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The Independent
Lammy's calamity is deeply damaging to the government
Nowadays people do not seem to break out of prison, they seem to be let out by mistake.
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
AMAZING GRACE
Jennifer Lawrence is simply brilliant as Grace, a new mother descending into madness, in Lynne Ramsay's 'Die My Love', but Daniel Day-Lewis shouldn't have bothered coming out of retirement for his son's 'Anemone'
5 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Israel aid blockade remains a month into Gaza ceasefire
Truckloads and pallets of aid are gathering dust in Jordan, Egypt and Israel, Jordanian officials and aid agencies say
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Death row drug smuggler to arrive home from Bali today
A British grandmother who was facing a death sentence in Bali for smuggling a large haul of cocaine into the island is due to arrive back in the UK today, according to reports.
2 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Globe-trotting celebrities no match for ordinary folk
Everyone muck ins, but this all-star version of 'Race Across the World' just doesn't travel well
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
You'd swear there's nothing he won't do to get attention
It's at times like this that a nation can really pull together. Times like Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, swearing in front of Kate Garraway on Good Morning Britain, as happened yesterday. Quite the shocker, that.
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Celebrity Traitors finale is ridiculous but riveting TV
Who'd have thought watching dumbed-down personalities could be so addictive? Hannah Ewens loves the Traitors franchise even more after the finalists got things so wrong
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Bank's interest rate decision heaps more pain on Reeves
If Rachel Reeves were more like Donald Trump, she’d be railing against the Bank of England right now, and especially its governor Andrew Bailey.
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Draper hones the ‘weapons’ to beat Sinner and Alcaraz
An arm injury ended Jack Draper's season early, but he reveals he's raring to resume his challenge to the star duo
5 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
THE EMPTY PAGE
Can modern life get more ick than performative reading? As cringey as show-off book lovers sound, perhaps anything that gets people off screens should be praised
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Flu jab 'SOS' for vulnerable as bad winter wave nears
UKHSA warning comes after Australia's worst ever flu season
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
'Dogma is offensive, but blasphemous? Hell no!'
Kevin Smith, the nerd king behind 'Clerks', is re-releasing his controversial 1999 masterpiece. He tells Adam White about how he lost his faith, and the possibility of a sequel
7 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Eleven arrested in protests outside Villa-Maccabi game
At least 11 people were arrested as a series of verbal clashes broke out during a pro-Palestine protest outside Aston Villa's controversial Europa League match against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv.
2 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Musical masterpiece reveals a self-portrait underneath
Singing in 13 different languages and almost as many genres, the phenomenal Lux’ sees Rosalia try something different, writes Roisin O’Connor, and she’s doing it really well
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Why did our diverted plane disappear from tracker site?
Ask Simon Calder
1 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Why electric-vehicle drivers may face a pay-per-mile tax
Chancellor is reportedly considering new duty in Budget
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Lammy needs to get a firm grip on his brief - and fast
As David Lammy is discovering, the doctrine of ministerial accountability is a cruel one. The ministerial code – the nearest thing we have in this respect to a written constitution – is clear.
4 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
Reform councillors 'acting like clowns and Traitors'
Insults exchanged at Kent's first meeting since video leak
3 min |
November 07, 2025
The Independent
John Lewis has made raver dads like me feel seen at last
The most keenly awaited Christmas advert of the year has reduced people of a certain age to floods of tears. Here's why, for Gen X-ers like Stephen Armstrong, it feels so personal
5 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Russia's talk about the fall of Pokrovsk should be ignored
Not a word of what the Russian defence ministry says is credible. Its claims that Russian troops have surrounded Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Kupiansk, in eastern Ukraine, are agitprop.
3 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Lammy fluffs his lines in humiliating PMQs debut
John Rentoul on another bad day for the government
3 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Underrated Midlander who introduced art to science
A major new exhibition of Joseph Wright's enlightenment masterpieces shows him to be a mysterious interpreter of light, knowledge and moral doubt
3 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Local fury at Grand Designs ‘castle’ on market for £7.9m
A mega Grand Designs project to build a modern “castle” in Wixford, near Stratford-upon-Avon, has sparked a backlash after a number of locals voiced objections to the structure - believed to be the biggest ever seen on the show.
2 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Prince Harry pens essay on ‘what it means to be British’
The Duke of Sussex has issued a heartfelt call to remember not only those who have fallen in conflict but also the living veterans, warning how easily they can be forgotten “once the uniform comes off”.
1 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
The old guard help flailing Liverpool to find their feet
Virgil van Dijk will go from facing Kylian Mbappe to Erling Haaland this Sunday, but he had another opponent in mind. Stood on the Anfield pitch, fresh from beating Real Madrid, with a similarly seismic clash against Manchester City next, the Liverpool captain raised the subject of title rivals.
3 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
'Phil is back' - Guardiola hails Foden as City run riot
The inevitability was that, wearing the captain's armband, facing his former club when he is in such irresistible form, Erling Haaland would score.
3 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
GAP IN THE MARKET
The brand is making a return to British high streets with three stores in London and more to follow – and this time it's targeting the TikTok generation
4 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Democrats cannot afford to model future on Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani is guaranteed his place in the history books. At 34, he is the youngest person to become mayor of New York City in more than a century. He is the first Muslim mayor in a city that suffered the most destructive act of Islamist terrorism anywhere on September 11, 2001, and he is a Democrat who describes himself as a democratic socialist and espouses a left wing agenda - left wing by US, rather than European standards, perhaps - in the city that has long stood as the centre of global finance.
4 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
Is Great British Railways a new dawn for passengers?
A renationalised rail service that ends current dysfunction is appealing, but Simon Calder sees problems down the track
4 min |
November 06, 2025
The Independent
'We have stepped out from the old into the new'
Immigrant Zohran Mamdani sweeps to New York mayoralty, much to the fury of Donald Trump, who vows to defund city
2 min |