The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from October 2008:
The common people shouldn't end up thinking democracy is for them, too
Oct 05, 2008; ... I think, but I couldn't swear to it, that the last person onearth who might have read every book published in their lifetime wasJohn Milton. He had the necessary Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French,Spanish, Italian, a smattering of Old English and, for some reason,Dutch. Such a feat ...
Infamous What do Jack Nicholson, Kate Moss, Prince Andrew, Nicole Kidman and scores of other household names have in common? They're all friends of Michael White, the producer/playboy who virtually invented the showbiz party. He opens his A-list photo albums to Guy Kennaway
Oct 05, 2008; ... Unless you work in show business you probably won't have heard ofMichael White. You might have heard of his work, though. Born in1936, he would one day produce hundreds of West End shows, amongthem Oh, Calcutta!, The Rocky Horror Show, Sleuth, A Chorus Line andAnnie, all of which enjoyed ...
Loves and hates
Oct 05, 2008; ... PUTTING THE DUVET COVER ON It's the only time in my life when I feel a deep, and very real,existential angst. Time seems to stretch and bend, seconds turn intohours and it generally ends up with me in tears. I've tried allsorts of techniques to alleviate the pain, including ...
whatever happened to... Pauline Hanson
Oct 05, 2008; ... If, like many, you're still struggling to understand how a'hockey mom' from Alaska might end up one heart attack away frombeing President of the United States, a brief resume of the careerof Pauline Hanson might help. A political outsider with four children and unshakeable ...
The urban spaceman Richard Garriott grew up surrounded by astronauts, keeps two Sputniks in his home, and claims to own the Moon. And next week, the British-born video-game pioneer will become the sixth person to make a private flight to the International Space Station. Peter Lyle joins him in Russia as the countdown begins
Oct 05, 2008; ... Astronomical room and restaurant rates, visa traumas, motionlesstraffic and pollution so thick you can write your name in it onevery car window: Moscow isn't the first place most of us think ofwhen planning a city break. But for Richard Garriott and his selectbreed of fellow 'tourists', ...
Pushing the envelope It's not Harriet Russell's letters that are so original - it's the way she sends them. Now her 'game' with the Post Office has produced a first-class book
Oct 05, 2008; ... As family traditions go, it's unusual. But Harriet Russell isonly the latest in her family to seek to amaze and befuddle the men and women of the Royal Mail. Her great-great-great grandfather, Henry Ponsonby, was an eminentVictorian - a veteran of the Crimean War, private ...
A miss is as good as a mile This screen version of the Evelyn Waugh classic looks gorgeous but fails to move; while Toby Young's New York memoir hits the spot
Oct 05, 2008; ... The 1981 television series of Brideshead Revisited made anindelible impression upon a generation of viewers. It was superblypaced and shot, instinctively true to the subtleties of EvelynWaugh's 1945 novel, and impeccably acted. This is precisely whatmakes it such a horror for anyone ...
DVDs
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Go Master ICA017DVD, 15, pounds 17.99 ????? This film is about the Oriental board game and about Wu Qingyuan,the main character, who was the undefeated world champion in the1940s. Now over 90, he still lives in Tokyo. Director TianZhuangzhuang keeps interest focused, because ...
OTHER FILMS
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Fall (15) 117 mins ????? From its opening sequence of a stunt team using a train to pull adead horse from a river, it's clear The Fall is something special.Possibly a bit too special for its own good. This singular fantasystarts in 1920s Hollywood, but sprawls outward to ...
Where's the spectacle? This year's four short-listed Turner Prize aspirants take the idea of art-for-art's-sake to almost ludicrous extremes
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Turner Prize 2008 ????? Tate Britain, London SW1 (020 887 8888) to 18 January 2009 The original function of the Turner Prize, inaugurated in 1984,was to reward the best British artists and to create a stir aboutcontemporary works of art - much as the Booker Prize ...
Subversive message on a bottle In Brazil, artists had to be resourceful if they wanted to criticise the military dictatorship
Oct 05, 2008; ... Cildo Meireles Tate Modern, London SE1 (020 7887 8888), 14 October to 11 January 2009 It's now almost four decades since Brazilian artist CildoMeireles produced one of the key works of Conceptual Art, and aswith many of his strongest pieces, it dates back to the era ...
Autopsy of the human soul An outstanding Strindberg; and pointless reverence for Vermeer
Oct 05, 2008; ... Creditors ????? Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 (0870 060 6624) to 15 November Girl with a Pearl Earring ????? Haymarket Theatre Royal, LondonSW1 (0870 400 0626) to 1 November During the period that the Prince of Wales's first marriage was disintegrating, there was ...
