The Independent - September 26, 2024

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September 26, 2024

May rages at right-wingers who deny climate reality

Ex-PM denounces rhetoric of Trump, Farage and Le Pen

6 mins

Queen gives our campaign the royal seal of approval

Camilla has gifted a substantial sum to help The Independent establish a safe house for women escaping domestic violence

3 mins

Russia feeds its soldiers into meat grinder, says Starmer

Russia is treating its own citizens as \"bits of meat to fling into the grinder\" in Ukraine, Sir Keir Starmer said as he urged Vladimir Putin to end the conflict.

3 mins

Labour conference votes to reverse fuel payment cuts

Party divisions on policy exposed in blow to Keir Starmer

3 mins

What harm has Liverpool defeat done to Starmer?

In theory, the annual conference is the Labour Party’s supreme authority.

2 mins

We mustn't ‘kill NHS with kindness', warns Streeting

Wes Streeting has warned against “killing the NHS with kindness”, as he vowed not to back down in his mission to reform the health service.

2 mins

Post Office campaigner Bates awarded knighthood

The subpostmaster who exposed the Post Office Horizon IT scandal received a knighthood at Windsor Castle yesterday.

3 mins

Prisoners freed by mistake under early release scheme

Some prisoners were wrongly released from jail under the government’s new scheme to free up space, as the result of a system error.

2 mins

Gove is named Spectator editor after £100m sale

Former Conservative minister Michael Gove has been appointed editor of The Spectator magazine following its 100m sale to GB News co-owner Sir Paul Marshall.

2 mins

Man who threatened Ulez workers is spared jail term

Aman who shared a Facebook post encouraging people to damage Ulez cameras and sent a threatening email to a company involved in the traffic scheme’s rollout across London has been spared jail.

2 mins

BA wrongly turns away two passengers over passports

Four hours after British Airways staff at London Gatwick airport incorrectly prevented a passenger from boarding her flight to Florida, they wrongly turned away another traveller, who was heading for a golfing break in Spain.

4 mins

Mother awarded £10m for child left disabled by NHS

A mother has won a 12-year battle for compensation against an NHS hospital after successfully claiming that her child suffered brain damage as a result of botched surgery

2 mins

Israeli troops gear up for a ground invasion of Lebanon

Starmer tells Britons to leave as Biden warns of all-out war’

4 mins

I watched terrified Britons flee Lebanon in 2006 - I fear it will happen again

Huddled on the dock, stooped from injury and fear, the wounded and the vulnerable waited patiently to be rescued.

2 mins

Russia lowers threshold for the use of nuclear weapons

In a new warning to the West, president Vladimir Putin yesterday said that any nation’s conventional attack on Russia that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

2 mins

Zelensky tells UN he has only plan that will end war

Volodymyr Zelensky urged world leaders to stand with Ukraine in the war against Russia as he presented his victory plan” to the UN General Assembly yesterday.

2 mins

China economist vanishes after privately criticising Xi

A prominent Chinese economist has reportedly disappeared from the public eye after he criticised the country’s president in a private group chat. Zhu Hengpeng is the latest figure to vanish after finding fault with the communist government.

2 mins

"There is no time to think there is no time for trauma'

It’s nearly a year since a festival filled with people dancing became the site of a bloody massacre. Nicole Lampert talks to survivors about the loved ones who were taken from them

7 mins

Medical sexism is putting women's lives in danger

A new report has shone a light on how heart disease is being underdiagnosed, undertreated and underrepresented’ in the NHS. But the rot doesn’t stop there

5 mins

'I don't get why I'm meant to be afraid of trans people'

Will Ferrell and Harper Steele have made a film about how their friendship evolved after Harper came out as trans at 61. Adam White meets them and their director Josh Greenbaum

6 mins

ENIGMA VARIATIONS

David Mitchell plays a puzzle expert plunged into a police procedural in Ludwig’, a cosy BBC comedy-drama content to amble down some well-trodden paths

2 mins

Liverpool teach West Ham tough Carabao Cup lesson

Last season, Jurgen Klopp described Diogo Jota as the best finisher at Anfield.

4 mins

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