The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from September 2008:
My perfect Sunday
Sep 07, 2008; ... I tend to be frantically busy in London, so my Sundays in NottingHill are all the more blissful. I am used to horribly early morningsfrom filming, so I am usually up at about six, which is perfect formarkets. I try to meet my mother for breakfast - it's a luxury forus to snatch some time ...
World leaders who speak foreign languages The list
Sep 07, 2008; ... 1 Kevin Rudd Prime Minister of Australia. Speaks Mandarin. HisChinese has improved since his diplomatic days in Beijing: intendingto say that Australia and China had a close relationship, he saidthey enjoyed simultaneous orgasms. Dubbed a 'show-off' afterconducting a half-hour summit ...
Addendum whatever happened to... Flora and Sara Keays
Sep 07, 2008; ... Flora Keayswas born in December 1983 amid one of the biggest Westminsterscandals for a generation. Two months earlier, her mother, SaraKeays, had sent Margaret Thatcher's government reeling byannouncing, in the Daily Mirror, that she was pregnant with thechild of the Trade and ...
If friends are so important, why is it so easy to lose them?
Sep 07, 2008; ... The other day I had to fill in a form which asked me to tick a box indicating my age. I ran my eye down the list ofoptions - 18-25, 26-35 and so on - until I got to the last choice,which read 50+. That's me. I suddenly realised that I am nowofficially somewhere between 50 and ...
Loves and hates
Sep 07, 2008; ... POLITICAL CORRECTNESS I detest it in all respects. Subsequentlythis includes resentment for most politicians. I'd like to give mythoughts on the present government, but I probably can't use that sort of language in a family newspaper.UKIP, whilst having a long way to go, is our ...
I'm scary. When I go quiet, run The Nigel Farndale Interview From vampish sex symbol in 'Body Heat' (left) to alcoholic arthritis sufferer to celebrated stage actress and finally enigmatic beauty... At 54, Kathleen Turner is ready to reveal her true self
Sep 07, 2008; ... Out of the mouths of babes ... Five great lines that should only ever be spoken by KathleenTurner 'I get so excited when you get angry. It makes me feel so muchcloser to the reading of the will' The Man With Two Brains 'Some men, once they get a whiff of it, ...
A marriage made for three Keira Knightley is a gorgeous, if rather sanitised, Duchess of Devonshire; while Guy Ritchie's own 'period piece' revisits familiar territory
Sep 07, 2008; ... The Duchess (12A) 110 mins ????? RocknRolla (15) 114 mins ????? The parallels between the lives of the late Diana, Princess ofWales and her 18th-century ancestor Georgiana Spencer have beenheavily emphasised in the publicity for Saul Dibbs's The Duchess.The dazzling ...
Season of plenty This autumn, London and Paris are fielding some of the grandest exhibitions to be seen in Europe for many years
Sep 07, 2008; ... The recent Gustav Klimt retrospective and The Age of Steam, bothin Liverpool, were fascinating exhibitions. But the truth is that,when it comes to the world of the visual arts, London and the cityto which it is umbilically attached, Paris, are the only realcontenders for the undisputed ...
50 REASONS TO LOVE BRITAIN Enough about the credit crunch. Forget knife crime. Never mind our split-second summers. Time to remind ourselves that there are still at least...
Sep 07, 2008 ... 24. Our English Roses The most popular page in Tatler, Sloaney-pony bible parexcellence? 'Babe of the Month'. The most flicked-to section inCountry Life? Its frontispiece, affectionately known as 'Gals inPearls'. 'But only because it marks the end of the property porn andthe ...
DVDs
Sep 07, 2008; ... Caramel Momentum MP798D, PG, pounds 17.99 ????? The first modern Lebanese film to ignore the war, Nadine Labaki'sstory of five girls working in a beauty salon risks being ascloyingly sweet as the confection that gives it its name. Yet theimpact is the very opposite. Labaki (above ...
MUST SEE
Sep 07, 2008; ... Angel (15) 120 mins ????? Francois Ozon's new film has attracted extremes of star-ratings.It's based on Elizabeth Taylor's 1957 novel about the titular writerof terrible romantic fiction, played by Romola Garai. Angel is apathological monster, yet Garai finds the insecurities ...
OTHER FILMS
Sep 07, 2008; ... Never Apologise (15) 112 mins ????? Lindsay Anderson (1923-94), the critic-turned-director behindsuch feted works as If ..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital, wasone of those personalities who - like Michael Powell before him andTerence Davies today - never quite found his ...
