The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from March 2009:
My perfect Sunday
Mar 01, 2009; ... I'd get up in the morning, get my family ready, and go to church.I grew up in the Latter-day Saints religion and my family are stillpretty devout Mormons, or at least we consider ourselves to be! It'simportant for us to go to church and sometimes when you miss it,because you're ...
I have started hoarding ends of yarn to be knitted into grandchildren later in life
Mar 01, 2009; ... I've been trying to write an epigram on thrift. These days bothconscience and cost requires us to be frugal and it might be that afew bon mots on the subject could be helpful. I like epigramsbecause they are often jolly. I am not like the American poet RobertLowell (born today in 1917) ...
Loves & hates
Mar 01, 2009; ... FASHION EDITORS The drivel they write is extraordinary. We'regoing through a recession and they're still enthusing about pounds500 handbags and pounds 1,000 jumpsuits - get a life! I stoppedwriting about fashion over 30 years ago. These days I wear what Ilike, not what some thin cow ...
addendum whatever happened to... The baby in the womb
Mar 01, 2009; ... It was one of the most astonishing medical photographs evertaken. During an operation on a 21-week-old foetus that was still inits mother's womb, a tiny arm shot through the opening in the uterusand clutched the surgeon's finger. Taken by Michael Clancy, the photograph suggested ...
The shy and retiring Bette Midler 'I give it to 'em between the eyes' The Nigel Farndale interview The woman who began her career singing in seedy bath-houses is now the star of the biggest, brashest, lewdest show Vegas has ever seen. Why then, does she still feel like an impostor?
Mar 01, 2009; ... The prima donna-ish behaviour is there in the subtext, betweenthe lines of those around her, in the way the air seems to tightenbefore she enters a room. I've been told, for example, that it is 'very' important that I arrive on time - 3pm sharp - because'Miss Midler likes things ...
You'll catch your death... With 50ft waves, sub-zero temperatures and fist-sized claws never far away, it's no wonder a job on board an Alaskan crab fishing boat is one of the world's deadliest. Fisherman-turned-photographer Corey Arnold lived to tell the tale
Mar 01, 2009; ... When I was old enough to walk I began going out on my dad's boat.I've got a picture of myself, I must be two-and-a-half years old,and I'm holding the first fish I caught. It was a baby shark. I was still fishing when I was in art school in San Francisco,but I could only fish in the ...
Best in show? Crufts, that most harmless of British institutions, was recently accused of the most horrifying things: freakishness, encouraging incest, and shortening the lives of the very dogs it celebrates. Are pedigree dog breeders an endangered species? By John Preston
Mar 01, 2009; ... At the twice-yearly Horley Open Dog Show in West Sussex,everything looks much as you might expect. Outside, there are stallsselling a range of appetising doggy chews - dried pig tails, forinstance, and large grey hoops of cow's throat. Inside, a vast arrayof dogs and their owners are ...
Raging against the dying of the light The Picasso exhibition is an unpredictable switchback-ride through a prolific career
Mar 01, 2009; ... Picasso: Challenging the Past ????? National Gallery, London WC2(0844 2091778) to Jun 7It is February 1955 and Pablo Picasso, 73 years young, has takenup with a new woman. He chooses to announce the fact, incharacteristically idiosyncratic style, by painting a series ...
Film
Mar 01, 2009; ... New in Town (12A) 96mins????? Renee Zellweger's run of misfires continues with this limpsmalltown comedy, a rehash of Doc Hollywood set in Fargo country.She plays Lucy Hill, an ambitious food-industry hotshot dispatchedto oversee a downsizing operation in snowy Minnesota, ...
Beating the bank with a bullet Nerves are shredded, on the world stage and in the classroom, as protagonists battle the terrors of an evil bank and insolent children
Mar 01, 2009; ... The International (15) 118 mins ????? The Class(15) 128 mins ????? Some films have all the best timing: The International, athriller with the wickedness of bankers at its heart, seemsstrikingly in tune with the zeitgeist. Yet even for this resentfulage the plot ...
As fresh as a debut Is this U2's best studio album yet?
Mar 01, 2009; ... On their latest album, U2 sound so much like a contemporaryversion of themselves, and a contemporary pop group full stop, it isfairly breathtaking. No Line on the Horizon is their twelfth, andpossibly best, studio album. At least, it's intoxicating enough forfans, if not those irked by ...
Lost souls fly high Terfel's triumphant return to Wagner
Mar 01, 2009; ... Der fliegende Hollander ????? Royal Opera House, London WC2 (0207304 4000) to Mar 10 LPO/Jurowski ????? Having caused huge upset by pulling out of the Royal Opera'sRing cycles 18 months ago, Bryn Terfel could hardly allow himself toslacken on his return in another ...
