Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan is Editor of Independent Voices, a comment, campaigns and community platform across print and digital. He was earlier Deputy Comment Editor, Sports News Correspondent and news reporter. He writes a restaurant column for the Independent on Sunday, and has a column in the Evening Standard (Mondays), Independent and i (Fridays). He used to work on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, and at the Foreign Office; and is a trustee of Prospex, a charity for young people in Islington. He also wrote a book called Twirlymen: the Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers.
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Heaton, Butler and Bayne, Floral Street, London
19 May 2013 12:00 AM
Could this former stained-glass factory become a theatreland favourite, asks Amol Rajan.
Welcome to Diane Abbott's 'Viagra and Jack Daniels' themed crisis in masculinity
16 May 2013 03:42 PM
The steady emasculation of England is happening; but to argue that long-term, slow-evolving social and cultural changes constitute a crisis is pure bunkum
It's not Coke's job to make us healthy
09 May 2013 03:11 PM
Spare me the sainthood for soft drinks. This mind-numbing statement of the obvious and banal is what corporate PRs exist to give us, but that doesn’t make it forgivable
Amol Rajan: Five twirlymen keeping alive the beautiful art of spin
06 May 2013 12:55 AM
Rajan’s Wrong 'un: Even Muralitharan was salivating at Dananjaya’s exquisite control
The King's Arms, Chapel Street, Georgeham, Devon
05 May 2013 12:00 AM
Amol Rajan seeks out a treasure of a village pub in the South-West.
So it's Bayern Munich versus Borussia Dortmund at Wembley - If this is the Fourth Reich, count me in
02 May 2013 05:26 PM
The Teutonic model isn't only fashionable in football, it's hot politics too
Our restaurant reviewer explains why he's become a (part-time) vegetarian
28 April 2013 12:00 AM
If any of you had the privilege of growing up, as I did, the child of Indian parents in a Western setting, you might have a sharp recollection of the first time you ate meat.
Smart, likable Jo Johnson may well be the best man for the job. That's exactly the problem
25 April 2013 05:16 PM
Boris Johnson's younger brother has been appointed head of the PM's policy unit, but those carping on about nepotism are entirely missing the point
Rajan's Wrong 'un: Mischief-maker CMJ will always be a hero to me
22 April 2013 12:04 AM
In a fittingly grand service at St Paul's last week, Christopher Martin-Jenkins was remembered as the best friend cricket ever had. His amateur affection for the game, and bumbling technophobia, were celebrated by many living legends of the game. But what I admired most about CMJ, one of my heroes as a child, is just what a canny and mischievous hack he was.
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