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<p>It is a clever appointment politically, because Gauke carries some cross-party weight as a former Tory justice secretary</p>
john rentoul

Why releasing prisoners early could be a victory for sensible Starmer

The Labour government has been forced into the unpopular policy – and to sweeten the deal, they’ve brought in some Conservative cover, writes John Rentoul. Prepare for Starmer to ‘uncork the Gauke’...

<p>It would be wrong to pretend that this increased willingness on the part of the police to pursue and use force against Black people played no part in the story of how we got here </p>
femi oluwole

Chris Kaba’s death is a tragedy for his family – and the police

<p>Since the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Elon Musk has gone ‘all in’ for the Republican candidate</p>
The Independent View

The inconvenient truth about Trump and Musk’s bromance

<p>Health secretary Wes Streeting put it to the general public to suggest fixes for the NHS </p>
Oliver Keens

A Wetherspoons in every hospital? Oh, Britain, how could you?

<p>Why is social media telling us insulin is a bad thing?</p>
james moore

Musk is allowing medical misinformation to take over X – it could kill

<p>‘There’s a reason the internet’s golden non-couple has us all in a digital chokehold’ </p>
olivia petter

If you want to flirt, you need to watch this video of Andrew Garfield

<p>Chris Hoy has revealed that his prostate cancer has spread and he now has between two and four years left</p>
Will Gore

The way Chris Hoy is facing up to his death is a lesson in how to live

<p>The presidential candidate served customers at a McDonald’s drive-thru this weekend </p>
Sean O’Grady

Has this publicity stunt secured the White House for ‘McDonald Trump’?

<p>‘Chreaster eggs’ are now part of Aldi’s Christmas range for 2024</p>
Clair Woodward

Sorry, Aldi… the last thing I want for Christmas is your ‘Creaster egg’

<p>Many people now get their news from less-than-trustworthy places, such as WhatsApp groups </p>
Michael Samuel

Politicians need to restore our faith in them – the solution is simple

<p>Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves made promises they know (and we know) can’t be kept </p>
john rentoul

Labour were right to break their promise on taxes – we all need to pay

<p>Bidzina Ivanishvili, the oligarch and former prime minister of Georgia, whose $6.4bn fortune makes him his country’s richest man</p>
Mark Hollingsworth

Will this be the next country to become a Russian proxy?

<p>Parliament will debate assisted dying laws in the UK this week </p>
alan rusbridger

My father wanted to die – this is why the law should have allowed it

<p>Postpartum psychosis affects roughly 1 in 500 births </p>
jenny pagdin

This is what postpartum psychosis is really like

<p>‘The association between the Republican party and the Evangelicals is nothing new, but this unholy alliance with Trump is a disgrace’ </p>
Letters

Trump needs our prayers – but not our vote

<p>The death of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar – killed by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza town of Rafah – was caught on a drone camera </p>
Mark Almond

Sinwar’s death shows October 7 was a tactical mistake by Hamas

<p>I am stumped to a halt in the company of people / Only ever seen on Zoom</p>
FRIEDA HUGHES

How to talk to strangers (and turn them into friends)

This week, poet and artist Frieda Hughes has an unforgettable meal with people she met on screen

<p>The prime minister has said that long-term sickness claimants must get back to work</p>
Andrew Grice

Starmer is right to grasp the nettle of benefits reform

<p>Foreign secretary David Lammy will visit Beijing in an attempt to fix the UK’s relations with China </p>
Voices

Will David Lammy’s trip to Beijing fix the UK’s China problem?

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<p>‘There’s a reason the internet’s golden non-couple has us all in a digital chokehold’ </p>
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If you want to flirt, you need to watch this video of Andrew Garfield

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If you want to flirt, you need to watch this video of Andrew Garfield

Olivia Petter
<p>‘There’s a reason the internet’s golden non-couple has us all in a digital chokehold’ </p>
<p>Labour has called for a review of the UK prison system </p>
The Independent View

The prison crisis must be tackled – and Gauke may be the solution

<p>Tell us if you back stricter rules for young drivers</p>
Motoring News

Tell us if you back stricter rules for young drivers

<p>King Charles was heckled by an elected senator during his state visit to Australia</p>
Voices

It takes more than an angry heckler to ruffle the King’s feathers

<p>Donald Trump hands over some fries while working in a McDonald’s </p>
Voices

I’m a former McDonald’s fry cook. Truthfully, Trump did an OK job

<p>Donald Trump hands over some fries while working in a McDonald’s </p>
Voices

I’m a former McDonald’s fry cook. Truthfully, Trump did an OK job

<p>The removal of Shakespeare’s portrait from Downing Street is a blow for our literary past </p>
Letters

Labour’s lost love for our cultural heritage

<p>Wes Streeting revealed that the public will be asked to submit ideas about the NHS via a website</p>
The Independent View

No more consultations – it’s time to operate on the sickly NHS

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<p>Some of the stars of Band Aid – (from left) Sting, Bono and Simon Le Bon – whose song Do They Know It’s Christmas raised millions for the Ethiopian famine relief effort in 1984</p>
Letters

Wanting to ‘feed the world’ doesn’t make you racist

<p>On ‘Married at First Sight’, personal finance rarely comes up </p>
Voices

Should it matter how much your date earns?

