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Playing it by the book
It feels tricky to live a busy, friend-filled life in 2025 without having a militantly organised diary system. Ellie Harrison talks to those who embrace planning and those who resist it
7 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
UK sanctions Russian spies behind sustained campaign
Officers blamed for cyberattacks across Britain and Europe
2 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Scheffler sets benchmark in near-perfect Open display
It was a putt to send echoes around Royal Portrush, from all of 23ft for a precious par.
5 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Colbert's Late Show axing greeted with glee by Trump
CBS cancels programme amid row over Paramount merger
2 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
This is why superinjunctions are antithetical to democracy
I was once smacked with a superinjunction... and lived to tell the full Kafkaesque tale. So I have a lot of sympathy for The Independent and other media organisations who, for nearly two years, have been forced to sit on a story that the British state didn't want told.
5 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
The era of a universal basic income has just got closer
As unemployment ticks up, many are pointing to the rise in national insurance contributions. But the government faces a far more pressing problem than that, writes Chris Blackhurst
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Syrian president says Israel creating a ‘theatre of chaos’
Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa has accused Israel of trying to turn Syria into a “theatre of endless chaos” in the wake of Israel Defense Forces strikes on Damascus.
3 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
CAREERS GUIDANCE
As unemployment officially hits its highest rate in four years, millennial Helen Coffey, who graduated smack-bang into the 2008 crash, shares how to apply for work without going mad
4 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Family who escaped Taliban waiting to be taken to safety in the UK nine months later
Rayan and his family have spent the past 271 days staring at the same four walls of their cramped and sparse hotel room in Pakistan.
4 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Police may be banned from joining in Pride parades
Uniformed police face being effectively banned from taking part in Pride parades after a “wide-reaching” ruling at the High Court.
3 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
‘Artists are in financial ruin’
As singer Billie Marten releases her latest album ‘Dog Eared’, she talks to Helen Coffey about her sound, mourning a lost childhood, and why musicians all end up paying Taylor Swift
8 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Dubois aiming to do a ‘real demolition job’ on Usyk
“Don’t push the horses,” was Oleksandr Usyk’s cryptic warning to Daniel Dubois’ team yesterday, whenever things got tetchy at the final press conference for their heavyweight rematch tomorrow.
3 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Lionesses sink Sweden in shootout for semi-final slot
England win 3-2 on penalties in Zurich
4 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Stockwell Six duo cleared 50 years after convictions
A man wrongfully convicted of attempted robbery has had his name cleared at the Court of Appeal, more than 50 years after being the victim of a racist miscarriage of justice.
2 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Three dead in Israeli strike on Gaza's Catholic church
Pope renews ceasefire call as Italian PM condemns attack
3 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
How the dream of owning a home turned to a nightmare
With average deposits of £144,000 for first-time buyers in London, homeownership has never been more unattainable. Zoë Beaty investigates how stability became such a luxury
6 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Abbott suspended again by Labour over race row letter
Diane Abbott has been suspended by the Labour Party over her claim she stood by a controversial letter she wrote in 2023 comparing different types of racism based on colour.
2 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
A MARGINAL SEAT
National Theatre's drama ‘The Estate’ moves from politics to family fights with refreshing tenacity but ultimately fails to weave the themes together cohesively
2 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Farrell’s surprise selections point to Lions power game
Beirne and Curry will sacrifice some mobility for physicality
4 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Funniest movie of the year
Two men hilariously navigate an awkward dynamic in the breathtakingly mortifying buddy comedy ‘Friendship’, writes Clarisse Loughrey. But ‘Smurfs’ is obnoxious and confusing
5 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Child dies and 19 hurt after coach on school trip crashes
A child has died after a school coach carrying children and staff home from an end of term trip flipped onto its roof and slid down a 20ft bank in Somerset.
1 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
‘It’s a very big and beautiful cave – they were happy’
Indian police were making routine patrols in dense jungle when they encountered a Russian woman and her daughters
5 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
THE NOT-SO FAB FOUR
Backed by The Beatles and friends with Twiggy, Grapefruit were expected to be the next big thing in the late Sixties.Neve Dawson investigates why it never happened for them
6 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
McIlroy regains ground after poor start at Portrush
Rory McIlroy looked like delivering the show the thousands who had flocked to Royal Portrush to cheer their returning hero expected, only for his bid for the first-round Open lead to collapse in the space of four holes on the back nine.
3 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
UK and Germany hail most notable treaty since WWII
German chancellor Friedrich Merz has said he “deplores” Brexit as he signed a major cooperation deal between his country and Britain.
2 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Skydiver Baumgartner dies in paragliding crash aged 56
Felix Baumgartner, known for his record-breaking skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident aged 56.
1 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Seventies Laurel Canyon sounds beautifully captured
Billie Marten's 'Dog Eared' finds a nostalgic Helen Brown slipping into the warm embrace of the Yorkshire-born singer
2 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Afghan data leak exposed UK spies and special forces
More than 100 names of British government personnel were also put at risk by the catastrophic breach in February 2022
4 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Starmer is cracking the whip on the rebels – about time too
Keir Starmer has acted against the most self-indulgent of his rebel MPs, suspending four of them and sacking a further three from their non-jobs as trade envoys.
3 min |
July 18, 2025
The Independent
Will lowering the voting age help keep Labour in power?
In a slightly surprising move on one of the last few days before parliament’s long summer recess, the government has announced it wants to give 16- and 17-year-olds the vote.
3 min |