Earthy power in the thigh The Australian 'Rite of Spring' electrified Paris. Now it's London's turn
Oct 05, 2008; ... Australian Ballet ????? at Sadler's Wells, London EC1 0844 871 0090, Tuesday to Saturday Paris Opera Ballet operadeparis.fr PARIS WASN'T ALWAYS a fan of The Rite of Spring. When Diaghilevpremiered it there in 1913 the audience were famously aghast atNijinsky's crude, ...
MUST BOOK
Oct 05, 2008; ... Elbow Mercury Prize-winning stars of melodramatic melancholy.Cambridge Corn Exchange, Mon; Portsmouth Guildhall, Tue; Truro Hallfor Cornwall, Wed; Cardiff University, ...
Quantity and quality London's five orchestras justify the world's envy
Oct 05, 2008; ... Philharmonia/Salonen ????? LPO/Jurowski ????? London's five symphony orchestras, not to mention countless otherensembles, mean that the city has long been one of the world'sleading musical capitals. What it may lack in great concert halls,it more than makes up for with a ...
Not everyone is watered by Oasis
Oct 05, 2008; ... To be honest, the following hype does not excite me as much as itshould: 'Oasis are back with The Shock of the Lightning, the dynamicfirst single from their seventh studio release, 'Dig Out Your Soul',due out on 7 October.' The sentence fills me with a kind of soul-bruising sadness, ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK This Life of Warren Buffett shows how the 'Oracle of Omaha' garnered his spectacular wealth but not why, finds Dan Roberts
Oct 05, 2008; ... BIOGRAPHY The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder BLOOMSBURY, pounds 25, 976 pp The credit crunch has not been kind to capitalists, but theauthor of the official biography of Warren Buffett could hardlyhave ...
Literary Life
Oct 05, 2008; ... This week, on 6 and 7 October, Chris & Don: A Love Story willhave its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London. Thedocumentary tells the story of Christopher Isherwood and DonBachardy, who met on a beach in California in 1952 when Isherwoodwas 48 and Bachardy a mere 18. They ...
BIOGRAPHY This biography is equal to the Victorian era's second- most formidable female, says Judith Flanders
Oct 05, 2008; ... Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge VIKING, pounds 25, 672 pp Florence Nightingale is a strange figure, both too frequentlywritten about and too little understood. Longfellow was an eagerparticipant in the creation of her myth: ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME The Counterfeiters By Andre Gide
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Counterfeiters (1926) was inspired by real events that AndreGide derived from the Rouen newspapers. In 1906 some schoolboys hadbeen discovered passing fake money, and at their trial the judge hadasked one of them if he'd been a member of the gang. 'Let's call it"The Symposium", your ...
MEMOIR Anne Billson delights in the name-dropping memoir of Hollywood's oldest - and hairiest - A-lister
Oct 05, 2008; ... Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by Cheeta FOURTH ESTATE, pounds 16.99, 336 pp So it has come to this, I thought as I tackled my latestassignment. Thirty years of quality journalism, and here I am,reviewing the autobiography of a chimpanzee. But, as I was soon ...
TRAVEL/HISTORY Jeremy Seal is enthralled by a trail of 2,500-year- old footsteps
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Man Who Invented History: Travels With Herodotus By Justin Marozzi JOHN MURRAY, pounds 25, 333 pp CHILDREN'S BOOKS THE WIZARD OF OZ BY L FRANK BAUM, ILLUSTRATED BYGRAHAM RAWLE ATLANTIC, pounds 25, 296 PP Everyone, it seems, is hitting the road with ...
Bibliotherapy What to read when you're... tempted by infidelity
Oct 05, 2008; ... 'All this fuss about sleeping together,' wrote Evelyn Waugh inVile Bodies. 'For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist anyday.' He may or may not have been teasing, but a reading of hislater novel, A Handful of Dust, is enough to put anyone off havingan affair, however great the ...
MILITARY Frances Stonor Saunders on the forgotten front, where war was fought not in trenches but on cliff faces
Oct 05, 2008; ... The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1918 by Mark Thompson FABER, pounds 25, 464 pp In September 2003, after a long heatwave, the glaciers of theItalian Dolomites melted at an alarming rate. As the snow and icereceded, some extraordinary ...
FICTION A dead woman is the most lively character in this ghost story, finds Charles Fernyhough
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Gate of Air by James Buchan MACLEHOSE PRESS/QUERCUS, pounds 12.99, 248 pp Trailing a modern novel as a ghost story sets up some tangible expectations. There will be a hauntedhouse, of course, an unexplained death or two, and a cast ofpotential ...
