The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from July 2009:
Hamlet played with a touch of Clouseau might show how cheery we Danes are
Jul 05, 2009; ... Forgive me for not getting up but I am writing this lying on achaise-longue. To be honest I need to build my strength for thisweek but I am also doing my best to be theatrical in a Sarah Siddonssort of way. Sarah may have slipped your mind but she was born onthis day in 1755. She was the ...
INTERVIEW Pietersen craves place on big stage England's controversial batsman says he will thrive on the pressure of facing Australia once again
Jul 05, 2009; ... SITTING in the media centre at Lords, looking out over the square ahead of the biggest sporting event of the summer, Kevin Pietersens mind wanders back to the last Ashes series. His favourite memory, he says, of the summer of 2005, is not when the ...
my perfect sunday Coleen Nolan singer and TV presenter
Jul 05, 2009; ... There's nothing I like more than waking up in my own bed after alovely, long lie-in. I prefer to let the party come to me so thenight before we'd have had friends around to the house for a bit ofa shindig. My husband or one of my kids would bring me up tea and toast inbed. During ...
A big, gauche Austrian hick In 1966, with little English and even less fashion sense, a bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger arrived in London. There he met a family who gave him a home and helped turn him into the man he is today. John Preston speaks to the Governor about his time in England, and meets the woman he now calls his 'British mother'
Jul 05, 2009; ... This is the story of an unlikely friendship. It was a little outof the ordinary when it began, but as the years went by and the friendship deepened, it bumpedup against the outer edges of plausibility. In 1966, a young, badly dressed, gap-toothed man arrived inLondon for the ...
SWINE FLU? IT WAS GOOD FOR MEXICO He's clever, good-looking and, as he showed in 'Amores Perros', ridiculously talented. But instead of carving out a career as the new Tom Cruise, the Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is busy avoiding Hollywood pay cheques and saving his homeland from the 'poison' of celebrity.
Jul 05, 2009; ... No rumble of traffic, no cries from tamale sellers, not even thepatter of footsteps. The dawn cacophony had missed its cue and the20 million Chilangos were staying at home: Mexico City had gone post-apocalyptic. Schools, factories, restaurants, offices - all wereshut down. Even Sunday ...
my MENTOR As the creator of 'MAD' magazine, the late Harvey Kurtzman inspired a generation of satirists and even gave two Pythons their first big break. Here one of them remembers his mild-mannered former boss, who was never quite 'mad' enough to find Python funny
Jul 05, 2009; ... I remember when I first saw Harvey Kurtzman. There was somethingsmall and nutlike about him. He was like a beautifully polishedacorn, slightly brown and hard and nice. There was a politenessabout Harvey, which wasn't really what I was expecting. As a kid, Iwas quite voracious with ...
art Master of the pick'n'mix The Royal Academy's tribute to J W Waterhouse shows a painter struggling for identity
Jul 05, 2009; ... J W Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite ????? Royal Academy, London W1 (0844 209 1919) toSep 13 When John William Waterhouse, the eminent Royal Academician, diedin 1917, a newspaper tribute praised his work for its 'air of daintymelancholy'. Perhaps, in the midst of the ...
film Shooting blanks Johnny Depp's crime epic is a lightweight; while 'Ice Age 3' is a bit long in the tooth
Jul 05, 2009; ... Public Enemies (15) 147 mins ????? Ice Age 3 (U) 96 mins ????? For some months now, Public Enemies has been positioned as thethinking person's event movie, a rare steak to be tossed tocinemagoers between stultifying buckets of popcorn. It's neithersequel nor spin-off, ...
DVD of the week
Jul 05, 2009; ... Revolutionary Road Paramount/DreamWorks, 15, pounds 19.56 ????? Written by the late Richard Yates in 1961, Revolutionary Road wasan American novel that took a street name in Anytown, Connecticut asa metaphor. It put American values as they were becoming in the late20th century ...
Theatrical terrorism No turn is left unstoned in this slick parody of the West End
Jul 05, 2009; ... Forbidden Broadway ????? Menier Chocolate Factory,London SE1 (020 7907 7060) to Sep 13 Sometimes a single star isn't revenge enough. There are shows I have reviewed over the years that have made me want to open upon the casts with a custard-pie thrower, ...
Death stalks the Dance House Birmingham's triple bill delights; but Ashes is burnt out
Jul 05, 2009; ... Birmingham Royal Ballet: Triple Bill ????? Ballets C de la B: Ashes ????? Birmingham Royal Ballet delighted the Hippodrome with a well-danced mixed bill featuring two works by David Bintley (Galanteriesand The Dance House). Then for pudding we had ...
