The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from October 2007:
Personally speaking Michael Holden Some of my best quotes come from builders
Oct 07, 2007; ... The great thing about epiphanies is that they tend to happen justin time. I was at Heathrow, en route to Stockholm, to work on astory about deodorants and brand identity - an assignment asexciting as it sounds - when I overheard a conversation that changedmy life. As I sat contemplating ...
THE CRITIC PUT ON A SPLENDID SHOW
Oct 07, 2007; ... I SAW HALF AN OPERA THE OTHER day. I had meant to see the wholething, but left in the interval over a pencil-related matter. It isoften the case that the harsh words of critics drive audiences awayfrom the theatre, but this was the first time a critic had caused meto wish there were an ...
FALL for a ...
Oct 07, 2007; ... FALL for a naughty Restoration comedy. Wycherley's The CountryWife tells the story of a rapacious man about town (Toby Stephens),who seduces women by pretending to be impotent. Theatre Royal,Haymarket; 0844 844 2353 DEVOUR a cornucopia of titbits in Taste: The Story of ...
into the light DAVID LACHAPELLE MADE HIS NAME WITH A COOL LINE IN CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHY. BUT HIS LATEST WORK IS JUST HEAVENLY.
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID LACHAPELLE DOESN'T GO IN for grittyrealism. His is a visionary, wholly artificial world. When he's onform, his candy-coloured, kitsch, anything-goes universe seduces,confuses, thrills and disturbs - often all at once. His pictures aresexy, cool and ironic, which ...
The wonderful wizard of ... Northampton COMICS ALAN MOORE, THE UNDISPUTED, ECCENTRIC KING OF COMIC-BOOK WRITING, MADE IT ACCEPTABLE FOR LITERARY-MINDED ADULTS TO ENJOY BOOKS ABOUT SUPERHEROES. WILL HIS NEW BOOK DO THE SAME FOR EROTICA? SUSANNA CLARKE, THE NOVELIST AND LONG-TIME MOORE DEVOTEE, SPEAKS TO HIM ABOUT SEX, MAGIC, AND WHY HE PREFERS HIS HOME TOWN TO HOLLYWOOD
Oct 07, 2007; ... I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturdayafternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of Watchmen, his graphicnovel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. I had alwaysbeen fascinated by comics but it had taken me several weeks to makeup my mind to buy Watchmen; ...
ALAN MOORE ON...
Oct 07, 2007 ... HIS HOME TOWN 'One of the reasons why I don't leave Northamptonis that the people don't treat me like a celebrity. I've been herefor years, I'm just that bloke with long hair.' HIS WORK 'People have asked me why I made the first chapter of myfirst novel so long, and in an invented ...
'DAMN RIGHT I GOT THE TALENT' BOOKS KEN FOLLETT - LABOUR'S ANSWER TO JEFFREY ARCHER - IS NEVER GOING TO WIN THE BOOKER AND IS PROUD OF NOT HAVING A KNIGHTHOOD. SO WHAT'S HIS MOTIVATION? HIS CHARACTERS, HE TELLS NIGEL FARNDALE, ARE DRIVEN BY 'AMBITION, GREED, SEX AND REVENGE'. IS HE TOO?
Oct 07, 2007; ... IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW KEN FOLLETT WAS A MULTI- millionaire novelist, whose books have sold, according to hispublishers, about 100 million copies, you could be forgiven forthinking him a second-hand car-dealer. It's to do with the handkerchief in thetop pocket, the shiny shoes, ...
lost to shrill vulgarity The Heartbreak Kid And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Heartbreak Kid (15) started life in 1972, as a bittersweetcomedy directed by Elaine May about a man who goes on honeymoon withhis new bride and promptly falls in love with another woman. Now theFarrelly brothers have got hold of the original and re-upholsteredit in showy ...
OTHER CINEMA The Kingdom Feast of Love Control Day Watch Hatchet
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Kingdom (15) Sack the bodyguards, scrap the armoured tank, donate thebulletproof vest to Oxfam. All are obsolete. The only way to avoidbeing peppered with gunfire in this Jamie Foxx vehicle is to beJamie Foxx. Or, if not exactly Jamie Foxx - co-stars Chris Cooper, ...
Out this week
Oct 07, 2007; ... TEN CANOES ????? Universal, 15, pounds 15.99 This is the first film spoken in the Australian aboriginals' ownlanguage and is set thousands of years ago. Directed by Rolf deHeer, ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
Oct 07, 2007; ... WATER ????? Metrodome, 15, pounds 17.99 Water concludes Indian director Deepa Mehta's trilogy aboutissues controversial in the subcontinent. Earth focused on thepartition, Fire on lesbianism. Water tackles the fate of widows,consigned to a house of confinement after their ...
