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Trans group calls for probe into equality watchdog's conduct over gender ruling
A leading trans campaign group has requested an investigation into the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), claiming its conduct in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on gender has been unlawful, The Independent can reveal.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Trump ‘to look’ at deporting Musk after rift re-emerges
Threat comes as his One Big Beautiful Bill Act passes hurdle
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
ActionAid pulls accounts from HSBC over climate damage 'worth £128bn'
ActionAid UK has accused HSBC of “choosing profit over people and planet” - saying it is pulling the “majority” of its accounts from the banking giant over the funding of climate-damaging projects.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
ON THIS DAY
1489: Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII’s first reformed Archbishop of Canterbury, was born. He was responsible for the Book of Common Prayer in 1549.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Time to chuck out check-in
Simon Calder is tired of jumping through airline hoops
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Wiegman’s woes: which team will turn up for Euros?
As the Lionesses prepare for the finals, the manager’s abrupt approach isn’t working as it used to, finds Miguel Delaney
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
TOMES FOR TOTS
Rebecca Moore on top reads for your budding bookworm
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Priest abused a staggering number of women, jury told
A priest once hailed for his “groundbreaking” services became the leader of a cult in the Church of England and sexually abused a “staggering” number of women, a court heard.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Krejcikova survives tough opener as she defends title
Number two seed Coco Gauff is knocked out in first round
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Backbencher steals show as Kendall left high and dry
Poor Liz Kendall. No doubt Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves had irresistible reasons of state for not being on the front bench to support her during the second reading of her Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Labour heads off welfare revolt with big concessions
Sir Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest blow to his leadership since coming into power a year ago after he was forced to abandon a key plank of his controversial benefit cuts in order to get them through parliament.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Do train delays ever get you more than a mere refund?
QDoes the rail network have a compensation scheme for late arrivals like airlines?
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Bumrah fitness leaves India with Edgbaston quandry
And so the balance of the bowlers begins.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Record 20,000 make small- boat Channel crossings in first six months of the year
A record number of people have crossed the Channel in small boats in the first six months of this year, figures reveal, despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to “smash” the smuggling gangs.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
Nothing is as damaging to Labour as its own rebel MPs
Divided parties do not win elections, and yet Labour cannot help itself.
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July 02, 2025
The Independent
This viral advert taps into our worst fears about AI
A campaign urging employers to ‘stop hiring humans’ left Helen Coffey raging - because it hit too close to home
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
Playing the Vylan: the BBC and Glastonbury show must go on, despite the controversy
When the country is divided, the BBC is on the rack.” So said a BBC executive at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956, which led to the resignation of the then-prime minister, Anthony Eden. That crisis was over the Middle East.
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
From CND to Stormzy, political anger has always stalked the stage at Glasto
PM: No Excuse For BBC Hate\" reads one tabloid headline.
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
SHARKS BITE BACK
As Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ celebrates its 50th anniversary, Olivia Petter examines the impact the film had on the fish and misconceptions around these so-called beasts of the sea
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
Have more children? If only it were that simple, minister
Bridget Phillipson has come up with a canny idea to get Britain’s “worrying” birth rate back up - have more kids.
4 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
Charles bids farewell to ‘expensive’ royal train
King Charles has approved decommissioning the royal train following decades of service.
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
Man, 92, guilty of murder in UK’s ‘oldest cold case’
A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of an elderly widow in what is thought to be the UK’s longest-running cold case ever to be solved.
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
GRAPES OF WRATH
Critics of Meghan's new rosé will say she's attention-seeking. But as Hannah Twiggs writes, the launch is part of a bigger, pinker, celebrity-dominated picture that's likely here to stay
5 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
Born again: new lease of life for a dying dino franchise
'Jurassic World Rebirth' rescues a long-in-the-tooth series that had spun wildly out of control, says Clarisse Loughrey
3 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
‘I have survivor’s guilt’
A new documentary examines the 7/7 suicide bombings in London in 2005, which killed 52 and injured almost 800. Four of those caught up in the atrocity talk to Gabriel Tate
7 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
Leading Hong Kong pro-democracy party disbands
One of Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy political parties has shut down, in a significant blow to the movement fighting for greater autonomy in the face of Beijing’s unprecedented crackdown on dissent.
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
COSTUME PARTY
Daisy Lester on stylish swimsuits that will make a splash
6 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
Starmer is no longer leading his party, he is following it
If I were advising the leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, on how to make the most of the prime minister's present discomfiture - and heaven knows she needs to take advice - I'd refer her to one of Tony Blair's most memorable exchanges when he was doing her job 30 years ago. Yes, it really is that long.
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July 01, 2025
The Independent
Raducanu too powerful for Grand Slam debutant Xu
While defending champion Carlos Alcaraz became ensnared in a five-set epic against the maverick Fabio Fognini, over on Wimbledon’s second show court, another former US Open champion was showing him how first-round matches at grand slams are supposed to go.
4 min |
July 01, 2025
The Independent
Don’t look back in anger
Younger Oasis fans are discovering the much-maligned later albums and loving them. Maybe it’s time the older, more cynical observers follow their lead, says Hamish MacBain
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