“What came out of it was the discovery that non-directed or enabling leadership could work.”Horse whispering is of course just one of many ways into creative leadership. Cranfield has its Praxis centre and the Shakespearean acting lessons of Richard Olivier; the London Business School favours exposing its students to sketching and conducting an orchestra. There [...]

Characters question if their lives are their own, or if they are pawns of the gods.A golden thread winds through the first seven plays: the saffron robe of sacrifice. Hesione, sister of Priam, wore it when the Trojans offered her up to Apollo. Agamemnon has to watch his favourite child, Iphigenia, dressed in it to [...]

“We’ve been friends for 10 to 12 years, but once you step on the court you have to forget all that.”In the doubles semifinal, top-seeded Lisa McShea of Australia and Irina Selyutina of Kazakstan beat Kim Eun-ha of South Korea and Bahia Mouhtassine of Morocco. The winners will face Evie Dominikovic of Australia and Nirupama [...]

“I hit it close on the first and missed it, and on two I thought I made the putt and it lipped out Then I three-putted on three, missing a very short putt. When you do all those things it really stops your momentum.”The South African might have gone over par for the day again [...]

It will bury its head in the sand at its peril…”The danger of William’s position, as I understand it, is that it leaves the question hanging in the air. If we are to repeat the process, if we look for a stop-gap rather than a stop somebody, we will end up with nothing.”Politics, pages 8 [...]

pounds 35 for a private room off campus, pounds 35-pounds 45 for self catering on campus.Buzzword: blinding (general term of approbation) Next week: Glasgow Caledonian. Too much television; too many toys, computer games and other consumer goods on demand; too much fast food… Many parents’ misplaced kindness – or shelling out for a peaceful life [...]

Most of us would feel shy if coated in corporeal confectionery. But the message here is that you can share this delight even if you are built for comfort rather than speed. And the Archbishop of Canterbury is to broadcast to the nation from an Asda supermarket. Together they raise awkward questions about incarnation and [...]

This is a pounds 19 computer game, aimed at adolescent girls, in which – Tamagotchi style – you are favoured with a virtual boyfriend. In 12 computer months, by guiding him in his speech and behaviour, you can transform him into a great-looking, sensitive and high-earning bloke. But these are bolder proposals than we, and [...]

And who was it who was most vocal in his opposition when Ferguson complained about fixture congestion last season? Arsene Wenger, of course, and the Arsenal manager is likely to be the biter bit as his side run headlong into a pile-up of matches. A home game against Derby has yet to be arranged and [...]