The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from May 2008:
HOW TO STAGE A POLITE INVASION
May 04, 2008; ... THEY SAY WISDOM COMES WITH AGE, but I wonder if age doesn'toccasionally arrive unaccompanied. I have long accepted that theaccumulation of years means accepting certain changes. On thedownside, my arms are now too short for my eyesight. On the upside,the spreading of my derriere means ...
Personally speaking Eloisa James The secret romances of an everyday English professor
May 04, 2008; ... People like to believe that authors are driven by their ownfierce genius. Kafka said that writing is its own reward. I writefor money. Even as a child putting on performances for my parents, I always charged admission. Back then I was already writingromances, because my sister ...
Seven Says This is the week to ...
May 04, 2008; ... LOOK for something uplifting on television. You'll need it after'Celebrity Rehab' (Virgin, Thursdays). Hang on, isn't that the blokefrom 'Grease'? ORDER cake (and the finest wines known to humanity) as SueMacGregor gets together with the cast and director of the 1987 cultfilm ...
HOW TO STAGE A POLITE INVASION
May 04, 2008; ... THEY SAY WISDOM COMES WITH AGE, but I wonder if age doesn'toccasionally arrive unaccompanied. I have long accepted that theaccumulation of years means accepting certain changes. On thedownside, my arms are now too short for my eyesight. On the upside,the spreading of my derriere means ...
Personally speaking Eloisa James The secret romances of an everyday English professor
May 04, 2008; ... People like to believe that authors are driven by their ownfierce genius. Kafka said that writing is its own reward. I writefor money. Even as a child putting on performances for my parents, I always charged admission. Back then I was already writingromances, because my sister ...
SINATRA: HOW THE MYTH WAS MADE
May 04, 2008; ... THE BOOZE Jack Daniel's whisky was Sinatra's signature drink, and he wouldrarely be seen for long without a tumbler in his hand. TheWashington Post even went so far as to nickname him 'The BourbonBaritone' (apart from 'Ol' Blue Eyes' another popular nickname was'The Innkeeper') ....
THE GUYWAS COOLNESS PERSONIFIED SINATRA 'HE WAS MAGIC ... HE SANG LIKE A MUSICIAN ... EFFORTLESSLY TALENTED AND STUNNINGLY ITALIAN ... HE NEVER LIKED ME TEN YEARS AFTER OL' BLUE EYES' DEATH, WE PRESENT MEMORIES FROM FRIENDS, LOVERS, FELLOW ARTISTS - AND THE ODD ENEMY
May 04, 2008 ... The problems were never in the bedroom. The trouble usuallystarted on the way to the bidet Ava Gardner Sinatra is the kind of singer that comes along once in alifetime, but why did it have to be my lifetime? Bing Crosby If lonesome, he reminds you of the guy ...
let's dance BALLET WHAT BILLY ELLIOT DID ON FILM, THE LONDON CHILDREN'S BALLET IS DOING FOR REAL - AND COAXING TOP PERFORMANCES OUT OF YOUNG DANCERS FROM ALL OVER BRITAIN. JEMIMA LEWIS JOINS THEM IN REHEARSAL
May 04, 2008; ... It is a long time since I was last in a ballet class: 1977, Ibelieve. My mother tells me I was a heroically indolent ballerina,standing with my flat feet turned out, more Charlie Chaplin thanMargot Fontaine, staring dully at the ceiling while my fellow totspirouetted past. Nor am ...
DEEPLY DIPPY TELEVISION IN 'ENTOURAGE', ADRIAN GRENIER PLAYS A FAST- LIVING HOLLYWOOD STAR ENJOYING A LIFE OF PRIVATE JETS, BIKINI-CLAD GIRLS AND HANGING OUT WITH HIS BUDDIES. BUT TV'S GUILTIEST OF PLEASURES ALSO HAS ITS SPIRITUAL SIDE, HE TELLS SAM DELANEY
May 04, 2008; ... ADRIAN GRENIER MAY HAVE HIDDEN DEPTHS. HE'S just looked mestraight in the eye and told me that Entourage, that glitzyprogramme about film stars and pool parties and private jets, inwhich he stars, is actually a very spiritual show. I'm excitedlywaiting for him to elaborate on this theory ...
