http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/25/bullingdon-club-the-politics-of-posh/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/25/bullingdon-club-the-politics-of-posh/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:40:39 +0000 Alastair Campbell http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25621 In the first of a series of blogs this week looking at the politics of class, Alastair Campbell discusses Laura Wade's Posh. The play, which, if any comparisons with the notoriously elite Bullingdon Club are drawn (of which Conservative trio David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson were all members) opens a more disturbing concern than our political leaders not knowing the price of milk. Last year the Prime Minister denied that there were similarities between the club he was famously a member of, and the destructive behaviour witnessed in the summer riots.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/25/bullingdon-club-the-politics-of-posh/feed/ 67 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/beer-windsors-finest-shake-off-jubilee-snub/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/beer-windsors-finest-shake-off-jubilee-snub/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:32:22 +0000 Will Hawkes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24855 It seems like half of the breweries in Britain have produced a new beer for the occasion – or, at the very least, re-badged an old one in order to capture some of the Jubilee frenzy. Nor can those in charge claim to have been taken by surprise by the volume of celebratory brews: it’s an old tradition. British brewers have been marking big Royal occasions with special beers for many generations.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/beer-windsors-finest-shake-off-jubilee-snub/feed/ 3