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The day I applied for the England manager's job | Mark Damazer

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:54 -0500

When I was being interviewed for my current job in 2010, I fibbed. I said that my then role as controller of Radio 4 was so enjoyable (and it was) that I had not thought of applying for anything ...

The Call for Obama's Murder by an American journal

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:49:39 -0500

Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonEvery day in the past month I have watched Syrians begging the west to help them in their near-civil-war scale national conflagration. Men and women brave ...

TIMES article about Carol Gould and the General Medical Council's Failure to take Owen Gilmore to trial

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:49:37 -0500

Contributed by : Carol Gould First published in August 2011 ( still no apology from Raoul's Cafe four months on) London I went to Raoul's deli in Clifton Rd W9 at 4pm on Friday 29 ...

We Don't Have to talk about my kind of Children

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:49:34 -0500

Contributed by : Carol Gould It is now four years since I first wrote the following piece. A doctor in Arizona, Robert Kuske, whom I consulted by telephone told me in August 2010 that because I ...

A renaissance man and a much-overlooked sport

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:26:10 -0500

Not long after Fabio Capello had resigned in the time-honoured fashion of being thrown overboard, we were discussing the big sporting question of the moment: why has table tennis never taken off as ...

Who are the waiters in restaurants these days

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:26:06 -0500

Temperatures were well below freezing on Wednesday night and all right-minded souls were either at home with a slanket and soup, or heading there - for once delighted by the warming crush of the ...

Electrifying growl shows the authentic voice of the Mail

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:26:00 -0500

The Independent's parliamentary sketch writer and columnist since 2000, Simon Carr was described by Tony Blair as "the most vicious sketch writer working in Britain today". ...

We need more class consciousness, not less

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:29 -0500

The writer and broadcaster Terence Blacker contributes a twice-weekly column on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the author of four novels, of prize-winning fiction ...

Support the women who always get it in the neck

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:23 -0500

If you ask me, I am thrilled to announce that the Society For Women Who Can't Win For Losing (USA) and the Society for Women Who Can't Do Right For Doing Wrong (GB) have merged to form the ...

Take a shot at what it all means

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:18 -0500

"Any reaction to the material is the right reaction." As diktats go you can hardly complain that this is over-controlling. Sean Durkin said it in an interview recently about his debut film ...

The abolition of GCSEs would not suit all

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:08 -0500

It would be relatively easy for Eton College to abandon GCSEs, as its headmaster, Tony Little, would like to do, since the vast majority of its pupils would probably get into a leading university ...

Doddery old beast shows some true Mail anger

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:40:00 -0500

The Independent's parliamentary sketch writer and columnist since 2000, Simon Carr was described by Tony Blair as "the most vicious sketch writer working in Britain today". ...

Time to end the Big Six's energy fix

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:54 -0500

During Labour's long economic boom, few in government gave much thought to energy policy. So long as the bills came down - which for years they did because of North Sea gas and the privatised ...

Boardroom equality won't happen on its own

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:48 -0500

When the Prime Minister moves so tentatively towards his declared goal, do not hold out much hope for significant change. Mr Cameron spoke in Sweden, where women hold a quarter of the boardroom ...

Unbridled greed of Big Six cannot be tolerated in hard times

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:41 -0500

Following stints with Reuters and the Press Association, Martin Hickman joined The Independent as a news editor in 2001. He became the Consumer Affairs Correspondent in September 2005 and has run ...

Arms, not diplomacy, will decide the fate of Syria

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:35 -0500

The Independent's comment editor, Adrian Hamilton writes a weekly column largely on international affairs with particular focus on the Middle East, Iran and foreign policy issues. Before ...

A three-point plan that would fit the bill

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:29 -0500

Something is going very wrong and it's time we did something about it. That's why today more than 100 public figures have launched a new cross-party campaign called End the Big Six Energy ...

Do you want an experience or just to film it

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:23 -0500

Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter, Philip Hensher was among Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. The author of six novels, a collection of short stories and an ...

Plan might work for his pupils – but not for mine

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:16 -0500

However, many schools like my own are 11-16 only. My students are with me for five years and then move on to further education colleges, apprenticeships and jobs. These students would have no ...

Ken's accusers are making a big mistake

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:10 -0500

Countless right-wingers have decided that the "it" meant homosexuality. It didn't. But cold facts are the enemy of opportunism. And, so, in a jubilee of hypocrisy and idiocy, his ...

Nation takes its medicine – but condition may worsen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:03 -0500

The Greek Godot finally arrived. After an interminable wait, the deal has, at last, been done. The government of Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will make further budgets cuts, equal to 1.5 per cent ...

The cult of football is a blight on our national life

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:38:56 -0500

One of the country's most respected commentators on Russia, the EU and the US, Mary Dejevsky has worked as a foreign correspondent all over the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. ...

We must end the greed of these corporations

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:38:49 -0500

The cost of those drugs had fallen from nearly $500 a year to just $70 - thanks to the growth of the generic drugs industry in India. It meant that international donors could help Stella and four ...

When a little nudge is better than a outright demand

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:26:06 -0500

He wears his cycling outfit for meetings, he tells politicians not to wear ties, and spends much of his time with flow charts. Armando Iannucci, who created Pearson, clearly had Cameron's man ...

Why Ed Miliband wants us to be more like Germany

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:25:59 -0500

Amol Rajan is an adviser to Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent titles and London Evening Standard. He was previously Deputy Comment Editor at The Independent, and before that Sports News ...

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