en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:19:40 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Camila Batmanghelidjh Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-25T11:29:16Z It is wonderful to hear that the Government is launching an “ambitious strategy aiming to bring an end to violence against women and girls”. The agencies that championed this should be congratulated. It is the result of the most effective campaign spearheaded by the End Violence Against Women Coalition, as well as years of work done by refuges working with vulnerable women and children. Chris Smith Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-25T08:52:00Z The River Derwent was William Wordsworth’s favourite river, and in the first book of his great poem The Prelude he wrote movingly about the way it ran past his childhood home in Cockermouth and used “to blend his murmurs with my nurse’s song”. Yet last Friday morning I was standing looking at the surging, angry water that was flooding so ferociously through the streets of the town, past and through his former home. No gentle murmurs here; this was an overwhelming force of nature, causing huge destruction and distress to the people of Cockermouth, Workington, Keswick and elsewhere. Natalie Haynes Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-26T06:58:33Z The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the unfairness of overdraft charges falls outside the scope of the Office of Fair Trading. Within one minute of this annoucement being made, it was the most read story on the BBC’s website. It swiftly became Times Online’s most commented upon. Nothing, it seems, makes us crosser than money. Marcus du Sautoy Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-25T08:57:20Z When I was a kid I hadn’t wanted to be a mathematician at all. My dream had been to become a spy. This ambition was fuelled by too many visits to see Roger Moore playing 007 at our local cinema combined with the misconception that my mum, who was once in the diplomatic corps, had been a spy. To realise my dream I decided I would follow in my mum’s footsteps and join the Foreign Office. Giles Whittell Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-24T11:31:42Z It was all so simple for the Monkey Wrench Gang. They set bulldozers alight and blew up dams in defence of the pristine wildernesses of the American West, and they told the Feds to go to hell. They swore a lot and drank a lot of beer. They existed only in the fearless imagination of Edward Abbey, but they were real enough to inspire a cult following on the radical environmental fringe.