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<p>Lucy Letby is appealing against her convictions for the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others</p>
Alan Rusbridger

Why are we banned from reading the New Yorker article on Lucy Letby?

An investigation into the circumstances surrounding Letby’s conviction for murdering seven babies raises important questions about our legal process, writes Alan Rusbridger

<p>Humanitarian aid arrives at the floating pier off the northern coast of Gaza</p>
The Independent View

We must find a path to unite all sides to deliver peace in Gaza

<p>Researchers found elephants locked outside in cold temperatures, bears shut in concrete-walled enclosures, and wild dogs stuck outside without bedding </p>
Chas Newkey-Burden

Why there’s no such thing as a kind zoo

<p>Kevin Spacey has spent the past seven years in a form of professional purgatory following a series of allegations of sexual misconduct</p>
Nick Hilton

Can Kevin Spacey’s celebrity mates help un-cancel him?

<p>Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt insisted Labour’s tax plans would be ‘damaging for every family in the country’ </p>
John Rentoul

Jeremy Hunt just made the case for why you should vote Labour

<p>‘A quick message to the Zionist comedian stalking my family’s page’, Dane Baptiste posted </p>
Voices

The appalling slur that lays bare the dark heart of British comedy

<p>Rishi Sunak has admitted that ‘I’m sure changing our trading relationship with the EU is a big part of the reason why this is happening’ </p>
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Now even Brexiteers are blaming themselves for the state we’re in

<p>The best way to ‘tackle antisocial behaviour’ is to lift people like the ones I grew up with out of poverty</p>
Voices

Keir Starmer is about to repeat one of Blair’s biggest mistakes

<p>Turning the Jaguar home the engine slumped / My foot to the floor could not shift / The hulk of supercharged car</p>
Voices

What it’s like to drive a supercharged supercar

<p>The event produced more evidence that boots on the ground and suits in the boardroom are shifting Starmer’s way </p>
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Project Starmer, like Project Blair, is all about one thing

<p>People collecting bottled water at Freshwater car park in Brixham</p>
Letters

Parasites aren’t just in our water – the industry is full of them

<p>I’m sure the game will do well – it’s almost guaranteed to sell a trillion copies on its first day and break every obscure video game record</p>
Ryan Coogan

There’s one big reason to be worried about Grand Theft Auto 6

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<p>The Independent’s freedom of information request has revealed that 74 vulnerable people have been moved from RAF Wethersfield in Essex by the Home Office for their own safety, and 170 more people have left voluntarily</p>
The Independent View

We are paying too high a price for fantasy policies on asylum

The Independent View

We are paying too high a price for fantasy policies on asylum

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<p>The Independent’s freedom of information request has revealed that 74 vulnerable people have been moved from RAF Wethersfield in Essex by the Home Office for their own safety, and 170 more people have left voluntarily</p>
<p>Keir Starmer at the launch in Essex of Labour’s general election campaign </p>
Voices

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

<p>With the latest proposals for the restrictions on sex education, it seems the Tories want to expunge the very idea of trans people from the minds of our youngsters </p>
Letters

The Tory party are scapegoating trans people

<p>Forty per cent of England’s universities are expected to run budget deficits this year</p>
Voices

The business world can’t afford for our universities to fail

<p>Constant changes of terminology are often seen as confusing and distracting by those from minority and majority backgrounds alike</p>
Voices

Apparently I’m part of the ‘global majority’, now – what nonsense

<p>Constant changes of terminology are often seen as confusing and distracting by those from minority and majority backgrounds alike</p>
Voices

Apparently I’m part of the ‘global majority’, now – what nonsense

The Independent View

Winning over big business is a major milestone for Starmer

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

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

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Bodies of three Israeli hostages including tattoo artist Shani Louk recovered

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Starmer’s ‘six steps’ are not Labour’s final offer – he has more tricks up his sleeve

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Infections in water parasite outbreak ‘set to keep rising for weeks’

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Teachers could get protection against blasphemy claims under new laws

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<p>Teachers know best how to educate children and at what age they can process certain information</p>
Letters

Our children’s education is best left to professionals

<p>The unhappy couple: the now-former Mr and Mrs Jonas, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas</p>
Voices

I know why Sophie Turner didn’t want to be known as ‘Mrs Jonas’

16 May 2024
The Independent View

To really win voters, Starmer must discover a radical edge

<p>The consequential stance Joe Biden took, and continues to take, with Israel will come back to haunt him</p>
Letters

Traditional Democratic voters will abandon Biden at the ballot box

<p>Elbow fans queuing outside Co-op Live for the venue’s delayed opening night </p>
Voices

