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Even at 88, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing refuses to play the role of Britain's elder literary stateswoman. "As you get older, you don't get wiser," she says. "You get irritable." Her latest book, Alfred and Emily (out in the U.S. on August 5), recounts her childhood on a farm in Southern Rhodesia, and examines the profound effects of World War I on her father, a former soldier and amputee, and her mother, a nurse whose true love drowned in the English Channel. On the eve of the book's publication in the U.K., Lessing spoke with TIME...
What They're Watching in England Apparently the spanking wasn't painful enough. Formula One boss Max Mosley is waging a bruising court battle with Britain's News of the World over its report on his allegedly Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes. A video clip of the tryst, which has mesmerized the British tabloids and broadsheets alike, has drawn 3.5 million hits online...
...torture dungeon." Mosley's wife of 48 years learned of her husband's sexual predilections for the first time, Formula One racers and sponsors called for his resignation, and Mosley faced accusations of finding titillation in Third Reich scenarios - a particularly piquant charge since his father, Oswald, was Britain's top Nazi sympathizer...
...largest ever foreign investment in a Russian firm. The British company paid more than $6 billion for a 50% stake in TNK-BP, an oil outfit it set up with a consortium of four Russian billionaires. Vladimir Putin, Russia's President at the time, joined Tony Blair, then Britain's Prime Minister, in cheering the joint venture. TNK-BP's CEO, Robert Dudley, hailed it as a "momentous and exciting event" that would "set new benchmarks in the Russian oil and gas industry...
Suspicions of a state raid on BP's Russian assets aren't surprising. Relations between the countries, already chilled by Britain's refusal to expel various critics of Russia's government, have been in a deep freeze since the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Still, in the case of TNK-BP, it's hard to make out a government agenda. The squabble over work permits was at least partially resolved once it became public, and suspicions of tax evasion stem from the years prior to BP's involvement. Resolving the conflict, Medvedev has said...