http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 06:54:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/01/is-mp-stephen-lloyd-proud-of-what-the-government-has-been-doing-on-disability/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/01/is-mp-stephen-lloyd-proud-of-what-the-government-has-been-doing-on-disability/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:00:15 +0000 Christina Patterson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=26958 “I think,” he says, in the tone you’d use if someone was asking you this question a lot, “we’re doing the right thing. There are two million children growing up in this country in households where no one works. There are six or seven million people of working age who, for one reason or another, are on benefits. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/01/is-mp-stephen-lloyd-proud-of-what-the-government-has-been-doing-on-disability/feed/ 86 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/barclays-whats-a-little-interest-rate-change-between-friends-and-a-bottle-of-bolly/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/barclays-whats-a-little-interest-rate-change-between-friends-and-a-bottle-of-bolly/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:31:23 +0000 Christina Patterson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25774 Let me get this straight. Traders at Barclays bank actively manipulated one of the world’s most important interest rates, which affects the mortgage rate millions of people pay on their homes? They did this secretly and deliberately in order to increase their profits? They did this as favours to each other, and promised each other bottles of Bolly in return? They did it so casually that that they said things like “low one million and three million would be nice”? They said things like “dude, I owe you big time”?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/barclays-whats-a-little-interest-rate-change-between-friends-and-a-bottle-of-bolly/feed/ 52