The Independent - Richard Ingrams RSS Feed http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/?service=Rss Richard Ingrams' Week: 'Institutional failure' is the curse of our times http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-institutional-failure-is-the-curse-of-our-times-825469.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-institutional-failure-is-the-curse-of-our-times-825469.html?r=RSS <p>It is unfortunate that Ant and Dec, about whom I wrote last week, should now find themselves involved in yet another unseemly controversy involving their television show. </p> Richard Ingrams Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 Richard Ingrams' Week: The perils and pitfalls facing today's historians http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-the-perils-and-pitfalls-facing-todays-historians-820383.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-the-perils-and-pitfalls-facing-todays-historians-820383.html?r=RSS <p>The story of Martin Allen, the self-styled "eminent historian" who published a book in 2005 accusing my father of assassinating Heinrich Himmler on the orders of Winston Churchill, was revived last week in The Financial Times.</p> Richard Ingrams Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 Richard Ingrams' Week: Blair's Babes were hardly battleaxes &ndash; more's the pity http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-blairs-babes-were-hardly-battleaxes-ndash-mores-the-pity-815878.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-blairs-babes-were-hardly-battleaxes-ndash-mores-the-pity-815878.html?r=RSS <p>Pictures of Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero surrounded by members of his 90 per cent female cabinet call to mind similar pictures of Tony Blair surrounded by his newly elected female MPs, the so-called Blair Babes.</p> Richard Ingrams Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 Richard Ingrams' Week: God forbid that religion is part of religious studies http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-god-forbid-that-religion-is-part-of-religious-studies-811810.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/richard-ingrams-week-god-forbid-that-religion-is-part-of-religious-studies-811810.html?r=RSS <p>Further confirmation that we live in a mad world came this week with the announcement that in future, the GCSE syllabus for religious studies will include the study of humanism.</p> Richard Ingrams Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100