The charge provoked an unnnusually fierce reaction from Pearson. A handful of very senior executives at the company contacted The Sunday Telegraph following publication of the article two months ago to complain.Robert...
Sally White is a self-styled "punter and long-term investor" who has worked in financial journalism, stock- broking and private equity since the 1960s. Get the balance wrong, however, and the consequences are likely...
After listening to Allibone's proposals for building a very high-voltage generator and discharge tube, Rutherford took him down to the "biggest room we have" - big in linear dimensions and higher than any other room...
Teller retorted that he knew the Russian Communists better than his accusers did, since his mother and sister were suffering terribly in Hungary.A taste of Teller's brand of sardonic humour parries this charge: When...
His ministers have misled the House, his credibility has melted away. I really must apologise to Conservatives everywhere: I've been drowning kittens all week and kicking puppies over the garden wall. We will be...
The new constitution proposed by the d'Estaing commission is not a great stride towards a more integrated community Far from it. While the Tory party greets every action in Brussels as a sell-out (if Blair announced...
There was no great enthusiasm for their leader, and bemusement that the Opposition had failed to exploit the crisis that engulfed Tony Blair after the death of David Kelly "The mood is lethargic," said one senior MP....
"I think," he says modestly, "I got towards what I was after. This is as close to keeping my eye on the ball as I can get at the moment." He is now considering ways of pulling together the unusually formatted series...
Stevens had previously been arrested and charged with child sex and computer pornography offences, but the case against him collapsed at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London last month. West Midlands Police said in a...
Politicians are those we elect to defend our society so we should protect them like you would protect a treasure." The NK department store where Ms Lindh was fatally wounded remained open yesterday, but it was hardly...
Since October 2000, scientists have detected a sharp rise in the number of low-frequency quakes near the mountain which they believe could indicate underground volcanic activity.The pre-dawn detonations...
The group's train franchises include Midland Mainline, Gatwick Express, ScotRail and Silverlink, which was hit yesterday by the withdrawal of its entire fleet of class 321 trains on safety grounds.Rail operating...
Earlier this month Mr Singh, who founded New Look in 1969, tabled a bid for the group, believed to be at 330p a share, which would value it at £662m. Currently a non-executive director, he already owns 28 per cent of...
At one point, during a round of tough negotiations, her picture was burnt in the streets of Skopje.Ulf Dahlsten, who was Palme's personal secretary at the time of his shooting to death in Stockholm in 1986, said that...
Fathers can behave badly, but the courts need to accept that mothers are just as likely to be at fault.If Mr Geldof is in error, it is in his implication that it is enough to recognise the injustices to put them...
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