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Keeping up with the Johnsons – what Boris & Carrie did next

As Boris takes the stand at the Covid inquiry, his biographer Sonia Purnell reveals his year of raking in the cash, fitting out his moated mansion and preparing the ground for what he hopes will be a second stab at power

<p>New arrival, new house, new inquiry: it’s been a busy year for the Johnsons, in and out of the limelight </p>

<p>Isabel Mohan has spent her life trying to lose weight - but once she stopped feeling shame about her body everything else followed </p>

Health and Wellbeing

Why me being overweight is as much your problem as it is mine

<p>Harry Wallop tested the latest chef take-in boxes to see which gives the most festive feel </p>

Is a £215 chef’s Christmas lunch in a box worth it?

<p>Mindset performance coach Greg Meehan has worked with pro boxers, golfers and Premier League footballers</p>

‘A fighter should feel fear – if not, they’re a psychopath’

Voices

<p>The ‘camp fire’ of 2018 was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history</p>

The brutal truth about the environmental movement

<p>Pronatalist rhetoric is dangerous and is often laced with nationalism and prejudice.</p>

Why does Elon Musk want us all to have more kids?

<p>A large crack amid the road after the Icelandic town of Grindavik was shaken by earthquakes... and grammatical horror </p>

Errors & Omissions

Mea Culpa: warning of a volcanic eruption of amiditis

The Longer Read

<p>A failure to account for demand in developing countries is often a major oversight in models looking at peak emissions </p>

Greenhouse gases are about to peak – but it isn’t all good news

<p>‘Bethnal Green girl’: Shamima Begum</p>

Inside ‘jihadi bride’ Shamima Begum’s fight to return to the UK

<p>The Qualcomm boss is a big believer in the benefits of generative AI</p>

How AI is about to change our relationship with phones forever

Politics Explained

<p>Behind bars: former prime minister Boris Johnson, pictured with his ex-chief adviser Dominic Cummings</p>

Politics Explained

Ten questions for Boris Johnson to answer at the Covid inquiry

<p>Keir Starmer warned that Labour would keep a tight grip on spending </p>

Politics Explained

What do we know about Labour’s tax and spending plans?

<p>Steve Reed is putting Labour’s tanks onto Tory lawns – and fields</p>

Can Labour win rural votes at the next election?

Covid inquiry half-time report: the winners and losers so far

Most Commented

Rishi Sunak faces right-wing Tory revolt on Rwanda

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Jeremy Hunt blames Brexit for years of turmoil

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Rishi Sunak tries immigration crackdown as his popularity plummets

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Leaked email reveals Keir Starmer vetoed Thatcher criticism

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Editorials

The Independent View

This Rwanda treaty will not work – not even as a photo opportunity

<p>The government has pressed the panic button</p>

The Independent View

Rishi Sunak has lurched to the right on immigration, but it won’t help

<p>Starmer told the BBC that the Iron Lady had a ‘driving sense of purpose’ </p>

The Independent View

Keir Starmer was right to praise Thatcher

Culture

<p>Darling’s work has a wild, kinetic energy that makes the other contenders’ work feel staid </p>

Jesse Darling’s meditation on borders is the right Turner Prize winner

<p>John Craxton, ‘Pastoral for PW’, 1948</p>

Why maverick painter John Craxton deserves his moment in the sun

<p>The Beatles, New Order, Queen: whether they like it or not, some bands simply can’t top their Greatest Hits </p>

Alan Partridge was right. The best Beatles album is the Greatest Hits

Travel

<p>Riad hotel IZZA celebrates local Moroccan artists, as well as paying homage to Marrakech’s most famed past visitors</p>

The hedonistic, boho-luxe of 1970s Marrakech is back

<p>Napoleon, in Roman emperor garb, standing tall in Ajaccio</p>

How Corsica, Napoleon’s birthplace, fell out of love with the dictator

John RentoulThe Independent’s chief political commentator

<p>Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in a face mask </p>

Ask John Rentoul anything as Boris Johnson gives Covid evidence

<p>The Tories are retreating on three fronts at once </p>

Under attack from three directions, the Tories could face meltdown

<p>Matt Hancock, the health secretary during the pandemic, has been called a liar</p>

The Covid inquiry has descended into a tabloid TV game show

Andrew GricePolitical columnist who keeps his ear to the ground inside Westminster

<p>Like Darling, Rachel Reeves would have to run the Treasury in hard times</p>

The key piece of advice Labour needs to take from Alistair Darling

<p>Sunak might prove less keen on a spring election than some of his advisers</p>

Could Rishi Sunak be gearing up for a spring election?

<p>More than 25,000 people have been detected crossing the Channel in small boats so far in 2023 </p>

Rwanda’s out – so what’s the government’s plan B?

Chris Blackhurst

<p>Cristiano Ronaldo is being sued for promoting Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange </p>

Business Comment

Forget Cristiano’s crypto court woes, NFTs are here to stay

<p>Musk may soon discover to his cost that the world’s richest person still needs the little people</p>

Elon Musk’s ‘F*** you’ attitude may be the death of his empire

<p>A wildfire rages near Fort McMurray in Alberta in May 2016</p>

Business Comment

Sunak is putting Tory populism above the climate crisis. It’s shameful

News analysis

<p>Geert Wilders scored an unexpected victory in the Netherlands after campaigning against an ‘asylum tsunami’ </p>

‘New Europe’ isn’t ready for the far right but should have expected it

<p>Afghan refugees walk through a makeshift camp upon their arrival from Pakistan, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in Nangarhar province</p>

Refugees forced back to Afghanistan face squalid, freezing camps

<p>The families of those being held by Hamas have been calling for their release for weeks</p>

Anatomy of a deal: Why a hostage release has finally got over the line

<p>Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Foxconn, is running to be Taiwan’s next president</p>

Why a billionaire’s foray into politics is stoking anger in China

Sport

<p>Katie Taylor celebrates her historic win in a rematch with Chantelle Cameron </p>

Taylor creates harmony by making history in Dublin

<p>The documentary focuses on Ronnie O’Sullivan’s triumphant 2022 World Championship</p>

Ronnie O’Sullivan is our greatest sportsman – and also the most honest

Mary DejevskyExpert on foreign affairs, Russian politics and diplomatic relations between the Kremlin and the west

<p>He had something to say about the war that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine</p>

Why we will never see Henry Kissinger’s America again

<p>Geert Wilders has been a fixture of Dutch politics for a long time</p>

How scared should we be of the rise of the ‘Dutch Trump’?

<p>Does Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping signal a shift in global power?</p>

How two men met to change the world as we were looking the other way

America

<p>Joe Biden speaks in Belfast on 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement</p>

Biden says Brexit deal can bring ‘significant’ US investment to NI

<p>Such leaks remind countries like Russia – as well as US allies – of the sheer scale and reach of Washington’s operations</p>

The diplomatic damage done by the Pentagon leak won’t last long

<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wrote a tweet attacking ‘weak and woke’ ideology the day she declared her candidacy</p>

Republicans are running on ‘wokeism’ – but don’t know what it is