The Independent - October 24, 2024

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October 24, 2024

Critics Dismiss Trump And Musk's Row With Labour

Donald Trump’s campaign team files a complaint accusing Starmer’s party of making illegal donations to Democrats

5 mins

Badenoch attacks Starmer's 'student politics' on Trump

In the first part of an interview with The Independent, the would-be Conservative leader wades in on the UK-US row

4 mins

Starmer shouldn't mind law chief dressing him down

The normalisation of women in senior positions in public life continues apace. Rachel Reeves, the first female chancellor, was sitting next to Angela Rayner as she stood in at Prime Minister’s Questions today, in the middle of a row of six women on the government front bench.

3 mins

Let workers strike for one year, government proposes

Workers would be given twice as long to strike under proposals being considered by the government.

2 mins

Systemic failure in mental health care, report reveals

Vulnerable mental health patients are being traumatised, sexually assaulted and physically harmed in UK hospitals – and have even managed to escape, the safety watchdog has warned in its first major national investigation.

4 mins

Commonwealth What's The Summit And Who Is Going?

Following their visit to Australia, the King and Queen are in Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) – the 27th such summit and the first regular meeting since the death of Elizabeth II.

3 mins

Cost of housing one asylum seeker for year jumps £24k

The average annual cost of housing and supporting an asylum seeker has risen by £24,000 per person in the past four years as the Home Office becomes increasingly reliant on more expensive hotel accommodation, according to a new report.

2 mins

Sales of Johnson's memoir slow despite '£2m advance'

Sales of Boris Johnson’s political memoir are understood to have slumped well below expectations, with the much-advertised release now on track to be overtaken by a cookbook.

2 mins

Woman, 60, arrested after three deaths at care home

Detectives investigating the deaths of three people at a care home in Swanage, Dorset, have arrested a 60-year-old woman on suspicion of manslaughter. Seven people were taken to hospital after the alarm was raised early yesterday morning.

1 min

Officers who fire fatal shots to be granted anonymity

Plans unveiled after Kaba marksman forced into hiding

2 mins

Manchester Arena survivors win harassment lawsuit

Two Manchester Arena bombing survivors have won their High Court harassment case against a former television producer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed the attack was staged.

3 mins

Filming on the front line of America's 'war on women'

‘The A-Word’, a new documentary film by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court upended access to abortion care

6 mins

'I love my child but I'm raising my rapist's baby'

Kelly Rissman reports on a story that highlights the hurdles women can face in the reproductive care system in America

6 mins

'This is not just my battle': Pelicot testifies in rape trial

Gisele Pelicot, the French grandmother who has been hailed as a hero for insisting the trial of her ex-husband and dozens of other men accused of raping her be held in public, has taken to the stand and described herself as a “woman who is totally destroyed” but that she has a “determination to change society”.

3 mins

Five Killed In Terror Attack On Turkish Defence Firm

Assailants have set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on the premises of the Turkish state-run aerospace and defence company Tusas, killing five people and wounding 22.

1 min

I left the man I loved but could no longer live with

A year after novelist Jane Green and her husband decided to end their relationship, her friends think she’s had a happy divorce. Is such a thing ever really possible, she wonders

7 mins

Different class: the peculiar rise of M&S food shopping

Are we suddenly flush? Or is treating ourselves to top-tier groceries simply the only achievable’ luxury these days? Helen Coffey on how the store beat the cost of living crisis

5 mins

How The Internet Ruined Ricky Gervais's Comedy

As the comic returns with his new stand-up tour Mortality, Louis Chilton says he needs a break from social media

3 mins

Reeves 'Ponders Amazon Tax' To Save UK High Streets

The chancellor is considering a tax hike for online retail giants like Amazon in an effort to level the playing field for high street competitors.

3 mins

City cruise on autopilot in an embarrassing mismatch

A Pep Guardiola side is often described as the best in Champions League history. Another has the statistical distinction as the hardest to beat.

3 mins

Nunez strike conclusive as Reds survive close contest

Darwin Nunez’s first-half goal was enough to earn Liverpool a 10 Champions League win at RB Leipzig as the outstanding start to Arne Slot’s reign continued in Germany.

2 mins

Jose, United and the sliding doors season that never was

What if Jose Mourinho had succeeded Alex Ferguson in 2013? Miguel Delaney on Old Trafford’s alternate history Oat x

5 mins

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