The Independent Reviews

I'm a sucker for the under dog... I always avoid the popular bars in favour of tired old pubs; I vote for the hopeless third choice party in most elections and I love the reliable old Indy. Sitting at the left of the British political spectrum, the Independent is definitely the underdog of Europe's liveliest newspaper industries. It's ...

My personal newspaper of choice is The Independent, primarily because I find it informative and free from the political bias that seems to pervade many of the newspapers in the UK. If you read the right wing and rather racist Daily Mail or the Labour loving Mirror then in my opinion you are only getting a blinkered one sided view of the news while ...

The newspaper broadsheet market is very competitive. When The Independent was launched the traditional broadsheets, The Times, Telegraph and Guardian had strongly established their place in the market. Each had a readership which was defined by broadly political affiliations. The Independent sought to establish therefore a place in a ...

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 who had done so much to elevate spin and news manipulation to their present eminence in British politics. ...

I find it absurd to hear people proclaim the wonderfully unbiased reporting of this newspaper, how it highlights the fact that the British media are not pawns of the corporations like our ignorant friends in the United States and other countries not blessed with a free press. The Independent is responsible for an absolutly terrible ...

Broadly speaking newspapers around the world tend to reflect the political stances of theirs owners, editors and their core readership. In many countries this is perfectly understood and accepted. In the UK we have always had a feeling that in some ways serious newspapers should be above politics and that a balanced representation of the factual ...

I love reading a broadsheet. That Saturday morning feeling - sitting in the dining room, cat on lap, croissants and orange juice on the table, partner at work (OK I have a cruel streak, but there is something really good, when you have the day off, and your other half is slaving away), and the Independent to read. Bliss. I ...

The Independant is a high quality daily broadsheet priced at 45 pence and I find it is a balanced and informative newspaper. The paper covers international,national and regional issues in consideable depth and strikes me as being impartial. It is never strident and does not appear to have a strong political bias.When I was a student I referred to ...

I like the Independant ,because I know I am going to get a fair account of the facts. With all the current happenings in the world,it is very important to get accurate reporting . Im not saying that the other newspapers dont give the news as they see it ,but the independant is concise and straight to the piont. The ...

I've been reading the Indie for about ten years now, and am still convinced its the best broadsheet on the market, despite all its various ownership changes. The reason for this has to be its coverage of news, it is so very unique. If one looks at the front page of the broadsheets, the Independent often has totally different stories, usually ...

I've been buying the Indie since the second issue (I couldn't get the first) and have been hooked ever since. I'd tried others: The Times was owned by Murdoch about whom I am unable to express an opinion as it would get me banned from this site; the Guardian was just toooo agit prop and The Telegraph's only real redeeming feature ...

I've ben reading The Independent for a good few years now, and I'm impressed by the way it has remained independent in terms of its objectivity in reporting and leader writing. It has all the quality you'd expect in a leading newspaper, with excellent coverage of home and world news, arts and culture, sport, and general articles of ...

The Independent has been around for over a decade and is now well established as a good newspaper that caters for the more business typed person but does not go as far as the Financial Times. Unlike the tabloid newspapers there is a lot of news in the paper every day and no dodgey or scandal rubbish that pack the pages of other papers. ...

I have been reading the independent for about 1 year now, i initially chose it because my friend recommended it as an intelligent newspaper with unbiased reporting. I started getting it 6 days a week (the saturday paper is enough for two days reading). Each day it comes with the main paper and a review section, with a sport section on ...

The Independent is a fantastic newspaper and, along with the Guardian, is my newspaper of choice. In my opinion, it is strongest in its coverage of international news and often provides information and opinion rarely found elsewhere. I am particularly enthusiastic about the writing of Robert Fisk, the newspaper's Middle East correspondant, who ...

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Finding the Times too right-wing and the Guardian too sensationalist, the Independent was exactly what I was looking for. The paper is well-organised so you can easily find editorial opinion, columns, sport, business or whatever else you're after, and the political stance is liberal (with a small l). I particularly like Deborah Orr's ...

Being a disillusioned reader of 'The Times', with several months still remaining on my pre-paid subscription, it is a bit of a treat when I get to read 'The Independent'! Whilst other newspapers seem to simply regurgitate the contents of the previous day's television news bulletins, 'The Independent' ...

I only buy two newspapers - The Guardian (mainly for the Media section on Mondays where I like to keep up on the latest news in publishing) and The Independent. I find very mixed reactions to both - some people assume they're snobby rich rags for snobby rich people who live in Prada clothes and only drink mineral water that costs £10 a ...

Yes you might think it’s a stuffy old rag meant for pretentious and old people who have nothing better to do than read a boring newspaper. You may be wrong. The Independent, in keeping with the more traditional broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, does tend to rely on fact more than fantasy. If you want to know ...