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/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:00:26 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25464 The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/feed/ 16 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/31/the-rushdie-debacle-is-an-indictment-of-india%e2%80%99s-democracy-2/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/31/the-rushdie-debacle-is-an-indictment-of-india%e2%80%99s-democracy-2/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:33:41 +0000 Ram Mashru http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=20885 It is thecomplaint of the complacent to argue,“it’s all their fault” and in India the opportunity to argue “it’s them” isever-present. But with the dust almost settled on the Rushdie fiasco, it’s apparent that this complaint against India’s government is not being made often enough.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/31/the-rushdie-debacle-is-an-indictment-of-india%e2%80%99s-democracy-2/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/13/nick-cohens-cocksure-forecast/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/13/nick-cohens-cocksure-forecast/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:00:44 +0000 Ben Chu http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7739 "Instead of arguing honestly with their readers, conservatives dress up their desires as prophecies and pretend that they can see the future.” ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/13/nick-cohens-cocksure-forecast/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/12/clegg-and-the-compost-accelerator/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/12/clegg-and-the-compost-accelerator/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:05:49 +0000 John Rentoul http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7736 Nick Cohen on scathing form on The Strange Death of Liberal England (Again) in the forthcoming Spectator (it is not online, but there is more via Alex Massie here): The Liberals have no right to be surprised. Conservative-minded readers may think that the British liberal-left is good for nothing, but, trust me, we are world leaders [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/12/clegg-and-the-compost-accelerator/feed/ 6 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/04/beware-the-media-soothsayers/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/04/beware-the-media-soothsayers/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:38:27 +0000 Ben Chu http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=4906 Ed Miliband might well prove a disaster. But that depends on how he does in the job. It wasn't so long ago that the right was pouring scorn on Nick Clegg. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/10/04/beware-the-media-soothsayers/feed/ 0