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/2012/06/20/the-doctors-strike-putting-the-medical-profession-in-the-firing-line/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-doctors-strike-putting-the-medical-profession-in-the-firing-line/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:00:41 +0000 Dr Russell Razzaque http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25453 There are nearly twenty million people unemployed across Europe today; that’s over 10% of the entire working population. Against this backdrop, for doctors to go on strike for the first time in a generation in protest of pension arrangements that will still leave us with a retirement income in excess of £50,000 a year, looks callous from any perspective.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-doctors-strike-putting-the-medical-profession-in-the-firing-line/feed/ 13 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/26/increasing-alcohol-prices-will-only-make-pre-loading-more-tempting/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/26/increasing-alcohol-prices-will-only-make-pre-loading-more-tempting/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:54:35 +0000 Josh Barrie http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=22683 I’m imagine David Cameron would have had more than five pints of lager on a night out with his Bullingdon Club friends while at university. Drinking more than five pints, by the way, is deemed ‘binge drinking.’]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/26/increasing-alcohol-prices-will-only-make-pre-loading-more-tempting/feed/ 73 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/21/andrew-lansley-knows-the-danger-of-real-voters/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/21/andrew-lansley-knows-the-danger-of-real-voters/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:05:09 +0000 Peter McHugh http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=21692 The friend of Andrew Lansley was being sought to mount a vigil on the spot where the short Cabinet career of the Health Secretary finally came to a public end.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/21/andrew-lansley-knows-the-danger-of-real-voters/feed/ 6