Cahal Milmo
Cahal Milmo is the chief reporter of The Independent and has been with the paper since 2000. He was born in London and previously worked at the Press Association news agency. He has reported on assignment at home and abroad, including Rwanda, Sudan and Burkina Faso, the phone hacking scandal and the London Olympics. In his spare time he is a keen runner and cyclist, and keeps an allotment.
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The only way is Sussex: Protesters glued together. Activists attached to a fire engine with bike locks. Where else than in our most radical county?
02 August 2013 06:07 PM
Demonstrations against the shale gas explorations of oil company Cuadrilla are the continuation of an ancient and rich vein of radicalism and dissent in the home county
Mukhtar Ablyazov, the Kazakh fugitive, found guilty of £2.6bn fraud, wanted by Russia, sued in London, finally captured in France
02 August 2013 12:00 AM
At least three countries are queuing up to try the billionaire banker for alleged embezzlement on ‘an epic scale’
Revealed: Queen's last words to Britain in case of nuclear conflict
01 August 2013 07:09 AM
It would have been the Queen’s Speech to end them all. At midday on Friday 4 March 1983, the monarch was due to address the nation to announce that Britain was at war and – due to the “deadly power of abused technology” – a nuclear conflict was at hand.
National archives: William Hague? He’d be embarrassing - when Margaret Thatcher vetoed a Treasury job for the boy wonder
01 August 2013 12:00 AM
The annual release of secret papers from the National Archive reveals Mrs Thatcher’s scornful response to a plan to put the precocious young Tory in the Treasury
MI6 and MI5 'refuse to use Lenovo computers' over claims Chinese company makes them vulnerable to hacking
29 July 2013 05:10 PM
Lenovo - the largest PC producer in the world - is indirectly backed by the Chinese state
Cigarette firm Philip Morris 'tracked MPs' views on packaging'
28 July 2013 07:37 PM
The world’s largest tobacco firm created a database tracking every British MP’s opinion on plain cigarette packaging as part of its successful lobbying campaign to block the rules, it was claimed on Sunday.
Did Uri Geller really win the battle of Entebbe for Israel?
26 July 2013 06:59 PM
Israel is said to have used the psychic spoon-bender to help free 100 hostages in the famous raid. Cahal Milmo tests the metal of the claims
Russian police officer denies Kremlin is funding Sergei Magnitsky libel case in London
24 July 2013 03:20 PM
Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Karpov is suing British businessman William Browder for substantial damages
Royal baby boy: 'We could not be happier,' says Duke of Cambridge after wife Kate gives birth
23 July 2013 08:15 AM
The wait for the royal baby and the future monarch ended on Monday after a day of sweltering speculation when it was announced that the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth to a boy.
You can doubt concrete parts of the Olympic legacy, but there's no questioning its spirit
22 July 2013 02:34 PM
A run around the Olympic Stadium offers hope for the future
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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The unmade speech: An alternative draft of history
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Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up
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