Independent News

Sam Bright dissects the multi-billion-pound affair that saw lucrative public contracts awarded to Conservative donors

As football's record on LGBTIQ rights goes under the spotlight during the World Cup, Sian Norris reports on the Government's trading agreements with anti-LGBTIQ regimes

We can’t seriously address the climate emergency until we admit that some of our hopes have died, writes Rupert Read

John Mitchinson explores how our brains reflect our lives not our genitals John Gray’s Men are from Mars, Women are From Venus was the highest-selling non-fiction title of the 1990s.  With sales of over 15 million copies across 40 languages, it created its own publishing ecosystem: Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps; […]

Barrister Gareth Roberts sets out the options available to Nicola Sturgeon following the UK Supreme Court's decision that she cannot hold a second independence referendum without Westminster's approval

The UK’s rigged energy market will do little to restrain the cost of living crisis or promote renewables, says Thomas Perrett

Rachel Morris looks at the ideological underpinning and likely real-world effects of Jeremy Hunt's Autumn statement and sees Britain heading down a road to nowhere

The Union is not based on consent – European leaders must now make it clear Scotland will be welcomed as the only country to be taken out of the EU against its will, writes Anthony Barnett

New Government data shows how deaths of homeless people – including to Coronavirus – continues to rise. Sian Norris reports

Putin has already lost his war against Ukraine, on the ground, in the air, and on its airwaves. It's just a matter of time before the consequences for him and his repellent regime become apparent

The cost of living crisis, more than a decade of cuts and the pandemic have left local authorities on the brink when it comes to key services

Iain Overton reflects on how Brexit and austerity, as well as Conservative ideology, have weakened Britain on the world stage

As concerns mount about dire living conditions in Britain, Max Colbert reports that there have been five different housing ministers this year alone

A mannequin left by the Russians near Novopetrovsk to deceive Ukrainian troops. Photo: Tom Mutch

Afsana Lachaux warns of the impact of Britain's dependence on the £140bn invested by Gulf states, from the impact on London's housing to a rising political influence

Mark Frary and Nik Williams look at the perilous position of Saudi Arabia’s 25 million Twitter users, who face imprisonment or even execution for speaking out on social media For all that Elon Musk talks about his belief in free speech, he has chosen some “interesting” bedfellows when it comes to his $44 billion acquisition […]

In reaction to the pro-Kremlin tilt in the Government, Georgian opposition parties hope to draw attention to the forgotten slaughter of 30 years ago Venera Meshveliani fled her home in Abkhazia thirty years ago. With it, a wave of ethnic cleansing would see thousands of Georgians tortured, raped and slaughtered by Abkhaz separatists backed by […]

An Uber Eats courier claims he was blocked from the app after failing its ID verification, but he is not the first says the IWGB Union. Sian Norris reports

Martin Shaw unpicks the motives and the structural economic forces behind the Chancellor’s decision to further inflate household energy costs

The overwhelming majority of police forces have seen a deterioration in recent years, reveals Andrew Kersley