Out this week
Oct 07, 2007; ... FLYBOYS ????? Fox Video, 15, pounds 14.99 The American fighter pilots who volunteered for France'sLafayette Escadrille air squadron in WWI deserve better treatmentthan director ...
Out this week
Oct 07, 2007; ... PARADISE LOST ????? Lions Gate, 18, pounds 15.99 Like Eli Roth's Hostel movies, this Western-backpackers- in-peril horror film, set in the Brazilian jungle, has polarisedopinion. Some laud it as a graphic expression of ...
Out this week
Oct 07, 2007; ... BELLISSIMA ????? Eureka, U, pounds 18.99 Made in 1951, this early film by Luchino Visconti was previouslyunavailable on DVD. It's about a casting search at Cinecitta for anew ...
A whale of a performance Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint
Oct 07, 2007; ... Matthew Barney is an American artist with a big reputation, whois known principally as the creator of a series of films entitledThe Cremaster Cycle. Of an unusually high technical quality, by thestandards of most artists' films, they have a cumulative runningtime of about seven hours, ...
ART CHOICE
Oct 07, 2007; ... Frieze Art Fair Regent's Park, London NW1 (020 7833 7270).Entrance off Park Square West, 11-14 October. The contemporary art event of the year, as 151 of the world's topgalleries show and sell work by more than 1,000 artists. Highlightsinclude the new, still-under-wraps Chapman ...
desperate juvenile Present Laughter Rhinoceros
Oct 07, 2007; ... I couldn't think of a more appropriate companion to take toPresent Laughter at the National than Rupert Everett. The actor, whoplays the headmistress in the forthcoming St Trinian's remake,jokingly texted me to say that he would be coming in drag. A line from Noel Coward's ...
OTHER THEATRE Moonlight & Magnolias The Masque of the Red Death
Oct 07, 2007; ... Moonlight & Magnolias Tricycle Theatre, London NW6 (020 7328 1000) to 3 November Ron Hutchinson's play Moonlight & Magnolias takes place in theoffice of the producer David O. Selznick on the day disaster struckon the filming of Gone with the Wind. Based on the ...
CDs
Oct 07, 2007; ... I've recently come round to seeing the point of Georgia's mostfamous export since Stalin. Before, I just thought, 'how bland andquintessentially Radio 2'. But if you're feeling a bit low, KatieMelua's relentless positivity - I particularly like her on globalwarming being nothing to worry ...
POP CHOICE
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Coral Nottingham Rock City (0870 310 0000) Mon; BristolAcademy (0870 771 2000) Tues; London Roundhouse (0870 389 1846)Thurs; ...
CD of the month Out this week dictionary of desire
Oct 07, 2007; ... THERE'S SOMETHING FAINTLY DISTURBING about the crimson cloth-covered packaging of the deluxe three-CD Bob Dylan compilation. Itlooks like the kind of box that might contain some tacky touristtrinkets, but the warning letters 'DYLAN' are stamped on it withdense, chunky typographic force, ...
don't shoot the pianist P. J. Harvey
Oct 07, 2007; ... When rock stars talk about 'reinventing the wheel', theygenerally have nothing more fundamental in mind than a change ofproducer, or perhaps letting the drummer sing on an album track. P.J. Harvey eschews such miserly half-measures. Having sensed herselfgetting into a bit of a rut, this ...
A LITTLE GIANT MUSIC LONDON'S WIGMORE HALL MAY BE SMALL, BUT ITS REPUTATION IS HUGE - AS ARE ITS AUDIENCES. JOHN ALLISON TALKS TO ITS DIRECTOR, JOHN GILHOOLY, ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CONCERT VENUE
Oct 07, 2007; ... It's early afternoon when we meet, and the normally unflappabledirector of London's Wigmore Hall, John Gilhooly, is still relivingthe nerve-wracking scenario of that day's lunch-time concert. Theprogramme of Berg and Brahms had been given - very successfully - bypianist Lars Vogt, but he ...
DVDs Out this week
Oct 07, 2007; ... WAGNER: DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN ????? Tomlinson, Evans, Jerusalem, Secunde, Elming, Meier, Kang, Clark,Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Barenboim Warner Classics (7DVDs), pounds 57.50 Harry Kupfer's production of The Ring, filmed at the BayreuthFestivals in 1991 and ...
Another casualty Carmen La Cenerentola London Sinfonietta/Diego Masson
Oct 07, 2007; ... It pains me to say this of a beleaguered company, but EnglishNational Opera has stumbled once more with the most basic repertory.Significant successes such as Glass's Satyagraha and Britten's Deathin Venice have been very welcome, but the true test of any companyis its ability to do ...
