Two months ago, Tiago Manuel Dias Ferreira ‘Bébé’ was virtually unheard of in his native Portugal, never mind on Mancunian terraces. But now – as he completes a move to one of Europe’s elite – his name has been forever etched in folklore. “Football,” says Bébé “can change lives, very much.” Bébé was born in… [Read more…]
September 7, 2010
WHEN KIM finished with her boyfriend of five years she was left with over £4,000 worth of debt to pay back. The couple had moved in together after accepting places at the same university and relished the chance to live together. “At first we found it exciting but soon started to struggle with the responsibilities… [Read more…]
August 31, 2010
The Independent, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 Icann’s key holder system aims to protect the internet against the DNS hijackers, but are there more prevalent threats to connectivity? In 2008 two underwater cables were severed bringing internet blackouts to 15 countries in the Middle East and Asia – 80 per cent of Indian connectivity was hit,… [Read more…]
August 11, 2010
10 August, 2010, The Independent - Public intolerance towards transsexualism continues to exist widely, but when a beautiful young transsexual such as Lea T – the world’s first transsexual supermodel – poses in Vanity Fair and French Vogue, it perhaps shows that progress is being made. Givenchy’s autumn/winter collection will feature Lea, once a personal… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
Science – not so long ago – was in a state of disrepair. In 2007, only 12% of students left university with a science degree, as the University and College Union warned that sciences and maths degrees were in ‘irreversible decline’. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), too, warned that the numbers of science graduates… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
Wednesday 4 August, The Independent Before Kanye West had joined Twitter and before Steven Holmes of Coventry was making headlines, US talk show host Conan O’Brien propelled one young tweeter to stardom in a very similar way. “I’ve decided to follow someone at random. She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life… [Read more…]
August 9, 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010 – The Independent Purification of uranium, 1939-1945 The first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August, 1945 by the US – signalling the realisation of the six-year Manhattan Project. Albert Einstein had written to Franklin D Roosevelt in 1939 detailing the Nazi experiments that attempted… [Read more…]
May 3, 2010
Picture the scene. Early morning, Sheffield Magistrates Court. Lawyers, the clerk and the usher wait impatiently for defendant Richard Andrew Bouche, 45, on what shall be forever known as ‘Brown Thursday.’ It is a week before the General Election, hours before the final televised debate, and ‘Bigotgate’ is still lingering. But this is not ‘Brown’… [Read more…]
May 2, 2010
I arrive at Tufty Records – past the burnt-out, abandoned factories and offices in what was once Gatecrasher town – with plenty of preconceptions about who La Folie are and what they represent. Firstly their name is no doubt a homage to the Stranglers’ sixth album, La Folie. And their sound – rumbling, melodic bass-lines… [Read more…]
March 16, 2010
“Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being” Karl Scheffler, author and architect. Condemned, the city was. Blitzed, rebuilt and then divided, Berlin remains defined by its inescapable past, obsessed with the present and unsure of its future. Its part in the story of modern Europe is virtually unparalleled: Berlin was… [Read more…]
September 7, 2010
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