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Inside Story

The war against rabies in Ukraine and the race against time to stop it spreading

A disease which has been largely eradicated from Europe, rabies is suddenly raising its head in Ukraine where millions of abandoned pets are now running wild. Ahead of a film exposing the public health crisis, Joe Shute talks to Khrystyna Drahomaretska who caught the disease during her work inoculating feral cats and dogs roaming the streets in the wartorn country

<p>Khrystyna Drahomaretska has been infected with rabies and been hit by a rocket in her pursuit to save stray animals and stop the spread of the disease in Ukraine and further afield </p>

<p>What could be more harmless than the Hay Festival, held each year in the sheep-dappled Welsh countryside?</p>

Alan Rusbridger

Are those intimidating the Hay Festival doing more harm than good?

<p>Born to run: Georgia Gould has been selected as the parliamentary candidate in the <a href="/topic/labour">Labour</a> safe seat of Queen’s Park </p>

Inside Story

Meet Georgia Gould – the ‘red princess’ who could one day lead Labour

<p>Former president Donald Trump has been found guilty of 34 felony charges </p>

Jon Sopel

Is this the moment Trump’s popularity bubble bursts? Don’t bet on it…

Voices

<p>Knights of the long knives: Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey have agreed an unofficial pact</p>

Andrew Grice

Could Keir Starmer and Ed Davey’s bromance give Labour its landslide?

<p>Since the general election was called, nothing has gone right for Rishi Sunak </p>

I was with Liz Truss in No 10… here’s how the blame game will play out

<p>Up to his neck in... the water crisis: Ed Davey in Lake Windermere this week </p>

Inside Business

How our water crisis could be fixed – without costly nationalisation

The Longer Read

<p>Neuralink, Elon Musk’s company, carried out the life-changing surgery</p>

‘Musk put a chip in my brain – now I can use a computer with my mind’

Musk’s first human guinea pig Noland Arbaugh, a 30-year-old quadriplegic, was fitted with a Neuralink brain implant that would allow him to activate devices with his mind. Five months on, he tells Zoe Beaty, he can play chess, text and is learning Japanese, but he still doesn’t know what it is doing to his brain...

<p>Half veggies, a quarter grains and quarter protein is the rule of thumb for gut-loving buddha bowls </p>

Health and wellbeing

The six ingredients you need to eat every day for good gut health

<p>‘The success of the original had far more to do with the self-deprecating humour and range of subjects than the porn mag-in-disguise trope that is constantly trotted out’ </p>

In Focus

‘A new Loaded for midlife men to ogle at women is missing the point’

Politics Explained

<p>Favourable climate: the Green Party’s prospects are looking brighter than ever </p>

Politics Explained

Is the Green Party a serious contender in the forthcoming election?

<p>The latest polling indicates a big jump in support – good news for Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, left, and Keir Starmer </p>

Politics Explained

Does Keir Starmer need a majority in Scotland – and will he get it?

<p>Rishi Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, meets residents at a Royal British Legion care home in Ripon on Wednesday</p>

Politics explained

Why is this election so divided between Britain’s old and young?

<p>Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves visiting the Rolls-Royce aerospace campus in Derby on Tuesday</p>

Politics explained

Can Keir Starmer really be called a socialist?

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Editorials

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A promise not to raise taxes never fools the voting public

<p>The Commons Public Accounts Committee has declared it has ‘little confidence’ in Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda asylum plan</p>

The Independent View

The Rwanda report has turned ‘stop the boats’ into Sunak’s epitaph

Culture

<p>James Hogg (1770 – 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist</p>

Book of a lifetime: Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

<p>Lucian Freud photographed with his children Rose and Ali Boyt</p>

Rose Boyt on father Lucian Freud: ‘Reading my diary was horrifying’

<p>‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ was eventually published 11 years after Toole’s death</p>

Book of a lifetime: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Travel

<p>Isle of wonder: just off the coast of Sicily is an archipelago steeped in myths </p>

A real-life journey through the mythical lands of the ‘Odyssey’

<p>A couple’s tour to Japan was paid for at a much higher exchange rate than experienced in the country on their trip </p>

Can we claim rate rebate after the yen dropped while we were in Japan?

John RentoulThe Independent’s chief political commentator

<p>It was not Diane Abbott who persuaded the Labour leader to back down but Angela Rayner</p>

Rayner’s Abbott comments highlight a key problem for Starmer

<p>Prime minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will go head to head in the first televised leaders’ debate of the general election campaign next week (PA)</p>

Keir Starmer is already the ‘winner’ of next week’s TV election debate

<p> The Conservatives have learnt the hard way that Rayner is a more formidable opponent than they thought</p>

Shame of the Tories who tried to smear Angela Rayner as a tax crook

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

<p>Keir Starmer has already ruled out rejoining the EU – but in office he would ‘lead from the front in transforming the post-Brexit relationship’ </p>

The secret EU agenda Starmer’s keeping quiet to avoid upsetting voters

<p>Keir Starmer at the launch in Essex of Labour’s general election campaign </p>

Starmer’s ‘six steps’ are not a final offer. He has more up his sleeve

<p>This week, the Labour leadership met union bosses to agree to ‘the biggest levelling-up of workers’ rights for a generation’ </p>

Could banning zero-hour contracts be Labour’s downfall?

Chris Blackhurst

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech during a visit to Rolls-Royce in Derby</p>

Will Rachel Reeves’ charm offensive with the City work for Labour?

<p>The business sector faces an exodus of companies if things don’t change </p>

London’s existential crisis is its own doing – boosterism won’t help

<p>It’s a rich man’s world: turns out Abba were right on the money... </p>

Business Comment

Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the US – why?

News analysis

<p>David Cameron meeting Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday</p>

Why the UK should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine

<p>Buyers are reluctant to pay through the nose for houses, and prices have been falling month on month </p>

House prices are falling – but what does it mean for the future?

<p>Rishi Sunak welcomes Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame to Downing Street earlier this month </p>

Is the capital of Rwanda really safer than London?

<p>Demonstrators wave Iran’s flag as they gather in front of the British embassy in Tehran</p>

Could conflict between Israel and Iran trigger a third world war?

Sport

<p>Tyson Fury, left, and Oleksandr Usyk will finally clash in Saudi Arabia months of negotiations </p>

Why Fury and Usyk aren’t just fighting for belts and bragging rights

<p>A sodden Erik ten Hag leaves the pitch after Manchester United’s defeat by Arsenal</p>

Crumbling Old Trafford is perfect theatre for Ten Hag’s broken dreams

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

<p>After the jury’s guilty verdict, Donald Trump declared the whole process had been engineered by the Biden administration to keep him out of the White House</p>

Now it’s Donald Trump vs the US justice system – who will win?

<p>Chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry Brian Langstaff with victims and campaigners outside Central Hall in Westminster, London</p>

Is the NHS behind the slow response to the infected blood scandal?

<p>Slovakian prime minister Fico was shot in an attempted assassination on Wednesday </p>

Could the Robert Fico shooting lead to a wider conflict in Europe?

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