The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from June 2008:
The Sunday Telegraph - 100 BEST SUMMER WINES
Jun 01, 2008 ... Al fresco lunches, lazy dinners with friends and family, relaxedtete-a-tetes while the sun slowly fades . . . and the finishingtouch is a great bottle of wine. But why break the bank in searchof that perfect liquid refreshment? We have done the work andtracked down the best of the ...
Punishment must be not only severe, but certain and rapid
Jun 01, 2008; ... IN RESPONSE to the rising tide of violence among teenagers, TheSunday Telegraph last week set out a series of proposals to combatknife and gun crime. Some causes of crime, such as family breakdown,are complex and will take time to address; others are morestraightforward and work could ...
Battle-scarred Peacock the inspiration for Rhinos
Jun 01, 2008; ... Leeds Rhinos__ 23 Wigan Warriors__ 6 Headingley: 10,129 LEEDS REMAIN favourites to win the Carnegie Challenge Cup after atorrid quarter-final that was summed up by the performance of JamiePeacock, the Great Britain captain, who battled on with a bandagedhead to drag ...
Personally Speaking EXHIBIT ONE: A SINGED POSTMAN'S CAP
Jun 08, 2008; ... I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT OPENING a museum of astrophilatelywhich, as anyone worth the lick of a stamp will know, is aspecialist branch of aerophilately. Anyone with an airmail stickercan send a letter by aeroplane (aerophilately), but sending it bymissile (astrophilately) is an ...
08.06.08 seven says this is the week to ...
Jun 08, 2008; ... CONFRONT arachnophobia head-on with Guido Mocafico's large scalephotographs of venomous spiders. 'Aranea' is showing at Hamilton'sGallery to 7 July; www.hamiltonsgallery.com DANCE to an inner beat as 'Silent Disco' hits London's Meltdownfestival. Each participant has a pair of ...
Personally speaking Global warming jokes? No one does 'em like Al Gore
Jun 08, 2008; ... It is eight in the morning, and I am in a garden at the back ofthe Melbourne Arts Centre, with a large, well-behaved, butenormously excited crowd. Never, except in a nightmare, would Inormally expect to be conscious, let alone in a garden, at this timeon a Saturday, but this was the ...
THE CHIMP WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A BOY SCIENCE BEFORE HE WAS A YEAR OLD, THE CHIMP KNOWN AS NIM CHIMPSKY WAS LIVING WITH A NEW YORK FAMILY AND COULD ASK FOR FOOD, PLAY PRACTICAL JOKES AND EVEN SAY SORRY. BUT WAS HE A HUMAN CHILD OR A PRIMATE? UNFORTUNATELY, NOBODY INVOLVED IN THIS PIONEERING EXPERIMENT COULD DECIDE. ELIZABETH HESS REPORTS
Jun 08, 2008; ... November 19, 1973, began like any other day at the Institute forPrimate Studies (IPS) in Norman, Oklahoma. There, on the outskirtsof town, where suburbia fades into rolling farmland, a motley groupof 40 chimpanzees hooted and shrieked in anticipation of theirbreakfast. Emily Sue Savage ...
A haunting question Cinema Gone Baby Gone Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan
Jun 08, 2008; ... In the past year, Britain has been disturbed by an unusualconcentration of stories of child abduction and abuse: MadeleineMcCann, Shannon Matthews and the recently excavated horrors of theJersey children's home. Perhaps for that reason, Ben Affleck's directorial debut, GoneBaby ...
DVDs
Jun 08, 2008; ... JUNO ????? 20th Century Fox, 15, pounds 19.99 Juno is a pregnant 16-year-old who elects to have her futurechild adopted. Potentially mawkish, the danger is largelycircumvented by the script and the feisty performance by Ellen Page.Largely, but not entirely. When the baby's ...
OTHER RELEASES The Waiting Room Let's Get Lost The Passionate Friends Superhero Movie Prom Night
Jun 08, 2008; ... The Waiting Room (15) For a while, this seems the most apposite title of the week.Watching Roger Goldby's romantic drama, we sit and wait to makeconnections between individuals passing by in the manner of rush-hour commuters: there's a single mother (Anne-Marie Duff) conductinga ...
Lady with a dim lamp TELEVISION Florence Nightingale Queen Victoria's Men Married to the Eiffel Tower: Strangelove A Revolution in Childhood
Jun 08, 2008; ... You can, I find, tell a lot about the quality of a televisiondrama from whatever typeface the credits appear in. Very broadly speaking, curly-wurly letters signaltrouble. Florence Nightingale (last Sunday, BBC1) was heralded by anextended blast of curly-wurlydom - and then came ...
