http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 19:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/teen-girls-drink-like-the-rest-of-us-%e2%80%93-to-forget/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/teen-girls-drink-like-the-rest-of-us-%e2%80%93-to-forget/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:34:24 +0000 Richard Darlington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25877 It’s official, Britain's teenage girls are the biggest binge drinkers in Europe. It’s not new research but the fact that this evidence has been included in the Department of Health’s submission to the House of Commons Health Select Committee inquiry shows that it is still a problem and that politicians are still worried about it.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/teen-girls-drink-like-the-rest-of-us-%e2%80%93-to-forget/feed/ 75 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/12/real-men-do-housework/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/12/real-men-do-housework/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:15:17 +0000 Richard Darlington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=22290 The latest statistics show the number of ‘house husbands’ in Britain has trebled in the last 15 years.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/12/real-men-do-housework/feed/ 16 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/24/is-x-factor-really-the-biggest-threat-to-today%e2%80%99s-teenage-girls/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/24/is-x-factor-really-the-biggest-threat-to-today%e2%80%99s-teenage-girls/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:09:07 +0000 Richard Darlington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=18984 Girls are growing up in a "moral abyss", according to Girls' School Association President Dr Helen Wright. She argues that “it is time to take up the drawbridge on the liberal dogma of the past” and that “the amorality” of shows such the X Factor lead to “bullying and arrogance” being glamorised.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/24/is-x-factor-really-the-biggest-threat-to-today%e2%80%99s-teenage-girls/feed/ 19 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/26/don%e2%80%99t-promise-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-deliver-on-immigration/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/26/don%e2%80%99t-promise-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-deliver-on-immigration/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:36:29 +0000 Richard Darlington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=15542 Today’s ONS figures are a reminder of the risks of politicians promising what they can’t deliver, particularly on an issue as emotive as immigration. Before the election, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats said immigration was out of control; afterwards, they said they would cut it dramatically. Neither was true.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/08/26/don%e2%80%99t-promise-what-you-can%e2%80%99t-deliver-on-immigration/feed/ 61 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/05/20/modern-kids-grow-up-in-a-global-village/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/05/20/modern-kids-grow-up-in-a-global-village/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 16:37:43 +0000 Richard Darlington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=12390 Anyday now, the Department for Education will publish the final report from Reg Bailey’s review of commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. The Chief Exec of the Mothers’ Union has been given a hot potato to juggle as he balances the need for Ministers to fulfil their pledge in the Coalition Agreement to “crackdown on irresponsible [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/05/20/modern-kids-grow-up-in-a-global-village/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/04/19/tribal-voters-are-a-dying-breed/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/04/19/tribal-voters-are-a-dying-breed/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:00:03 +0000 Richard Darlington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=11339 Tribal British voters are a dying breed. New polling by YouGov for IPPR shows that almost two thirds of voters say that more than one political party represents their views and values. Less than one in five say that only one party comes close to reflecting their views and values and that they are strongly opposed to all others. It’s not just retail politics, it seems that British voters are becoming more promiscuous as they become less tribal.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/04/19/tribal-voters-are-a-dying-breed/feed/ 12