http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 16:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/whats-wrong-with-eton-it-doesnt-teach-snobbery/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/whats-wrong-with-eton-it-doesnt-teach-snobbery/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:40:36 +0000 Musa Okwonga http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27375 On one hand, I hate the idea that I am part of a group of school alumni whom it is fair game to mock as posh, pampered and out of touch. On the other hand, I hate the idea of inequality of opportunity, of which Eton is her metaphor. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/14/whats-wrong-with-eton-it-doesnt-teach-snobbery/feed/ 65 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/09/we-should-keep-the-focus-on-sport-not-just-future-olympians/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/09/we-should-keep-the-focus-on-sport-not-just-future-olympians/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:17:38 +0000 Tom Davies http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27250 The opening ceremony marked the start of a two-week period in which everything good has inevitably resulted from the Olympics and anything bad has been the fault of the Coalition. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/09/we-should-keep-the-focus-on-sport-not-just-future-olympians/feed/ 5