Sign of the times THEATRE The Revenger's Tragedy (National Theatre)
Jun 08, 2008; ... The Revenger's Tragedy has been fashionable only spasmodicallysince it was first performed in the 17th century. When times aregood, it has seemed too cynical and embittered a work, but, whentimes are bad, its portrait of a decaying moral and political orderalways seems to find willing ...
The Revenger's Tragedy (Manchester) OTHER THEATRE
Jun 08, 2008; ... There's something deeply diseased about this Jacobean bloodbathof a play, written either by Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton, noone's sure. Unknown for centuries, in 1966 it was a famousrediscovery for the RSC with Ian Richardson as its malcontentVindice, who avenges the murder of his ...
Rock OTHER THEATRE
Jun 08, 2008; ... Rock Hudson's homosexuality may have been an open secret inHollywood by the time he died of Aids in 1985, but it came as a shock for many of the moviegoers who remembered him as thequintessential silver-screen hunk of the 1950s and 1960s. It wasmore than a tragic end to a ...
The rhythm method DEREK DEANE TALKS TO LOUISE LEVENE ABOUT HIS NEW GERSHWIN TUNE-AND-TOE EXTRAVAGANZA
Jun 08, 2008; ... 'It's very Broadway, very Hollywood, very showbiz, verycommercial, but I don't want it to be classed as a "spectacle" -it's a show with classical ballet in it and I've had a real ballworking on it.' One doesn't interview Derek Deane so much as light the bluetouchpaper and retire ....
CDs Out this week
Jun 08, 2008; ... Strauss's 'bourgeois comedy' to his own brilliant libretto -about his marital misunderstanding when his wife thought he washaving an affair and started divorce proceedings - is still rarelyperformed, although many Straussians, including me, rate it veryhighly. This live recording of a ...
Peak performances CLASSICAL Eugene Onegin LSO/Davis
Jun 08, 2008; ... The only time the Glyndebourne production of Eugene Onegin (byGraham Vick, revived for this season by Ron Howell and JacopoSpirei) overplays its hand is in the Polonaise scene, but even herethe camped-up ballet parody of the venality of St Petersburg court life is contained when ...
Rock music can save your soul POP Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Jun 08, 2008; ... Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have to start theirsecond show at Arsenal's vast, red and concrete Emirates Stadiumsomewhere, and they never like to repeat the song they began theshow before with. A quick check with fans sat around me reveals thatthe opening song the previous ...
POP CHOICE
Jun 08, 2008; ... Glasvegas Swirling rock epics from Glasgow's moody new kids onthe block. Bedford Esquires (0871 220 0260) tonight; NorthamptonRoadmember (0871 220 0260) Mon; Leicester The Charlotte (0871 ...
Opportunity knocks
Jun 08, 2008; ... On the face of it, the high-cultural bun-fight that is a Southbank Centre arts festival should havelittle in common with the low-rent world of celebrity endorsement.But while it has yet to quite scale the queasy heights of the formerTV sweetheart who asks family and friends to ...
CDs Out this week
Jun 08, 2008; ... Hurrah! Only my third five-star album of the year, I think, andone that I adore more with each new play. Fronted by a weird,charismatic, androgynous, vaudeville vampire-type called Dave, AHuman are an electro-pop dance ensemble combining hedonisticperformance art, sassy, funny lyrics and ...
BIOGRAPHY WHAT MADE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH THE GREATEST GENERAL IN BRITISH HISTORY? ASKS SAUL DAVID
Jun 08, 2008; ... Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius BY RICHARD HOLMES HARPERPRESS, pounds 25, 564 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, was arguably Britain'sfinest general. 'He bore a greater burden, military and ...
BIOGRAPHY GRAHAM LORD ON THE STARS WHO SPENT MORE TIME ACTING UP THAN ACTING
Jun 08, 2008; ... Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton,Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed BY ROBERT SELLERS PREFACE, pounds 16.99, 286 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 At a jolly English village christening that I attended in ...
BIOGRAPHY WHAT MADE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH THE GREATEST GENERAL IN BRITISH HISTORY? ASKS SAUL DAVID
Jun 08, 2008; ... Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius BY RICHARD HOLMES HARPERPRESS, pounds 25, 564 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, was arguably Britain'sfinest general. 'He bore a greater burden, military and ...
