The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from November 2008:
New kids on the block No adverts, no free gifts and definitely no Bob the Builder. Welcome to 'Okido', the magazine designed to make children brainier
Nov 02, 2008; ... You can get quite sick - if you're a parent - of buyingchildren's magazines. They consist of endless Disney princesses andBarbies, queens of bland, with nothing much in them except adverts,ghastly computer-generated images and word searches. Boys haveSpectacular Spiderman but really all ...
addendum whatever happened to... Katherine Harris
Nov 02, 2008; ... After what seems like an eternity, the race for the White Housefinally draws to a close on Tuesday. Or so we hope. Eight years ago,memorably, it took another 36 days to name the President, as lawyersfor George W. Bush and Al Gore fought tooth-and-nail over hanging,dimpled and pregnant ...
Funny old place, Bath, as I was saying to a man in a toga only the other day
Nov 02, 2008; ... I met a Roman senator the other day whom I hadn't seen for years.I happened to be in Bath and popped in to see my favourite Romanruins. I love Rome and, truth be told, have been a ruin there myselfon occasion, but how lovely to have some of that history on thedoorstep.Wandering ...
The door swings open ...'I see you've met my Progeny' Her 'Interview with the Vampire' made her a Gothic hero. Now Anne Rice is a born-again Catholic, but the writer, who surrounds herself with the glassy-eyed stares of the hundreds of dolls in her collection, is just as spooky as ever
Nov 02, 2008; ... A spooky quiet pervades Anne Rice's house. The hushed, hermeticatmosphere is aided by its location in Rancho Mirage, a gatedretirement community in the California desert near Palm Springs - ifyou listen closely you can hear the distant hiss of sprinklers andthe shuffling of slippers - ...
The man who's always Right Global warming? A hoax. Barack Obama? A disaster. John McCain? A winner. So says Rush Limbaugh, America's most listened-to and influential - not to mention richest - radio personality. But will America prove him wrong this Tuesday? The Nigel Farndale Interview
Nov 02, 2008; ... Although Rush Limbaugh doesn't actually work from a bunker, hedoes have a bunker mentality. His studio is on the third floor of a(purposefully) anonymous building 100 yards off the white sands ofPalm Beach, Florida, and about a mile from his gated mansion (theone next to Chuck Norris's) ....
the greatest museum you'll never see It is guarded by Gurkhas, peopled by ghosts in flying jackets and filled with vintage planes, strange machines and a teamaker the size of a wardrobe. Lucy Davies visits the outstation that holds 16,000 of the Science Museum's hidden treasures
Nov 02, 2008; ... 'There's a reason for the red tags,' scolds the curator as ourphotographer circles in for a close-up of an autopsy table. Thisone, she warns, belonged to Sir William Jenner, physician to QueenVictoria, whose reputation rests on drawing the distinction betweentyphus and typhoid. 'It's ...
A secret agent in perpetual motion It's the usual Bond formula - lots of noise, lots of girls and lots of bodies - but what's happened to its sense of humour?
Nov 02, 2008; ... Quantum of Solace (12A) 106 mins ????? If it's solace you're really after, there is remarkably little ofit to be found in the new Bond film. There is, however, anembarrassment of car chases, gunfights, explosions, fires, falls andassassinations. When we first glimpse Bond (Daniel ...
OTHER FILMS
Nov 02, 2008; ... Hunger (15) 96 mins ????? As befits the first feature from a Turner Prize-winning artist,Steve McQueen's Hunger demands a different approach of the viewer:this is probably not a Saturday-night movie. It's perhaps best seenas three distinct yet interlocking works on the same ...
High art in the Low Countries Life and the reinterpretation of history are all part of this collection of Flemish pictures from the Royal Collection
Nov 02, 2008; ... Bruegel to Rubens ????? The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace,London SW1 (020 7766 7301) to 26 April A new exhibition at the Queen's Gallery always quickens thepulse. The Royal Collection is so huge and so mysterious - dispersedthrough the Queen's various residences are some 7,000 ...
New Labour's, new danger ... but Peter Hall's staging lets Shakespeare's comedy speak for itself
Nov 02, 2008; ... Love's Labour's Lost ????? Rose Theatre Kingston (0871 230 1552)to 15 November HOT ON THE HEELS of Gregory Doran's triumphant Stratfordproduction comes Peter Hall's interpretation for the Rose, Kingston.The theatre - Hall's brainchild - opened in January and has beenhome to ...