DEEPLY DIPPY TELEVISION IN 'ENTOURAGE', ADRIAN GRENIER PLAYS A FAST- LIVING HOLLYWOOD STAR ENJOYING A LIFE OF PRIVATE JETS, BIKINI-CLAD GIRLS AND HANGING OUT WITH HIS BUDDIES. BUT TV'S GUILTIEST OF PLEASURES ALSO HAS ITS SPIRITUAL SIDE, HE TELLS SAM DELANEY
May 04, 2008; ... ADRIAN GRENIER MAY HAVE HIDDEN DEPTHS. HE'S just looked mestraight in the eye and told me that Entourage, that glitzyprogramme about film stars and pool parties and private jets, inwhich he stars, is actually a very spiritual show. I'm excitedlywaiting for him to elaborate on this theory ...
summer movie GUIDE REVISIT NARNIA, SPAR WITH A KUNG FU-LOVING PANDA, HUNT OSAMA BIN LADEN AND SEE CARRIE GET MARRIED (MAYBE) IN THIS SEASON'S FILMS.
May 04, 2008; ... MAY Out now ACTION Iron Man A big gleaming hunk of a blockbuster starring cool, droll RobertDowney Jr as Tony Stark, billionaire playboy and part-time welder.He uses his soldering skills to create a natty metal suit and foilthe evil plans of some kaffiyeh-sporting villains ....
clanking good deeds Iron Man Joy Division
May 04, 2008; ... Jon Favreau's Iron Man (12A), the latest Marvel comic-bookcreation to hit the big screen, is wholly a creature of the machineage. Where Spider-Man was vaguely organic, wrapping New York in hisbiodegradable web, Iron Man's excursions look as if they have beendesigned by Marcel ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
May 04, 2008; ... SILENT LIGHT ????? Tartan 3807, 15, pounds 18.99 Set in Mexico, Silent Light centres on a community of Mennonites,a strict religious sect barely reconciled to the modern world. Afarmer and father of six falls for another woman and confesses tohis wife, who dies of a heart ...
DVDs Out this week
May 04, 2008; ... LUST, CAUTION ????? Universal 8254818, 18, pounds 19.99 In his first film since Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee reverts toheterosexuality. Based on a short story by Chinese-American ...
DVDs Out this week
May 04, 2008; ... YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH ????? 15, pounds 19.99 FRANCIS FORDCOPPOLA'S COMEBACK AFTER EIGHT YEARS IS BASED ON A CRACKPOT ROMANIANNOVEL. AN ACADEMIC (TIM ROTH) GROWS YOUNGER AFTER ...
DVDs Out this week
May 04, 2008; ... THE GOLDEN COMPASS ????? PG, pounds 17.99 Philip Pullman's Northern Lights novel, adapted by Chris Weitz,fuses fantasy thrills with theological musing. Weitz recreates theformer splendidly ...
OTHER RELEASES Made of Honor Nim's Island P2 Tovarisch: I Am Not Dead
May 04, 2008; ... Made of Honor (12A) These days, it's women who watch romantic comedies. Sure, theymight manage to drag a man along once in a while, but it'll be astruggle, and in terms of a movie's post-cinema shelf life (DVDsales, television airings), the romcom is an all-female domain. Andthe ...
dreams of past glory The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
May 04, 2008; ... In 1933 the Tate Gallery held a modest exhibition to mark thecentenary of the birth of the eminent Victorian painter, EdwardBurne-Jones (1833-98). The occasion elicited some poignantreflections from Graham Robertson, a good friend of Burne-Jonesduring the artist's later years. 'It was ...