A view to savour The latest version of Arthur Miller's classic tragedy proves a revelation
Mar 01, 2009; ... A View from the Bridge ????? Duke of York's, London WC2 (0844 5791940) to May 16 This play has form for wringing standout performances from greatBritish actors. Michael Gambon's portrayal of Eddie Carbone in AlanAyckbourn's 1987 production for the National Theatre, was ...
Frantic antics An exhausting account of Gielgud's peccadillo
Mar 01, 2009; ... Plague Over England ????? Duchess Theatre,London WC2 (0844 579 1940) to May 16 One doesn't wish to sound mean-spirited, but, like Gore Vidal, I've always felt alittle part of me dying every time one of my friends succeeds. Ispeak as someone who has still ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK FICTION Alone in Berlin By Hans Fallada Tr by Michael Hofmann PENGUIN, pounds 20, 568 pp Hans Fallada was both a favourite and a victim of the Gestapo; the experience helped make his novel of German resistance to Hitler a masterpiece, says Justin Cartwright
Mar 01, 2009; ... Born in 1893, Hans Fallada lived through 50 years of Germany'stumult. There is something horribly symmetrical but ill-fated in hisrelations to the rise and fall of Nazism. His personal life was achaos of morphine, drink and ill health. As a boy he killed a friendin what was supposed to ...
FASHION Fashion writing is like fashion itself, says Jane Shilling - some styles are more striking than others
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Thoughtful Dresser By Linda Grant VIRAGO, pounds 11.99, 308 pp FASHION The Thoughtful Dresser By Linda Grant VIRAGO, pounds 11.99, 308 pp In her recent novel, the Booker-shortlisted Clothes on TheirBacks, Linda Grant explored themes ...
Literary Life
Mar 01, 2009; ... When it comes to survival Alistair Urquhart is in a league of hisown. The last living member of the Gordon Highlanders has written anautobiography describing his remarkable experiences during theSecond World War. Captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he wasforced to work on the infamous ...
MAGIC This history of popular recipe books of magic and spells summons up our superstitious past, says Noel Malcolm
Mar 01, 2009; ... Grimoires: A History of Magic Books By Owen Davies OXFORD, pounds 14.99, 384 pp One of the achievements of this fascinating book is that itclears up the mystery of a particularly gruesome murder, which hasremained unexplained for more than 100 years. In 1904 a ...
BIOGRAPHY Tim Ecott looks at how a poor South London boy became the most famous man in the world
Mar 01, 2009; ... Chaplin: The Tramp's OdysseyBy Simon Louvish FABER, pounds 25, 412 pp There have been more than a dozen biographies of Charlie Chaplin.He himself wrote two autobiographical volumes, and there areaccounts of his life from two of his sons as well as versions ...
Bibliotherapy What to read when... your husband leaves you for another woman
Mar 01, 2009; ... You might think that reading a novel is far less important than consulting a lawyer or a marriage guidance counsellor inthese unhappy circumstances; but, honestly, Nora Ephron's Heartburnhas much to recommend it instead. It's a practical remedy in aghastly situation - as cheering ...
BIOGRAPHY Munro Price acclaims a woman who remained untainted by historical unheaval and personal tragedy
Mar 01, 2009; ... Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution By Caroline Moorehead CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 20, 486 pp Lucie de la Tour du Pin was one of history's greatest memoirists.She began writing her recollections on New Year's Day 1820, at theage ...
FICTION This historical yarn is as sharp as the spears that menace its hero, says Roger Perkins
Mar 01, 2009; ... Zulu Hart By Saul David HODDER & STOUGHTON, pounds 12.99, 376 pp Many authors of military yarns strive for the ripping but end upwith offerings that look slightly frayed. Not so Saul David, thelatest British historian to turn his hand to fiction, and who withZulu ...
Crime Fiction
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Salvation Army is an unlikely subject for a thrillerfeaturing child abuse, corruption and murder but Jo Nesbo is noordinary writer. The Redeemer (Harvill Secker, pounds 12.99) is thefourth of his novels to feature Harry Hole, a down-at-heel detectivewith a heart of gold - and major ...
SCIENCE Ian Thomson examines how the brain decides which decisions to make
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Decisive Moment: How the Brain Makes Up its Mind By JonahLehrer CANONGATE, pounds 16.99, 294 pp In the Steve Martin film The Man With Two Brains, a doctor fallsin love with a surgically removed human brain, the object of hisdesire bubbling away in a beaker. This was a ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Mar 01, 2009; ... Martin Amis said that 'Reading Don Quixote can be compared to anindefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with allhis pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terriblecronies.' True: and truer still for Cervantes, whose uncle bymarriage was 'Don Quixada'. It ...
