http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/18/join-the-doctor-who-party-behind-the-sofa-and-help-alzheimers-research/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/18/join-the-doctor-who-party-behind-the-sofa-and-help-alzheimers-research/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:20:50 +0000 Neela Debnath http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=30874 For those of you still looking for a last minute Christmas present for the Doctor Who fan in your life then look no further than Behind the Sofa: Celebrity memories of Doctor Who by Steve Berry.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/18/join-the-doctor-who-party-behind-the-sofa-and-help-alzheimers-research/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/07/louise-mensch-looks-back/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/07/louise-mensch-looks-back/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:08:45 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28981 I have an interview with Louise Mensch, the Conservative MP who gave up interesting prospects to move to New York (pictured), in today’s Independent on Sunday. Given how little media exposure she enjoyed, I realise that some of you may want a fuller transcript, so here it is. What do you miss about Britain? Everything. I [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/07/louise-mensch-looks-back/feed/ 11 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/10/westminster-is-not-a-real-place-in-conversation-with-jamie-reed-mp/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/10/westminster-is-not-a-real-place-in-conversation-with-jamie-reed-mp/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:38:49 +0000 Callum Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28289 Callum Jones talks to the Labour MP for Copeland about the Department for Health’s new incumbents, class, the looming Corby by-election and that fateful night in Bradford. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/10/westminster-is-not-a-real-place-in-conversation-with-jamie-reed-mp/feed/ 5 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/just-dont-menshn-the-twitter-wars/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/just-dont-menshn-the-twitter-wars/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:29:02 +0000 Nat Guest http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27173 The übermensch has finally fallen. But not, as some of us might secretly have hoped, amidst enormous scandal and public disapprobation.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/07/just-dont-menshn-the-twitter-wars/feed/ 52 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/louise-mensch-whatihopetheyfindonmars-jamaican-hiroshima/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/louise-mensch-whatihopetheyfindonmars-jamaican-hiroshima/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:29:11 +0000 Ellen E Jones http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27128 What's trending and why? ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/06/louise-mensch-whatihopetheyfindonmars-jamaican-hiroshima/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/are-there-mental-tools-that-can-help-alleviate-mental-illness/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/are-there-mental-tools-that-can-help-alleviate-mental-illness/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:00:10 +0000 Tony Lobl http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25505 What could trigger the Twitter tribute “Unbelievably brave. Kevan Jones MP is a hero!” from a rival Conservative MP? Tory Louise Mensch was praising the Labour MP’s courageous decision to share his experience of depression in last week’s House of Commons debate on mental illness.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/are-there-mental-tools-that-can-help-alleviate-mental-illness/feed/ 5 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/04/top-of-the-posts-double-dipping-the-dreaded-bloat-and-a-new-england-manager/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/04/top-of-the-posts-double-dipping-the-dreaded-bloat-and-a-new-england-manager/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 15:33:07 +0000 Laura Davis http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23895 The most read blogs this week, as determined by stats.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/04/top-of-the-posts-double-dipping-the-dreaded-bloat-and-a-new-england-manager/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/tory-whore-louise-mensch-fights-back-against-women-haters-on-twitter/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/tory-whore-louise-mensch-fights-back-against-women-haters-on-twitter/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 12:27:56 +0000 Matilda Battersby http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23775 As a result of the recent exposure for Louise Mensch, she has spent rather a long time on Twitter drawing attention to some the misogynistic tweets directed at her in the last 24 hours. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/tory-whore-louise-mensch-fights-back-against-women-haters-on-twitter/feed/ 180 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/03/caught-social-sun-sea-but-not-sandals/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/03/caught-social-sun-sea-but-not-sandals/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:41:57 +0000 Luke Blackall http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=20059 Daily gossip from the world of celeb]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/03/caught-social-sun-sea-but-not-sandals/feed/ 1