The Indy does seem to have been corkscrewing to the crazy end of the left for a few years now. The Iraq war seemed to cause some sort of collective seizure among their editors, and they've never recovered. The Indy used to be my paper of choice, but I've switched to the Guardian now...

Same here. It's as if they decided that, because the Iraq War happened, the general public is stupid and needs to be yelled at and lectured to if a firey apocalypse is to be avoided. (Exactly what more did they want Joe Public to do to avert the war? Overthrow Parliament?)

I do love the Indy, but I tend to skip the front page story because it's either something like that above, or "WHERE ARE ALL THE BEES?!" People who say that the Guardian is entirely responsible for environmental scare stories seem to spend more time with the Indy.