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The Independent
'Baroness Bra' and the myth behind her padded fortune
As Michelle Mone's firm is ordered to pay back over £100m, Guy Walters takes a close look at the books to see whether the lingerie tycoon was ever as successful as she made out
6 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Nirvana album cover child abuse case dismissed again
The man who appeared as a naked baby on a Nirvana album cover has had his lawsuit against the grunge rock band thrown out for a second time.
1 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Praying mantises ‘may have blown over from Europe’
Praying mantises have been spotted in the wild in England, with experts suggesting they may have been “blown over” from mainland Europe.
1 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
How our WhatsApp archive became a digital graveyard
Katie Rosseinsky speaks to the experts about why hiding uncomfortable conversations is so tempting – and why such behaviour might not be the best solution in the long run
5 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Goodness, Greta, what's the point of your Gaza flotillas?
In common with many, I suspect, I have been tracking the progress of the 40-ship Global Sumud Flotilla since it left Barcelona a month ago, with campaigner-for-everything Greta Thunberg as its standard-bearer.
3 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
‘I was naive at Red Bull – but my goal is still the same’
The dust of ruthlessness had barely settled for 24 hours before Liam Lawson made his feelings known. Brutally ousted from Red Bull after two races this season – the shortest ever stint in a full-time Formula One seat – the New Zealander posted on
4 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
New scandal after Met cops offensive comments filmed
The Metropolitan Police has been hit with a fresh scandal over claims of racism and misogyny after officers at a London police station were secretly filmed making offensive comments and bragging about using violence.
4 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Badenoch takes swipe at possible challenger Jenrick
Robert Jenrick's thoughts are just “my thoughts repackaged”, Kemi Badenoch has said in what appears to be a swipe at her main rival ahead of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester this weekend.
2 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Improbable, unrepeatable: the Jane Goodall I knew
When you tell people you're a journalist, they often ask who the best person you've ever interviewed is - and until I met the ethologist Dame Jane Goodall last year, I didn't know how to answer that.
3 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Man United ignoring reality of their failings is madness
Ruben Amorim's commitment to 3-4-3 is a bizarre refusal to face the facts about his players' abilities
4 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Locker-room culture thrives among the force I left in 2020
The culture of toxic masculinity that the BBC’s Panorama investigation again exposed makes a mockery of everything the Metropolitan Police force is meant to stand for.
3 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
A different ballet game
As an acclaimed pan-African revival of Pina Bausch's version of 'The Rite Of Spring' comes to the end of a global tour, Kathryn Bromwich finds out why the piece is so demanding
7 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
REDEMPTION SONGS
Actor Harris Dickinson announces himself as a thoughtful, gutsy filmmaker, writes Clarisse Loughrey, while a real-life horror story is warped by a heady dose of Hollywood drama
5 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Accidental final goodbye to Brum's Prince of Darkness
The BBC's documentation of Ozzy Osbourne's return to England is a funny, bittersweet and quietly devastating portrait of a rock icon in his final act
3 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Russia's deadly missile upgrade a 'game-changer'
Russia appears to have upgraded its ballistic missiles in use against Ukraine to bypass US-made Patriot air defence systems, according to a report.
2 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
French arrest captain of Russian ‘shadow fleet’ ship
Oil tanker was off the Danish coast during drone incursions
2 min |
October 03, 2025
The Independent
Liverpool wobble as Slot recalibrates stellar squad
Virgil van Dijk has built a career and a reputation on not panicking.
3 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Starmer set to block return of Burnham to parliament
The PM would stop Burnham from entering any shortlists to become an MP, says minister (PA)
3 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
William was spied on by Daily Mail, High Court told
Information about the Prince of Wales’s 21st birthday party could have been “blagged” by a private investigator, it has been claimed at the High Court.
2 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
PM targets asylum rights to reduce UK's 'pull factors'
As he steps up attack on Farage, Starmer aims to reinterpret ECHR laws and toughen access for some migrants to Britain
5 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Starmer chose the right time to confront intolerant Farage
There's a party game I've never played called Fuck, Marry, Kill. Before Labour conference, Keir Starmer will have been consulting with his closest advisers on how to play his own version of the game regarding Nigel Farage and Reform UK. This game is called “Accommodate, Confront, Ignore”.
3 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Rochdale grooming gang leader sentenced to 35 years
A grooming gang leader who raped two girls in Rochdale has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
1 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
How far should PM push the ‘Farage boats’ connection?
That “gently” delivered salvo is only the latest in what might be called Keir Starmer’s “barrage Farage” campaign.
3 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
What's behind Miliband's latest assault on fracking?
It may seem curious, but the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, safely playing out the last few hours of the Labour conference away from the media spotlight, has launched an attack on fracking, something that hasn't been seen in Britain since 2019.
2 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
SOFT OPTIONS
Daisy Lester picks the top winter cashmere jumpers
8 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Keir's comrade: how Blair made a No 10 comeback
The former prime minister's influence on the current PM is everywhere, from AI to Gaza. But is that something about which we should be thankful or fearful?
7 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Gunners secure nervous victory over Olympiacos
Bukayo Saka eased some increasingly frayed Arsenal nerves with a late strike to secure a 2-0 Champions League win over Olympiacos.
2 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Slick Newcastle jump-start European campaign in style
Woltemade (17), Gordon (43 pen, 64 pen), Barnes (80) Nick Woltemade answered Karl-Heinz Rummenigge’s “idiot” jibe in perfect style as he scored for the third time in four games as Newcastle cruised to a 4-0 victory at Union Saint-Gilloise.
2 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
Thunberg held as Gaza aid flotilla intercepted by IDF
Peace campaigner was detained by Israeli military 130km from the coast last night and taken to an undisclosed port
3 min |
October 02, 2025
The Independent
'It was a very strange little world we had as children'
'Downton Abbey' star Hugh Bonneville has written his first work of fiction and tells Helen Coffey his own life entered the pages of 'Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room'
8 min |