The Sunday Project Retrotechno FROM LONDON'S SCIENCE MUSEUM 1953: Sunbeam's Mixmaster food mixer No.50 Upgrade your mobile phone
Mar 01, 2009; ... BlackBerry Storm No longer the preserve of the business community, BlackBerry hasbroken into the consumer marketplace with the Storm. The handset isexclusive to Vodafone, and the operator has thrown a huge marketingpush behind the flagship model. Initial versions of the ...
Overcoming an almost pathological dislike of the Fiat 500, Neil Lyndon is shocked to discover the new Abarth is a joy to drive Fiat 500 Abarth Price: pounds 13,600 Power: 135bhp 0-62mph: 7.9 seconds Top speed: 128mph Average fuel consumption: 43.4mpg CO2 emissions: 155g/km Insurance group: 13U
Mar 01, 2009; ... Nothing, I believed, could persuade me to overcome my abhorrenceof Fiat's so-called 500; but I hadn't reckoned on the Abarthversion. It's not easy to say which aspect of the so-called 500 most getsmy goat. Is it the fact that, unlike the original Fifties 500, whichhad a ...
Coming next Red Riding: police corruption, torture and the dark heart of the Seventies
Mar 01, 2009; ... Did you prefer the brutal nihilism of last year's multi-Oscar-winner No Country for Old Men to this year's soppy Brit triumphSlumdog Millionaire? Do you reckon Midsomer Murders needs to get alot more like Waking the Dead before it'll be worth switching thetelly on for? For all those who ...
The Iron Lady's oddly soft side Review
Mar 01, 2009; ... If you didn't notice the caption giving the date at the start ofMargaret (Thursday, BBC Two), and happened to glance at the screenthrough the steam rising from your TV-dinner, you might have assumedthat this was a much more antique historical drama - one aboutElizabeth I, say. On went a ...
Personally speaking
Mar 01, 2009; ... Ionly wanted a quick answer as to how much it would cost tobecome a member of the gym, but Kevin, the man on the front desk,whose neck was wider than his head and who had arms covered inArabic, Latin and Chinese tattoos, was trying to get me to sign upfor a year-long ...
UKFI rejects Lloyds bonuses
Mar 01, 2009; ... LLOYDS Banking Group has been ordered to revise proposals to paybonuses to thousands of its employees in order to secure taxpayerbacking for more than pounds 250bn of assets as part of theTreasury's new insurance scheme. Lloyds was told by UK Financial Investments (UKFI), which ...
Bt signals channel 4 merger ambition
Mar 01, 2009; ... BT is wading into the debate about the future of Britain'scommercial broadcasting industry by signalling that it could mergeits television subsidiary with Channel 4. A merger between Channel 4 and BT Vision is being seriouslyconsidered as one option for the future funding of the ...
HSBC to raise pounds 12bn
Mar 01, 2009; ... HSBC, Europe's largest bank, will tomorrow announce the closureof its troubled US mortgage lending operation to new businessalongside plans to cut its dividend and raise more than pounds 12bnin a deeply-discounted rights issue. The developments will underline the depth of the ...
RBS hunts for audit chief
Mar 01, 2009; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) has approached Kathleen O'Donovan, adirector of Prudential and Trinity Mirror, about taking on thechairmanship of its audit committee amid intense demands for banksto improve boardroom governance standards, write Mark Kleinman and Louise Armitstead ....
Belgians join rush for stake in Royal Mail
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE private equity-backed Belgian postal group De Post-La Postehas become the latest in a string of overseas companies to registerinterest in acquiring a stake in Royal Mail, writes Mark Kleinman. CVC Capital Partners, the buyout firm which has made a number ofinvestments in the ...
3i delays setting sail on auction of luxury yacht-maker Fairline
Mar 01, 2009; ... TROUBLED private equity investor 3i has shelved the pounds 100msale of luxury yacht and powerboat-maker Fairline Boats. Instead, the private equity firm and lending banks to the companyare injecting fresh capital into the business to help it tradethrough tough markets ....
Michels on shortlist at National Express
Mar 01, 2009; ... SIR David Michels, the deputy chairman of Marks & Spencer, is one of the candidates to become the next chairmanof National Express, the bus and train operator. He is understood to be among about four names on the shortlist to replace Carphone Warehouse co-founder ...
