Lisa Markwell
Lisa Markwell is executive editor of The Independent and i. She also writes comment pieces for both papers, and restaurant reviews for The Independent on Sunday.
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Typing: Bring back the quick brown fox
20 March 2013 06:41 PM
Like cooking, typing has been seen as rather “domestic” and unaspirational to those in charge of education
Review: A Wong, 70-71 Wilton Road, London SW1
17 March 2013 12:00 AM
Our reviewer goes in search of a Cantonese 'greatest hits' at A Wong
Worth the dough: The Chadwick Oven makes pizzas as delicious as one from a wood-fired oven
14 March 2013 07:00 PM
If you like pizza like I like pizza, brace yourself. Once tried, this new stove-top oven will become the subject of your dreams and desires. You will rationalise the price (£360), you will invent reasons to knead dough, you will forgo your precious kitchen worktop to create a display space. The Chadwick Oven is sexy.
But Gwyneth is right about eating carbs
13 March 2013 04:14 PM
Remember that obesity is far more prevalent than our so-called ‘starvation’
No to making adoption slower, but yes to giving it long-term support
07 March 2013 12:00 AM
A two-and-a-half year average wait for a child to be placed in care is too long
Alcohol consumption and health: Be honest about the damage, and we'll be honest about the drinking
27 February 2013 06:38 PM
According to a new study by academics at University College London, what we drink and what we say we drink are two very - very - different things
HKK Broadgate West, Worship Street, London EC2
24 February 2013 12:00 AM
Is the Hakkasan group's latest proposition worth the City-slicker prices?
IVF treatment: Baby steps in the right direction
20 February 2013 06:00 PM
Now women up to the age of 42 will have the option of free IVF treatment on the NHS. There are risks to such late conception, but the raised age limit is surely a good thing
You don't have to buy cheap meat to eat on a budget
15 February 2013 07:11 PM
Meat-eaters needn’t sacrifice their health or spend a fortune to track down nutritious recipes, says Lisa Markwell
As if the other Jeremy was in the hot seat!
13 February 2013 07:35 PM
The speed and voracity of concocted rage, and “bullying” claims, is startling
- 1 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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