The Independent - January 29, 2025
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In this issue
January 29, 2025
Britain’s population set to rise by 5 million in decade
ONS figures pile pressure on government to curb migration E ree
3 mins
UK faces care timebomb as over-85s are set to double
The government is being urged to pour more funding into the care system after new projections showed the country is facing a social care timebomb as the number of over-85s is set to double over the next two decades.
3 mins
Trump relents and accepts Mandelson as ambassador
Labour peer’s OK tempered by resistance to Chagos deal
3 mins
‘Crunch time’ for Reeves as she reboots growth agenda
Rachel Reeves has been warned by business leaders that it is crunch time” for her promises to deliver growth as she attempts to win back her credibility on the economy.
4 mins
MPs aghast’ at NHS bosses as overspending hits 1.4bn
Senior NHS leaders have been accused of remarkable” complacency and being out of ideas” to fix the UK’s broken health service as overspending doubled to 1.4bn last year.
3 mins
Cooper rejects calls fora new approach to extremism
Yvette Cooper has rejected calls for misogynists, conspiracy theorists, the far left and potentially violent environmental activists to be treated as extremists.
3 mins
How DeepSeek managed to devastate US tech industry
The Chinese startup inflicted more than 1 trillion in losses, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, with Nvidia suffering the most
2 mins
Don’t rush through assisted dying service, urges Whitty
Nursing leaders have admitted patients could choose a proposed new assisted dying service because of inadequate palliative care.
3 mins
Police rearrest driver over Wimbledon school crash
The driver of the four-by-four that crashed into a primary school in southwest London and killed schoolgirls Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau has been arrested again after the Met Police reopened their investigation.
2 mins
How much should we really be spending on defence?
Pressure, domestic and external, is growing on the government to increase defence spending markedly.
3 mins
Leicester City helicopter crash ruled an accident
Late chair’s son hits out at makers of death trap’ aircraft
3 mins
Le brush-off: Britons must pay more to visit Louvre
British tourists will have to pay more to enter the Louvre in Paris under new plans announced by French president Emmanuel Macron during a visit to the museum yesterday.
2 mins
‘This war has taken all the most precious things I had’
Scrambling over craters and towering sandbanks, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew
4 mins
Doomsday Clock a second closer to global annihilation
The world is closer than ever before to total apocalypse, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have warned.
3 mins
Bodies found in streets as Congo rebels target key city
Battles between Rwanda-backed rebels and pro-government forces are intensifying in the Congo city of Goma, as heavy gunfire and explosions were heard, and dead bodies were found in the streets.
2 mins
Serbian PM resigns amid anti-corruption protests
Serbian prime minister Milos Vucevic has resigned, becoming the most significant political casualty of the anti-corruption protests sweeping the country.
2 mins
Amateur fossil hunter finds 66-million-year-old vomit
A piece of fossilised vomit from the age of the dinosaurs has been found in Denmark, the Museum of East Zealand announced on Monday.
1 min
Without immigration, wed be a lonely, isolated isle
A paradox of public opinion is that immigration is unpopular, but immigrants are not.
3 mins
The moving wheels of history offered a DeepSeek lesson
There were car manufacturers before Henry Ford came up with the Model T.
3 mins
Five years after Brexit, the Rock’s still in a hard place
The future of Gibraltar is being decided by long, tense treaty negotiations with the UK, Spain and EU. Sarah Sands visits to see what is at stake for the strategic port and its residents
6 mins
The brainwashing parents raising mini-me children
As Elon Musk dubs his four-year-old a Trump supporter’, Charlotte Cripps asks why some mums and dads insist on pushing their own ideologies onto their young children
4 mins
On a wing and a prayer
‘Mixed mode’ could solve Heathrow’s capacity crunch long before a third runway. But the idea is unlikely to fly with Home Counties residents sick of noise, says Simon Calder
3 mins
‘Those military guys have a sick sense of humour too’
Palestinian-American Mo Amer talks with Annabel Nugent about the return of his TV show, his family in the West Bank, and performing stand-up for US troops months after 9/11
8 mins
Joy of The One Show is in its unapologetic weirdness
On paper, BBC One’s weeknight light entertainment show should be one of the broadcaster’s most tedious programmes. But its jarring tonal shifts and random guest list often make for brilliantly bizarre viewing, writes Katie Rosseinsky
6 mins
Print media will mourn for WHSmith... but who else?
The theme for the British high street? It has to be Another One Bites the Dust”. WHSmith is the latest famous name for whom that thumping baseline is tolling.
3 mins
Get ready for the chaos of Champions League finals’
Man City among the giants facing crunch matches tonight
5 mins
Why Barca’s ballsy offside trap could change the game
Weird and wonderful things are happening at Barcelona this season.
4 mins
The stars who could set this season’s Six Nations alight
The Independent’s writers pick six players with potential
5 mins
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