Anyone for poker? Edward II Hofesh Shechter
Oct 07, 2007; ... Ballets don't have to carry a U certificate, but Birmingham RoyalBallet's Edward II is hardly standard matinee fare. None the less,undeterred (or maybe even attracted) by warnings of 'violent andsexually explicit scenes', Birmingham's balletgoers were out inforce last Thursday afternoon ...
twaddle, but fun The Tudors The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle Stephen Fry: HIV and Me
Oct 07, 2007; ... Any suggestion that The Tudors (Friday, BBC2) was going to besquarely chiselled from the rock of history disappeared within thefirst couple of minutes. The series, we learnt, had been 'created'by Michael Hirst. Created? But surely the Tudors did thatthemselves? Not here they didn't. At ...
LANGUAGE HUMANS DON'T LEARN HOW TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF FLIRTATION, BRIBERY AND PROFANITY, FINDS WILLIAM LEITH, THEY ARE ALREADY PRIMED
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Stuff of ThoughtLanguage as a Window into Human Behaviour BY STEVEN PINKER ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 499 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Steven Pinker is a 53-year-old professor of psychology atHarvard, and this, his seventh book, is ...
POLITICS THERE IS NO OPINION THAT CAN'T BE SILENCED, SAYS ALASDAIR PALMER
Oct 07, 2007; ... Freedom's Frontier: Censorship in Modern Britian BY DONALD THOMAS JOHN MURRAY, pounds 30, 400 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The most prominent theme of this riveting history of the BritishGovernment's attempts to suppress free expression is ...
NATURE JEREMY SEAL DISCOVERS HOW A GREAT NATURALIST LOST HIS HEART TO A TREE
Oct 07, 2007; ... Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees BY RICHARD MABEY CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 20, 273 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 If environmental awareness means we perceive our surroundingsanew, then nothing can have lately changed quite like ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'The inspector general' by nikolai gogol
Oct 07, 2007; ... The idea for The Inspector General was supplied to Nikolai Gogolby his friend Alexander Pushkin. In 1835 Gogol importuned Pushkinfor a subject for a comedy, and Pushkin gave him one that he wasgoing to write himself: a nobody arrives at a provincial town and ismistaken for an important ...
STATISTICS FORGET BIG TRENDS, SAYS TIM LOTT, IT'S THE SMALL ONES THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
Oct 07, 2007; ... Microtrends BY MARK J. PENN WITH E. KINNEY ZALESNE ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 425 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Along with such recent publishing hits as The Long Tail and TheTipping Point, Microtrends is a book that develops our ...
HISTORY HELEN CASTOR ON THE MYSTERIOUS MOTIVES OF A 14TH-CENTURY 'SHE-DEVIL'
Oct 07, 2007; ... Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his ScandalousDuchess BY ALISON WEIR JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 20, 366 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 According to Alison Weir, the late Queen Mother once declaredthat 'men of title and privilege ...
LITERARY LIFE
Oct 07, 2007; ... Nicola Barker's latest novel, Darkmans - on the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize - is dedicated to a man she has never met. Scott Ehrig-Burgess, a bookseller in Del Mar, California, was kindenough to fill out the comment card enclosed in proof copies ...
FOOD JENNY UGLOW FEASTS ON THE RICH HISTORY OF BRITISH COOKING
Oct 07, 2007; ... Taste: The Story of Britain Through its Cooking BY KATE COLQUHOUN BLOOMSBURY, pounds 20, 460 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table ...
GENOCIDE THIS HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST GIVES A GLIMPSE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED BY HITLER'S TORRENT OF VIOLENCE, SAYS ADAM TOOZE
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 BY SAUL FRIEDLANDER WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 30, 870 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Crematorium III at Auschwitz-Birkenau could reduce a pile ofbodies to ash in 20 minutes ....
FICTION JAMES NAUGHTIE PRAISES A TAUT TALE OF PRIME MINISTERIAL MISDEMEANOURS
Oct 07, 2007; ... The Ghost BY ROBERT HARRIS HUTCHINSON, pounds 18.99, 275 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The first post-Blair novel about politics has a narrator with noname, whose only job is to pretend to be someone else, a plot thatmingles high melodrama ...
FICTION THERE'S A KIND OF POETRY IN THIS TALE OF FIGHTING MEN, SAYS DAVID ROBSON
Oct 07, 2007; ... Sword Song BY BERNARD CORNWELL HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 18.99, 318 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 'Fairness is not the historical novelist's first duty,' writesBernard Cornwell, admitting to having stretched the truth in thislatest instalment ...
