Despite actions that have cost billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money, no senior bank executive has yet been tried for what may have been the biggest fraud in history

The Ministry of Defence had maintained that the battlefield was beyond the reach of legislation, but now families of soldiers killed in Iraq have the right to sue

The Israeli army thinks poetry could ruin a soldiers image. We beg to differ

The onus of resisting the Taliban now rests on the frail Afghan national army

These letters appear in the Wednesday 19th June edition of the Independent

The British are nothing if not inventive. Faced with the tax-in-all-but-name that is the licence .....

It provides a necessary and welcome antidote to the City's capitalism

It must be a sign of how serious, stressed-out and generally po-faced we have become as a society.....

The question is whether they want to do more than sound tough

Ordinary Iranians are weary of endless confrontation with the outside world

Despite privacy fears, most people recognise that the benefits outweigh the costs

It’s a serious conference, of course it is. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to suppress a giggle at .....

Throwing money after sports participation has not achieved the desired results

One of the first rules of diplomacy is don’t issue threats that you can’t carry out

The public broadcaster's independent voice is needed now more than ever

The case of Michael and Yasmin Prest is a turning point for British courts

An obvious way to improve education – allowing schools to select by ability – is still taboo

Nearly two out of every three taxpayer-subsidised trains arrived late