http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:00:42 +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/2012/06/17/fighting-out-of-the-fringes-is-posh-good/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/17/fighting-out-of-the-fringes-is-posh-good/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:37:23 +0000 Phil King http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25371 Steve Eaton Evans, sunglasses on head, welcomed me to Queen’s College in damp Taunton last week for a non-profit conference of drama teachers. Under the dark skies of the South of England and the dark times for drama teachers that have seen many of my colleagues take on less drama and even sometimes switching [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/17/fighting-out-of-the-fringes-is-posh-good/feed/ 0