Prepare to be bustin' out all over The best musical ever written is waltzing back into the West End
Nov 02, 2008; ... For Rodgers and Hammerstein fans, it's time Carousel camespinning around again - it was last staged in London in 1992.Lindsay Posner, the director of the new production, says, 'It's likea classic Royal Court about sex and violence, about a man - BillyBigelow, a carnival barker and petty ...
Some enchanted kingdom A ravishing rediscovery and a ballerina at the top of her form
Nov 02, 2008; ... Royal Ballet triple bill ????? Royal Opera House, London WC2 (0207304 4000) to 10 November Manon ????? Southampton Mayflower (02380 711811) Wed-Sat. UK tourdetails on ballet.org.uk Given the amount of tosh to have been revived and devised at theRoyal Ballet over the past 26 ...
Downfall of a woman hater Rossini's battle of the sexes fields some magnificent singing
Nov 02, 2008; ... Mathilde di Shabran ????? Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020 73044000), tomorrow, Thursday,Tuesday, 11 November This was the Rossini opera that launched Juan Diego Florez'scareer, when he took over the lead male role at the 1996 PesaroFestival. It was an overnight-success story for ...
Mellow and misty Fleet Foxes stand for old-fashioned rock values
Nov 02, 2008; ... Those of you who left rock music behind in 1968 might be interested to know that a likely candidate for2008's album of the year sounds, and indeed looks, like a dusty,dreamy, slightly camp, folk-flanked classic from around that time.Perhaps you were recently in a Starbucks ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK Charles Nicholl follows a 'mind-map' that leads the way to our most celebrated and elusive playwright
Nov 02, 2008; ... BIOGRAPHY Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate VIKING, pounds 25, 500 pp Admirers of Jonathan Bate's previous studies and editions ofShakespeare will not be surprised to learn that his latest is a bookwith ...
Literary Life
Nov 02, 2008; ... Even if Barack Obama does not win the American presidentialelection on Tuesday he can at least console himself with hisglittering literary career. He currently stands at numbers three andfour on the New York Times bestseller list and most full-timeauthors can only dream of sales like ...
Tibor Fischer looks at how a boy and a beagle became the cultural icons of a generation
Nov 02, 2008; ... BIOGRAPHY Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 11.99, 672 pp The word genius is so misused, so liberally misapplied that itreally has been stripped of status, but if there's one man who in myopinion deserves some title of ...
MARQUEZ CLAIMED HIS WIFE WROTE 'ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE' AND HE MERELY SIGNED HIS NAME BECAUSE IT WAS 'SO BAD' Ed King on the Nobel laureate whose life is as marked by romantic exaggeration as his fiction
Nov 02, 2008; ... BIOGRAPHY Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin BLOOMSBURY, pounds 25, 566 pp Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a tricky subject for a biographer. As the novelist whopopularised Magical Realism he has always delighted in distortingthe boundary ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Zabiba and the King by Saddam Hussein
Nov 02, 2008; ... Did Saddam really write novels? Most Iraqis believe that he did.Zabiba and the King (2000), published anonymously, was certainly arunaway bestseller in Iraq; and the key to it is allegory. In thebook a wise king (Saddam) falls in love with a beautiful maiden,Zabiba (Iraq), who is trying ...
THE RUMOUR WAS SPREAD THAT 200 AUSTRALIAN SHARKS HAD BEEN RELEASED IN THE CHANNEL TO ATTACK THE CREWS OF SUNK GERMAN INVASION BARGES MILITARY Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914- 1945 by Nicholas Rankin FABER, pounds 25, 440 pp Britain supplemented its military campaigns with a war of smoke and mirrors, says Andrew Roberts
Nov 02, 2008; ... During the Second World War no fewer than eight different typesof concrete pillbox were constructed in Britain, most of themcamouflaged to blend in with the landscape so they would have theadvantage of surprise when they suddenly opened up their Bren gunson any advancing German column ....
Bibliotherapy What to read when you feel shut out in the cold
Nov 02, 2008; ... The sad story of The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersenmight seem like a perverse recommendation as the temperature dropsand heating bills soar; for this is the tale of a child who freezesto death on a winter's night, after trying to warm herself bylighting matches. But ...
This chatty architectural guide has a style all of its own, finds Clive Aslet
Nov 02, 2008; ... ARCHITECTURE A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover's Guide to British Buildingsfrom Portcullis to Pebble-dash by Harry Mount LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 12.99, 360 pp Don't think of this as a book. It's more of a stroll, a jaunt,possibly a meander, taking the reader through all ...
David Robson listens to a plain-speaking archer tell the story of the battle that shocked Christendom
Nov 02, 2008; ... Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 18.99, 453 pp If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. Noother historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of theminutiae of warfare in centuries past. Nobody else could hope totake ...