Crime Fiction
Oct 05, 2008; ... The brilliant success of the Beijing Olympics can't disguise thereality of life in China, which is vividly captured by CatherineSampson in The Slaughter Pavilion (Macmillan, pounds 16.99). Herregular protagonist, the private detective Song, had rejected a pleafor help from a man who ...
FICTION Tom Cameron finds fresh horrors in this follow-up to an appallingly timely debut
Oct 05, 2008; ... The Other Hand by Chris Cleave SCEPTRE, pounds 12.99, 370 pp Chris Cleave's first novel, Incendiary, about a terrorist attackon London, was published, by dreadful coincidence, on what is nowcalled 7/7. Although most publicity was pulled, Cleave has landed onhis feet, ...
FICTION The unsolved murder of a child star is too close to real events for David Robson
Oct 05, 2008; ... My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates FOURTH ESTATE, pounds 12.99, 562 ppNovels based on real-lifecrime stories always leave a slightly queasy taste. Novels based onunsolved real-life crime stories leave an even queasier one. Thereare probably writers already working on ...
Gadgets
Oct 05, 2008; ... Let's get one thing clear from the off: birders and twitchers arenot the same species. Birders like to observe our feathered brethrenin a keen but measured way; twitchers are obsessive-compulsives whowill travel hundreds of miles to catch a glimpse of a rare bird - or'lifer', a ...
Audi Q7 V12 TDI Quattro It's the world's most powerful diesel SUV - and the most politically incorrect car. The cash-guzzling Audi Q7, finds Neil Lyndon, is perfect for Premier League footballers
Oct 05, 2008; ... If you floor the accelerator in the new Audi Q7 V12 TDI, thebonnet rises like the bow of a powerboat or the nose of a jetaircraft lifting off the runway. This is, therefore, the only 4x4SUV (sports utility vehicle) in production that can feel as if it'sabout to pop a ...
Coming next 'People will love Law & Order in England.
Oct 05, 2008; ... Mariska Hargitay is relaxing on a sofa on the set of the 10thseries of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. We are between shots,and she's chatting to her co-star, Chris Meloni, who has just beenshowing off how good he is at fake crying. They play the sex-crimecops Elliot Stabler and ...
Out of the frying pan...
Oct 05, 2008; ... 'I have no idea what's going to happen in the next six months,'announced Jamie Oliver as he drove up to Rotherham in Jamie'sMinistry of Food (Tuesday, Channel 4). Maybe not, but everyonewatching, I suspect, will have had a much clearer idea. There'll beanger, exasperation, heartening ...
Books, buzzers and an ageing Harry Potter
Oct 05, 2008; ... Sad but true. In my Seventies boyhood, our family meals weredominated by quizzes, with me often in the role of question master.As a result, my dream wasn't to become a train driver or a fireman, but that one day I might get to say 'Fingers on thebuzzers, please' to people who ...
Bridge
Oct 05, 2008; ... FOR AROUND two decades now, Zia Mahmood has been the energy thatdrives the tournament circuit. His enthusiasm for the game seems tobe boundless and he sparks all around him into life. It would benice to think he could hand the baton over to the next generation,but such a charismatic ...
Chess
Oct 05, 2008; ... A gang of Russian teenagers have been convicted of the murder ofIM Sergei Nikolayev in a racist attack that they recorded on theirmobile phones. Nikolayev had Eurasian features and the youths alsoattacked other bystanders of differing ethnic groups during arampage after a football ...
PS Personally Speaking
Oct 05, 2008; ... To Hove, with my old friend Zoe Heller for a reading of ourrespective new books, 'Liver' and 'The Believers'. The response waspretty good, although one woman did ask a question of Zoe thatbegan, 'I haven't read Notes on a Scandal, but I did see the film -which I didn't like ...' Any ...
Brown leads D15bn package for small firms
Oct 05, 2008; ... GORDON Brown yesterday agreed a deal with his Europeancounterparts to help small businesses by urgently releasing theEuropean Investment Bank's full euro15bn fund to ease the lendingfreeze at banks. At an emergency summit of European leaders in Paris, the primeminister led the ...
Investor stand-off hits McCarthy & Stone
Oct 05, 2008; ... CREDITORS to the retirement-home developer McCarthy & Stone arein a stand-off with shareholders over the future funding of one ofBritain's largest property companies. Holders of tens of millions of pounds of mezzanine debt inMcCarthy & Stone are bringing in Houlihan Lokey, a ...