ART CHOICE
May 04, 2008; ... Heart of Darkness: Ivory Carving and Belgian Colonialism Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (0113 234 3158), to 29 June. Aconsidered look at Leopold II of Belgium's infamous colonialexploitation of the Congo, through the ivory sculptures ...
bored and grimy Harper Regan The City
May 04, 2008; ... Imagine for a moment that you are the boss of the NationalTheatre. A playwright comes in to see you with a work he wants youto stage. You ask what it's about. He tells you. There's this womancalled Harper Regan. Her father dies and she leaves her husband,daughter and job - all of which ...
dostoevsky's false starts Royal Ballet mixed bill Phoenix Dance Company
May 04, 2008; ... More mixed Royal Ballet blessings. The latest triple billsandwiches a Kim Brandstrup premiere between Balanchine's sublimeSerenade and Ashton's Homage to the Queen rewritten by committee.Brandstrup's Rushes, Fragments of a Lost Story was inspired by theeight false starts that Dostoevsky ...
Love's LAMENT Britain's Youngest Grannies Miss Austen Regrets The Invisibles Age of Terror
May 04, 2008; ... Sometimes people say to me, 'You spend your entire life lollingabout watching the telly ...' At this point I try to explain that I am, in fact, a richly rounded person witha diverse range of other interests, but they just plough cruelly on. 'So answer me this,' they say. 'Why ...
back where he belongs Edwyn Collins
May 04, 2008; ... It's not possible to talk about Edwyn Collins's confident,charismatic and pretty audacious 90-minute performance at theShepherds Bush Empire without mentioning that, in many ways, he isslowly learning to be himself again. It would be great just tocelebrate the tart, zesty songs, more ...
CDs Out this week
May 04, 2008; ... This time Madonna's gone very slick urban dance, recruitingJustin Timberlake, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West - twoor three years after they were properly fashionable, maybe, butstill contributing that gloriously inventive, supremely processedand urgently club-friendly pop ...
fire from the gods AS NONO'S 'PROMETEO' PREMIERES HERE, JOHN ALLISON ASKS THE COMPOSER'S WIDOW TO DEMYSTIFY THE WORK
May 04, 2008; ... Few recent events in contemporary music have been as eagerlyanticipated as next weekend's belated British premiere of LuigiNono's Prometeo. Widely performed since its premiere in thecomposer's native Venice in 1984, this huge work has somehow eludedBritish audiences, but is about to make ...
CDs Out this week
May 04, 2008; ... Prokofiev's rarely heard second concerto dates from 1913 (revised1923). It is a young man's music, dissonant, difficult andbrilliant, and is fiendishly well played by the 24-year-old YundiLi, who makes light of its technical problems and seems to relishthe music's violence. But it is an ...
home counties merriment The Merry Widow In Seven Days
May 04, 2008; ... If you've ever wondered what G&S might look like in Vienna, ENO'snew production of The Merry Widow has the answer. Lehar's rose-tinted operetta ought to fizz with the diplomatic and sexualmanouvres of the Pontevedrian delegation in Paris, but this onelurches between nudge-nudge, ...
HISTORY NICHOLSON BAKER WRITES INVENTIVE, ODD NOVELS. THIS HISTORY IS INVENTIVE BUT CHILDISH, SAYS NOEL MALCOLM
May 04, 2008; ... Human Smoke BY NICHOLSON BAKER SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 20, 566 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Scholarly types, who don't get out much, may take various kindsof sympathetic interest in Nicholson Baker's books. There is his ...
JUDITH FLANDERS ENJOYS A STUDY OF THE MASTERWORK MICHELANGELO NEVER WANTED TO PAINT
May 04, 2008; ... Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel BY ANDREW GRAHAM-DIXON WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 14.99, 224 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Atrip to Rome today tends to include a visit to an endlessenfilade of Vatican state rooms, ending with the ...
HISTORY NICHOLSON BAKER WRITES INVENTIVE, ODD NOVELS. THIS HISTORY IS INVENTIVE BUT CHILDISH, SAYS NOEL MALCOLM
May 04, 2008; ... Human Smoke BY NICHOLSON BAKER SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 20, 566 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Scholarly types, who don't get out much, may take various kindsof sympathetic interest in Nicholson Baker's books. There is his ...