When branding goes bad: the lessons from the Co-op Live crisis

Voices

Biden’s next climate move could be a huge roll of the electoral dice

<p>The consequential stance Joe Biden took, and continues to take, with Israel will come back to haunt him</p>
Letters

Traditional Democratic voters will abandon Biden at the ballot box

<p>Elbow fans queuing outside Co-op Live for the venue’s delayed opening night </p>
Voices

When branding goes bad: the lessons from the Co-op Live crisis

Voices

Biden’s next climate move could be a huge roll of the electoral dice

<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced the ejection of Al Jazeera from the country </p>
Voices

Israel banning Al Jazeera is right out of the authoritarian playbook

Voices

Israel banning Al Jazeera is right out of the authoritarian playbook

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Eric Lewis
<p>Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced the ejection of Al Jazeera from the country </p>
<p>Banning schools from teaching sex education to children under nine is a ‘grubby vote grab’ </p>
Voices

How will our son learn his same-sex family is normal now?

<p>Positive role models: Joe Lock and Kit Connor in ‘Heartstopper’ </p>
Voices

Why are the Tories so keen to remind voters of Section 28?

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

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

<p>Queen Camilla has promised that she will buy no new fur products</p>
Voices

Camilla giving up real fur? This is what leadership is all about

<p>Queen Camilla has promised that she will buy no new fur products</p>
Voices

Camilla giving up real fur? This is what leadership is all about

<p>Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky meets US secretary of state Antony Blinken in Kyiv on Tuesday </p>
The Independent View

It’s time we gave Ukraine the tools it needs to finish the job

<p>Sunak’s threats come over as if given by a petulant babysitter</p>
Letters

Now the Tory bribes have failed, it’s time to get tough

<p>Why we are letting employers and perpetrators get away with this often illegal behaviour, which is then covered up with silence and a payout? </p>
Voices

How gagging orders have silenced mothers for decades

<p>Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in Lagos during their private tour of Nigeria </p>
Voices

Meghan’s virtue signalling over her children is insensitive (at best)

<p>Lucy Clark’s (L) appointment represents a small but vital step towards normalising diversity in sport </p>
Voices

Football’s first trans boss shows it isn’t just for ‘straight blokes’

<p>Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, receives flowers upon her arrival in Lagos, the Nigerian capital </p>
Voices

Might Harry and Meghan’s original Megxit plan actually have worked?

<p>David Lammy and John Healey are not yet household names, but they looked the part in Kyiv as shadow foreign secretary and shadow defence secretary</p>
Voices

Labour’s U-turn on defence makes them more hardline than the Tories

<p>Piers Morgan has promised to satiate fans’ desires by airing an interview with Fiona Harvey, the 58-year-old Scottish lawyer on whom Martha is allegedly based</p>
Voices

Piers Morgan isn’t the problem with the Baby Reindeer interview

<p>As far as I am concerned the name ‘Piers Morgan’ is a byword for mindless sensationalism, but even for him this is a low point</p>
Voices

Piers Morgan’s Baby Reindeer interview was as bad as you’d expect

<p>Rishi Sunak delivers a keynote address at the Policy Exchange think tank in central London on Monday </p>
The Independent View

You’ve fired the election starting gun, Mr Sunak, let’s get on with it

<p>Today was a sure sign that Rishi Sunak is running out of ideas </p>
Letters

We know now that the Conservatives put the party over patriotism

Letters

We know now that the Conservatives put the party over patriotism

Letters
<p>Today was a sure sign that Rishi Sunak is running out of ideas </p>
<p>In his speech on national security, Rishi Sunak warned the world is now ‘closer to nuclear escalation than at any point since Cuban missile crisis’ </p>
Voices

Rishi Sunak presses the reset on defence… and misses

<p>‘I camped alone in bear country, just outside Gnishik in Vayots Dzor, Armenia’ </p>
Voices

I literally had to choose ‘men or bear’ in the wild – I chose wrong

<p>A charitable foundation was set up after the suicide of Charlie Watkins</p>
Voices

I’ve been close to suicide, and it’s not something to face alone

<p>‘As we wait for the full report, I am reminded not just of my own hurts, but of all the maternity reports that have come before’ </p>
Voices

Seven easy ways to make maternity care safer for women

<p>‘As we wait for the full report, I am reminded not just of my own hurts, but of all the maternity reports that have come before’ </p>
Voices

Seven easy ways to make maternity care safer for women

<p>I wish them luck as they are marched off to fight for a country that has done so much for them</p>
Voices

Dud’s army: How on earth will Gen Z cope with conscription?