First Novels
Nov 02, 2008; ... Nathaniel Rich, wunderkind essayist, editor of The Paris Review and son of the New York Times columnist FrankRich, apparently spent most of his twenties re-shaping the GreatAmerican Novel to fit the 21st century. The result, The Mayor'sTongue (Chatto & Windus, pounds 11.99), is ...
FIRST NOVEL The great spin-doctor has not managed to spin himself a decent novel, finds Harry Mount
Nov 02, 2008; ... All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell HUTCHINSON, pounds 17.99, 297 ppi I once watched Alastair Campbell handle Tony Blair on a Londonwalkabout soon after the 1997 election. While the Prime Minister didthe gladhanding, Campbell stood on the sidelines, ...
Gadgets No.37 Make your home office work
Nov 02, 2008; ... Quality tools make any job more productive, and if you work fromhome it's worth investing in equipment you'll spend so much timewith. Remember your computer can double up as an entertainmentcentre, too. DESK LAMP Designed in the late 1920s by Robert Dudley Best, theBestlite is ...
Bridge
Nov 02, 2008; ... WHEN PARTNER OPENS with a three-level pre-empt in a major, yougenerally raise him, rather than bid 3NT. This is particularly truewhen you have plenty of honours around and no fit. For example, withSAxxx, HA, DKQxx, CAQxx it would be wrong to go for the no trumpgame over 3H, as you would ...
Priory in talks with buyout firms on Four Seasons merger
Nov 02, 2008; ... THE Priory Group, the chain of rehab clinics, is seeking hundredsof millions of pounds from a private equity backer in an effort tosecure a pounds 1.5bn merger with Four Seasons, the troubled care-homes operator. Philip Scott, the Priory's chief executive, has asked UBS, ...
Revealed: FTSE bosses take pounds 3bn hit
Nov 02, 2008; ... THE BOSSES of Britain's leading public companies have seen thevalue of their combined personal shareholdings plunge by more than pounds 3bn so far this year, underlining the financial pain beingfelt by chief executives as the country slides into recession. According to research for ...
Banks to unveil new losses
Nov 02, 2008; ... TWO OF the banks which are to receive more than pounds 30bn oftaxpayers' money will this week announce billions of pounds in assetwritedowns and warn the City that full-year profits are likely to belower than previously expected. The news from HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland, ...
Virgin Media close to deal on pounds 4.3bn debt burden
Nov 02, 2008; ... VIRGIN MEDIA, the communications and content group, couldannounce tomorrow that it has successfully delayed repayments on itspounds 4.3bn debt pile for three years. The cable operator, whose biggest shareholder is Sir RichardBranson, was due to refinance its debt next year, ahead ...
STATE GEARS UP FOR VW BATTLE
Nov 02, 2008; ... THE State of Lower Saxony has asked investment banks to advise iton options on its 20pc stake in Volkswagen after the chaos causedlast week by the emergence of Porsche's control of 75pc of thecompany. Investment bankers, including some at Morgan Stanley, have beenasked to ...
CPS report slams Bank decision
Nov 02, 2008; ... GOVERNMENT borrowing will balloon to pounds 100bn this year asthe country pays the price for failed monetary and economicpolicies. A report by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) to be publishedon Tuesday will claim the responsibility for the banking crisis lieslargely with the ...
Defence industry drew up warning on budget cuts
Nov 02, 2008; ... LEADING players in the UK's defence industry considered issuing apublic warning to the Government about how spending cuts and afailure to sign off on big military contracts risked damaging theeconomy. Companies like BAE Systems and Rolls Royce fear that uncertaintyover the fate ...
BT pensions plans to force staff to work on
Nov 02, 2008; ... BT staff face having to work longer for less under sweepingchanges planned to the telecom giant's pounds 35bn pension scheme. It wants to increase its standard retirement age from 60 to 65,up staff contributions and shift the amount on which pension payoutsare based from final ...
Marks & Spencer to announce first-half profit slump
Nov 02, 2008; ... MARKS & SPENCER will this week announce a slump in first-half profits and faces a battle to avoid a dividend cut thatanalysts now believe is inevitable. M&S is likely to say on Tuesday that pre-tax profit over the sixmonths to September 30 was pounds 290m, down more than 35pc ...
McNab spies Tory investor
Nov 02, 2008; ... LORD ASHCROFT, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, isinvesting millions in an e-commerce venture launched by Andy McNab,the former SAS soldier, that sells virtual books to mobile phones. The millionaire businessman and philanthropist has taken aminority stake in ...