CRIME FICTION
Oct 07, 2007; ... Following his intriguing historical novels Edward Wright hasproduced an equally entertaining contemporary mystery, DamnationFalls (Orion, pounds 18.99). Randall Wilkes, until recently acelebrated writer on a Chicago newspaper, has returned home toTennessee in disgrace, after admitting ...
FICTION JULIA FLYNN ON AN ATMOSPHERIC THRILLER SET IN ST PETERSBURG
Oct 07, 2007; ... Zugzwang BY RONAN BENNETT BLOOMSBURY, pounds 14.99, 278 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 'Zugzwang', explains Ronan Bennett, is a German expression usedin chess to describe a hopeless situation: a player is obliged tomove, but any move he ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 07, 2007; ... NATURE'S ENGRAVER BY JENNY UGLOW FABER, pounds 9.99 Thomas Bewick was an ordinary man with an extraordinary talent.The son of a farmer in Northumberland in the 18th century, Bewickbecame a wood-engraver to rival Durer. A passionate nature-lover, hegrew up in an ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 07, 2007; ... IN THE SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD COLIN THUBRON VINTAGE, pounds 8.99 Colin Thubron takes a spiritual approach to his latest journey,along the old trading route from China to Iraq through the mountainsand deserts of Central Asia: 'You have a notion that this is ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE LONG EXILE BY MELANIE MCGRATH HARPER PERENNIAL, pounds 8.99 This is a true story full of amazing dramatic irony; a parable ofexploitation by 'the white man' of the Inuits of the CanadianArctic. In 1920 a popular film, 'Nanook of the North', showed anidealised ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 07, 2007; ... THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ROBERT HUGHES VINTAGE, pounds 10.99 A near-fatal car crash, with nightmarish legal consequences,prompted the 60-year-old art critic Robert Hughes to write a memoirof his childhood and young adulthood, from his Irish Jesuitupbringing in Sydney ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE RUBY IN HER NAVEL BY BARRY UNSWORTH PENGUIN, pounds 7.99 Twelfth-century Sicily, where Christians and Muslims vie formastery, provides the setting for this sumptuous historical novel byone of the masters of the genre. The navel of the title belongs tothe exotic ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 07, 2007; ... AFTERWARDS BY RACHEL SEIFFERT VINTAGE, pounds 7.99 Rachel Seiffert was named one of Granta's Best of Young BritishNovelists in 2003, and her second novel confirms the promise of herfirst, The Dark Room. In the forefront of the ...
Gizmos of the week
Oct 07, 2007; ... Ruffwear has come up with a genius design for a flying disc thatis lightweight, durable and won't chip your dog's teeth. Despite itssoft construction (it is made entirely of thermo-moulded foam) theHover Craft managed to retain its shape after much biting, chewingand shaking by two ...
turn on chris ryan keeps watch on the mountains
Oct 07, 2007; ... BACK IN MY DAYS AS AN SAS SNIPER TEAM commander, we spent a lotof time setting up observation points and handling weapons capableof hitting targets more than a mile away. The specialist opticalsystems we used were incredible, but these Fujinon binoculars make a great civilian ...
road test THE CLUBMAN HAS MANY GOOD POINTS. BUT A SPEEDO THE SIZE OF A SOUP PLATE ISN'T ONE OF THEM, SAYS NEIL LYNDON
Oct 07, 2007; ... A HAIR SEEMED TO BE HANGING OVER my eye during the recent launchof the new Mini Clubman. I tried to sweep it away but still ablurring line quivered across my vision. For a moment, I wonderedwhether this might be the onset of a stroke. Then I realised thatreflections were playing on my ...
POKER
Oct 07, 2007; ... POKER LENDS ITSELF VERY well to a charity event. The customary form is that half theproceeds go to the charity of choice and the other half into theprize pool. So you get to play a competitive tournament and, if youlose, you can console yourself that your money is going to a ...
CHESS
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE WORLD NUMBER ONE Vishy Anand should be the 15th undisputedworld chess champion by the time you read this. With three to playin Mexico City, he leads Boris Gelfand by a point and a half, whilethe world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, is two points adrift. In the 11th round, Kramnik ...
FRENCH FANCIES The HOUSE OF Laura Ashley Twenty-five years ago, the designer gave David Hoppit a tour of her beloved chateau. Now for sale, he revisits the fantasy French market
Oct 07, 2007; ... Laura Ashley would have loathed the growth of our throw-awaysociety. Showing me around her beautiful French chateau three yearsbefore her untimely death in September 1985, she told me: "I likethings that last forever." This hatred of ephemera was the canon onwhich she built a ...
