Paul Vallely

Paul Vallely is Associate Editor of The Independent where he writes on social, ethical, political and cultural issues. He writes leaders, features and has a weekly column in the Independent on Sunday. He was co-author of the report of the Commission for Africa and has chaired several development charities.

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What that Nokia ad was really about

09 September 2012 12:00 AM

They are not selling products so much as association: power, glamour or success
Heads down: Low marks for English upset pupils and teachers alike

Paul Vallely: Exams not fit for purpose? Neither are you, Mr Gove

02 September 2012 12:00 AM

Ill-timed and ill-judged, the Education Secretary's assault on GCSEs is the failure

Paul Vallely: Breivik was narcissistic and racist... but sane

26 August 2012 12:00 AM

There was something unutterably banal about the defendant's chubby face and silly pencil beard

Paul Vallely: Euston, we have a problem

19 August 2012 12:00 AM

There are only two ways to make more money from the railways - increase fares or cut staff

Paul Vallely: Sometimes the only person to beat is yourself

12 August 2012 12:00 AM

The expectations of the public, says Rebecca Adlington, can be different from those of the athlete

Paul Vallely: Will's right - better a witty fool than a foolish wit

05 August 2012 12:00 AM

Too much modern wit is merely paradox for its own sake - or oxymorons for the oxymoronic

Paul Vallely: Power needs more courage than opposition

29 July 2012 12:00 AM

'Dialogue has replaced conflict,' said McGuinness. 'And respect has replaced mistrust'

Paul Vallely: How to change the Bollinger mindset

01 July 2012 12:00 AM

Rules to promote trust, in practice, undermine it

Paul Vallely: The planet looked to Rio again, and Rio looked away

24 June 2012 12:00 AM

The road from the airport ran through miles of open fields when delegates arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the original Earth Summit in 1992.

Paul Vallely: The Russians will help us in Syria only if we help them

16 June 2012 08:00 PM

The danger is that Syria could turn into all-out sectarian war

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Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

Andrew Mitchell: 'It's no good feeling hard done by'

In his first interview since 'plebgate', the former Chief Whip opens up just enough to concede that, in politics, you have to take the rough with the smooth
Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Corruption and the FCO: Blue skies, white sands, dark clouds

Special report: Met police call for criminal inquiry into former diplomat's Cayman Islands rule
Fallen angel: Winona Ryder on bouncing back from her decade in the wilderness

Fallen angel: Winona Ryder bounces back

She owned the 1990s... but then she disappeared. Now, Ms Ryder is back with quite the bang in her latest role, as the wife of a notorious real-life Mob hitman.
Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

Roman Polanski shakes Cannes Film Festival

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer
Rev Richard Coles: 'I don’t have any concerns that God is cross with me for being gay and eventually the Church won’t either'

Rev Richard Coles on the Church and homosexuality

The mellifluous, erudite and witty Coles is the nation's most pop-culture-friendly priest
'Baghdad likes to live from crisis to crisis': Civil war looms in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn: Civil war looms in Iraq

The governor of Kirkuk - one of the country's most violent but successful provinces - fears the worst
Written on the body: Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials

Written on the body

Tattooists at pains to point out their artistic credentials
Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

Conquering Everest: 60 facts about the world's tallest mountain

The IoS marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reaching the peak of the highest mountain on Earth
A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

Rupert Cornwell: A new, and irreversible, Dust Bowl looms

The destructive power of tornadoes will be as nothing once the Great Plains' vast underground water reserve dries up
Every creature's needless death diminshes us all

Philip Hoare: Every creature's needless death diminishes us all

A 60 per cent decline in our national species should alarm us, yet few of us act. But to mind more about animals would reflect well on society
Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground - and the monks at the heart of it

Killing with kindness: Burma's religious battleground

Six years ago, the world cheered the monks behind Burma’s Saffron Revolution. Now, a horrific new eruption of religious slaughter is being blamed on a 'Buddhist Bin Laden'.
Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

Let's take it outside: Bill Granger's Bank Holiday feast

You can’t always depend on the weather – but you can avoid the pitfalls of the British barbecue by preparing an elaborate outdoor feast indoors ahead of time...
The Calvin report: Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance

The Calvin report

Stirring Champions League final shows how far English game must advance
10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

10 big questions for the British & Irish Lions to answer

Warren Gatland's squad fly Down Under aiming to do justice to the expectations – and hoping the Wallabies stay in the pub
The Last Word: Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally

The Last Word

Golf must end the hypocrisy before its halo slips totally