I’ve been reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind for way too long and I’m

I’ve been reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind for way too long, and I’m still not finished.What is that you Australians like so much about England? Rob Byatt, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Most Australians grow up with a burning desire to go overseas; to travel or try to make it in their field It comes from living on an island. Australian magazines are full of information on America and Europe and you feel like you’re missing out It’s that “grass is greener” thing. England is such a melting pot of people, too, and it’s got an incredible music industry, which is why I came. And, whereas America’s very American, England has a lot of European influences, so you don’t have such a one-track mindset.Why did it take you so long to release a second album? Daniel Worthington, e-mail I had to move house, and it took longer than I expected to get settled. I also worked on some other projects: a Billy Corgan song for the film Stigmata, and I wrote a song for the movie Go with Nick Seymour from Crowded House I also did a duet with Tom Jones. By then, I thought I’d be done with the new album within a year, but I just wasn’t feeling it I wrote about 64 songs before I had one I liked It was a very lengthy process.

Then again, the experimentation was good, and I felt I really grew as a songwriter.How did you get a record deal so quickly without playing live? Tracy Milton, Manchester You don’t need to play live to get a record deal I guess it was based on my demo tapes I’ve been learning, though. I was quite used to performing live from when I was a kid, so I’m quite confident. It’s my favourite part of the job now.England’s not very romantic. Do you ever think of going back to sunnier climes in Australia? Pete Edmunds, Brighton All the time I hate the weather here. But I do love working in London and I love hanging out in Kensington and Notting Hill I’ve been here eight years I just have to set my life up so I can leave in the winter.. Monkeys may have more to say for themselves than has been thought. Scientists have found that the primates have developed a language with similar speech patterns to humans.

Dr Klaus Zuberbuhler, from St Andrews’ School of Psychology, who carried out the experiments in the rainforests of the Tai National Park also found that monkeys use specific “words” for different situations.Dr Zuberbuhler monitored the responses of Campbell’s monkey and the Diana monkey, both of which are under threat of extinction from poaching and deforestation, to recordings of their own warning cries.In potentially dangerous situations the male Campbell’s monkey produced a “boom” noise before issuing a distinct alarm call. Similar results were found with the Diana monkeys.While specific predators, such as leopards or crowned-hawk eagles, were identified by a unique warning sound, the use of the “boom” noise appears to be used only when the monkeys sense danger but are unsure of the attacker.”The use of the “boom” could be compared to man’s use of the word ‘maybe’,” Dr Zuberbuhler said. “[The sound] modified the meaning of the alarm calls and transformed them from highly specific warnings, requiring immediate anti-predator responses, into more general signals of disturbance.”Although the analogies to human language remain suggestive, the results show that monkeys can … implement the same sentence structure rules that humans use.”. Advisers costing hundreds of thousands of pounds are to be drafted into the BBC to help governors keep tighter control of its executives. “Often it is claimed that governors and management are too close, or that management has ‘captured’ the governors,” said Mr Davies, who was formerly chief economist at Goldman Sachs.

But Mr Davies will hope the shake-up will dampen calls for the BBC to be brought entirely within the remit of the new communications regulator, Ofcom.While Ofcom rightly adopted a “light touch” for the narrow public remit of private broadcasters, such light regulation was unsatisfactory for the BBC, he suggested.. Thousands of Muslim and Jewish students from across Britain will converge on Manchester University today for demonstrations over an attempt to brand Israel an apartheid state that has brought campus relations to “boiling point”. Opponents claim it risks creating a climate of fear among Jewish students, and will lead to their societies being barred from campuses as racist organisations.The dispute, which echoes tensions at last year’s disastrous UN anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, will be played out today in the Academy, a Manchester University building normally reserved for concerts. The student union is not large enough to cope with the number of Manchester students wanting to vote.Those library-card carrying union members who do get in are to be joined outside by hundreds more from other universities being bused to Manchester to demonstrate in support of both sides. With tensions on campus said by the chairman of Manchester Jewish Society, Daniel Sacker, to be “at boiling point”, Greater Manchester Police are deploying officers around the building in what they hope will be a “low-key” operation.The furore was started by a motion proposed by Omayma Al-Khaffaf, a third-year Middle Eastern studies student, and former member of the Islamic Society, who doubles as the union’s anti-racism officer.