<p>The chancellor must be allowed to raise money to tackle poverty and the terrible state of our public services </p>
Letters

Inheritance tax is a misnomer – we should rename it ‘good luck’ tax

<p>In opposition Shabana Mahmood was ‘concerned’ about IPP sentences</p>
The Independent View

Indefinite sentences are morally wrong – Labour must end them

<p>David Barnett wonders if the ‘Atonement’ actor might like to play a part in an adaptation of one of his books – Keira...? </p>
Voices

I have a problem with Keira Knightley writing a book – you should, too

<p>The new chancellor is said to be considering yet more alcohol duties </p>
Voices

Please, Rachel Reeves – the last thing we need is yet another wine tax

<p>In opposition Shabana Mahmood was ‘concerned’ about IPP sentences</p>
The Independent View

Indefinite sentences are morally wrong – Labour must end them

<p>David Barnett wonders if the ‘Atonement’ actor might like to play a part in an adaptation of one of his books – Keira...? </p>
Voices

I have a problem with Keira Knightley writing a book – you should, too

<p>The new chancellor is said to be considering yet more alcohol duties </p>
Voices

Please, Rachel Reeves – the last thing we need is yet another wine tax

<p>Journalist Michael Buerk visited Ethiopia in 1984 to report on the famine </p>
Voices

It is 40 years since the ‘report that shook the world’

Voices

It is 40 years since the ‘report that shook the world’

Ava Vidal
<p>Journalist Michael Buerk visited Ethiopia in 1984 to report on the famine </p>
<p>Alex Ferguson was axed as an ambassador by Jim Ratcliffe</p>
Business Comment

Why Manchester United were right to bid farewell to Alex Ferguson

<p>Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner is said to have pushed back hard against the Treasury’s demand that she trim back her housing budget </p>
Voices

Starmer’s cabinet is rebelling – what took them so long?

<p>Yahya Sinwar was killed in a firefight with a routine Israeli patrol</p>
The Independent View

Yahya Sinwar’s death is a victory – but peace is still a long way off

<p>‘The boards were cut to size/ For speed and easy assembly, which is where it all went wrong’ </p>
Voices

If you want DIY to be done well, get a woman to do it

<p>‘The boards were cut to size/ For speed and easy assembly, which is where it all went wrong’ </p>
Voices

If you want DIY to be done well, get a woman to do it

<p>The ‘death tax’ (as it’s known) is no silver bullet for the Treasury </p>
Voices

The real problem facing Rachel Reeves over inheritance tax...

<p>It’s no longer just ‘mind the gap’; every conceivable danger is now warned against</p>
Letters

Tannoy terror is ruining the morning commute for Londoners

<p>Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch at a TV hustings organised by GB News </p>
Voices

Was this the moment Kemi Badenoch was handed the Tory leadership?

<p>For lots of women, what happens to us privately impacts on our public selves </p>
Voices

This is the last ‘taboo’ in the Church of England – it has to change

<p>Would any English manager really be better than Tuchel? </p>
Voices

Ich bin ein Tuchel! We should all back England’s new German manager

<p>A government leak suggests HS2 will now run from London Euston to Crewe, rather than stopping at Birmingham</p>
Voices

‘Uncancelling’ HS2 is a good start – but can’t we go even further?

<p>Rachel Reeves has faced calls to increase capital gains tax in this month’s Budget (Jordan Pettitt/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Readers name their priorities for Rachel Reeves’ looming Labour budget

<p>One Direction singer Liam Payne died suddenly after falling from a balcony in Buenos Aires</p>
Voices

Liam Payne’s death made me realise something disturbing about Gen Z

<p>Louise Haigh, Angela Rayner and Shabana Mahmood have written to the prime minister to voice concerns about Treasury plans for their departmental spending </p>
The Independent View

Labour must unite, rather than disunite, over its mission for Britain

<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies above the Pacific Ocean carrying a payload of 22 Starlink internet satellites into space </p>
Voices

We can’t stand Musk – but what he did this week is astounding

<p>‘I love you, Daddy’: Adam Peaty hugs his son George after winning silver in the men’s 100 metres breaststroke</p>
Voices