ART JUDITH FLANDERS ENJOYS A STUDY OF THE MASTERWORK MICHELANGELO NEVER WANTED TO PAINT
May 04, 2008; ... Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel BY ANDREW GRAHAM-DIXON WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 14.99, 224 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Atrip to Rome today tends to include a visit to an endlessenfilade of Vatican state rooms, ending with the ...
MASSACRE THE STORY OF THE BLOODY SACKING OF A ONCE GREAT CITY DESERVES RETELLING, SAYS JEREMY SEAL
May 04, 2008; ... Paradise Lost BY GILES MILTON SCEPTRE, pounds 20, 426 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The chance conjunction of his surname and subject - the loss of acity known, at least in part, as Paradise - has tempted Giles Miltonto borrow from the top ...
FILM ANNE BILLSON GETS HER TEETH INTO A FEAST OF HORROR
May 04, 2008; ... A New Heritage of Horror BY DAVID PIRIE I.B. TAURIS, pounds 14.99, 352 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Paradise Lost BY GILES MILTON SCEPTRE, pounds 20, 426 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 ...
LITERARY LIFE
May 04, 2008; ... One of the unexpected spin-offs of the Human Genome Project isGillian Ferguson's magnum opus, The Human Genome: Poems on the Book of Life. The 1,000-page sequence of poems, 'interconnected withshort extracts from interviews, newspaper reports, academic papersand books', runs to a ...
SCIENCE KENAN MALIK EXAMINES WHAT GOES ON IN ONE'S HEAD, APART FROM THINKING
May 04, 2008; ... The Kingdom of Infinite SpaceA Fantastical Journey Around Your Head BY RAYMOND TALLIS ATLANTIC, pounds 19.99, 324 pp T pounds 17.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Imagine a guide to England that bypasses London. Or a history offootball that fails to ...
CRIME FICTION
May 04, 2008; ... Just as in her first novel, the crime in Asa Larsson's The BloodSpilt (Viking, pounds 6.99) is the murder of a cleric. For theyoung Stockholm lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, still traumatised afterthe earlier murder, her involvement in this new investigationbecomes a shattering experience ....
FICTION A 100-YEAR-OLD MEMORY CAN PLAY FASCINATING TRICKS, FINDS DAVID ROBSON
May 04, 2008; ... The Secret Scripture BY SEBASTIAN BARRY FABER, pounds 16.99, 300 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 How reliable a narrator is Roseanne McNulty? The question loomslarger and larger in this fine, haunting novel. When we first meetRoseanne, she ...
FICTION A 100-YEAR-OLD MEMORY CAN PLAY FASCINATING TRICKS, FINDS DAVID ROBSON
May 04, 2008; ... The Secret Scripture BY SEBASTIAN BARRY FABER, pounds 16.99, 300 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 How reliable a narrator is Roseanne McNulty? The question loomslarger and larger in this fine, haunting novel. When we first meetRoseanne, she ...
FICTION JONATHAN BATE LAMENTS A DECLINE FROM CAMPUS COMEDY TO DEAFNESS AND SPANKING
May 04, 2008; ... Deaf Sentence BY DAVID LODGE HARVILL SECKER, pounds 17.99, 294 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 David Lodge is the Woody Allen of contemporary English fiction.The early works offered engaging slapstick (Allen's Sleeper, Lodge'sGinger, You're ...
CRIME FICTION
May 04, 2008; ... Just as in her first novel, the crime in Asa Larsson's The BloodSpilt (Viking, pounds 6.99) is the murder of a cleric. For theyoung Stockholm lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, still traumatised afterthe earlier murder, her involvement in this new investigationbecomes a shattering experience ....
FIRST NOVEL HOLLY KYTE MEETS ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S WIFE
May 04, 2008; ... Mrs Lincoln BY JANIS COOKE NEWMAN MYRMIDON, pounds 16.99, 565 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 She was the original First Lady; the intelligent, determined wifeof America's 'Martyred President' Abraham Lincoln. She was also acoquettish, ...