Iceland lines up bank rescue deal
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE prime minister of Iceland was last night leading crisis talkswith the country's central bank and leaders of its top pension fundsto thrash out a rescue plan for the country's ailing bankingindustry, a move that may have profound implications for some ofBritain's richest ...
Mandelson: 'Financial crisis risks new wave of economic nationalism'
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE global financial crisis risks sparking a new wave of economicnationalism that would put the brakes on international efforts toreduce cross-border trade barriers, Peter Mandelson, the newBusiness Secretary, warned last night. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph, ...
JJB Sports under pressure as insurers pull plug
Oct 05, 2008; ... CREDIT insurers are refusing to provide cover for suppliers toJJB' raising questions about the troubled retailer's future. Last month auditors to JJB warned of material uncertainties that"cast significant doubt" on its ability to continue as a goingconcern. The decision by ...
TUC plan to reduce reliance on City
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE Trade Union Congress is drafting proposals to bolster a rangeof high-growth industries including civil engineering, telecoms andfilm through new forms of government aid. These will be aimed at helping the economy pick up the slackcreated by a dwindling financial sector hit by ...
Companies face pounds 50bn funding crisis
Oct 05, 2008; ... BRITAIN'S biggest businesses are heading for a major cashflowcrisis in the impending months as they have to refinance more than pounds 50bn worth of debt. Many members of the FTSE350 face a serious crunch as at least pounds 50bn in their publicly traded debt expires by December, ...
Investors in nationalised Bradford & Bingley demand board seat in compensation fight
Oct 05, 2008; ... BRADFORD & Bingley's dismayed former investors are seeking a seaton the nationalised bank's board in an effort to recover somethingfrom its collapse. B&B shareholders want their interests protected after doing theirbit for financial stability by stepping in to rescue the ...
East gets approach from India
Oct 05, 2008; ... INVESTORS in East, the bohemian womenswear retailer thatpioneered the sale of clothes based on Indian fashions, have been intalks to sell the company to a little-known Indian retail group.East is believed to have been in negotiations with Fabindia, aretailer specialising in ...
Why Mandelson answered the call to arms The new Business Secretary talks to Mark Kleinman about the challenges of the financial crisis and how he will deal with this 'national emergency'.
Oct 05, 2008; ... Peter Mandelson does not sound like a man ready to go into battleagain. Back in his Brussels flat after one of the most exhaustingdays of even his political career, the now-former European UnionTrade Commissioner is overdosing on cranberry juice as he complainsof a bout of ...
Have they done enough? On Friday, the US finally delivered a bailout designed to stabilise the worldwide banking crisis that threatened to plunge the world into depression. But financiers fear worse is to come.
Oct 05, 2008; ... ON Friday at 1.25pm Frits Vogels headed out of his corner officeat Icap in the City's Broadgate complex and stood chatting withcolleagues seated at their computers eating lunches out of cardboardcartons. For a dealing room the place was eerily quiet. No businesswas being done. Everyone, ...
In the eye of the storm: One banker's experience of a month inside Lehman
Oct 05, 2008; ... A 34-year-old trader in European equities at Lehman Brothers in London talksanonymously to Louise Armitstead "IF I'm honest, the first time it hit me that Lehman Brothers ormy job might disappear was on that Sunday [September 14]. "At 3am on the Monday morning, I ...
ECONOMIC AGENDA Interest rate cut will undermine credibility of monetary regime
Oct 05, 2008; ... IT'S become even worse. The screw has turned tighter still.What's more, the epicentre of this crisis has now headed closer tohome. Last week, the global credit crunch smacked Europe in the face.Just as the US "bailout" was set to save us, a barrage of freshevidence exposed our ...
Mandelson's return unlikely to lift the darkness
Oct 05, 2008; ... Ten years ago today, the newspaper headlines looked eerilyfamiliar: "G7 names figurehead for economic rescue mission", readone; "Hedge fund row over regulation", another. And just like on themorning of October 5, 1998, Peter Mandelson sat at the heart of aLabour Cabinet. How ...
DIVERTED BY BOARDROOM PAY
Oct 05, 2008; ... AS Brown intoned solemnly last week that he and his Chancellorwere doing "everything possible" to ensure the stability ofBritain's financial system, the memory of a recent conversation Ihad with Downing Street officials caused my heart to sink. Not forone moment do I doubt that Brown and ...
A DYSON MEETING IS A MUST
Oct 05, 2008; ... MANDELSON'S stunning return to the Cabinet on Friday seems tohave left some eminent members of the business community pleasantlysurprised. No doubt Mandy will enjoy the moment - but he shouldn't for long. One of the first things he must do, if for no other reason thanto prove ...
