http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Mon, 20 May 2013 22:09:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/29/community-sport-can-help-cut-crime-and-anti-social-behaviour/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/29/community-sport-can-help-cut-crime-and-anti-social-behaviour/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:00:18 +0000 Tamar Ghosh http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27896 A year ago we were watching parts of the same city which hosted the Olympics going up in flames and wondering which part would be devastated next.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/29/community-sport-can-help-cut-crime-and-anti-social-behaviour/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/we-need-to-shine-a-light-on-institutional-racism/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/we-need-to-shine-a-light-on-institutional-racism/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:00:31 +0000 Richard Sudan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27503 Freddy Patel, the pathologist who conducted two post mortem examinations on Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller and father of nine who was killed in 2009 at the G20 protests in London after being pushed to the ground by a police officer, faces being struck off after a tribunal panel of medical professionals noticed a number of key errors in his work and found him to be ‘dishonest’.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/we-need-to-shine-a-light-on-institutional-racism/feed/ 45 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/09/stop-and-search-an-open-letter-to-theresa-may-mp-nick-herbert-mp-and-sir-bernard-hogan-howe/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/09/stop-and-search-an-open-letter-to-theresa-may-mp-nick-herbert-mp-and-sir-bernard-hogan-howe/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:00:02 +0000 Mediorite http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27222 Our work with young people, and in-depth research into last summer’s riots, shows that stop-and-search was a key causal factor in the violence that swept the country.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/09/stop-and-search-an-open-letter-to-theresa-may-mp-nick-herbert-mp-and-sir-bernard-hogan-howe/feed/ 76 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/08/the-debate-could-the-behaviour-seen-at-the-riots-ever-be-justified/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/08/the-debate-could-the-behaviour-seen-at-the-riots-ever-be-justified/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:11:45 +0000 Laura Davis http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27181 One year on from the biggest outbreak of civil unrest in England for 30 years, and a study has revealed that riots are likely to happen again unless action is taken to heal the divisions between teenagers and the authorities.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/08/the-debate-could-the-behaviour-seen-at-the-riots-ever-be-justified/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/file-sharing-is-no-different-from-jimmy-carr%e2%80%99s-clever-accounting/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/file-sharing-is-no-different-from-jimmy-carr%e2%80%99s-clever-accounting/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:00:37 +0000 James Bloodworth http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25630 At some point during the last 10 years or so, the idea that everything that can be taken for free has become widely accepted. The most intriguing thing about the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal was not the relaxed set of regulations governing the expenses process, but rather the widespread assumption by MPs that if it was possible to put in a claim for something it would be fit and proper to do so - the morality of the claim itself being a moot point.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/27/file-sharing-is-no-different-from-jimmy-carr%e2%80%99s-clever-accounting/feed/ 75 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/25/political-corruption-reflects-the-widening-chasm-between-the-political-class-and-the-electorate/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/25/political-corruption-reflects-the-widening-chasm-between-the-political-class-and-the-electorate/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 03:00:12 +0000 Richard Sudan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24634 The corruption and hypocrisy which has come to characterise politics and politicians, and in particular the police highlights the widening chasm between the political class and the electorate. The expenses scandal, the Leveson Inquiry, and now the revelation that the anti corruption unit of the Met is being investigated for-wait for it- corruption, all reinforce this [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/25/political-corruption-reflects-the-widening-chasm-between-the-political-class-and-the-electorate/feed/ 109 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/11/top-of-the-posts-gangsters-airbrushing-and-blood-for-money/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/11/top-of-the-posts-gangsters-airbrushing-and-blood-for-money/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 16:14:17 +0000 Laura Davis http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24105 The most read blogs from the past week, as determined by stats.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/11/top-of-the-posts-gangsters-airbrushing-and-blood-for-money/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/09/the-olympics-and-the-jubilee-distract-from-the-real-issues-this-summer/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/09/the-olympics-and-the-jubilee-distract-from-the-real-issues-this-summer/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 03:00:06 +0000 James Bloodworth http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23983 "Everyone" is getting geared up for the summer of celebration, or at least so the Establishment tells us. But these are welcome diversions from more serious issues, says James Bloodworth.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/09/the-olympics-and-the-jubilee-distract-from-the-real-issues-this-summer/feed/ 58 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/21/plan-b-a-second-look-at-his-protest-song/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/21/plan-b-a-second-look-at-his-protest-song/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:13 +0000 Samuel Breen http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=22527 Plan B has always positioned himself as a provocative artist. One who seeks change. Equally he is not scared of shying away from big, thorny issues. His new single iLL Manors has received great praise from both The Independent's Tim Walker and The Guardian’s Dorian Lynskey. Fearful that the artist has overlooked those he is trying to represent, whilst wildly contradicting an editorial he wrote in The Sun in the wake of the riots, it's worth listening to the track anew.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/21/plan-b-a-second-look-at-his-protest-song/feed/ 17 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/02/the-fight-over-the-port-said-football-narrative-has-already-begun/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/02/the-fight-over-the-port-said-football-narrative-has-already-begun/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:19:36 +0000 Alex Hochuli http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=21013 It is a year to the day since the infamous camel charge during the Egyptian uprising. That day, Ultras from al-Ahly and Zamalek football clubs, along with many other Egyptians, fought in the streets against the regime. It is being claimed that the atmosphere in Cairo today is very much like the day after that camel charge. Yesterday’s events in Port Said, in which over 70 football supporters died, is therefore not just ‘another football tragedy’, however terrible it was. Rather, the disaster takes place in a context of heightened political tension over the state of post-Mubarak Egypt, and concerns about security, order and the pace of democratisiation. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/02/the-fight-over-the-port-said-football-narrative-has-already-begun/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/21/occupy-london-the-amenities/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/21/occupy-london-the-amenities/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:59:40 +0000 Jake Hanrahan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=18859 It looks as if the curtain is finally closing in on the Occupy London protest outside of St. Pauls, as the deadline of 17 November to pack up and move on was delivered by the high court.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/21/occupy-london-the-amenities/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/19/is-there-a-place-for-violence-in-protests/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/19/is-there-a-place-for-violence-in-protests/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:00:16 +0000 Saleha Ali http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=18808 As students continued to demonstrate last week against the Coalition government’s education reforms which began a year ago, commentators on all sides sat tight and asked ‘will they or won’t they?’]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/19/is-there-a-place-for-violence-in-protests/feed/ 15