Back where he belongs Stevie Wonder's 50-year career proves that hope springs eternal. And if you don't believe us, ask Barack Obama
Sep 07, 2008; ... Even those not convinced by Barack Obama must admit that hisappreciation of pop music history seems more natural than mostpoliticians', and the way he discusses Stevie Wonder suggests thathis love for music is not part of a carefully calibrated culturalpackage of assumed hipness coldly ...
MUST BOOK
Sep 07, 2008; ... Madonna Fresh from celebrating her 50th birthday, theirrepressible 'Queen of Pop' brings her extravagant Sticky & Sweetstage show to London. Expect raunchy dancing, ...
International rites The parade of visiting orchestras to London is one of the Proms' greatest traditions
Sep 07, 2008; ... BBC Proms: New York Philharmonic ????? Oslo Philharmonic ????? Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester ????? Berlin Philharmonic ????? The New York Philharmonic arrived at the Proms with a sonicpostcard from home as its opening centrepiece. For all ...
Terror is the price of freedom The guillotine comes to the Globe; Hedda is updated in Notting Hill
Sep 07, 2008; ... Liberty ????? Hedda ????? Liberty, Gyn Maxwell's new play for the Globe Theatre, is anadaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel, Les dieux ont soif ('TheGods Are Thirsty'), about the fate of a revolutionary magistrateduring the Reign of Terror. Anatole France's calling ...
A far, far better thing This new Dickens ballet sometimes lacks clarity, but looks beautiful A Tale of Two Cities
Sep 07, 2008; ... Dickens is not an obvious ballet-magnet. The great man's plotsare usually thought too complex and unwieldy for a genre more suitedto boy-meets-swan. Northern Ballet Theatre disagree. A Tale of TwoCities opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse last weekend, joiningA Christmas Carol and ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK FICTION Do all men secretly want their wives to be unfaithful? Gerald Jacobs on a masterly novel of cuckoldry
Sep 07, 2008; ... The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 17.99, 320 pp Is there anything more sharply redolent of human frailty thansexual jealousy? It is a state of mind, and sometimes of body, thathas inspired poets and lined the pockets of therapists. It ...
What to read when you're feeling... heartbroken Bibliotherapy
Sep 07, 2008; ... There are times in life when a good book - the right book - feelslike a voice speaking in the darkness, or a hand reaching out fromthe past; providing solace when all else seems lost. Thus it waswhen I was 18 and heartbroken; awash with tearful misery until afriend's mother gave me a ...
FICTION Ed King is impressed by this American-based follow-up to an Egyptian bestseller
Sep 07, 2008; ... Chicago by Alaa Al Aswany FOURTH ESTATE, pounds 14.99, 332 pp Alaa Al Aswany's last novel, The Yacoubian Building, won overreaders with its endearing mix of righteous political critique andrich melodrama. Readers in the West could learn about the corruptionand ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'Whatever' by Michel Houellebecq
Sep 07, 2008; ... The way Michel Houellebecq's books have been packaged for Englishreaders is a source of irritation. Not just the covers, which tendmonotonously toward the semi-nude female, but the titles. Considerthe translations of the titles of his first two novels. Extension dudomaine de la lutte ...
NOVELLA Jane Shilling is intrigued by an insomniac's vision of the State of the Union
Sep 07, 2008; ... Man in the Dark by Paul Auster FABER, pounds 14.99, 180 pp An elderly man lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewherein the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya,each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the longVermont ...
CRIME P. D. James's compassion transforms the traditional whodunit, says David Robson
Sep 07, 2008; ... The Private Patient by P. D. James FABER, pounds 18.99, 395 pp When an investigative journalist checks in for plastic surgery toa private clinic in Dorset, you know she is going to end up withmore than a nip and tuck. With a more sadistic novelist, one wouldlook ...
Crime Fiction
Sep 07, 2008; ... The bleak little tragedy related in Arctic Chill by ArnaldurIndridason (Harvill Secker, pounds 11.99) is enacted in a suburb ofReyjavik, but it could have been set in almost any modern WesternEuropean city. A 10-year-old boy, of mixed Icelandic and Thaiparentage, has been found stabbed ...
SHORT STORIES The veteran chronicler of life on the ranch puts her characters through the mill, observes Lucy Beresford
Sep 07, 2008; ... Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx FABER, pounds 14.99, 240 pp With its hint of defensive resignation, Fine Just the Way It Isis a fitting title for Proulx's latest rugged, yet sympathetic short-story collection. All her characters endure their lot, even ...
