Teddy's Music

Darlington are fourth having beaten Southend United 2-1 at Roots Hall.
In Scotland this afternoon, Celtic take on fourth-placed Motherwell at Fir Park with their head coach, John Barnes, determined to avenge the 1-0 defeat at Parkhead earlier in the season “It’s going to be a difficult match. Bristol Rovers are fourth after a comfortable 3-0 [...]

She was against state ownership in principle, and any emotional attachment she may have had to continuing British ownership of an important part of the car industry was weakening rapidly. Ray Horrocks, then chairman of the Austin Rover division, described to a Commons committee in 1986 what he called the “cruel and shameful persecution of [...]

The Lord Chancellor is said to be considering allowing solicitors to apply for silk
Winning the right to equal status is one thing Achieving it on the ground, however, is quite another. Last month, a circuit judge, David Bentley, replied to a suggestion that he might like to consider appointing a solicitor advocate – [...]

The curtain rises, not on some jolly chorus, but on the sad song of a maiden alone; Act 2 centres on the spare madrigalian beauty of the quartet “Strange Adventure!”; and the number you go out humming – the duet “I have a song to sing, oh!” – is more likely to draw a tear [...]

From a younger generation, Suzanne Godfrey, winner of the 1995 Young Artists’ Competition, was a captivating soloist in Mozart’s D major Concerto. A delight to watch, her elegant platform manner was the counterpart of a serious, dedicated technique that worked in harness with a sense of the music’s airy spirit. Ian Brown shaped an unobtrusive [...]

Capricorn and the Composers’ Ensemble have shared the workload, with the young and heavily tipped Daniel Harding conducting on and off.Of the two concerts I caught – Sunday and Wednesday evenings – it was clear from head-nodding players that certain unconducted works could well have done with a conductor – Michael Levinas’s Almeida commission Three [...]

Each time that your card is swiped, it registers not only the total amount spent, but exactly what you have spent it on. The supermarkets can therefore build up a customer profile of each card holder.Tesco claims that this will enable it to provide a personalised service, at least at mailshot level. The flipside is [...]

At sunset, gazing out from the Monte Berico war memorial, she entered an entranced state of emotional detachment: George, on the other hand, “had become, as he always becomes at the richest and most colourful moments, silent and stiff and conventional”
Poor George. Their unusual “semi-detached” marriage was, for him, prompted by infatuated love. [...]

“And it’s just such a telling, significant indictment of the media, the fact that it’s even worth commenting on the fact that Pyjama Party and the Girlie Show are fronted by women. Can you imagine people rushing up and down shouting, ‘Jonathan Ross is on the television, and he’s a man!’ Of course I don’t [...]

But one day he was hit by a taxi; his leg was crushed and he had to have a steel rod inserted in it. Cuny began to look into the conditions of migrant farm workers, some of them employed near Kingsville. As he got to know them, he changed his political views, took up their [...]