http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 18 May 2013 20:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/whats-wrong-with-eton-it-doesnt-teach-snobbery/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/whats-wrong-with-eton-it-doesnt-teach-snobbery/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:40:36 +0000 Musa Okwonga http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27375 On one hand, I hate the idea that I am part of a group of school alumni whom it is fair game to mock as posh, pampered and out of touch. On the other hand, I hate the idea of inequality of opportunity, of which Eton is her metaphor. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/whats-wrong-with-eton-it-doesnt-teach-snobbery/feed/ 65 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/moral-judgements-have-no-place-in-the-benefits-system/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/moral-judgements-have-no-place-in-the-benefits-system/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:00:39 +0000 Ruth Whippman http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25725 If there’s one thing that David Cameron is clear about, it’s that he wants us all to do the ‘Right Thing,’ a phrase that popped up no less than seven times in his deeply moralising speech about the benefits system earlier this week. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/28/moral-judgements-have-no-place-in-the-benefits-system/feed/ 176 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/the-debate-do-we-have-a-culture-of-entitlement/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/the-debate-do-we-have-a-culture-of-entitlement/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:54:36 +0000 Laura Davis http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25629 The Prime Minister feels we have a "culture of entitlement" when it comes to welfare, and polling shows huge public support for a crackdown on benefit payments. But do many young people leave school expecting to be looked after financially? Do the wealthy elite expect to rule?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/the-debate-do-we-have-a-culture-of-entitlement/feed/ 35 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/file-sharing-is-no-different-from-jimmy-carr%e2%80%99s-clever-accounting/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/file-sharing-is-no-different-from-jimmy-carr%e2%80%99s-clever-accounting/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:00:37 +0000 James Bloodworth http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25630 At some point during the last 10 years or so, the idea that everything that can be taken for free has become widely accepted. The most intriguing thing about the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal was not the relaxed set of regulations governing the expenses process, but rather the widespread assumption by MPs that if it was possible to put in a claim for something it would be fit and proper to do so - the morality of the claim itself being a moot point.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/file-sharing-is-no-different-from-jimmy-carr%e2%80%99s-clever-accounting/feed/ 75