Ex-Priory boss set for Covenant bid
Mar 01, 2009; ... DR CHAI PATEL, the former chief executive of The Priory, the westLondon rehab clinic, is preparing a bid for Covenant Healthcare, thestruggling plastic surgery group that has been put up for sale byits private equity owner Cognetas. Dr Patel's Elysian Capital and Care Management ...
Banks flock to fund
Mar 01, 2009; ... LLOYDS, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland have all submittedhuge loan portfolios to the Government in order to access LordMandelson's pounds 10bn working capital guarantee scheme, whichlaunches today. RBS is most advanced and has been allocated pounds 3bn from thescheme as ...
GLASSES DIRECT founder eyes new funds
Mar 01, 2009; ... GLASSES Direct founder Jamie Murray Wells has launched a multi-million pound fund-raising to support the rapid growth of hispioneering online spectacle retailer. The old Harrovian, who counts Prince Harry as a friend, said hewas "confident" of securing the funds despite the tough ...
Bank of England poised for rate cut
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE Bank of England is set to bring interest rates down to aneffective zero-level within days and to sound the starting pistol onquantitative easing, pumping extra cash into the economy. The Government is putting the finishing touches to a letter tothe Bank endorsing its proposal ...
Thomson bids farewell to Equitable
Mar 01, 2009; ... CHARLES THOMSON, the chief executive of Equitable Life, is tostep down after spending eight years at the helm of the UK's oldestmutual insurer. It is understood that the 60-year-old has decided to leave thesociety, which has pounds 6bn of remaining assets managed on behalfof ...
Buffett loses billions Berkshire Hathaway drops $10.9bn in investor's worst year since 1965
Mar 01, 2009; ... BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, has recorded hisworst financial performance since taking over famed US investmentgroup Berkshire Hathaway in 1965. The group's net worth dropped by $10.9bn ( pounds 7.6bn) in thefinal quarter of 2008 to end the year at ...
Safestore introduces pay 'clawback' clause
Mar 01, 2009; ... SAFESTORE, the self-storage group, has become the first Britishcompany to include a clause in its directors' contracts that willforce them to pay back bonuses earned for profits that prove to befalse. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been calling on banks, and othercompanies, to ...
Judge leaves Friends
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE RESPECTED City director Lady Barbara Thomas Judge is to stepdown as deputy chairman at Friends Provident. Lady Judge is to leave the life assurer after it unveils what areset to be weak full-year results later this month. Her departure follows a string of changes at ...
OFFSIDE! AIG set to unveil RECORD $60bn quarterly loss
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE insurance giant American International Group is discussingsome form of back-stop with the US government that will shield itagainst further losses on its vast credit-default swap (CDS)portfolio. The talks, between a number of US government agencies includingthe Federal Reserve ...
Obama must forget image and nationalise US banks
Mar 01, 2009; ... Obamamania rolls on. Last week, "the one" revealed he's an avidfan of that old crooner Stevie Wonder. We also learnt he's in linefor a Nobel Peace Prize. And guess what? The President's photogenicfamily has narrowed its "puppy search" down to either a Portuguesewater dog or a ...
Right, not bonkers
Mar 01, 2009; ... LAST week I asked you whether I was bonkers - having been solabelled on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. For months I've argued that the fear of deflation is simply anAunt Sally - an excuse to nail interest rates to the floor - andthat the threat of inflation is a far greater ...
PM risks pension can of worms
Mar 01, 2009; ... HAVING unveiled a staggering pounds 24bn deficit last week, the282-year-old Royal Bank of Scotland is now only surviving courtesyof a massive taxpayer bail-out. Yet Fred Goodwin, the bank's CEO,walks away with a knighthood and a pounds 693,000 annual pension,paid for by you and ...
HSBC move points to depth of crisis
Mar 01, 2009; ... AND then there were two. HSBC's decision to tap investors forabout pounds 12bn in a share issue to be announced tomorrow meansthe number of international banks which have stood unsupported sincethe start of the credit crisis will have diminished still further. HSBC is raising the ...
We need shock and awe policies to halt depression
Mar 01, 2009; ... AS ORDINARY citizens with no power over the levers of policy, wewatch from the sidelines, and weep. The whole global economy hastipped into a downward spiral. Trade and output are contracting atrates that outstrip the leisurely depression of the 1930s. Debtdeflation has simply washed ...