Nordic power and radiance Nina Stemme has almost all the right credentials for Salome
Jul 05, 2009; ... Salome ????? Liceu, Barcelona (0034 93 485 9913) to Tues La traviata ?????ROH, London WC2 (020 7304 4000)to Mon Un ballo in maschera ????? ROH, London WC2 (020 7304 4000) toJuly 17 Richard Strauss's famously optimistic ideal for his operaticSalome was ...
Pop crosses the classical divide Elbow and Rufus Wainwright extend their boundaries in Manchester
Jul 05, 2009; ... Successful pop stars have a tendency to get bored with theirprofession. Churning out hit singles, let alone playing them,becomes monotonous as they long for some wider canvas for theirartistic expression. Some turn to film-making, painting or poetry.Very few - given the limited technical ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK MENTAL HEALTH The West's dependence on drugs as the best treatment for mental illness is madness, says Melanie McGrath
Jul 05, 2009; ... Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail By Richard Bentall ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 364 pp If you're reading this review, you probably live in the developedworld with access to decent medical provision. So it stands toreason that, if you are ...
MEMOIR The journalist Lynn Barber has scrutinised herself: she makes an uncomfortable subject, finds Anne Chisholm
Jul 05, 2009; ... An Education By Lynn Barber GRANTA, pounds 8.99, 183 pp It takes courage for a journalist with a reputation for exposingthe flaws, weaknesses and evasions of others to write a memoirexposing herself. Lynn Barber, who has made her name by filletingthe people she ...
HISTORY A new-found taste for travel was not always enough to broaden British minds, says Claire Harman
Jul 05, 2009; ... 'The Smell of the Continent' : The British Discover Europe by Richard Mullen and James Munson MACMILLAN, pounds 20, 380 pp Almost as soon as the guns of Waterloo were silenced, thebattlefield became a tourist destination, with dead horses,discarded knapsacks ...
Literary Life
Jul 05, 2009; ... Twittermania, the tiresome micro-blogging fad, continues to grow -in America at least. Two 19-year-old college kids have sold toPenguin a book called Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books, NowPresented in 20 Tweets or Less. For the uninitiated, a Tweet is amessage of up to 140 ...
DEBUT FICTION Lucy Beresford praises a novel about performing and personas that asks questions about what is real
Jul 05, 2009; ... The Rehearsal By Eleanor Catton GRANTA, pounds 12.99, 317 pp If you thought stripy thespian leg warmers were the preservesolely of devotees of the early Eighties hit TV show Fame, thinkagain. Eleanor Catton's confident debut, an ambitious riff around'what is real', ...
FICTION A disconcerting joining of knockabout comedy and weighty themes comes unstuck, says Jane Shilling
Jul 05, 2009; ... We Are All Made of Glue By Marina Lewycka FIG TREE, pounds 18.99, 419 pp Georgina Sinclair is having a midlife crisis. Her husband, Rip(short for Euripides), has left her after a minor domestic rowturned nuclear. Her editorial work for a glue industry ...
SHORT STORIES This incisive collection confirms the Booker-winning novelist as the antidote to exotic India, says Ed King
Jul 05, 2009; ... Between the Assassinations By Aravind Adiga ATLANTIC, pounds 14.99 355 pp About halfway through Between the Assassinations a rickshaw-puller, overcome by exhaustion and humiliation, stops his cart inthe middle of the road, shakes his fist at the passing traffic ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Performing Flea by PG Wodehouse
Jul 05, 2009; ... In 1941 PG Wodehouse made five radio talks from Berlin, detailinghis experiences as a prisoner-of-war, and attracted considerableenmity for doing so. Sean O'Casey was one of his detractors: 'Theharm done to England's cause and to England's dignity,' he wrote inthe Daily Telegraph, 'is ...
Whatever happened to... the inventor of the mobile phone, Martin Cooper
Jul 05, 2009; ... In 1973, at the age of 44, Chicagoan Martin Cooper was in chargeof a team of engineers intent on making history with the world'sfirst mobile phone. It was a race against time; the US governmentowned the radio waves needed to transmit a mobile phone call and wasplanning to give the ...
thelist extreme 'hidden camera' shows
Jul 05, 2009; ... 1 You're Under Arrest was an American show which created'elaborate comical stings to bring real runaway fugitives tojustice' - a typical set-up involved inviting a wanted felon tomodel at a fashion shoot, then arresting him. 2 James and Laurie Ann Ryan sued the makers of the MTV ...
