| Evening News Caption Competition - Friday September 3, 2010 This competition is open to readers aged 18 years and over. The weekly winner will be chosen by our judging panel. The editor's decision is final.Usual Evening News rules apply. Weekly winners must... | |
| John McTernan: Like it or not, Labour must listen to Blair's message The lesson of Labour's recent history is not to avoid conflict - it is to pick the right fight and to win itSolidarity is the defining value of the labour movement. As the trade union banners used to... |
| Leader: SNP's plan for a minimum price on alcohol is flawed The Scottish Government's declaration of its plans to impose a minimum price per unit for alcohol of 45p perfectly demonstrates the tendency of politicians identifying a problem - in this case... |
| Leader: Fringe must apologise over fiddled figures Earlier this week we reported, in good faith, the story that ticket sales at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe had soared by more than 95,000 to a record new level this... |
| Leader: Hawking doesn't have all the answers Now Professor Stephen Hawking has opined that a new set of theories have rendered redundant the role of a creator for the Universe.In his new book, The Grand Design, he moves away from his previous,... |
| Terence Blacker: Hague has merely prolonged the agony It has taken a non-scandal to reveal the extent to which gossip and cruelty now influence our politics. Normally when a story breaks about the private life of a politician – Prescott and the... |
| Robert Fisk: Blair should take responsibility for Iraq. But he won't. He can't Has this wretched man learned nothing? On and on, it went during his BBC interview: "I would absolutely...","I definitely...", "I believed absolutely clearly...", "It was very, very clear that this... |
| Steve Richards: Both interviews were reminders of his unique skill as a leader Tony Blair's return to the political stage went beyond the publication of his memoirs. He gave two lengthy broadcast interviews, one to Andrew Marr on BBC2 and the other on Five Live with Richard... |
| Andy McSmith: The mystery of how a hands-on editor could know so little The story told by Andy Coulson after The News of the World phone-hacking scandal broke was always a strange one. The man who is now constantly at David Cameron's side, directing his media strategy,... |
| Letters: Perspectives on childhood Too 'cool' to look happy Yesterday morning, walking down the main street of Frinton, I happened to look in the window of a national clothing retail chain. In the window was a large poster... |
| Michael McCarthy: The sparrow that survived Mao's purge Recently in The Independent we summarised the 10 years of our campaign to save the house sparrow, which has largely disappeared from central London for reasons which remain a mystery. In terms of... |
| Leading article: A sour whiff of homophobia Search the news archive for more stories In all this it is hard not to detect the sour whiff of homophobia. That is what persuaded Mr Hague to include in his statement the unnecessary details of... |
| Natalie Haynes: Why must we wait for 'Mad Men'? When the law-abiding viewers of BBC4 tune in to the fourth series of Mad Men next week, they will be only seven weeks behind America's Don Draper fans. This may sound like we are pitifully out of... |
| Mary Dejevsky: Sarkozy is right about the Roma Not long after taking office, the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, found himself in trouble for saying that Britain was "not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken, 13th-century... |
| Leading article: The blessing of low expectations Search the news archive for more stories The Israeli side is scarcely any more stable. The government of the Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is propped up by the extremists of Yisrael Beiteinu.... |
| Johann Hari: My choice is the younger Miliband The Labour Party is infuriated that the climax of its leadership race has been overshadowed by Tony Blair's brief break from taking millions off the economy-crashing bank JPMorgan Chase, fawning over... |
| Tom Sutcliffe: Music is the only true Hendrix experience I visited Jimi Hendrix's flat the other day, but unfortunately he wasn't in. Given that he died 40 years ago – and that his flat is currently occupied by the administrative offices of the... |
| Tom Miers: Labour can tackle 'artificial poverty' There are ways in which the powers of the Scottish Parliament could be deployed to break the cycle of dependency and help those in need, argues Tom... |
| Bill Jamieson: Bliss of a happy operatic ending It's bliss, but not as we know it. Australian composer Brett Dean's new opera, based on the book by Peter Carey, had its Europ... -MPUMinCharsCutOff:210 PageLength:277MPUPositionFromStart:250... |
| Stephen McGinty: Twin-bed buddies are OK - eh, Dougal? ked. Or you can think outside the box, the room, even the goddam hotel and launch a stirring and robust defence of platonic, nocturnal shared sleeping arrangements based on three sound precedents,... |
| Analysis: They must stay competitive - or risk even bigger cuts in future BE careful what you wish for . . . A year ago the overwhelming advice offered from politicians to Britain's stricken banks was to clean up their balance sheets, downsize and hive off to encourage... |
| Analysis: Free and paid admissions are two different things However, it is pretty normal practice with major international events to make a clear distinction between paid admissions and audiences who are taking in free events.When you are measuring the... |
