Independence when we need it most

Advantages: Politically independent, sceptical, strong on the environment and civil liberties
Disadvantages: Above average price, some unexceptional columnists

...Recently, Tony Blair had the effrontery to carp at what he described as ?the fusion of comment and news? by British newspapers, in effect accusing them playing free and easy with the truth. This was pretty rich, coming from someone that had done so much to elevate spin and news manipulation to their present eminence in British politics. Reflecting, though, on the antics of some of the popular press, particularly those that have bent over backwards to support him, one felt that there might be a germ of something in what he said, despite the identity of the person saying it. Then he singled out The Independent for particular attack, and at once it became obvious that this was yet another exercise in tendentious Blairite axe-grinding. For The Independent has been stalwart not only in upholding a factual approach to news reporting...

torr 10.12.2005 (22.06.2007) · Read review
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Review of The Independent

As independant as the next one.

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...I iwould just like to write a review on independant stores, that has come from my own experiences of living in Plymouth - a city whereby its main shopping centre is almost split in to two different areas as we shall see from my writings. For those of you who are familiar with the layout of Plymouth city centre, you will know that it is laid out over two main streets that are enclosed in a main riing road system. There is a main road that runs at right angles throghout from top to bottom, from the main train railway station to the Hoe (where I must add Sir Francis Drake famously played and finished or so we think a game of bowls as the Spanish Armada were approaching). In general, the majority of the more well know shops have been on the eastern side of this road with the more independant quarter being on the western front...

dynamicnurse 15.05.2009 · Read review
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Independence and Interdependence

Advantages: In principle, self-determination is always desirable
Disadvantages: In practice, individual cases differ and the outcome can be problematical

...Taken literally, this proposition requires little thought and certainly doesn't merit a full review. Yes, of course Scotland should be free to declare its independence from Serbia. I am yet to hear a cogent contrary argument. It's a non-debate, and whoever dreams up "current debate" questions for Ciao should have stopped to think for a second and drafted this one more carefully. So let's not take it literally, and address two related and, I hope, more intelligible questions, even if they're not exactly what Ciao asked: 1. Does the experience of Kosovo in relation to Serbia have any lessons, either of principle or practice, for Scotland in relation to the United Kingdom? 2. Are national independence movements generally to be welcomed or deplored, or is it impossible to generalise? * * * * 1. Does the experience...

torr 11.03.2008 (30.03.2008) · Read review
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Independence for whom...?

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...I would just like to add my own thoughts to that of independant schooling, if that is OK with all of you lovely Ciao people. As a person who grew up going to a state secondary school (or whatever it could be classed as now!), and becoming a nurse my views are quite on this side. I am however quite sure that there will be some people ready to slay me alive for it, but I do not really care now. As they are quite small minded people, who obviously don't really give a hoot about the opinions of others. I am not really in favour of people paying out a lot of money for their children to go to a private school, as in my mind a lot of them turn out to be people who think that they are God's gift to civilisation. Would you really want to pay out loads for education in order for them to find later on in life, that they are equally as qualified...

dynamicnurse 10.04.2009 · Read review
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independant opinion

Advantages: a few
Disadvantages: not many

...Independance Day is a pure and simple action movie - don't expect too much from it. If you don't take the film too seriously, you will almost certainly derive at least some enjoyment from it. But 'some' isn't always enough. At the time, Independance Day's special effects were unsurpassed, but now it seems as if every other movie released has similar or even superior visuals. So, what does that leave? Not particularly much. It's not that it's a bad film, as such, it just doesn't try anything new or particularly spectacular. If you rent it rather than buy it, you probably won't be disappointed, but there is very little here to make you want to watch it more than a couple of times. A few years ago Independance Day was the film that you had to see, and after all these years I can still remember jumping out of my seat at one...

martinwright 05.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of Independence Day (DVD)

The true fight for Independence

Advantages: great SFX, fantasic extras, some comedy aswell.
Disadvantages: zilch nadda nadda

...the virus and launch the nuclear weapon attached to the craft. Meanwhile, on earth the greatest aerial assualt in the world takes place on July 4th (Independence Day) and as they look like they are heading for defeat when the missile launched at the crafts primary weapon misses and no-one has any missles left excet for the alcoholic from the convoy. This guy was not believed from the biginning and now he has the chance to save the world, (how ironic) when his missile is left jammed he makes the most difficult decision to fly into the primary weapon himself before it is fired causing the destuction of the huge saucer. After the word is spread the ship start falling all over the world and the two who flew the craft to the mothership return to earth with a crash but unharmed. As for the extras there are quite a large selection, from...

hades2003uk 13.08.2003 · Read review
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Always Independent

Advantages: Readability, good journalism, excellent photography
Disadvantages: None really

...I started purchasing ‘The Independent’ regularly about 5-years ago. Before this, I had wandered between ‘The Times’ and ‘The Telegraph’. I have to say that, for me, ‘The Independent’ was a revelation providing an excellent combination of good well-researched journalism within a wide range of subjects. It is a newspaper that I feel comfortable with. To describe it as a newspaper, in my view does it little justice. Of course it has news, which it reports with accurate up to the minute copy – but it also has in depth coverage of current topics, historical features and the like, and, of course sports. One area of this newspaper that demands special mention is its photography. This stands far above the other broadsheets with photographic subjects always well defined, to the point...

croabh 17.03.2001 · Read review
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Independence day

Advantages: great action film
Disadvantages: none

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blissman70 14.05.2008 · Read review
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Independence, Independence, Independence.

Advantages: Freedom
Disadvantages: Loss of control & distribution of economic power.

...Independence, Independence, Independence. I think the majority of Britain supports, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and other countries, to become sovereign states of independence. Because it's our ideals that want to focus on peace and independence, and countries that want to be free, and can support and govern them-selves, should be free. As Britain's we personally accept multi-cultural ism, it has become part of our everyday life-style, and each is accepted upon British nationals as equal. However, there is still the debate as to whether, U.N intervention, was at all practical, and legal in its, own sense, and whether leading countries, support this unprecedented move, or whether or not this move was moreover a focus for more power and of course oil, for the actual supporting countries. In 1912, Kosovo was taken away by...

Martyn79 22.03.2008 · Read review
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Independence day, brillant special effects....

Advantages: Good film, brillant special effects.
Disadvantages: none

...and many people get killed when the aliens attack the major cities. You see destroyed city's and many people fleeing for their lives. The prtesident is in Airforce 1, when he is told about Area 51. And the fact that they have had an alien ship and aliens since the 1960's and was never told. They then find out that they can bring down the alien shields for a few mins, which would be enough time to bring the ships down. What two men must do is go to the mother ship and give it a virus just like a cold in a bomb and then detonate it. They do this but it takes awhile and they wonder if they have done it. Then our ships let fire on their ships and brings them down and this all happened on July the 4th and that is the reason they call it Independence Day in this movie. The special effects are brillant in this film, but you need to see it, to see...

moonlightmist 12.08.2000 · Read review
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