FIRST NOVEL BRENDAN SIMMS ENJOYS A SPANIARD'S IRISH ADVENTURE
May 04, 2008; ... A Year in the Province: Being the Memoir of Jesus Sanchez Ventura BY CHRISTOPHER MARSH BEAUTIFUL BOOKS, pounds 12.99, 346 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Jesus Sanchez Ventura seems to have the perfect life: two charming daughters and ...
PAPERBACKS
May 04, 2008; ... YOUNG STALIN BY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE PHOENIX, pounds 9.99 This colourful account of the relatively unfamiliar years ofStalin's life before the 1917 Revolution is a gripping read as wellas faultlessly scholarly. Simon Sebag Montefiore has uncovered ...
PAPERBACKS
May 04, 2008; ... BETWEEN EACH BREATH BY ADAM THORPE VINTAGE, pounds 7.99 The moral of Adam Thorpe's novel can be easily summarised: thereis no fool like a middle-aged fool. Successful English composer JackMiddleton, his childless marriage under strain, loses his head,heart, trousers ...
the sunday Project THE PERFECT SHIRT
May 04, 2008; ... Ironing. Unfeasibly dull. Be especially wary of those who claimit to be 'therapeutic'. But if you'd rather not pay someone to do itfor you, there are several products on the market that will make theprocess much easier, save you a few bob and reduce your clompinggreat carbon footprint ...
BRIDGE
May 04, 2008; ... SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO BE careful and avoid temptation. Forexample, if given a choice, would you follow an elegant or mundaneline of play? Thought so. Look at this, thenDealer East; N/S Game S - H A Q 7 6 5 3 D 10 7 C A 8 7 6 5 S K Q J 9 6 5 4S A 8 ...
POKER
May 04, 2008; ... WHEN PHIL HELLMUTH WAS drawn to play Tom 'durrrr' Dwan in the first round of the National Poker Heads Up Championship atthe beginning of March, the battle lines were immediately - andemblematically - apparent both to onlookers and protagonists. It wasold guard against young gun; ...
CHESS
May 04, 2008; ... OCCASIONALLY AN AMATEUR plays a game so satisfying he almost wants to give up chess, justend his career there. Jim Fisher of the International Students ChessClub in central London played such a game recently. Everything hetried came off. J. Fisher - M. Bovey Intl ...
Inside Britain's tidiest houses minimal Caroline McGhie reports on the homeowners who have a horror of clutter and put everything, even the kettle, back in the cupboard after use
May 04, 2008; ... A tremor of anxiety hits as I enter the home of Brandon Haw andTanji Kaler. It is so empty that I wonder if they have already movedout. Or have I stumbled into the Design Museum by mistake? Keepstill for a moment, however, and the calm, all-white interior startsto work its charms, and I ...
10 rules of minimAlism
May 04, 2008 ... 1. Order and neatness are paramount 2. Space and light are spiritually enriching 3. Machine-made is beautiful 4. Key colours are red, white and black 5. Problem-solving gadgets are vital 6. Glass, steel and wood are the ...
What credit crunch? Come through to the cocktail lounge Cheryl Markosky reports on the latest generation of super houses and their 'spools', 'play floors' and 'summer kitchens'
May 04, 2008; ... Formal entertaining is back, at least in the world of up-marketnew homes. While the rest of us are busy knocking down walls to makea casual kitchen cum diner, the latest trend in "super houses" takesus back to an era of cocktails at six followed by a proper sit-downdinner served by ...
Two nations: the party leaders' backyards MARKET WATCH
May 04, 2008; ... GORDON BROWN'S CONSTITUENCY DUNFERMLINE V DAVID CAMERON'S CONSTITUENCY WITNEY Dunfermline, Scotland *Number of properties on market Jan 1 2007: 382 *Number sold between then and April 1 2007: 783 *Number of properties on market Jan ...
For sale: a right royal ruin, needs some work A mysterious secret passage and four looming towers are the particulars of a castle once owned by Richard III.
May 04, 2008; ... If you want to capture a castle that once belonged to a king, nowis your chance. Richard III lived at Sheriff Hutton Castle when hewas Duke of Gloucester, but although it was once one of the finestin the North of England, it has slipped into dereliction. Soon, theprivately-owned ruins ...