Dunstone swoops with Owl investment
Nov 02, 2008; ... CARPHONE Warehouse founder Charles Dunstone and PR guru MatthewFreud are among a group of high-profile investors backing a newhousehold energy monitoring device that has taken Australia bystorm. The Owl is a clip-on wireless monitor, which displays how muchelectricity is being ...
Barclays eyes Gulf growth Amanda Staveley, the dealmaker behind Barclays' pounds 7bn capital injection, speaks to Louise Armitstead
Nov 02, 2008; ... PACKED in among the well-heeled Halloween revellers in Annabel's,the exclusive Mayfair nightclub, Amanda Staveley quietly enjoyedcelebrations of a different kind on Friday night. The striking director of PCP Partners was sleep-deprived butfinally able to relax after spearheading ...
Tesco gives its alcohol suppliers a hangover
Nov 02, 2008; ... TESCO, Britain's largest supermarket, is demanding vastlyimproved trading terms from wine and champagne suppliers in a bid tokeep prices down on its shelves in the run-up to Christmas. One drinks company said that it had been given until this weekendto accept the new terms, in ...
BT needs to be engaged or investors will hang up
Nov 02, 2008; ... On Thursday evening, I went to a preview screening of Quantum ofSolace, the disappointing new James Bond film, hosted by BT. Andlike 007, the telecoms giant's investors quickly discovered thatsupposedly safe havens are not so safe any more. There was certainlylittle solace to be sought ...
BARCLAYS EXPOSES GULF WITH RIVALS
Nov 02, 2008; ... The price of independence can be a heavy one indeed. Barclays' pounds 7bn fundraising from a group of Middle Eastern investors mayhave thumbed a nose at those who doubted its ability to raisecapital privately during tumultuous times, but it has rightly leftmany people surprised at the ...
BETTER OFF 'DEAD' FOR THE BANKS
Nov 02, 2008; ... Further evidence of the pain that is spreading throughout thewider economy is coming thick and fast at the moment, but manyfinance directors are still not showing enough urgency when it comesto preparing for debt refinancings that may still be a year or moreaway. A note published ...
Heed warning of an economic icon
Nov 02, 2008; ... YOU'VE probably never heard of Heizo Takenaka. But for economicnerds like me, the man is a god. From 2001 until 2005, Takenaka was Japan's economics minister in Junichiro Koizumi'sgovernment. More than any other individual, this softly-spokenacademic pulled the world's ...
US rate cuts send out a chilling signal we can't afford to ignore
Nov 02, 2008; ... It may have slipped your mind, but this week the United Stateschooses a new president. The selection of the world's most powerful politician is, by anystandards, a hugely significant event. For the first time, someonewho isn't white could soon be running the White House - ...
Lower oil prices only short-term comfort
Nov 02, 2008; ... OIL prices have plunged since their mid-summer high of almost$150. In October alone, crude fell 32pc to around $66 a barrel.That's provided at least some relief to distraught governments andcentral bankers. Yes, this is a terrible economic situation. Butimagine if oil hadn't ...
I ALMOST FELL OFF MY CHAIR
Nov 02, 2008; ... JENNY Brill from Selsey, West Sussex runs a theatrical costumebusiness, called Octopussy Costumes. She rents out her 12,000 piececollection from two premises and her website. With the businessexpanding, she decided last year to launch another venture - arestaurant called the Tipsy ...
Banks which should be lending to businesses more freely are instead raising overdraft rates to crippling levels, writes Philip Aldrick
Nov 02, 2008; ... IN 15 years banking with NatWest, Rebecca Liddell's burgeoningSouth Wales caravan park company has never once missed an interestpayment or defaulted on a loan. It has been a treasuredrelationship. After all, she says, without NatWest's pounds 3m loanher third-generation family business ...
It's the economy again, stupid The first priority of the 44th President of the United States of America will be to steady the economy. James Quinn in New York looks at what course of action he might take
Nov 02, 2008; ... ON an icily cold Thursday morning, just a stone's throw from WallStreet, the economy finally melted. As workers got on with theirbusiness, and tourists nonchalantly sped past, it dissolved as fewlooked on. The economy in question? A seven-letter ice sculpture placed in aNew York ...
Porsche crashes into controversy Hedge funds lose billions as carmaker closes in on rival VW with audacious share-buying strategy, writes Louise Armitstead
Nov 02, 2008; ... FOR old-timers, the "short squeeze" at the Stutz Motor Company isa favourite from financial folklore. Combining legendary status - the cars won races such as Le Mans -with speed, reliability and beauty, they were the object of everyambitious young man's desire. But the emergence ...
