http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/19/smug-criticisms-of-madonna-and-endless-gaga-comparisons-are-a-victory-for-ageism-and-misogyny/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/19/smug-criticisms-of-madonna-and-endless-gaga-comparisons-are-a-victory-for-ageism-and-misogyny/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:12:32 +0000 Charlie Alderwick http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26530 On Tuesday night Madonna brought her MDNA tour to England, performing a show in Hyde Park that was witty, narrative and relentlessly energetic, as well as the ridiculous spectacle you would expect from the Queen of Pop.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/19/smug-criticisms-of-madonna-and-endless-gaga-comparisons-are-a-victory-for-ageism-and-misogyny/feed/ 138 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/09/19/can-we-rationalise-the-dale-farm-eviction/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/09/19/can-we-rationalise-the-dale-farm-eviction/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:00:55 +0000 Charlie Alderwick http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=16478 Spend £18.5m of public cash on making 86 gypsy families homeless, while proposing to combat homelessness with caravans? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/09/19/can-we-rationalise-the-dale-farm-eviction/feed/ 38