Darling's debt-defying stunt The Treasury's pounds 600bn scheme to insure toxic assets held by British banks may be its last throw of the dice. Philip Aldrick reports
Mar 01, 2009; ... Stephen Hester has grown wearily familiar with the spartancorridors of the Treasury in the two months he has been chiefexecutive of Royal Bank of Scotland. Within weeks of taking overfrom Sir Fred Goodwin he was informed his bank would be a guinea pigfor the Government's biggest gamble ...
LORD MYNERS VERSUS SIR FRED: THIS TIME IT'S EVEN MORE PERSONAL
Mar 01, 2009 ... BY ALL accounts there is little love lost between Lord Myners ofTruro (right) and Sir Fred the Shred, once of Royal Bank ofScotland. When the pair crossed swords in October across the negotiatingtable at the Treasury, Sir Fred emerged decidedly second best. "Lessof a negotiation, ...
techbyte
Mar 01, 2009; ... DATABASES are an essential part of a company's suite of softwareprograms. Microsoft's Office includes Access, but only on its PCversion. If your company includes members of that small but growingminority of Mac users, the main option was Filemaker Pro and, ifonly a small number of your ...
Locking away the bike is way to make money Starting Out
Mar 01, 2009; ... Phil Churm has been a metal sheet worker since leaving school at17 and joining British Steel as an apprentice. In spite of a seriousinjury sustained as a baby in which he lost part of a leg, Mr Churm,45, progressed fast in the fabricating industry, becoming a foremanand learning ...
BRIGHT IDEAS Redundancy evokes spirit of Dunkirk
Mar 01, 2009; ... FRIDAY, February 13th proved a particularly inauspicious day forCharlie Holloway. At 6pm she was fired from her travel sales job atboutique hotel holiday company Mr & Mrs Smith. She was told to leave the office immediately. "I loved thecompany and it came as a complete shock," ...
How headhunters hunt for new head
Mar 01, 2009; ... HERE'S a job that doesn't come up for grabs every day. I learnthat international headhunter Korn/Ferry is looking for a new headof its UK operation.So how do you go about finding a new head headhunter, if you'rea, er, headhunter? "That's a good question," the Korn/Ferry ...
Moving on means keeping stationery
Mar 01, 2009; ... NOT long before John Duffield's troubled fund management businessNew Star is swallowed whole by rival Henderson. What's next for MrDuffield? Well, rumours abound that he is looking at setting up anew company, doing private client work. He would at least have oneclient to start with - ...
Lebedev's stock option plan fails to fire up hacks
Mar 01, 2009; ... FORMER KGB spy Alexander Lebedev was promising staff at hisrecently acquired newspaper, London's Evening Standard, stockoptions earlier this week. Will the hacks be queuing up to take him up on the offer? Well, Mr Lebedev hasn't been inspiring too much confidence amongthe ...
Latest Timis venture gushes with good news
Mar 01, 2009; ... ONCE again it seems the serial mining entrepreneur and sometimedrug offender Frank Timis could be about to hit the mother lode. The flamboyant, some say controversial, businessman has acolourful past. He was behind Regal Petroleum, the company that struck oil inGreece, saw ...
Bunzl proves it has defensive qualities
Mar 01, 2009; ... Bunzl 581p Questor says Buy WHILE the weak pound is hurting a lot of British businesses, theopposite can be said for distribution group Bunzl. The blue-chip company generates half of its revenue from the USand a fifth of its income from ...
Segro 107 1/4p Questor says Avoid
Mar 01, 2009; ... THERE were some good gains for Segro this week after the providerof office space to businesses in Europe reached a deal torestructure pounds 1.7bn of its debt. The new agreement with its banks and lenders means that themaximum amount of the money Segro can borrow as a proportion ...
Hardy Underwriting 264 1/2p Questor says Avoid
Mar 01, 2009; ... HARDY Underwriting become the latest Lloyd's of London insurer onFriday to unveil plans to tap the market for money. Like rivalsBeazley and Catlin, it is raising money so that it can underwritemore business and take advantage of higher insurance premiums. Premiums are now rising ...
Boss with world at his fingertips John Chambers, chief executive of Cisco, tells Andrew Cave how the recession could help his networking company grow 25pc in five years
Mar 01, 2009; ... JOHN CHAMBERS CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CISCO SYSTEMS Born 1949, Cleveland, Ohio Status Married, for 35 years. Two children Favourite book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman Favourite film Gladiator Drives Jaguar convertible Interests Running, ...
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR PENSION Emma Simon outlines how the various retirement schemes work and advises vigilance in these troubled times
Mar 01, 2009; ... WHERE TO FIND HELP The Pension Advisory Service 0845 601 2923 www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk The Pensions Regulator 0870 6063636 www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk The Pensions Ombudsman 020 7834 9144 ...