STARTING OUT Baby bogeys are rick pickings for Soulsby
Nov 02, 2008; ... FACTFILE Name John and Sarah Soulsby Company 4 fx Healthcare Founded 2005 Staff 3 Start-up funds pounds 80,000 Turnover pounds 200,000+ www. 4little1.com The winter of 2005/2006 was a worrying one for John Soulsby andhis wife ...
BRIGHTS IDEAS Huddle is starting to draw a crowd
Nov 02, 2008; ... EVER found yourself emailing friends, family or work colleaguesto organise a get-together and then being inundated with conflictingresponses that do little more than block up your inbox? A London-based start-up thinks it can help. Huddle.net haslaunched hosted online 'workspaces' ...
Business: The Licensing Agency (TLA) Technology: GoHello, a system for mobile phones that makes them work like an office switchboard Biz Tech does it work?
Nov 02, 2008; ... Many businesses move offices, but not all decide to take on theadded challenge of scrapping their existing phone system andreplacing it with something that depends entirely on the mobilephone network. Nevertheless, this is what The Licensing Agency (TLA)in London decided to ...
EXPERT VIEW
Nov 02, 2008; ... Guy Beadin Head of bids and contracts Equanet This is a clever and a viable alternative to fixed phone linesfor any small business. What makes this work is the smart webinterface that acts as the call manager and receptionist. It'sanother brilliant example of using ...
Now is the right time to give Shire attention SUNDAY QUESTOR
Nov 02, 2008; ... Shire 819p Questor saysBuy IT HAS been quite a week for Shire. The UK's third largestpharmaceutical company saw its share price rise 16pc in three daysfollowing its third-quarter results. The impressive figures showed a 28pc gain in revenue to ...
Candy men join jet set for a supersonic $80m
Nov 02, 2008; ... CHOCKS away! Dashwood hears that despite running into a spot ofbother on a few of their property deals, the super-luxury developersNick and Christian Candy have no intention of keeping their feet onthe ground. The pair, most famous for their One Hyde Park andChelsea Barracks ...
Fangs but no fangs, says Goldman
Nov 02, 2008; ... LOTS of excitement last week with the announcement of GoldmanSachs' 94 new partners - a bit fewer than normal, but then times arehard, I suppose. What didn't get so much publicity, largely because the bank madeno announcement about it, was the culmination of an ...
Squirrel away and you may be skinned
Nov 02, 2008; ... A THOUGHT for Abbey. Love the new advertising, chaps, with theSuper Squirrel who always gets his nuts. But I wonder how your furry friend felt appearing in the middleof Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Autumn River ...
Sarky canard has Poles going south
Nov 02, 2008; ... THERE are winners and losers in all games including, it seems,the credit crunch. Who are the winners? French president NicolasSarkozy has an idea. According to the French satirical newspaper LeCanard ...
Duncan sells to overcome his downturn hurdles
Nov 02, 2008; ... LIFE is not getting any easier for Duncan Davidson, the founderof beleaguered housebuilder Persimmon. Dashwood learns that the keenracegoer has just sold his string of flat horses for just a tadunder half a million pounds.The sale is the latest in a string of disposals by Mr ...
The alchemist turning a downturn into gold Alchemy Partners' Jon Moulton may be poorer than he was last year but he is eyeing bargains as recession looms, writes Andrew Cave
Nov 02, 2008; ... JON Moulton almost became homeless for a night, but it's nothingto do with Britain's housing market crisis. "I turned up at 1am this morning at the hotel I had booked incentral London and they told me they had no record of my booking andno rooms left," fumes the millionaire ...
JON MOULTON MANAGING PARTNER, ALCHEMY PARTNERS
Nov 02, 2008 ... Family: Married with two ...
Dear Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Abbey were tardy in setting up account
Nov 02, 2008; ... SIXTEEN weeks after I first tried to open an eSaver account withAlliance & Leicester, I am no further forward. Anything you can do to help will be appreciated. PH, Shrewsbury Alliance & Leicester says it was unable to identify you electronically and so ...
FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Annuity nuisance
Nov 02, 2008; ... WE SIMPLY want my monthly annuity payment changed from one bankaccount to another. Surely, this should be quite straightforward.Seven months ago we wrote giving details of the new bank account.Over a month later, the money was paid into an old account. I rangAXA customer services to be ...
Dear Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Travails with aunt's affairs
Nov 02, 2008; ... I HOLD power of attorney for my aunt who became unable to dealwith her affairs in 2005. Then the power was registered with theCourt of Protection. I was issued with office copies of the power inthe normal way and attended to her immediate financial needs anddealt with other financial ...