The Independent - January 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025

Food prices could rise by a fifth as financial crisis looms

Fears of recession fuel calls for Reeves to cancel trip to China

5 mins

Pot calls kettle black? Truss says Reeves is pushing UK to brink of economic crisis’

Rachel Reeves has been blamed by Liz Truss for a dramatic drop in the value of the pound, which has sparked fears of a new recession.

2 mins

Lammy declares 'Trump is right' on defence spending

David Lammy has declared that the hard-won “post-Cold War peace is well and truly over” as he used his first major speech of 2025 to take aim at Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression.

3 mins

Begum will not return to UK, says foreign secretary

Shamima Begum will not be returning to the UK, David Lammy said following calls from Donald Trump’s incoming counterterrorism chief for the repatriation of British members of Isis being held in Syrian prison camps.

2 mins

CBI boss defends Phillips.after Musk 'throws darts'

Churchill's grandson Rupert Soames backs Labour minister described as 'a rape genocide apologist' by the tech tycoon

2 mins

Peer suspended from Lords after verbal assault on staff

A former Marks and Spencer boss has been suspended from the House of Lords for six months after he was found to have launched a tirade of abuse at members of parliamentary staff.

2 mins

Why do some councils want to delay the local elections?

In what is proving to be a highly controversial move, county councils all over England are seeking to postpone local elections due this May.

3 mins

Charities urge government to act on child abuse report

Police chiefs, head teachers, faith groups and charities are among groups urging the government to implement recommendations from the child sex abuse inquiry as the row over grooming gangs continues.

3 mins

Gang convicted of sexual exploitation and trafficking

A gang who targeted vulnerable” women in Dundee have been convicted following an investigation into sexual exploitation, human trafficking and drug supply.

1 min

'Days at work feel like the height of the pandemic'

Strain for hospitals as soaring flu cases trigger winter crisis

4 mins

Coldest night forecast amid warnings for snow and ice

The UK was bracing for its coldest night of the winter yesterday, with temperatures forecast to plummet close to -20C in some areas.

2 mins

Scotland's former rugby captain Hogg sentenced for abusing wife over five years

TARA COBHAM

3 mins

Firefighters warned strong wind could spread wildfires

Donald Trump blames California's Democratic governor for water shortages that have hampered efforts to control flames

3 mins

Wake up and smell the fires

We live in a 'magic bubble' of denial but the LA infernos and Covid before it demonstrate why we must be better prepared

3 mins

Biden hails 'strength of character' in Carter tribute

Every living American president filed into pews at the Washington National Cathedral yesterday to honour one of their own at the funeral for Jimmy Carter, who died late last month at 100 years old.

5 mins

The woman who cried wolf and fuelled a local race war

When Ellie Williams told of her experience at the hands of a grooming gang, it seemed clear what was right vs wrong. But the truth, writes Zoë Beaty, was much more complicated...

8 mins

PLAYING DUMB

As the thoroughly decent (and rather smart) Kasim is ejected from 'The Traitors', Helen Coffey asks whether intelligence has become a hindrance that should be concealed at all costs

5 mins

At home with Gen Zzzzz

Being boring has never been more in - but Kate Rossiensky wonders if the humblebore lifestyle is a deflection technique

6 mins

The secret shame that saw Callas retreat into obscurity

She was the opera diva with a tumultuous and tragic private life but something else would derail her career as one of the greatest singers of all time, as Meghan Lloyd Davies explains

5 mins

Kidman is utterly fearless in unabashedly sexy 'Babygirl'

Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn has made a BDSM film rife with fumbling uncertainty, and comedy-drama 'A Real Pain' manages to stay honest,

5 mins

THE ART OF NOISE

Alt-popper Ethel Cain lashes listeners with sound on her experimental second LP, 'Perverts'. Helen Brown submits

2 mins

Everton ease to FA Cup win as team reboot starts

They are not used to cheering the men in the technical area.

3 mins

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