I’ve made my choice.”Anelka told the French newspaper that he had made an irrevocable decision to leave England after Arsenal beat Wimbledon 5-1 without him on 19 April “The manager rested me. The next day the British papers said that Arsenal didn’t need me,” he said.Asked whether it was truly only his dislike of the [...]
WITH REFERENCE to Joan Smith’s article on the Queen Mother, “Queen Bee with a very nasty sting” (11 July), my mother at 95 years, coming from a working background, had the same attitude as the Queen Mother. She is quite wrong: we do not see the hunting fraternity as toffs – we see them as [...]
Has twice been runner-up in the Open, at Turnberry in 1994 and at Royal Troon in 1997, and has only once been worse than 24th in six championships Fourth last year at Royal Birkdale. The 34- year-old has won four times in Europe and twice in America, including this season’s Greater Greensboro Classic. Odds: 25-1IAN [...]
I once saw a car with a number like MCA 1, and printed on the number plate in small letters was the explanatory name “Michael Charles Adams”, as if the owner were desperate to let us know how clever the number was.(Actually, I don’t think it could have been MCA 1, because when I grew [...]
But that is like saying that British standards of living have not improved since the war because we still have so many poor people. If these feminists were serious about their disenfranchised sisters, they would be devoting themselves to this cause, and joining government task forces instead of writing yet another media-friendly blockbuster on Feminism [...]
In an important speech in Manchester yesterday, intended to resonate beyond the immediate audience of chief constables to which it was delivered, Mr Straw sought to focus attention on an issue on which, far more than most of those which fill the front pages, the Government will really be judged: the fight against crime.Mr Straw, [...]
Young people leaving local authority care will have a new support structure to launch their independent lives under a Bill in the Queen’s Speech. Practical measures to make Britain a world leader in Internet commerce are included in the Queen’s Speech.
The Electronic Communications Bill would provide a legal framework for dealing with digital signatures.
It would [...]
WPP business units are encouraged to embrace the technology as rapidly as possible. In addition, WPP has made direct investments in companies such as Broadvision, which Mr Sorrell believe have potential. “Lack of proximity to Silicon Valley is an issue,” he says grimly “You even see it in the US. East coast people don’t get [...]
That was the amount, according to Ed Fagan, an American lawyer representing some Holocaust victims, that the Germans were touting on the first day of discussions.
But the German government immediately denied that figure, admitting only that it had raised its stake by half, which now stood at around DM3bn (pounds 1bn). As the ranks of [...]
The police say their primary role on the Thames is to fight crime and provide a visible patrol against drug importation and terrorism. He said was “largely a talking shop” which “achieved very little”, and “many questions of river safety raised at the time remain unresolved”.The Metropolitan Police points out that in 1989 its river [...]
It is still possible for the unwary Protestant or Catholic to get punched and kicked if they happen to wander into the wrong district. Extreme loyalists are still active, mindlessly petrol-bombing Catholic homes in the night.
Observers often ask how such opposing aspirations can be reconciled The answer is: with the utmost difficulty Everything in this [...]
Across the US, hotel bookings have fallen short of expectations. Rather like the solar eclipse, the millennium has been sold as such a mob scene that most people have decided to stay at home.As hotel prices have tumbled, LA and San Francisco have started savaging New York, boasting they will have better weather and more [...]
