http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/10/mad-men-for-immediate-release-season-6-episode-6/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/10/mad-men-for-immediate-release-season-6-episode-6/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 23:42:55 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34823 After last week’s episode of Mad Men, there was a slight sense that both the series and its characters had lost their direction, not to mention the sense of what had made things so great in the first place. The decision to put historical events centre stage was a departure from normal procedure with the result that things felt somewhat forced and more than a bit clunky.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/10/mad-men-for-immediate-release-season-6-episode-6/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/07/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-five-in-the-ipl/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/07/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-five-in-the-ipl/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 21:04:56 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34754 Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times. With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/07/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-five-in-the-ipl/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/01/mad-men-the-flood-season-6-episode-5/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/01/mad-men-the-flood-season-6-episode-5/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 22:02:36 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34605 Up till this point in the series, set in turbulent 1968, historical events have simply been simmering in the background. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/01/mad-men-the-flood-season-6-episode-5/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/01/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-four-in-the-ipl/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/01/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-four-in-the-ipl/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 00:26:19 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34585 Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times. With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/01/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-four-in-the-ipl/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/24/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-three-in-the-ipl/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/24/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-three-in-the-ipl/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:55:28 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34413 Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times. With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India. Here’s all that’s been going on in week three of T20 cricket’s biggest tournament…]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/24/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-three-in-the-ipl/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/review-of-mad-men-collaborators-season-6-episode-3/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/review-of-mad-men-collaborators-season-6-episode-3/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:41:37 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34263 Despite an opening scene that amusingly felt as if it was mere seconds away from descending into some kind of suburban swingers party, this week’s slice of Mad Men very much picked up where the ominous tone of the last one left off.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/18/review-of-mad-men-collaborators-season-6-episode-3/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/17/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-two-in-the-ipl/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/17/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-two-in-the-ipl/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:30:29 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34218 Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times. With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/17/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-two-in-the-ipl/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/11/review-of-mad-men-the-doorway/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/11/review-of-mad-men-the-doorway/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:01:40 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34034 If people tuning into the latest instalment of Mad Men were hoping that Don Draper’s much publicised trip to Hawaii would lend the opening episode a warm and upbeat feeling then they were sorely mistaken – the two-hour series premiere was bleak but compelling watching.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/11/review-of-mad-men-the-doorway/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/10/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-one-in-the-ipl/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/10/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-one-in-the-ipl/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:06:21 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34009 Given its non-stop fixture list, ever-changing roster of players and overly promoted sponsors, the Indian Premier League can be a little hard to keep track of at times. With that in mind, The Independent provides you with a team-by-team round up of this week’s action so you know your Sunrisers from your Super Kings and can stay on top of all the action from India.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/10/indian-premier-league-round-up-all-the-action-from-week-one-in-the-ipl/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/30/the-dark-clouds-that-loom-over-this-years-indian-premier-league/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/30/the-dark-clouds-that-loom-over-this-years-indian-premier-league/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:42:22 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=33742 With just days to go until the sixth edition of cricket’s spangliest slogfest starts in its own predictably overstated style, things are far from perfect in the promised land with several dark clouds looming over the tournament.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/03/30/the-dark-clouds-that-loom-over-this-years-indian-premier-league/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/25/is-this-the-most-inane-interview-in-the-history-of-football/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/25/is-this-the-most-inane-interview-in-the-history-of-football/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:25:58 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32010 Was this the most inane interview in the history of football? While it would certainly seem pretty difficult to beat, here is a selection of the tweets so you can make your own mind up…]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/25/is-this-the-most-inane-interview-in-the-history-of-football/feed/ 17 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/24/joe-root-helps-england-see-the-positives-despite-series-defeat-in-india/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/24/joe-root-helps-england-see-the-positives-despite-series-defeat-in-india/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:47:34 +0000 Charles Reynolds http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=31980 The post-match declaration that a team will, ‘try to take the positives from the loss and move on’, is so frequently repeated that it has practically become a reflex action for vanquished captains, a usually meaningless morsel of management speak thrown to a hungry pack of journalists. However sometimes the oldest clichés happen to be wholly appropriate.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/01/24/joe-root-helps-england-see-the-positives-despite-series-defeat-in-india/feed/ 0