ANTIQUITY BETTANY HUGHES ENJOYS A BRACING GUIDE AS TO WHY MODERN SOCIETY'S ILLS REQUIRE ANCIENT SOLUTIONS
Jun 08, 2008; ... Vote For Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today BY PETER JONES ORION, pounds 9.99, 264 pp T pounds 9.99 (99p p&p) 0870 428 4115 Glancing at this book on our kitchen table my husband thought itwas something saucy. A ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'the revolt of islam' by percy bysshe shelley
Jun 08, 2008; ... The title of Shelley's epic The Revolt of Islam is perhaps betterknown today than it used to be. But in its earliest edition the poemwas called Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City.In 1818 'revolution' inevitably meant France, and Shelley'spublishers were nervous chaps; ...
HISTORY HUGH TREVOR-ROPER LOVED SCOTLAND BUT NOT ITS FOLKSY SELF- IMAGE, SAYS ADAM SISMAN
Jun 08, 2008; ... The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History BY HUGH TREVOR-ROPER YALE, pounds 18.99, 282 pp T pounds 18.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was oftendepicted as hostile to the Scots (or 'Scotch', as ...
SCIENCE SIMON INGS ON A STUDY OF IDENTITY IN NEED OF SOME SELF- KNOWLEDGE
Jun 08, 2008; ... ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century BY SUSAN GREENFIELD SCEPTRE, pounds 16.99 308 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 What can neuroscience say about the experience of being oneself?What can it say about personality? Can it predict how ...
TERRORISM TERRORISTS WILL GET NUCLEAR WEAPONS SO WE SHOULD PLAN FOR IT NOW, THINKS ALASDAIR PALMER
Jun 08, 2008; ... Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century BY PHILIP BOBBITT ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 672 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 What are we going to do when terrorists get hold of weapons ofmass destruction? Philip Bobbitt is ...
FICTION JANE SHILLING FINDS HERSELF STORMED BY A NOBEL LAUREATE'S EPIC TALE OF BATTLE
Jun 08, 2008; ... The Siege BY ISMAIL KADARE CANONGATE, pounds 16.99, 328 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In 2005 Ismail Kadare was the first winner of the Man BookerInternational Prize, a honour that undoubtedly made him the world'smost famous Albanian ...
LITERARY LIFE
Jun 08, 2008; ... Duncan Fallowell's latest book, Going as Far as I Can, follows inthe footsteps of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's 1948 tour ofNew Zealand. While Down Under, Olivier developed a nasty kneeproblem that was operated on in Wellington. Imagine Mr Fallowell'ssurprise when he recently ...
FICTION JOHN PRESTON SEES WHETHER SEBASTIAN FAULKS SUCCEEDS IN HIS MISSION TO RECREATE BOND
Jun 08, 2008; ... Devil May Care BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS 'WRITING AS IAN FLEMING' PENGUIN, pounds 18.99, 320 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Page 192 of Sebastian Faulks's James Bond novel finds his evilgenius, Dr Julius Gorner, musing on the nature of ...
FICTION JANE SHILLING FINDS HERSELF STORMED BY A NOBEL LAUREATE'S EPIC TALE OF BATTLE
Jun 08, 2008; ... The Siege BY ISMAIL KADARE CANONGATE, pounds 16.99, 328 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In 2005 Ismail Kadare was the first winner of the Man BookerInternational Prize, a honour that undoubtedly made him the world'smost famous Albanian ...
FIRST NOVEL JESSICA MANN FOLLOWS A MIDDLE-AGE LEARNING CURVE
Jun 08, 2008; ... Attachment BY ISABEL FONSECA CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 15.99, 305 pp T pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Mark is a 'meteoric' advertising executive, Jean an American whowrites a weekly column about health, usually her own. They haverecently left ...
FICTION LINDY BURLEIGH HEARS THE AUSTRALIAN STORY TOLD AS NEVER BEFORE
Jun 08, 2008; ... Carpentaria BY ALEXIS WRIGHT CONSTABLE, pounds 16.99, 439 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Australian literature has come of age, giving a distinctive voiceto that vast, isolated, southern continent, involuntarily settled byEuropeans in the ...
