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 02:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/the-british-citizenship-test-goes-to-edinburgh/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/the-british-citizenship-test-goes-to-edinburgh/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:58:46 +0000 Erich McElroy http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28399 After the fun we had asking people in London how they would do in a completely unscientific sampling of The British citizenship test, we decided to have a go again in Edinburgh – where I’m did my show, The Brit Identity, about my journey from American to British citizen.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/14/the-british-citizenship-test-goes-to-edinburgh/feed/ 122 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/stewart-francis-galloway-orange-and-t-mobile-kevin-pietersen/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/stewart-francis-galloway-orange-and-t-mobile-kevin-pietersen/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:12:00 +0000 Ellen E Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27604 What's trending and why?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/21/stewart-francis-galloway-orange-and-t-mobile-kevin-pietersen/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/my-olympic-predictions-how-did-i-do-it/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/my-olympic-predictions-how-did-i-do-it/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:50:16 +0000 Doug Segal http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27474 I've just pulled off the most audacious stunt in a life littered with audacity. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/16/my-olympic-predictions-how-did-i-do-it/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/greek-myths-shed-light-on-our-modern-world/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/greek-myths-shed-light-on-our-modern-world/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:00:08 +0000 Paul OMahony http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27396 Greece is where it all began and it looks increasingly likely that it’ll be where it all ends as well. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/15/greek-myths-shed-light-on-our-modern-world/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/the-british-citizenship-test-how-much-do-you-know/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/the-british-citizenship-test-how-much-do-you-know/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:00:36 +0000 Erich McElroy http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27262 I moved to the UK from America in 2000, not with a plan to immigrate, it was an opportunity to live outside my home country and see the world a bit. I was lucky with the job I got, which I mercilessly and proudly stole from a British person. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/the-british-citizenship-test-how-much-do-you-know/feed/ 82 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/mo-farah-running-away-from-things-the-dandy-girls-aloud-edfringe/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/mo-farah-running-away-from-things-the-dandy-girls-aloud-edfringe/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:49:34 +0000 Ellen E Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27367 What's trending and why?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/mo-farah-running-away-from-things-the-dandy-girls-aloud-edfringe/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/is-breaking-into-the-comedy-industry-really-based-on-talent/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/is-breaking-into-the-comedy-industry-really-based-on-talent/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:00:09 +0000 Gareth Morinan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27294 There is one thing in my life that causes more stress than any other; it’s the comedy industry (and how I break into it). ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/13/is-breaking-into-the-comedy-industry-really-based-on-talent/feed/ 12 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/11/to-sketch-or-to-stand-up/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/11/to-sketch-or-to-stand-up/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:00:14 +0000 Natasia Demetriou http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27298 As has been regularly mentioned of late, the popularity of live comedy (stand-up in particular) is currently at an all time high.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/11/to-sketch-or-to-stand-up/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/is-it-time-for-a-barbershop-comeback/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/is-it-time-for-a-barbershop-comeback/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:00:19 +0000 Pete Sorel-Cameron http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27152 It is the way of the world that everything fashionable will become passé. And then, as night follows day, it will come back into fashion – first ironically, as sported by inaccessible hipsters, then in earnest by the majority. Then it will be unfashionable again, and the whole process repeats until the end of time.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/is-it-time-for-a-barbershop-comeback/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/the-comedy-industry-is-its-own-disease/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/the-comedy-industry-is-its-own-disease/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:00:41 +0000 Alfie Brown http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27051 A sell out, by definition is ‘Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular’ (I am citing UrbanDictionary.com).]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/the-comedy-industry-is-its-own-disease/feed/ 16 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/04/women-just-arent-as-funny-or-so-they-say/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/04/women-just-arent-as-funny-or-so-they-say/#comments Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:00:00 +0000 Catriona Knox http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27047 “Nah. Thanks, but no thanks. No offence - I just don’t think you lot are all that funny.” So spoke a real charmer this time last year as I attempted to unload upon him a flyer for my one-woman comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/04/women-just-arent-as-funny-or-so-they-say/feed/ 65 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/03/typecast-a-sufferers-story/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/03/typecast-a-sufferers-story/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:52 +0000 Marek Larwood http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27044 When the last three parts I auditioned for were all characters called Malcolm I put it down to a bizarre co-incidence. When it became four straight Malcolms, I had to accept, with growing horror, that I had become Typecast. This is not a problem if you’re Daniel Craig and the general public see you as an attractive secret agent/sex object.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/03/typecast-a-sufferers-story/feed/ 4