GARDEN HISTORY Elizabethan gardens were designed for pleasure, but they were also powerful political weapons. Jenny Uglow unearths a drama played out in flower-beds
Sep 07, 2008; ... Elizabeth in the Garden: A Story of Love, Rivalry and Spectacular Design by Trea Martyn FABER, pounds 18.99, 325 pp In August 1572, accompanied by her court, including her LordTreasurer, William Cecil, Elizabeth I arrived at Kenilworth Castlein Warwickshire for a ...
TRAVEL WRITING Jason Webster accompanies Paul Theroux as he retraces his famous 1975 railway journey
Sep 07, 2008; ... Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of The GreatRailway Bazaar by Paul Theroux HAMISH HAMILTON, pounds 20, 512 pp In September 1973, Paul Theroux, then aged 32, set off fromLondon's Victoria station to travel by train across Europe and Asiato Japan and back again ....
Literary Life
Sep 07, 2008; ... You heard it here first: faux lit. This is apparently whatmarketing men in publishing call mutton dressed as lamb or, if youprefer, pulp processed as beautiful prose. A perfect example mightbe Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder, which invokes thename of Sigmund Freud to add a ...
BIOGRAPHY The pianist Paul Wittgenstein - brother of the more famous philosopher - is the hero of this family saga, finds Noel Malcolm
Sep 07, 2008; ... The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh BLOOMSBURY, pounds 20, 366 pp When I first heard the title of this book, I supposed (wrongly)that it was about the sleekly modernistic house which the 20thcentury's most famous philosopher helped to ...
Road test It may look like it's been designed by an excited teenager, but the Ford Fiesta still reigns supreme in the supermini league, says Neil Lyndon
Sep 07, 2008; ... Busy, busy, busy. It's desperately hard work being a styleobject, as the new Ford Fiesta proved exhaustively at its recentlaunch in Siena. You could get quite tired just running your eye over the body ofthis car and counting the number of its lines and surfaces. Wherethe original ...
Bridge
Sep 07, 2008; ... We do love to pick up huge distributional hands, but they usuallycome with an expensive price tag. It proves difficult to find asensible way to put across their power, thus we have to take a stabin the dark. Given that background, South had a relatively smoothride on this ...
Chess
Sep 07, 2008; ... The 3rd NH Experience v Rising Stars at Amsterdam saw Youthtriumph by a margin of 2-1. Wang Yue ended with 8.5/10 to be the topperforming Rising Star. The Experience team won very few games. One of the reasons theveterans seemed to suffer was simply lack of practice ....
World ready to witness triumphs of human spirit
Sep 07, 2008; ... COMPETITION at the XIII Paralympic Games, in Beijing, began inthe early hours of this morning. Over 11 days, 4,000 athletes from150 nations will compete to win 472 gold medals. Since 1988, the Paralympic Games have been held in the samevenues shortly after the Olympics, with an ...
If you have a taste for gold, stand by
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE Beijing Olympic Games are over. Our teams have returned -Team GB with a glut of medals, the London 2012 team armed with astack of details, anecdotes and lessons to inform our planning forthe world's biggest sporting event. Time to draw breath? Not a bit - the world's second ...
Hoy backs Team GB to return as heroes
Sep 07, 2008; ... CHRIS HOY, the triple Olympic track cycling champion, returnedfrom Beijing two weeks ago the biggest hero of Team GB, having ledthe side's unprecedented medal charge. But, as he told The SundayTelegraph, he thinks the Paralympic team could do even better. "We're quite close to the ...
'I think Beijing is ready to deliver best Paralympic Games ever'
Sep 07, 2008; ... WHEN I started as a rookie at the Paralympics in Seoul in 1988,no one imagined then that the Paralympic Games would grow into theglobal event they have become today - with 'professional' athleteswho are offered endorsements, under the full glare of the mediaspotlight, in the splendour of ...
British world champion Aggar ready for oarsome challenge Former rugby player is a favourite for gold after just 18 months of rowing, writes Gareth A Davies
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE transition from rugby player to potential Paralympic rowinggold medallist has been the toughest journey of 24-year-old Londoner Tom Aggar's life. Three years ago, as a budding 6ft 3in rugby player, he was amember of Saracens youth development squad, and ...
Du Toit's never-say-die Olympic dream inspires new generation of swimmers PROFILE: OSCAR PISTORIUS SWIMMING South African's determination shows spirit of a true champion, says Zelim Nel
Sep 07, 2008; ... EMILY Gray's battle against personal misfortune, which has ledher to become South Africa's youngest Paralympic athlete at the 2008Beijing Games, aged 17, has been made easier by the inspirationalstory of Natalie du Toit, her compatriot and fellow amputee swimmer. Du Toit's career ...