CRIME FICTION
Jun 08, 2008; ... Charles Cumming's Typhoon (Michael Joseph, pounds 18.99) beginson the eve of Britain's handover of Hong Kong and covers a decade ofspying operations in China by America and Britain. The story focuseson two men, Joe Lennox, a rising star in MI6, and Miles Coolidge, aCIA maverick, whose ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 08, 2008; ... A HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN BY ANDREW MARR PAN, pounds 8.99 The distinguished journalist has pulled off a widely based,wittily written but distinctly gloomy picture of our post-war years,showing how the ideals of the Attlee era gradually gave way to ourcurrent ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 08, 2008; ... LUCIA IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON BY ANDREA DI ROBILANT FABER, pounds 9.99 Lucia was the good-looking daughter of a Venetian aristocrat,accustomed to the grand life in princely rooms, some of themillustrated here. Later she was a fashionable hostess in Vienna.Later ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 08, 2008; ... YOU'LL WIN NOTHING WITH KIDS BY JIM WHITE ABACUS, pounds 7.99 Not being much of a football fan, I was ready to be bored by this one. The author is the manager of the team in which his young son plays. But the book is sobeautifully and ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 08, 2008; ... EATING FOR ENGLAND BY NIGEL SLATER HARPER PERENNIAL, pounds 7.99 'For every Brit eating our legendary roast beef and jam roly-poly there are a million more tucking into Thai green curry and pepperonipizza,' says Nigel Slater. But this book is ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 08, 2008; ... FALLING MAN BY DON DELILLO PICADOR, pounds 7.99 The challenge of writing about 9/11 has defeated a number ofmajor American novelists (John Updike, for one) but Don DeLillo'sparticular talents seem ideally suited to the subject. Histruncated, rhythmic dialogue; his ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 08, 2008; ... CONSEQUENCES BY PENELOPE LIVELY PENGUIN, pounds 7.99 Opening with a coup de foudre in a London park in 1935 between a wealthy young woman and a poorartist, Penelope Lively chronicles the 20th century through thelives of three generations of women: the girl in ...
Road test SOUTH LONDON LOVES THE BMW X6. NEIL LYNDON IS NOT SO SURE
Jun 08, 2008; ... 'THAT IS A GREAT-LOOKING car, sir,' said a man on the forecourtof a filling station in Peckham, south-east London. As I turned to get into the BMW X6, anotherman was crossing the road towards the car for a closer look. Hestopped short, grinned and stuck up his thumbs. Both ...
The Sunday Project DIGITAL CAMERAS
Jun 08, 2008; ... Contacts Every camera magazine will have an online guide to digital photography. www.pcpro.co.uk www.pcphotomag.com photography.explainthatstuff.com www.dcmag.co.uk You could also investigate courses at your local college or ...
Bridge
Jun 08, 2008; ... DON'T YOU JUST LOVE IT WHEN the experts get it wrong! Be honest,that cheeky streak inside us glows when Tiger Woods duffs one intothe water. So, feast yourself on this. Dealer East; game all ... S K 4 H J 9 6 4 3 D 7 C Q 9 6 5 2 S Q 9 7 6 5 2 S J ...
CHESS
Jun 08, 2008; ... HSG FROM HILVERSUM WON THE Dutch Club Championship for the firsttime with the aid of new recruit Magnus Carlsen, who beat Jan Werleon top board in the decisive last-round match. The following gamefrom the event shows how a world-class player deals with a clubplayer's opening. C ....
POKER
Jun 08, 2008; ... THE ONLY BEGINNER AT the table was the unemployed astro-physicist. He played a very tight game, with the occasional excursion into the speculativepush with middle pair. The rest of us at French Eric's home game were all rather moreseasoned. The most peppery ...
The cut-price Costas A downturn in Spain means there is value to be had. Zoe Dare Hall asks how to spot a good investment
Jun 08, 2008; ... For years, hunting out a bargain in the overseas property markethas been for the more adventurous, those prepared to brave the East -Middle, Far or emerging European. More familiar holiday destinationswere well developed markets with prices that might not look out ofplace in Britain ...
Cap in hand in Bradford Market Watch
Jun 08, 2008; ... BRADFORD & BINGLEY Properties sold in first five months of 2007: 6,934 Properties sold in first five months of 2008: 2,670 The Bradford & Bingley, a former building society which convertedinto a bank several years ago, has long used a bowler hat as itslogo. As from ...
The chance of an island life, if you are made of the right stuff
Jun 08, 2008; ... Never has there been a better time to take a croft on Colonsay.With the population down to 108, the island in the Inner Hebrides sobadly needs new blood that five newly created empty crofts are onoffer with a pounds 40,000 grant towards building homes on them,writes Jonny ...
All the wild beauty of Scotland, but with home comforts The islands have long offered a choice of traditional but basic, or modern and monstrous. Sonia Purnell finds a developer offering the best of both worlds
Jun 08, 2008; ... Like the white sugar-cube houses of the Greek isles, the long,low-slung crofter's cottage of the west coast of Scotland and itsoutlying islands is indelibly linked with its landscape. Somehow the slate roof, white-washed granite, and sturdy highchimneys please the eye almost as ...
