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/2012/11/01/obamas-new-best-friend/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/01/obamas-new-best-friend/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:21:46 +0000 Anne Penketh http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29568 President Obama was out on the campaign trail yesterday with his new friend, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey. Sorry, scratch that, Obama announced he was suspending the campaign and his spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that “this is not a time for politics.” So what we saw yesterday was a Democratic and a Republican [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/01/obamas-new-best-friend/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/26/mitt-romney-is-wrong-it%e2%80%99s-not-47-of-americans-who-are-dependent-on-the-government-it%e2%80%99s-100/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/26/mitt-romney-is-wrong-it%e2%80%99s-not-47-of-americans-who-are-dependent-on-the-government-it%e2%80%99s-100/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:50:36 +0000 Alex Bryan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28701 The leaked tape of Mitt Romney speaking at a private donors function has, it’s fair to say, caused something of a stir since being released last week. The most important remarks made by Romney in the tape are that 47% of the American public ‘believe that they are victims’ and are ‘dependent on the government’.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/26/mitt-romney-is-wrong-it%e2%80%99s-not-47-of-americans-who-are-dependent-on-the-government-it%e2%80%99s-100/feed/ 39 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/romney-and-ryan-can-money-buy-any-office/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/romney-and-ryan-can-money-buy-any-office/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:45:15 +0000 Leighton Vaughan Williams http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27363 Why Romney picked Ryan was the question observers of the American political scene have been asking ever since Willard Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/romney-and-ryan-can-money-buy-any-office/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/obama%e2%80%99s-drone-wars-strain-the-liberal-principles-he-espoused-in-2008/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/obama%e2%80%99s-drone-wars-strain-the-liberal-principles-he-espoused-in-2008/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 02:57:00 +0000 Clara Cullen http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25016 Clara Cullen thinks Obama’s drone strategy is a betrayal of all who supported him. In turn, the silence of all those who voted for “hope” and “change” is worrying; it suggests that the US liberal electorate would rather support Obama, who they perceive as a lesser political evil than his Republican adversaries, than actually questioning the political hypocrisy his foreign policy entails.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/obama%e2%80%99s-drone-wars-strain-the-liberal-principles-he-espoused-in-2008/feed/ 83 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/top-of-the-posts-fascism-in-football-sexism-on-the-street-and-ruffling-royalist-feathers/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/top-of-the-posts-fascism-in-football-sexism-on-the-street-and-ruffling-royalist-feathers/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:22:59 +0000 Steve Anderson http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24887 The most read blogs this week, as determined by stats.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/top-of-the-posts-fascism-in-football-sexism-on-the-street-and-ruffling-royalist-feathers/feed/ 14 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/poetry-pork-pies-and-punks-our-pick-of-the-weekends-jubilee-street-parties/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/poetry-pork-pies-and-punks-our-pick-of-the-weekends-jubilee-street-parties/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:00:48 +0000 Emily Jupp http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24802 Whether you're a staunch royalist or more of a put-the-royals-in-council-housing-then-poke-them-with-sticks type, there's a shindig out there perfectly suited to your tastes.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/01/poetry-pork-pies-and-punks-our-pick-of-the-weekends-jubilee-street-parties/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/with-newt-gingrich-and-rick-santorum-gone-who-will-romney-turn-to-for-his-running-mate/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/with-newt-gingrich-and-rick-santorum-gone-who-will-romney-turn-to-for-his-running-mate/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:21 +0000 Leighton Vaughan Williams http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23776 Mitt Romney has basically won the Republican nomination to stand against US President Barack Obama in November. His next hurdle? His running mate ‘Veepstakes’.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/02/with-newt-gingrich-and-rick-santorum-gone-who-will-romney-turn-to-for-his-running-mate/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/18/michele-bachmann-and-the-homophobia-vote/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/18/michele-bachmann-and-the-homophobia-vote/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:50:12 +0000 Oliver Duggan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=14199 Michele Bachmann, founder of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus and candidate for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, stepped out from political obscurity this week when a gay activist working for the homosexual advocacy group, Truth Will Out, attempted to shine a spotlight on the checkered, largely unknown, past of Minnesota’s 6th district Representative. Bachmann entered the race [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/07/18/michele-bachmann-and-the-homophobia-vote/feed/ 36