The Independent - March 22, 2025

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March 22, 2025

Heathrow flights resume after 300,000 left stranded

The first flights landed at Heathrow last night after the airport closed for more than 15 hours, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded worldwide due to a fire at a nearby power substation.

3 mins

Tucci among stars calling for benefit cuts rethink

Stanley Tucci, Brian Cox and Sir Stephen Fry have piled pressure on the government to U-turn on controversial welfare cuts.

2 mins

Economic growth forecast is halved in blow to Reeves

The official economic growth forecast for this year will be cut in half next week in what will be a serious setback for Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.

2 mins

What is the OBR and does it control the economy?

Kemi Badenoch calls it an emergency Budget”.

3 mins

No, Mr Gove, the energised PM is not a Tory in disguise

“Is Keir Starmer a Tory?”, The Spectator asked this week. Its editor, Michael Gove, gave Starmer two cheers” for his shift to the right, saying most Tories would be gasping in admiration” if they could throw off their partisan blinkers.

3 mins

Lawrence killer present at murder scene, report says

One of Stephen Lawrence’s killers has finally admitted he was at the scene of the teenager’s racist murder, according to the Parole Board, as he bids to be freed from prison.

2 mins

Drunk driver whose friend died in car crash is jailed

Karla Dodds ran from scene to get away with it’, says judge

2 mins

UK attractions lag behind pre-Covid visitor numbers

London’s British Museum and Natural History Museum are thriving but most UK tourist attractions are lagging well behind pre-Covid visitor numbers.

3 mins

'Knockout' Saffron Walden named best place to live

The Essex market town of Saffron Walden has been named as the best place to live in the UK in The Sunday Times’ annual Best Places to Live guide.

2 mins

Missile interceptors and pamphlets: how Europe is preparing for nuclear war

Homeland defence is not an abstract concept to the nations bordering Russia, nor is the nuclear threat, says Francis Tusa

6 mins

Israel to seize more ground if hostages are not released ee

Israel’s defence minister has told the military to seize additional areas in Gaza” and threatened to permanently occupy parts of it if Hamas does not free all remaining hostages.

3 mins

Russia accused of bombing own gas infrastructure to sabotage the ceasefire deal

Moscow has been accused of bombing its own gas infrastructure in order to sabotage an energy ceasefire deal with Ukraine.

2 mins

Trump approves invitation to join the Commonwealth

Nearly 250 years after the USA declared independence from Great Britain, President Donald Trump suggested he was open to taking a small step back towards the warm embrace of the British monarchy after a media outlet reported that King Charles III intends to extend an offer for the United States to join the Commonwealth of Nations.

2 mins

Boeing wins contract for next generation fighter jets

President Donald Trump yesterday said the Pentagon was awarding a contract to Boeing to build a sixth-generation fighter jet that will be known as the F-47, calling the new manned warplane something the likes of which nobody has seen before”.

2 mins

Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks

Tesla has been forced to recall every Cybertruck it has ever sold after safety regulators raised an issue with the glue used to attach one of its stainless steel panels.

2 mins

Reeves has few options to make her numbers add up

For Rachel Reeves and Labour, it doesn't just rain.

3 mins

Sure, cut benefits but ina job-free zone, what’s next?

Here is a thing. My hometown, Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria now prefixed with the title Royal”, thanks to its devotion to constructing nuclear submarines for our defence is booming.

4 mins

Teen Lewis-Skelly scores as Tuchel enjoys opening win

A first game that was encouraging rather than electrifying, with most of the new excitement offered by Myles Lewis-Skelly rather than any sense of a new era.

3 mins

Hamilton gobsmacked’ to secure China sprint pole

Lewis Hamilton landed his first pole position as a Ferrari driver by taking top spot for today’s sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.

2 mins

Why Coe lost the race to become Olympics chief

Coe finished a distant third in his bid for the crown after making enemies inside the IOC, writes Lawrence Ostlere

4 mins

A smooth Six Nations may be thorn in Red Roses side

Real challenge is needed to avoid another World Cup tragedy

4 mins

I watched Adolescence with 100 young people, and what they said might surprise you

A lot has been written about the panic among parents after viewing the Netflix drama Chloe Combi wanted to find out what their children thought. She came away with new hope

6 mins

Supermarket pizza: rising costs of a budget favourite

What was once a quick, affordable meal is now becoming a costly indulgence. Ellie Muir wonders how we got here

6 mins

This is what we really want from a Topshop comeback

Four years after it left the high street, the fashion chain is threatening a return. Former superfan Katie Rosseinsky reckons leaning into millennial nostalgia could be key

5 mins

‘I enjoy having a grudge’

On the eve of a new exhibition marking his 65th birthday, Grayson Perry talks to Geordie Greig about alter egos, surviving emotional abuse and his distrust of the super-rich

9 mins

Michael Jackson and the legacy we can’t escape

With a second Leaving Neverland’ film out, Laura Barton wonders if you can ever truly separate the art from the artist

4 mins

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