Bladerunner determined to be triple Oscar winner ATHLETICS The South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius just missed out on an Olympic spot, but aims to leave his mark on Beijing just like Jamaica's double gold medallist Usain Bolt, says Ken Borland
Sep 07, 2008; ... FEW athletes enjoy the privilege of winning a gold medal at theOlympics or Paralympics; even fewer are so brilliant that the Gamesat which they excel are characterised by their exploits. The Beijing Olympics will forever be known as the Usain Bolt orMichael Phelps Games, depending ...
Weir ready to take on Dame Tanni's mantle The tough British racer is now showing a softer side as mentor, says Gareth A Davies
Sep 07, 2008; ... DAVID Weir, Britain's foremost wheelchair racer on both the trackand the road, has found himself taking on a new role at the BeijingGames - that of father figure and race adviser to his younger team-mates. Tough and gritty, Weir, who will be 30 next year, has longcompeted in the ...
Revealed: Chinese bank's pounds 9bn raid on British shares
Sep 07, 2008; ... CHINA'S central bank has built stakes worth up to an estimated pounds 9bn in Britain's index of leading blue-chip companies,including HSBC, Tesco and Unilever, an investigation by The SundayTelegraph reveals today. The scale of the investments by Beijing's State Administration ...
Candys and Qataris out of step at Chelsea Barracks
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE QATARI ruling family is considering terminating its businesspartnership with Candy & Candy, the luxury designers, on the pounds1bn development of Chelsea Barracks. The multi-billionaire Middle Eastern investors have told Nick andChristian Candy that they want to take full ...
Nationwide swoops on battered rivals
Sep 07, 2008; ... NATIONWIDE, one of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders, is inadvanced talks to merge with the Derbyshire Building Society in amove expected to kick-start consolidation of the pounds 350bnindustry, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. Nationwide, which is the country's largest building ...
Google's 'Android' to hit UK
Sep 07, 2008 ... A NEW front in Silicon Valley's fierce battle for technologysupremacy will be opened in Britain before Christmas with the launchof Google's first mobile phone venture, write Mark Kleinman andDominic White. Google's 'Dream' phone, which uses its much-hyped Android open-source ...
BIG BROTHER PRODUCER ATTRACTS NEW GOLDMAN SACHS AUDIENCE
Sep 07, 2008 ... ITS RATINGS may be sliding, but Big Brother (above) is attractingthe interest of debt-hungry dealmakers, write Mark Kleinman andJuliette Garside. Funds backed by Goldman Sachs, which owns a third of BigBrother's production company Endemol and which also led a consortiumof banks ...
End of the road for flexible friend as Barclaycard goes 'contactless'
Sep 07, 2008; ... BARCLAYCARD is planning an aggressive expansion of its pioneering'contactless' payment system to kick-start a revolution that itbelieves will sound the death knell for the plastic credit card. Britain's biggest card provider plans to upgrade 1m customers toits contactless ...
Lonmin in secret talks to evade Xstrata
Sep 07, 2008; ... LONMIN is exploring a three-way merger with two rival groups tocreate the world's second-biggest platinum company as a radicalalternative to being taken over by Xstrata, the mining giant. The secret talks, which started several weeks ago, involve a planby Aquarius Platinum and ...
Rate of start-ups plummets by a quarter in one year
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE NUMBER of new companies being established in Britain hastumbled by a quarter as the British economy teeters on the brink ofrecession. The rate of companies being founded has fallen by 100,000 in theyear since the start of the credit crunch, compared with the yearbefore, as ...
Woolies to shake up executive rewards
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE BOARD of Woolworths, the high street chain which is facing atakeover bid from the retail entrepreneur Malcolm Walker, is torevamp its executive pay scheme following a slump in its shareprice. Advisers to Woolworths say that Richard North, its chairman, isconcerned that senior ...
M&S boss joins Johnson's London advisory board
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE BOSSES of China Mobile, JP Morgan Chase and Marks & Spencerare to advise Boris Johnson on retaining London's status as one ofthe world's leading cities, the capital's mayor will announce today. Wang Jianzhou, Jamie Dimon and Sir Stuart Rose have agreed tobecome members of the ...
'Goldfinger' makes comeback with launch of $5bn hedge fund
Sep 07, 2008; ... MARK MCGOLDRICK, a former Goldman Sachs trader whose track recordearned him the nickname 'Goldfinger' during his career with the WallStreet bank, is making a comeback with a new $5bn ( pounds 2.8bn)fund. McGoldrick, who famously earned $70m a year ($200,000 a day), butresigned ...
