A surge of low-grade stars has thrown the celebrity world into a sub-prime crisis. Now where’s Mervyn King? Going by this weekend’s headlines, setting next year’s citizenship test should be a doddle.
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Celebrity world is in sub-prime crisis
Gout is agony, it’s on the increase – and you don’t have to binge like Henry VIII to get it, writes sufferer Patrick Weir The attack came out of the blue and the pain was excruciating. Getting out of bed one morning, I placed my feet on the floor – and lurched headlong into the blanket box.
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The gout myth
A guide to days out in the British countryside, and an amusing attempt to get under the skin of the Welsh.
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Travel book reviews: Perfect Days Out; On an Offa Bus
Buckingham Palace says fewer foreign trips by Queen helped to trim expenditure on official duties by 12.2% to £38.2m Buckingham Palace has cut expenditure on the royals’ official duties by 12.2% to £38.2m, a saving of more than £3m in the last year, the Queen’s accountant said today.
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Royal spending cut by £3m a year
Legendary guitarists, including Andy Summers and Graham Coxon, on why they love the iconic guitar Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1950, a small Californian business was preparing to introduce the world to a new musical invention. The Fender Electrical Instrument Company was based in Santa Ana, 30 miles south of Los Angeles, and it had already come up with the Esquire, an electric guitar that broke with convention by being built from a solid piece of wood. Now, 41-year-old Leo Fender had radically improved on the original to produce the Broadcaster – which, after a spurt of legal hoo-hah, was renamed the Telecaster, and sold to the world
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Sixty years of the Fender Telecaster
India’s biggest public building opens in time for Commonwealth Games, but some have questioned the expense India’s biggest public building, a £2bn terminal at Indira Gandhi international airport in Delhi, opened at the weekend after seven days of religious ceremonies involving 300 priests, and last-minute polishing of its 500,000 square metres of granite floors. The steel and glass terminal is expected to handle 34 million passengers a year and will see its first arrival – a non-stop Air India flight from New York – in 10 days’ time. It is bigger than Terminal Four in Madrid and T5 at Heathrow, but smaller than the terminal in Beijing opened to welcome visitors to the 2008 Olympics.
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£2bn airport terminal opens in Delhi
Since 1984, visionaries in technology, science and entertainment have met at the Ted conference, to share their ideas for a happier, healthier world. Now it’s coming to Oxford So, what is TED? And, more important, why should I care?
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What’s the big idea?
Report shows rate of unemployment in UK for young men leaving college far outstrips that for women Complacency and “general hopelessness” have been blamed for the failure of young British men as research reveals that underperformance in school and university is now creeping into their working lives.
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Job fears grow for UK male graduates
Leading commentator says era of great novelists such as Twain and Hemingway has passed Book pundits in the United States are being urged to line up on one side or other this summer: Is the American novel finally dead or not?
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US critic announces death of fiction
A miserable start to the week brought rain, dull food and slow service in Manchester’s Obsidian 24 Princess Street, Manchester (0161 238 4348). Meal for two, with wine and service, £70-£120 A restaurant trading outside of its most appropriate hours is like a transvestite who hasn’t shaved.
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Unhappy Mondays