PS loves & hates Neil Gaiman, writer Even if airports were beautiful they would still be soul-destroying and evil
Jul 05, 2009; ... SUSHI When I was in Japan a couple of years ago to promote theStardust movie a tour guide took to me to these fish markets whereyou can have wonderfully fresh sushi. I can eat raw fish inquantities that compare to feeding time at a walrus house. DOCTOR WHO Doctor Who gave my then ...
radiohead label turns heat on rivals
Jul 05, 2009; ... MAMA Group, the Aim-listed artist management firm, andRadiohead's manager Brian Message are taking on the music majors bylaunching a record label through which artists retain theircopyright and digital delivery of music is key. Founded with an initial financial commitment of more ...
Leading QC joins rail fight
Jul 05, 2009; ... LORD Pannick QC, one of the "stars at the bar", is advisingNational Express in what is developing into a bitter legal row withthe Government over the retention of its rail portfolio. The eminent QC, 53, whose high-profile cases include representingCamelot in its challenge to the ...
Boris guns for EU hedge fund bill
Jul 05, 2009; ... BORIS Johnson, the mayor of London, will this week wade into thedebate over regulation of hedge funds amid worries that a crackdowncould destroy the City's reputation as a leading financial centre. Mr Johnson is thought to believe that the draft European Unionbill presents a clear ...
UKFI to warn of long haul to sell bank stakes
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE body which manages the taxpayer's stakes in British bankswill warn this week against any expectations of a quick-firedisposal of the shareholdings, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. UK Financial Investments (UKFI) will say in a strategy documentto be unveiled on Thursday that it ...
Kleinwort bid move
Jul 05, 2009; ... SIR John Bond, the chairman of Vodafone, and Simon Robertson, thechairman of Rolls-Royce, are among a clutch of City heavyweightsbacking a management bid for Kleinwort Benson, one of the City'soldest private banks. The bank, whose roots date back to the 1850s, has been put up ...
Office group seeks rescue to save 1,400 jobs
Jul 05, 2009; ... LAST-DITCH talks are under way this weekend to save 1,400 jobs asone of Britain's biggest office supplies companies teeters on thebrink of collapse. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been lined up to act asadministrator to Vasanta Group, which has been hit by the withdrawalof ...
Pru ensures changes to Cazenove research
Jul 05, 2009; ... JP MORGAN CAZENOVE has rewritten a piece of research aboutPrudential that initially made a string of adverse comments aboutthe insurer's accounting procedures. The research note is understood to have made disparaging remarksabout reporting decisions taken by Tidjane Thiam, ...
MG Rover investigation
Jul 05, 2009 ... LORD Mandelson is expected to reveal that the Serious FraudOffice (SFO) will investigate the collapse of MG Rover, the carmaker, after a Government inquiry found there were grounds for acriminal investigation, writes Angela Monaghan. The Business Secretary is expected to announce ...
Ladbrokes pays debt at the gallop
Jul 05, 2009; ... GAMING group Ladbrokes is set to confound its critics later thismonth by repaying a pounds 351m bond which could be a boost to itsbombed-out share price. Doom-mongers had suggested the bookmaker was struggling under itsnear pounds 1bn debt burden, It was not helped last ...
Plan to boost QE leads MPC agenda
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee could expand itsquantitative easing (QE) programme from pounds 125bn to pounds150bn or more on Thursday as it weighs up the prospects for economicrecovery at its July meeting. The MPC is expected to hold interest rates at 0.5pc for ...
Mutual move sparks anger investor
Jul 05, 2009; ... A GROUP of private investors in West Bromwich Building Society isconsidering legal action against the mutual for changing the termsof their benefits as part of its rescue restructuring last month. Holders of pounds 75m worth of "permanent interest bearingshares" (PIBS) are furious ...
M&S shareholders ponder governance plan
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE body that represents Marks & Spencer's 200,000 privateshareholders could throw its weight behind a special resolutiondemanding that M&S finds an independent chairman to replace SirStuart Rose by next summer. Roger Lawson, a director at the UK Shareholders' Association(UKSA), ...