Doggie decorating - a ruff guide
Jun 08, 2008; ... Our Border Collies and Jack Russells have taught us that dogshave their own unique sense of style and design at home - and it'sguaranteed to clash with yours. Whether it's indignantly re-arranging a sofa throw that looks too neat for their tastes,adorning the bedspread with perfect black ...
Why larders are cool again The old-fashioned pantry is making a remarkable comeback, reports Sonia Purnell
Jun 08, 2008; ... The obituary of the larder - once the mainstay of any happy home -was written half a century ago with the advent of the domesticfridge. No longer needed to keep food fresh, many were knocked into thekitchen in older houses to provide more space or turned into utilityrooms for ...
ALEX's tips for top salad
Jun 08, 2008; ... SOWING For cut-and-come-again salad mixes and rocket, sow thinly,half an inch deep direct into moist, well-drained soil in sun orpartial shade from April to July. For single mature lettuces, sow inplug trays, a couple of seeds per cell, and thin to the strongestseedling per cell when big ...
Why is rain running down my inside wall? on the level - A builder gives it to you straight
Jun 08, 2008; ... Q. Late last month, we endured high winds and driving rain fromthe north- east, and the back wall of our garage took the fullforce. Water began running down the inside of the wall, which beinga garage, is only single-skin. This is the first time this hashappened in our 13 years of living ...
The kitchen garden graduate Once you get hooked on eating fresh salad, you can't go back
Jun 08, 2008; ... Salad days have arrived in the garden, and with them temptation.Day one, and I am a vision of contentment, humming in the eveninggloaming as I snip rocket, mizuna, lettuce, chives, parsley andsorrel and toss them into a salad with feta cheese, my first newpotatoes of the year and baby ...
Picturesque garden may be Monet's greatest legacy
Jun 08, 2008; ... Monet's house and garden at Giverny in Normandy are open fromApril 1 to Oct 31 from 10am to 6pm (see www.fondation-monet.com for further details). Many garden tourcompanies (such as www.gardenvisit.com) will take you there as partof a group, but the tiny village of Giverny is ...
Bank bosses set to grill Chancellor over corporation tax U-turn
Jun 08, 2008; ... BRITAIN'S top banking executives will this week hold showdowntalks with Alistair Darling about his failure to consult them overthe non-doms and corporation tax fiascos. The chief executives of Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank ofScotland, along with their counterparts from leading ...
Barclays lines up sovereign funds for cash boost
Jun 08, 2008; ... EXECUTIVES at Barclays, Britain's third-largest bank, are inadvanced talks with overseas government-backed funds to secure acapital injection of more than pounds 3bn. The lender has stepped up talks with investors from China, AbuDhabi and elsewhere in the Middle East and Asia as ...
IPHONE TO BE SET FREE
Jun 08, 2008; ... THE next stage of the global mobile phone revolution is about toarrive on British shores, and for some consumers, the experiencewill be heavily subsidised, write Mark Kleinman and Dominic White. The Sunday Telegraph has learned that O2, which has an exclusiveagreement to distribute ...
Pharmacy giant gives UK the boot
Jun 08, 2008; ... ALLIANCE Boots, the health and beauty company, has switched itsheadquarters from Britain to Switzerland in a further blow toBritain's status as an international centre for business. The movemarks the end of almost a century-and-a-half of Boots having itsheadquarters in this ...
Media giants open talks on pounds 3bn merger Approach from United Business Media to Informa may lead to creation of FTSE 100 conferences and publishing empire
Jun 08, 2008; ... TWO of Britain's biggest media companies are in the early stagesof talks to create a pounds 3bn FTSE 100 business informationempire that would bring together the owners of publicationsincluding Property Week and Lloyd's List. The Sunday Telegraph has learned that United Business ...
Competitors protest about BBC internet TV service
Jun 08, 2008; ... THE BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are facing opposition to their plan tolaunch a joint online television service, codenamed Kangaroo, frommedia groups concerned about its potential to stifle competition. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has asked for views on whetherKangaroo could damage ...
Sellar to get Humberts
Jun 08, 2008; ... THE property tycoon Irvine Sellar is understood to have beenpicked as the preferred bidder for the estate agency chain Humberts,which has become a victim of Britian's ailing housing market. Sellar, who has an pounds 800m investment portfolio includinghotels, offices and shopping ...
Network Rail makes tracks to find replacement chairman
Jun 08, 2008; ... NETWORK Rail has begun to put out feelers to find replacementsfor its chairman Sir Ian McAllister and at least two non-executivedirectors. The company has asked its retained headhunter Egon Zehnder totest the market for a possible successor to Sir Ian, 64, though hehas no ...