How college enterprises get up to Speed BRIGHT IDEAS
Oct 05, 2008; ... An odd sight during Freshers' week at Derby University this week:40 student businesses from across the Midlands setting up stalls toshowcase their wares and, so they hope, inspire this year's intaketo follow in their wake. It's all down to "Speed", a quirkily acronymed, pounds 5m ...
does it work? BIZ TECH
Oct 05, 2008 ... Business: A3 Communications Technology: Backup WHEN Federica Monsone, head of A3 Communications, the publicrelations practice, found herself in the US with her laptop playingup, she realised she could be in trouble. Not only was she far from home with all her vital ...
EXPERT VIEW BIZ TECH
Oct 05, 2008 ... Duncan Tait Managing director Unisys UK, Middle East, Africa While A3 Communications rightly recognises the need to back upits data to protect its business, it should also consider thepossible reasons why its data might be lost in the first place. Inmany ways it is ...
tech byte Sony Vaio VGC-LV1S pounds 1,399 sony.co.uk *****
Oct 05, 2008 ... THERE'S an unspoken rule that business computers have to be uglyto be powerful. However, Sony's new range is good-looking enough to make a splashin a stylish reception room or boardroom. Like Apple's iMac, it's an all in-one solution so the deskfootprint is reduced. The ...
There's gold out on that Silver Coast
Oct 05, 2008; ... If things had gone according to plan Charlie Webster, now aged22, would be doing a degree in law and business and looking for ajob. Instead, he's running his own fast-growing company letting and selling property on Portugal'sSilver Coast. Three years ago as a student, ...
A new Dawn, nay a new Day for profligacy
Oct 05, 2008; ... REMEMBER Dawnay Day? It was only two months ago that the pounds1bn, privately-owned property and finance empire was crushed underthe weight of its own debt. Norwich Union called in a pounds 650mloan, the company promptly called in the administrators. What with all the banks that ...
Landsbanksi IT heisti
Oct 05, 2008; ... TOUGH times among the Icelandic banks. On Friday, Kaupthing toldits leveraged investors they would have to cough up more cash or seetheir positions closed down. On Wednesday, Landsbanki dumped (okay,sold) its London-based broking arm Landsbanki Securities to localrival Straumar ....
Dragons fired up outside their Den
Oct 05, 2008; ... EVERYONE knows competition is good for business (except maybebanks - do us a favour chaps and get back to lending), perhapsthat's why celebrity entrepreneurs from the BBC's Dragons' Den have done so well. But Dashwood hears itis not just on the show that they compete. Three of ...
Plonk a case of Recession Red in front of No 10
Oct 05, 2008; ... DASHWOOD'S never been a great lover of British wine - Bordeaux'sthe stuff and plenty of it. But if you feel the need to drown yoursorrows, you could do worse than invest in a drop of a uniquelyfruity little number from the vineyard of private equity boss JonMoulton. "Recession ...
SUNDAY QUESTOR Tesco stacks up solid potential worldwide
Oct 05, 2008; ... Tesco 415.7p Questor saysHold "GOOD enough" was how the City summed up results from supermarketgiant Tesco last week. Pre-tax profits were slightly higher thanexpectations - thanks to property profits - while trading profit wasslightly below. Solid, ...
Dyson the inventor keeps on motoring INTERVIEW Sir James Dyson, the man behind the bagless vacuum cleaner, tells Andrew Cave why he's frustrated by Government red tape
Oct 05, 2008; ... Sir James Dyson strides into the room with his trademark vacuumcleaner under his arm, but it's the gadgets in his pockets that hereally wants to talk about. "I thought I would get stopped at reception, but I got through,"smiles the 61-year-old inventor, extracting two white ...
SIR JAMES DYSON DYSON LIMITED
Oct 05, 2008 ... Born: Cromer, Norfolk 1947 Educated: School in Norfolk, St Martin's, Royal College of Art Family: Married with three grown-up ...
ARE YOUR SAVINGS SECURE? SAFETY FOR SAVERS RICHARD EVANS FINDS OUT WHERE YOUR MONEY IS LEAST AT RISK AND WHAT THE GUARANTEES ACTUALLY MEAN
Oct 05, 2008; ... Savers are worried about banks. After months of doom-ladenheadlines, many have been moving their savings into the fewinstitutions that offer a cast-iron guarantee that all their moneyis safe. When Ireland last week offered such a guarantee for all bankdeposits, many British ...