Why Paris 2024 is turning into the ‘Dadlympics’

Voices

Why Paris 2024 is turning into the ‘Dadlympics’

Jim White
<p>‘I love you, Daddy’: Adam Peaty hugs his son George after winning silver in the men’s 100 metres breaststroke</p>
<p>New rules requiring banks to reimburse people who have been tricked into transferring money to a fraudster have come into force </p>
Voices

How to protect yourself from fraud

<p>The hound pack placing a single paw on a neighbour’s front garden could soon be a criminal offence</p>
Letters

New hunting laws will only leave us chasing our tails

News

Geordie Greig announces Brick by Brick Campaign’s new target

<p>Elon Musk removing X’s ‘block’ facility sends a particularly sinister message to women</p>
Voices

Has Elon Musk just started a new war on women by binning ‘block’?

<p>Elon Musk removing X’s ‘block’ facility sends a particularly sinister message to women</p>
Voices

Has Elon Musk just started a new war on women by binning ‘block’?

<p>Brendan O’Carroll created, writes and stars in Mrs Brown’s Boys</p>
Voices

Mrs Brown’s Boys has no place in Britain in 2024

<p>If Trump wins, he will no doubt encourage Netanyahu to unleash yet more fire and fury, including on Tehran – and all bets will be off</p>
The Independent View

Israel’s diplomatic self-isolation is only helping Hamas

<p>Myleene Klass: ‘I saw my baby on the ultrasound screen, floating in the darkness, limp and lifeless’ </p>
Voices

I had a miscarriage live on air – I deserve more than a certificate

<p>‘We should be trying to prevent obesity, rather than waiting for it to occur’ </p>
Letters

Weight-loss drugs on the NHS? That’s just an admission of failure

<p>Taking cover: Transport secretary Louise Haigh leaving Downing Street</p>
Voices

Will Louise Haigh be the first minister to be forced out of office?

<p>Foreign secretary David Lammy shakes hands with China’s foreign minister Wang Yi</p>
Voices

In Beijing, will David Lammy dare to mention the Uyghur genocide?

<p>King was always one of the more outspoken of governors</p>
The Independent View

Rachel Reeves would be wise to listen to her former mentor Mervyn King

<p>Afghan allies will finally get the justice they deserve, thanks to our campaign</p>
Voices

How we won our campaign to bring Afghan special forces to the UK

<p>Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out a rise in employer national insurance contributions from her first Budget </p>
Voices

Rachel Reeves’ ‘employer national insurance hike’ is a tax on workers

<p>Why are we still harping on Shakespeare being a woman? </p>
Letters

Saying Shakespeare was a woman is the worst kind of fan fiction

<p>For the love of all that is fragrant, are Gen Z really trying to bring back Thierry Mugler’s sickly-sweet Angel? </p>
Voices

Why, thanks to TikTok, 90s perfumes are suddenly back in fashion

Voices

Why, thanks to TikTok, 90s perfumes are suddenly back in fashion

Victoria Richards
<p>For the love of all that is fragrant, are Gen Z really trying to bring back Thierry Mugler’s sickly-sweet Angel? </p>
<p>Health secretary Wes Streeting has proposed weight-loss jabs to reduce unemployment rates </p>
Voices

Could ‘jabs for jobs’ be the miracle drug to fix the NHS?

<p>Al Pacino became a father for a fourth time last year – to Roman, who is now 16 months old</p>
Voices

Being a new dad at 84 won’t be ‘fun’ for your son, Al Pacino

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver Labour’s first Budget in 15 years on 30 October</p>
Voices

I was Rachel Reeves’s boss – here’s what she should do now

<p>Badenoch, the potential leader of the Tory party, has sparked outrage for ‘stigmatising’ autism </p>
Voices

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on autism is part of a troubling trend

<p>Badenoch, the potential leader of the Tory party, has sparked outrage for ‘stigmatising’ autism </p>
Voices

Kemi Badenoch’s attack on autism is part of a troubling trend

<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer congratulates Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves after she addressed the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (Stefan Rousseau/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Tell us what you’d like to see announced in Labour’s first budget

<p>The chancellor should revisit the ‘Chesterton’s Fence’ principle before they get the shredder out</p>
The Independent View

The elephant in the room that looms over Labour’s plans for growth

<p>Tory leadership contenders Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick reflect an ideological move even further to the right</p>
Letters

A far-right Conservative Party is not the change Britain needs

<p>Katya Jones with her Strictly celebrity partner, Welsh opera singer Wynne Evans </p>
Voices

Does Strictly’s ‘hand incident’ mean it still has a women problem?