Lord Bilimoria toasts Cobra with fresh cash infusion
Sep 07, 2008; ... LORD BILIMORIA, the Cobra Beer entrepreneur, is injecting part ofhis multi-million pound fortune into the company as part of itsinternational expansion ahead of an eventual outright sale. The crossbench peer has secured a funding package worth about pounds 15m from existing ...
Bebo creator hails 'end of print dictionary'
Sep 07, 2008; ... MICHAEL Birch, the multi-millionaire founder of the socialnetworking site bebo.com, is heralding the death of the printdictionary with the launch of his next business venture. The British-born entrepreneur has teamed up with televisionproducer Edward Baker to launch a video ...
HSBC reviews London base amid tax row * Britain's largest bank holding triennial review * Business exodus has swelled in recent weeks * Regus and Shire among companies to have left
Sep 07, 2008; ... HSBC, BRITAIN'S largest bank, is reviewing whether it shouldretain its headquarters in London, piling pressure on the Governmentamid an exodus of companies angered by the uncertainty over tax policy. HSBC's review, which is thought to have begun recently, ...
Wall Street star brings boutique bank to Europe
Sep 07, 2008; ... KEN Moelis, the former president of UBS and one of Wall Street'smost seasoned deal makers, is to open a new office in London in hisfirst foray outside the US. The star banker, who has advised some of America's most famousentrepreneurs including Donald Trump, has started hiring. He ...
Livingstones defy crunch with pounds 230m dividend
Sep 07, 2008; ... THE RECLUSIVE British property tycoons Ian and RichardLivingstone have banked pounds 230m after granting themselves oneof the largest dividends in British corporate history. The billionaires generated the cash through their propertyempire, London & Regional Properties, owner of a ...
Tories not yet ready to say goodnight, Darling
Sep 07, 2008; ... When will business start taking the Tories seriously? Certainlynot after the week we've just had. Many in the wealth-creating areaof the economy, who rely on their entrepreneurial instincts tothrive, are wondering where the political entrepreneurs are in theConservative party - a party ...
ENTER THE DRAGON
Sep 07, 2008; ... Having written in this column two weeks ago that the time wouldeventually come that the Chinese government owned a stake in everymajor British company, I have a confession to make. I was rightabout the principle, but hopelessly misguided about the timing. The moment I was referring ...
RUSSIA REMAINS RISKY
Sep 07, 2008; ... For the brave delegates accompanying the Lord Mayor of London onhis trip to Russia this week, Tony Hayward might well be somethingof a mascot. By defusing the vicious row with his Russian partner,the chief executive of BP has achieved something that seemedimpossible just a few weeks ...
A TROPHY ASSET - MINUS THE TROPHY
Sep 07, 2008; ... Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United . . . and Petrodollar Rovers? It may not sound right but get used to the idea - doing shrewdbusiness in English football has just become more of an oxymoronthan ever. I have often wondered what it is about the national game thatturns ...
BRINGING NEW COLOUR TO BUSINESS
Sep 07, 2008; ... Today sees the launch of The Sunday Telegraph in full colour. Tocoincide with that, we have made some important changes to ourbusiness coverage, including a new weekly page dedicated to helpingthe business owners among our readers make the most of newtechnology as well as offering useful ...
Panicking politicians threaten the foundation of our prosperity
Sep 07, 2008; ... Economics isn't a real science. Almost nothing can be proved. Ask10 economists a question and you'll get at least 15 conflictinganswers. But nearly all dismal scientists agree on one thing: independentcentral banking is a good idea. And we've got the evidence to backus ...
Public sector pensions drain our taxes
Sep 07, 2008; ... LAST WEEK I wrote that rising longevity and falling investmentreturns are hammering our private sector pension funds. Over thenext five to 10 years, as ever more "baby-boomers" reach for theirslippers, the demographic pressures really mount. Lots of us yet to retire will end up ...
China banks on London market The Chinese central bank, one of the most secretive in the world, is amassing shares in many of Britain's blue-chip companies. Malcolm Moore in Shanghai and Mark Kleinman in London report
Sep 07, 2008; ... It was a bitterly cold January day in Beijing, and events at homemeant Gordon Brown was entitled to believe the chill would endure.The crisis engulfing Northern Rock, the mortgage lender which monthsearlier had been forced to seek emergency funding from the Bank ofEngland, would soon ...
Brown's plan wins no fans Building societies look to merge as experts turn on Labour's housing plan, writes Edmund Conway
Sep 07, 2008; ... It didn't take long for the economists, industry experts andcampaigners to declare Gordon Brown's housing rescue plan a majordisappointment. While the Nationwide, Britain's largest buildingsociety was secretly plotting its own response to the collapse inthe market - it is in advanced ...