HOW THE INTERNET CAN HELP HANDS-ON HIPS Best formula has an active agent In a slowing market, choosing the right person to sell your property is all important. Graham Norwood finds out how to get the best out of your agent
Oct 07, 2007; ... If you want advice about estate agents, ask Lynda Kemp. She knows better than most how important it is to choose theright one because, although her story has a happy ending, she hasspent most of 2007 trying and failing to sell her home in aYorkshire village. "I put it on the ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight WHY HAVE KNOTS SURFACED ON MY DOOR?
Oct 07, 2007; ... Q. Two years ago, we bought new doors for our flat and putknotting on them before priming, followed by undercoat and twotopcoats of matt finish paint. Since then, the knots have graduallysurfaced on every door, and they are all clearly visible in lightbrown. We asked many hardware stores ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight Does all this wiring have to be replaced?
Oct 07, 2007; ... Q. Our three-bed semi was built in 1939 and has undergone variousinternal alterations. The wiring is a mixture of the old rubbervariety and later plastic-covered type. We have been told that allour existing wiring, of both types, needs to be removed and that atotal rewire is required. Is ...
Poor relations about to strike it rich For every seaside hot spot, there is a scruffy neighbour across the bay. Anthea Masey investigates four down-at-heel areas with plans to spruce up
Oct 07, 2007; ... With the rediscovery of the delights of the British seaside, manyof our coastal towns and villages are blossoming. As word gets out,the trappings of metropolitan life - the bars, restaurants,boutiques - follow. The result is rocketing house prices whichsqueeze out the locals or anyone ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight CAN I REPLACE BRICKS WITH MORTAR?
Oct 07, 2007; ... Q. I have an open fireplace and burn only logs. The sides andfloor of the hearth are lined with fire bricks. Some of the bricksat the floor are cracked and loose. Can I replace these bricks withan appropriate mortar which would be 3 to 4in (75 to 100mm) thick? JH, by email ...
Going green is worth the effort
Oct 07, 2007; ... I am embarrassed to think how many times I've bought somethingbased on looks and price alone, without pausing to think where, howand from what it was made. By contrast, my new regime of "shoppinggreen" is hard work, especially when it comes to furniture. It isn'tfast, easy or cheap, and ...
the kitchen garden graduate My bean feast is at risk of being left to rot
Oct 07, 2007; ... I once did a course in which a gentleman in a battered tweedjacket taught us how to maximise our crop production throughout theyear, mainly, as far as I could see, by sowing endless quantities ofkohlrabi, a brassica that makes turnips seem a bit Mediterranean. Hewas proper eccentric and ...
Let the plant life scale your walls OUR EXPERT ANSWERS GARDENDERS' QUESTIONS
Oct 07, 2007; ... Climbers lend fantastic impact to walls. A mature, immaculatelytrained espaliered pyracantha or pear can be worth its weight ingold for what it adds to a nondescript building. They are alsoextremely satisfying to train. But don't get too carried away whenyou plant them: they can have ...
Our garden writer on tulips past and present
Oct 07, 2007; ... Ask people in different parts of the world to draw a tulip, andthe results will fall into contrasting camps. Most NorthernEuropeans, and certainly the Dutch, will depict a flower withrounded, inward- curving petals - the classic Darwin Hybrid orFosteriana [Central Asian] ...
The Rock's board could keep their jobs in rescue deal
Oct 07, 2007; ... ADAM APPLEGARTH, the chief executive of Northern Rock, and therest of his board could be allowed to stay on to run the bank as anindependent concern under radical proposals being considered. One possibility being discussed by the Government and the companywould see Citigroup, the ...
Embrace digital or die, EMI told New owner Guy Hands warns staff in secret e-mail they can no longer rely on CD sales
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE NEW owner of EMI, Britain's largest music group, has warnedthat the industry will not survive if it continues to rely on CDsales alone. Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma,bought EMI in August, told staff in a confidential e-mail last weekthat the ...
Goldman targets hedge funds
Oct 07, 2007; ... GOLDMAN SACHS is raising a new private equity fund to buy stakesin some of the City's best-known hedge funds. The new fund, which is being marketed to investors, is beingmanaged by Jonathan Sorrell, son of Sir Martin Sorrell, the boss ofmarketing services giant WPP. Goldman's ...
Postal strike to lose Mail pounds 260m in total
Oct 07, 2007; ... THE ongoing postal strike could cost Royal Mail up to pounds260m in lost business and administration costs - a far higher figurethan thought, company executives fear. By the time the second 48-hour strike ends on Wednesday, the costto Royal Mail will be " pounds 50m or pounds ...