<p>Prime minister Keir Starmer speaks to business leaders at his International Investment Summit</p>
Voices

There was one glaring omission from Starmer’s ‘back Britain’ summit…

<p>A British influencer has fallen to his death after scaling Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha Bridge </p>
Voices

Gen Z – is your digital ‘legacy’ really worth dying for?

<p>JK Rowling has been vocal on trans issues in the past</p>
Voices

JK Rowling’s feud with Butlin’s is a sad new low

<p>The prime minister needs to return to his original message of growth and good governance </p>
The Independent View

Starmer’s chance to put growth back at the top of the agenda

<p>Malbec is increasingly popular here in the UK </p>
Voices

French Malbec is having a revival – rightfully so

<p>Quite what is the purpose of these trucks, I cannot fathom</p>
Voices

There’s no place for American-style monster vehicles on UK roads

<p>I would have thoroughly enjoyed watching his finely tuned debating skills reduce to rubble those ineffectual individuals who lead the SNP these days</p>
Letters

Alex Salmond ran circles around the current SNP

Letters

Alex Salmond ran circles around the current SNP

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<p>I would have thoroughly enjoyed watching his finely tuned debating skills reduce to rubble those ineffectual individuals who lead the SNP these days</p>
<p>At least two-thirds of the general public, including half of those who voted Conservative in July, have been unable to express a preference for either candidate </p>
Voices

Which leadership candidate has the best chance of rescuing the Tories?

<p>Sir Keir told The Independent that he had been horrified by the case of Jane Clough, a nurse killed by her former partner</p>
The Independent View

Thank you, PM, for backing our campaign against domestic abuse

<p>Musk recently made an appearance at a campaign rally for Trump</p>
Voices

Elon Musk is now Trump’s arch-propagandist – and that’s a problem

<p>Boris Johnson at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (Still Moving Media for Cheltenham Festivals/PA)</p>
Voices

Inside the weird world of Boris Johnson’s book launch

<p>Boris Johnson at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (Still Moving Media for Cheltenham Festivals/PA)</p>
Voices

Inside the weird world of Boris Johnson’s book launch

<p>Would we all calm down and give our government a realistic chance to clear up the mess they have inherited?</p>
Letters

Labour needs more than 100 days to sort out the Tories’ mess

<p>Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been in post for 100 days</p>
Voices

The first 100 days will soon be forgotten – as long as Labour delivers

<p>Melania Trump has been notably absent from her husband’s latest election campaign </p>
Voices

Trump has a problem with women. Does that include Melania?

<p>There is still so much that the government must implement to address the scale of the crises we’re facing </p>
Voices

The Earth is facing a ‘code red’ – we need a Green New Deal

<p>Whatever the contraceptive method, birth control usually feels like a woman’s responsibility</p>
Voices

Contraceptive side effects have put women like me off the pill forever

<p>‘The workplace is becoming an under-40s zone’ </p>
Voices

When did 57 become too old to work (…but too young to retire)?

<p>Nuclear weapons have posed a threat since the 1940s </p>
Voices

Nuclear bombs have done more for world peace than conventional weapons

<p>Labour’s post-election travails have been serious</p>
The Independent View

Labour has been in power for 100 days – things really must get better

<p>‘The workplace is becoming an under-40s zone’ </p>
Voices

When did 57 become too old to work (…but too young to retire)?

<p>Nuclear weapons have posed a threat since the 1940s </p>
Voices

Nuclear bombs have done more for world peace than conventional weapons

<p>Labour’s post-election travails have been serious</p>
The Independent View

Labour has been in power for 100 days – things really must get better

<p>The prime minister saidThe Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign ‘tackles a central issue’ </p>
News

Prime minister Keir Starmer backs Brick by Brick Campaign

News

How a domestic abuse safe house gets built

<p>Rachel Reeves is considering raising capital gains tax to as much as 39 per cent</p>
Voices

The chancellor’s Budget must make the pips squeak – but how?

<p>My view is that whoever wins the Tory leadership, they will head towards the middling sort of voter</p>
Voices

Would Jenrick or Badenoch turn to the centre once elected?

<p>Some 250,000 people in the UK have myalgic encephalitis, better known as chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME </p>
Letters

Have we finally woken up to the torment of chronic fatigue syndrome?

<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is greeted by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer as he arrives in Downing Street on Thursday </p>
Voices

Can Zelensky’s plan for peace actually work?

<p>Mortgage rates are forecasted to rise yet again this October </p>
Voices

Why are we so obsessed with the idea of owning a home in the UK?

<p>This drone image provided by Kairat Kassymbekov shows flooding from Hurricane Milton in Tampa</p>
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How many more hurricanes before we wake up to the climate crisis?

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