a deeplydiscounted share placing after a disastrous collapse in the value ofthe company in the past three months. Late last week potential investors in DAT were ...