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The Independent
Forget the under-16s, can we ban TikTok for politicians?
Keir Starmer is on TikTok. But I assume that any serious politician ought to use the media that most people use - except that TikTok is banned on government devices because of security fears about its Chinese owner, ByteDance.
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Autistic artist wins Turner Prize for ‘joyous’ sculptures
Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner Prize for her colourful cocoon-like sculptures made of VHS cassette tape and found fabric.
2 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Climber 'left girlfriend to die' on Austrian Alps peak
A seasoned Alpine climber has been charged with manslaughter after he left his girlfriend on Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner, before she froze to death.
2 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
NHS maternity probe head blasts 'unacceptable care'
Report highlights dirty wards, women bleeding in bathrooms and avoidable baby deaths amid a culture too slow to change
4 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Japan gives first megaquake warning after latest tremor
Authorities urge coast dwellers to stay vigilant as 'megathrust quake' could trigger tsunami that kills hundreds of thousands
2 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
'Can the US be friends with weak Europe? It depends,' says Trump in latest tirade
Donald Trump has accused European leaders of being “weak” and claimed their countries are “decaying” in an extraordinary attack on Washington’s traditionally closest allies.
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Travel chaos as Storm Bram lashes Britain and Ireland
Strong winds and rain from Storm Bram caused disruption across Britain and Ireland yesterday, with flights and trains cancelled and hundreds of homes and businesses left without power.
2 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Russia must be subdued by every trick in Britain's book
Yet again this week, President Trump set Europe's strategic challenge. Despite reaffirming US commitment to Euro-Atlantic defence once allies pledged to invest more ourselves, his new national security strategy pivots to the Pacific while his Ukraine peace plan negotiates European security without European input.
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
My missionary dad abused hundreds of boys - finally, I can see who he really was
Some of my earliest memories are of watching my father surrounded by the boys who attended the Christian camps he ran.
6 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
It's on the EU to get serious about a better deal with UK
No 10 may have slapped down deputy PM David Lammy after he cautiously suggested that the UK rejoin the EU's customs union, but the genie is out of the bottle.
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Will Labour buckle and seek customs union talks?
In a rare case of the Liberal Democrats making the political weather, Ed Davey’s party has managed to put the question of Britain’s ties with Europe back on the political agenda, despite attempts by Downing Street to avoid the festering wound of Brexit.
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Shove Trump aside, Europe and turn the tables on Putin
The US president is a Russian ally trying to force surrender on Ukraine; Europe can and must stop him
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
For 20 years, I went off the rails – GBR won't save them
If all that was needed to sort out the country's trains was a nice paint job, then I think we would all be pretty content. The formal launch of the government's rail nationalisation bill has been accompanied by an image, possibly AI-generated, of the railway's new livery for the state-owned operations, and, actually, the paint job isn't that nice at all.
3 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
MI5 tolerated 'grotesque' crimes executed by IRA spy
Handlers took Stakeknife agent on holiday when they knew he was wanted by police for murder, damning report finds
4 min |
December 10, 2025
The Independent
Is Marrakech best for first-time travellers to Morocco?
Q My wife and I have never been to Morocco and are planning to remedy that next year. Our plan is to spend four or five days in Marrakech, which feels like a “safe” place to start. Would you agree?
1 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Slot's tough stance leaves Salah with just one option
No more Mr Nice Guy, perhaps. If Arne Slot can cut a friendly figure, the Dutchman feels he has an inner toughness. In his most testing time, the Liverpool manager may have demonstrated that, even if the explanation was delivered in his usual mild-mannered fashion.
3 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Weight-loss jab users urged to train to prevent ageing
Weight-loss jab users face muscle loss comparable to “10 years of ageing” if they don’t strength train, researchers have warned.
2 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Bazball is not the answer to a flailing Ashes campaign
Brendon McCullum has transformed England's Test team from where he found them, but more is required than the 'courage' that his coaching instils
3 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
'Grossly offensive' Barton avoids jail over X messages
Former footballer Joey Barton has avoided being sent to prison after sending six grossly offensive social media posts.
3 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Work-life breakthrough or the thin end of the wedge?
Have you ever fantasised about restructuring the workday around the rest of your life? Maybe you’d log in at 6am and do a couple of hours, then take the kids to school and hit a yoga class, before logging back on at 10am and working until lunch. Maybe you’d take a two-hour lunch break to run errands, do a few hours of Zoom meetings in the afternoon, and spend the evening with family before catching up on emails after dinner.
6 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Pioneering gene-therapy treatment cures leukaemia
Palliative care felt like the only option left for 13-year-old leukaemia patient Alyssa Tapley, until she became the first person in the world to take a treatment that edits healthy immune cells to fight cancer.
3 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Livery and logo unveiled for new Great British Railways
Trains will be given a Union flag-inspired red, white and blue paint job as part of the Government's rail-nationalisation plans.
1 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Cyber attacks are new front in Putin's war, says Cooper
Britain and Europe must urgently unite to fight back against escalating attacks by Russia and other hostile states, Yvette Cooper is set to warn today in a major speech.
3 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Nurse wins case over room sharing with trans doctor
A nurse who objected to sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor has won a claim for harassment in her employment tribunal against a health board.
2 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Are Farage's tribulations weakening Reform UK?
He has been around British politics far longer than any of the other main party leaders, but Nigel Farage has never before endured such sustained scrutiny as he has faced in recent weeks.
4 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Tsunami off Japan's coast after magnitude 7.6 quake
A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan yesterday, triggering a tsunami of up to 70cm in Pacific coast communities and warnings of potentially higher surges, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.
1 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Nice guys are the new alpha males – just look at Lando
Somewhere between the new Formula One world champion Lando Norris taking the chequered flag and realising what he'd just done, something quietly unprecedented happened: rather than leaping around and raving about his own brilliance, the 26-year-old – the supposed apex predator of a sport built on noise, danger, and an almost visceral appetite for risk - simply stayed in his car, helmet on, shoulders quivering, as if peeling off the visor would let the entire world see him cry.
3 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Inner battle that unlocked the new champion's destiny
In becoming Britain's 11th F1 world champion, Lando Norris discovered a critical edge while remaining true to his values and he did it 'my way', writes Kieran Jackson in Abu Dhabi -
4 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
United turn the screw on Wolves as protests mount
Bruno Fernandes’s brace helped Manchester United get back to winning ways as rock-bottom Wolves’ wretched campaign continued with a 4-1 loss on a night of protest at Molineux.
2 min |
December 09, 2025
The Independent
Schools close as ‘tidal wave’ of flu sweeps across the UK
Schools have been forced to close or take measures to reduce the spread of illness in recent weeks as a severe strain of flu sweeps through classrooms across the UK.
3 min |