Ministers prepare way for a beefed-up FSA
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to be given radicalnew powers as the Government this week unveils its blueprint topolice the City. The City watchdog is expected to be given far-reaching authorityto suspend and penalise workers and firms that break rules as partof ...
webSite gives fans the nod on celebs' lifestyles
Jul 05, 2009; ... BILLIONAIRE investors Dermot Desmond, the Irishman who owns about37pc of Celtic football club, and Len Blavatnik, the Russianoligarch who has investments in a string of media companies throughhis Access Media vehicle, have invested pounds 750,000 in a newinternet start-up designed to ...
BT to pay less than its rivals
Jul 05, 2009; ... BT has become the first major British company to intentionallyfix its executives' salaries below the average of that paid to topmanagers at its competitors. The radical proposals come as companies face increasingly angryshareholder reaction to large remuneration packages ....
Glass in frame for RBS job
Jul 05, 2009; ... SIMON Glass, a former banker at Standard Chartered and HSBC, hasemerged as a possible candidate for the finance director's job atRoyal Bank of Scotland (RBS). RBS hired Mr Glass three months ago as deputy finance directorfrom Standard Chartered, where he held the same position. ...
Pay rows are damaging British business
Jul 05, 2009; ... When Tesco finds itself on the end of a substantial protest voteover executive rewards, it is a telling sign that relations betweencompanies and the investment community are at breaking point. This year's annual meeting season has been punctuated bydisagreements over both the size ...
RIGHT TO RAIL AT BOWKER
Jul 05, 2009; ... Has there ever been a more spectacular corporate implosion, orone laced more thickly with irony, than the one witnessed atNational Express last week? It is lucky that Richard Bowker, thecompany's suddenly former chief executive, did not spend his timedriving its buses or trains, because ...
INSURERS IN NEED OF ONE POLICY
Jul 05, 2009; ... Andrew Moss, the chief executive of Aviva, would not be human ifhe had not been annoyed at having seen a conveyor belt of his seniorexecutives jump ship to join Prudential, the rival insurance group,in recent years. First, Tidjane Thiam, a highly-regarded executive,left and is now the ...
International view Protest phase of the crisis is still to come
Jul 05, 2009; ... One dog has yet to bark in this long winding crisis. Beyond riotsin Athens and a Baltic bust-up, we have not seen evidence of bitterpolitical protest as the slump eats away at the legitimacy ofgoverning elites in North America, Europe, and Japan. It may just bea matter of ...
IDS success needs no spin
Jul 05, 2009; ... "NEVER underestimate the determination of a quiet man." So saidIain Duncan Smith, amid much media guffawing, at the 2002Conservative conference. Since losing the Tory leadership, IDS has toiled away at theCentre for Social Justice, a think tank he established, which workswith ...
Turner presses on pensions
Jul 05, 2009; ... LORD Turner's Pensions Commission, which reported in November2005 after three years of pondering, promised a "system ofretirement provision fit for the 21st century". But with three years to go until Turner's recommendations areimplemented, the man himself said last week: "My gut ...
QE just acting as a sugar rush for insolvent banks that deserve to fail
Jul 05, 2009; ... The UK is in the midst of the most dangerous economic experimentfor generations. Yet it's the subject of no debate. Since March, theauthorities have been using "quantitative easing", or QE. Thisinvolves the Bank of England expanding its balance sheet fromnothing in order to purchase debt ...
Coming off the rails National Express's decision to quit its East Coast franchise is a lose-lose situation for nearly everyone, reports Alistair Osborne
Jul 05, 2009; ... Here's a gag from Lord Adonis - though one he may wish he'd nevermade. Just 10 days ago, this is how the new Transport Secretarykicked off a speech to a roomful of railway industry executives. "I come to you from, as I read in today's papers, what is thedeceitful and dysfunctional ...
Marc Bolland is evangelical about Morrisons' vertical business model which he is taking forward with a plan to farm 700 acres in Scotland writes Andrew Cave
Jul 05, 2009; ... Marc Bolland is eating a salmon sandwich in Wimbledon and talkingabout passion. But it has nothing to do with tennis, Andy Murray is nowhere insight and the "terrace" we are sitting on is what Mr Bolland callsthe public chairs and tables outside the local ...
'Zombies' emerge as crisis bites ready-meals industry The going for Britain's private-label food manufacturers has never been so tough, writes Jonathan Sibun
Jul 05, 2009; ... For workers at the Cavaghan and Gray Factory in Durranhill on theoutskirts of Hull, the future looks bleak. The Cavvies factory, aslocals call it, is facing closure and the site's 349 employees arefacing the prospect of having to find new jobs amidst the fiercesteconomic downturn since ...
