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Drive you round the twist
Ed Power picks the most dismal film plot surprises, from Harry Potter spin-offs to nonsensical Star Wars revelations
5 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Hostage to a fortune
It's not one for a school run but the British-made Caterham Seven CSR 20 is impressive, and so powerful it's scary. What is more terrifying, though, is the price, writes Sean O'Grady
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
North Korea bars foreigners from its 'Benidorm' resort
North Korea has barred foreign tourists from a newly opened beach resort on its east coast just weeks after promoting it as a “world-class tourist and cultural destination”.
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Ofwat to be abolished and replaced with new regulator
The water regulator is expected to be scrapped next week as a government review concludes it is not fit for purpose.
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
The awkward truth behind Wembley D-Day for Dubois
Daniel Dubois and Oleksandr Usyk clash for a second time in northwest London tonight, two years after the Ukrainian beat the Briton in a controversial bout, writes Alex Pattle
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Police confirm boy killed in Somerset school bus crash
The child who died in a school bus crash in Somerset has been confirmed as a 10-year-old boy, Avon and Somerset Police said yesterday. He has not yet been named. Police added that six other children and three adults, including the driver, remain in hospital.
2 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Jenrick urges Yusuf sacking over antisemitic post row
Nigel Farage is facing calls to sack his right-hand man Zia Yusuf after the senior Reform UK figure said that a member of his team “accidentally pressed like” on an antisemitic post which attacked the wife of Tory MP Robert Jenrick.
2 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Who will benefit most from new rules about voter ID?
The announcement about giving the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds in all UK elections has obviously caused huge excitement, and some controversy.
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
No need for logic as Kelly delivers magic and chaos
The Euro 2022 match-winner turned Euro 2025 saviour to keep the Lionesses alive in Zurich, writes Jamie Braidwood
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Trump sues Murdoch and Wall Street Journal for libel
Defamation lawsuit filed over alleged Epstein birthday letter
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
The BBC is in crisis – and can't stop scoring own goals
From Glasto to ‘MasterChef’ to splits with Gary Lineker and Nadiya Hussain, the Beeb has been embroiled in a succession of scandals. And it can only blame itself, writes Fiona Sturges
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
‘I’m quite private... why am I airing my dirty laundry?’
Fresh from working on the forthcoming Wolf Alice album ‘The Clearing’, frontwoman Ellie Rowsell and the band tell Adam White about freakouts and speaking up about Palestine
8 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Will we ever be able to get a direct train to Switzerland?
Q How likely do you think it is that we'll get direct trains to Switzerland within the next few years? Geneva or Zurich would be great.
1 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Exposed: Tory hypocrisy over data breach cover-up
Sir Grant Shapps has said he was “surprised” the superinjunction to keep the huge Afghan data breach secret was in place for “so long” - despite having fought to keep the gagging order in place.
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Crackdown on his own MPs could backfire on Starmer
The prime minister’s parting shot of the summer has sparked a mutinous mood in the Labour ranks, warns Andrew Grice
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
The effects of Brexit on travel can’t be mitigated by eGates
Great barrier grief: that is what the UK government promises to end, at least for British travellers to Germany.
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
Defiant Taiwan prepares its people for Chinese invasion
Island conducts its largest-ever military exercise along with safety drills for civilians as threat grows of attack by Beijing
4 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
I learned the unimportance of what does not matter
As her owl chick's life hangs by a thread, Frieda Hughes begins haggling with the universe out of desperation
1 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
MoD had hundreds of data breaches in a single year
Hundreds of Ministry of Defence (MoD) data breaches have been revealed as questions intensify over its ability to keep sensitive information safe in the wake of the Afghan data leak.
3 min |
July 19, 2025
The Independent
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
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