<p>Nemo wins the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo </p>
Voices

Forget the protests – it’s Eurovision’s polish that will be its ruin

<p>Dover MP Natalie Elphicke defected from the Tories to Labour</p>
The Independent View

Labour should think carefully before allowing more Tories to join

<p>Foreign secretary and former PM David Cameron said voters should give the Tories more time</p>
Letters

Tories tell us ‘the plan is working’ – but do they really have one?

<p>As the daughter of two first-generation Pakistani immigrant GPs, I am no stranger to racism</p>
Voices

The racism I experience as a doctor puts the NHS to shame

<p>Only 11 per cent of people know Starmer’s father was a toolmaker, while 18 per cent know Sunak’s father was a family doctor</p>
Voices

Polling reveals voters don’t care about politicians’ upbringing

<p>Seven bottles of Richebourg 1993 from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti were sold from Le Gavroche’s wine cellar </p>
Voices

Does any wine deserve to sell for thousands of pounds?

<p>Two women, aged 82 and 85, have been charged over a protest in London which saw them attempt to get access to the Magna Carta </p>
Letters

Destructive protests don’t help anybody

<p>Irish artist Bambie Thug, a favourite to win the competition, missed their dress rehearsal earlier today, and has suggested they may not perform at this evening’s event</p>
Voices

Is this the most chaotic Eurovision Song Contest ever?

<p>Black officers are 81 per cent more likely to be in the misconduct system than their white counterparts</p>
The Independent View

It’s time to take real action against racism in our police force

<p>Starmer and Reeves are credible compared with Sunak and Hunt</p>
Voices

Could Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves get lucky with the economy?

Voices

Could Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves get lucky with the economy?

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<p>Starmer and Reeves are credible compared with Sunak and Hunt</p>
<p>‘Baby Reindeer’ is a real-life drama inspired by Richard Gadd’s experience of being stalked by an older woman</p>
Voices

Would Baby Reindeer have had the same reaction if Martha was a man?

<p>Tony Blair waves to his supporters upon his arrival at Downing Street, after winning the 1997 general election against John Major</p>
Voices

1997 all over again? The state we’re in today is even more precarious

<p>Those who love the former president will love him all the more</p>
Voices

Stormy Daniels has given Trump one thing he always wanted

<p>Would right-winger Elphicke have survived the vetting process to become a Labour parliamentary candidate?</p>
Voices

Has Starmer ditched morality in favour of winning a majority?

<p>Would right-winger Elphicke have survived the vetting process to become a Labour parliamentary candidate?</p>
Voices

Has Starmer ditched morality in favour of winning a majority?

<p>Croatia’s Baby Lasagne: ‘There’s no place for the cringeworthy in Eurovision any more – it’s polished and professional all the way’ </p>
Voices

Eurovision is broken. Here’s how to fix it

<p>Keir Starmer is too cautious and too politically savvy to adopt Rishi Sunak’s foolishly overambitious slogan</p>
The Independent View

Starmer has pledged to ‘stop the chaos’ – but can he ‘stop the boats’?

<p>The Labour Party has become a fit home for politicans like Elphicke</p>
Letters

Elphicke hasn’t changed, it’s the Labour Party that has

<p>Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak claim the economy has ‘turned a corner’ </p>
Voices

The economy is out of recession – but, hold on, there may be a catch…

<p>University chiefs around the world are currently terrified </p>
Voices

Why are free speech defenders not helping campus protesters?

<p>‘I recently sat through a video showing harmful images and videos, like those that Brianna would have watched on social media’</p>
Voices

I lost Brianna to the dark side of the web. Here’s what we must do

<p>At the weight of the previous sky, and the roads / Were washed clean and now dry for a Thursday night, / When bikers meet weekly to be among motorbikes</p>
Voices

What it’s like to belong to a biker ‘gang’

<p>Surely, new MPs must have some loose, tenuous, hint of a link to whatever values and principles you hold as a political party? </p>
Letters

Is there anyone a ‘changed Labour’ wouldn’t accept?