Lloyds adapts to winds of change Competition has blown the merged banking group on a new course, says Philip Aldrick
Jul 05, 2009; ... 'It may not be the top of the agenda at the moment, but industryconcentration is going to be a big issue. There's a danger we won'thave enough competition in banking in some domestic markets." Peter Sands, chief executive of Standard Chartered, may have beentalking about the global ...
Set to have branches everywhere
Jul 05, 2009; ... As a young adult living away from home, Gareth Mitchell found itdidn't take long to exhaust all the traditional ideas for gifts tosend back to his parents in Northern Ireland. "I'd done all theusual stuff like chocolates, flowers and even socks," he recallswith a groan, "and I thought it ...
techbyte
Jul 05, 2009; ... BT UC500 OFFICE PHONE SYSTEM ***** Price: from approx pounds 7,000 for up to 16 users to approx pounds 17,000 for up to 60 users. business.bt.com THIS week, BT staged its "Business Experience" where it trumpetedits latest services, from eSignature, a ...
RM: Education spend in UK should be safe
Jul 05, 2009; ... RM 159 1/2p Questor says BUY THE market thinks of this company as merely a provider of IT forschools, so there has been some concern over its growth prospects ifthe Government is forced to rein in spending. However, the company is growing in ...
BRIGHT IDEAS Opportunity for start-ups
Jul 05, 2009; ... With record numbers of graduates and school-leavers expected tostruggle to find employment this summer, the Prime Minister hasdecided to get out his big stick. In return for guaranteed training, work experience or actualemployment the young unemployed will have to accept the offer ...
THE WEEK AHEAD
Jul 05, 2009 ... HALIFAX is expected to publish its latest house prices index thisweek and economists will be looking for further signs thatconditions in the housing market improved for a second month in arow, after Halifax reported a 2.6pc increase in prices in May. The Office for National ...
Jackson death brings gloom to venue owners
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE financial fallout from the death of Michael Jackson spreads. In the US the Jackson family look set for a scrap over his willwhile in the UK there is more than a little concern about thefarewell concerts that had been planned. We have already learnt about the woes facing ...
Word up: the crisis is now defined
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE ABC of the financial crisis has been something scribblershave been trying to define for months: CDOs, CFDs etc, have allbecome unhealthily familiar in recent months. To prove the point I offer the latest words to make it into thenew edition of Collins English Dictionary ....
Recession Red is a true vintage
Jul 05, 2009; ... DASHWOOD has written before about Jon Moulton's Recession Red, "awine to remember in a year to forget". Last week the wine from the private equity boss's privatevineyard picked up an award for the best red wine in the UK ....
Ashes to ashes, Twitter to all
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE ex-minister for digital engagement Tom Watson remains firmlyengaged with the digital world.Last week he sent a message into the ether via Twitter, informinganyone who cared that he was listening to a eulogy in a funeral Was the ex-minister really bashing out a message ...
Stringfellow has a bare grasp of currency trading
Jul 05, 2009; ... PETER Stringfellow sells all sorts of things at his chain of lapdancing clubs, not all to everyone's taste, even though he doesclaim his steaks are the "finest in London". However, the most profitable line could be neither the meat northe flesh on offer. Buried in the latest ...
HOW TO STAY AHEAD OF THE THUNDERING HERD INVESTING FOR INCOME British investors are starting to think outside the box in order to make their savings work harder for them, report Rosie Murray-West and Richard Evans
Jul 05, 2009; ... After years of spendthrift borrowing, the British arerediscovering the habit of saving. But instead of putting money intodeposit accounts with rotten returns, there are signs of a stampedeinto stock market-based funds - which risks pushing prices up andyields down for those who fail to ...
Problems keep mounting for Keydata investors
Jul 05, 2009; ... The scandal surrounding Keydata Investment Services deepened lastweek. Even the administrators admitted "we weren't expecting to findwhat we did when we went in there". So what has so shocked the hard-nosed administratorsPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), who are used to picking over ...
Ask Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Troublesome trunk opens Pandora's box
Jul 05, 2009; ... I write this letter in the hope that you may be able to offersome suggestions. In 2006 I was bequeathed a gift to be used for charitablepurposes by a person in Togo, who has since died. All legal debtsdue on the gift have been paid and documents received testify tothis. The gift ...
Ask Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Credit card fraud
Jul 05, 2009; ... The property I used to live in has stood empty for the last twoyears. Late last year a number of credit cards were fraudulentlyapplied for in my name at my old address. Several credit cardcompanies were able to spot that this was fraud and did not processthe applications but Barclaycard ...