http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:01:39 +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/2010/06/10/what-about-a-graduate-tax-mr-willetts/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/06/10/what-about-a-graduate-tax-mr-willetts/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:49:03 +0000 Ben Chu http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=1206 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/06/10/what-about-a-graduate-tax-mr-willetts/feed/ 2