<p>Diane Abbott had the Labour whip suspended in April 2023 after she suggested Jewish people did not face racism, but suffered ‘prejudice’ similar to those with ginger hair</p>
The Independent View

Starmer was right to bring Natalie Elphicke on board, despite the risk

<p>Will the Bank of England offer borrowers some June sunshine? </p>
Business Comment

Bank of England ‘optimistic’ about better news for homeowners

<p>President Biden has said that if Israel’s operation in Rafah went ahead, he would withhold US weapons</p>
Voices

For Biden and Netanyahu, Gaza is a political balancing act

Voices

For Biden and Netanyahu, Gaza is a political balancing act

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Mary Dejevsky
<p>President Biden has said that if Israel’s operation in Rafah went ahead, he would withhold US weapons</p>
<p>‘I can only compare image-based sexual abuse to what it would be like if your house was on fire’ </p>
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Georgia Harrison: How I got OnlyFans to take down revenge porn videos

<p>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office</p>
Voices

Labour’s backlash against Natalie Elphicke will reshape the party

<p>It’s not her first rodeo – for more than a decade, Kardashian has served up controversial looks; many of which appear anatomically impossible</p>
Voices

Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala dress shows she’s a terrible role model

<p>We were relegated to the steps because the Garrick closed its iron gates to women and refused us entry to deliver a letter. We had to ask a man to deliver it for us. Oh, the irony!</p>
Voices

I forced the Garrick Club to admit women – here’s where should be next

<p>We were relegated to the steps because the Garrick closed its iron gates to women and refused us entry to deliver a letter. We had to ask a man to deliver it for us. Oh, the irony!</p>
Voices

I forced the Garrick Club to admit women – here’s where should be next

<p>Natalie Elphicke, the MP for Dover, has crossed the floor to join the Labour Party </p>
Voices

Natalie Elphicke’s defection was handled with brutal efficiency

<p>The time will soon come, if it has not already, where we realise that laws, regulators and codes can only ever do so much</p>
The Independent View

Ofcom – and parents – must do more to protect children online

<p>The brevity of the couple’s lovemaking – and its unsatisfactory nature from her point of view – is a constant feature of the accounts Daniels gives</p>
Voices

Stormy Daniels, Trump and the lurid details that will haunt me forever

<p>It is crucial to identify the cause of the vaccine’s side effects and be completely transparent with public</p>
Letters

AstraZeneca withdrawing its vaccine is more dangerous than we think

<p>AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine</p>
Voices

The truth about AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine

<p>The Tories’ traditional economic card might have worked against Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, but it won’t work against Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves</p>
Voices

The economy is getting better. Is it enough to save the Tories?

<p>Women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has promised new laws will end ‘the rise of so-called ‘gender-neutral’ mixed sex toilet spaces, which deny privacy and dignity to both men and women’ </p>
Voices

I’m non-binary – why does it bother you which toilets I use?

<p>China has been implicated in the hack of an armed forces payroll system operated by a private contractor for the Ministry of Defence </p>
Voices

We know China targeted the MOD – the question is, what to do about it

<p>The Tories’ traditional economic card might have worked against Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, but it won’t work against Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves</p>
Voices

The economy is getting better. Is it enough to save the Tories?

<p>Women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch has promised new laws will end ‘the rise of so-called ‘gender-neutral’ mixed sex toilet spaces, which deny privacy and dignity to both men and women’ </p>
Voices

I’m non-binary – why does it bother you which toilets I use?

<p>China has been implicated in the hack of an armed forces payroll system operated by a private contractor for the Ministry of Defence </p>
Voices

We know China targeted the MOD – the question is, what to do about it

<p>Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza</p>
The Independent View

If Rafah is attacked, Israel will have nothing to show for its war

<p>It’s likely that Sunak’s disunited party will stage a culture war, all while we wait for a general election</p>
Letters

Sunak will spend the next six months treading water

<p>Public toilets are a rare convenience in London these days </p>
Letters

London is an embarrassment thanks to its lack of public loos

<p>Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride’s latest idea, the WorkWell scheme, ‘has gone down like a tuna milkshake’</p>
Voices

So you think there’s no harm tormenting the long-term sick, minister?

<p>‘Israel’s invasion of Rafah will be a humanitarian disaster on a whole new level’ </p>
Voices

I’ve been on the ground in Rafah – what I saw there horrified me

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, in a speech in the City of London, accused the Conservatives of ‘gaslighting’ the public over the state of the economy</p>
Voices

Shrewd, partisan, ruthless… Rachel Reeves has learned from the best

<p>Drivers will be subjected to London’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez) rules if they move off official diversion routes during this weekend’s M25 closure (Lucy North/PA)</p>
Voices

Older people should stop moaning about Ulez – it’s what Gen Z want

<p>Palestinians flee Rafah on Monday fearing an invasion by the IDF</p>
The Independent View

If Israel mounts an assault on Rafah, we’ll see desperate consequences

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