STATISTIC OF THE WEEK pounds 45
May 04, 2008; ... Property website Zoopla last week put out an eye-catching pressrelease claiming that the average homeowner is losing pounds 45 anight on their property. In other words, take in a paying guest forbed and breakfast and you can just about stand still. Alarmist or not? It depends over ...
SALE OF THE WEEKUP 41%
May 04, 2008; ... A lot of repossessed properties have been going under the hammerlately at knock-down prices, in some cases at 50 per cent or less ofwhat they sold for one or two years ago. But there is always anexception or two. Number 35, Elfindale Road, an attractive three-bedroom terraced house in ...
The something-for-nothing-society: how to get your building materials on the cheap Waste not, want not Ross Clark meets the people making homes from the bricks, boards, even kitchens, others have simply thrown away
May 04, 2008; ... William Sturdy might not wish to liken the restoration of histhree-bedroom Norfolk cottage to Challenge Anneka, the 1990stelevision show in which Anneka Rice had to beg for buildingmaterials and volunteers. But there is some similarity: he managedto save pounds 4,000 by being ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight What is the best way to insulate the loft?
May 04, 2008; ... Q. My last gas bill came to more than pounds 700 for thequarter, so I am considering a free grant through my energy supplierto insulate my loft. Can you advise me what I need to look out forto make sure the job is done well? SK, by e-mail A. The most common complaint from ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight HOW DO I INSTALL A SEPTIC TANK?
May 04, 2008; ... Q. I am renovating a house in the Lake District. The foul sewerdrains to a tank which has to be pumped out periodically. Can yourecommend a septic tank, one which can be installed by digging ahole and putting it in? Will there be effluent from the tank and howshould I deal with it - ...
the only way is up, says our garden writer
May 04, 2008; ... Vertical gardening - covering exterior and interior facades ofbuildings with a tapestry of live plants - is all the rage. Thefashion started, as so many do, in Paris, when Patrick Blanc's lushgreen murs vegetaux began transforming the city's buildings. Mostdramatic so far is the ...
Boosting borders: part two in our series on reviving a tired garden
May 04, 2008; ... Borders don't always live up to our expectations: not enoughcolour, little winter interest, too much hard work or simply tooboring. In the second of my series on revitalising a tired garden,here are some tips on planning borders to suit a tight timetable andon personalising your garden ...
Barclays contemplates Korea move
May 04, 2008; ... BARCLAYS has held secret talks with an investment fund backed bythe Korean government as it explores potential options for raisingbillions of pounds in fresh capital. Britain's third-biggest lender by market value has helddiscussions with Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) about a ...
Bosses hold crisis talks on tax burden Summit comes as Diageo becomes latest FTSE100 company to admit that tax domicile is 'under review'
May 04, 2008; ... A GROUP of Britain's most powerful chairmen and chief executiveshas held a crisis summit to discuss the Government's controversialproposals to bring companies' foreign earnings into the UK tax net. The little known Multinational Chairmen's Group (MNCG) has anexclusive membership of ...
Revealed: Wal-Mart was whistleblower in OFT price-fixing investigation
May 04, 2008; ... WAL-MART, the world's biggest retailer, was the whistleblowerbehind the Office of Fair Trading's current probe into alleged pricefixing of food and toiletries, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. The investigation has embroiled some of the world's largestconsumer goods manufacturers ...
Hollick looks to hijack TNS deal
May 04, 2008; ... LORD HOLLICK, the former ITV boss, is this weekend helping toorchestrate efforts to break up the agreed pounds 1.7bn mergerbetween Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), the market research group, andGfK, a German rival. Hollick, a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), the ...
If it ain't broke don't fix it, BSkyB tells media regulator's investigation into pay TV market
May 04, 2008; ... BSKYB has attacked media watchdog Ofcom for relying on"theorising" and "hypothetical scenarios" in its investigation ofthe satellite broadcaster's influence on the pay television market. Ofcom is expected to publish responses from the televisionindustry to the first part of its ...