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Joseph Charlton

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Joseph Charlton previously worked as a news reporter and assistant comment editor at the Independent, as well as media adviser to Evgeny Lebedev.

Jim McMahon, Labour’s candidate in Oldham West
UK Politics

Corbyn activists head to Oldham to prevent Ukip by-election defeat

Voices

Sending 'elite' teachers to seaside schools... is actually a good idea

Boris Johnson
Voices

Back to Boris – silent assassin, talented bitcher, next Tory leader

The road to hell: an entry into the ‘Jungle’, the temporary camp outside Calais that is home to thousands of refugees
Europe

Refugee crisis: What life is really like inside the 'Jungle’ in Calais

Jeremy Corbyn is greeted by supporters as he arrives at a Labour party leadership rally
UK Politics

How has Jeremy Corbyn galvanised so many people?

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has sold 40 million copies
Comment

Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee’s new novel is more than just a

A watch-tower is seen behind barbed wire fence at the green-border near the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey
Europe

New iron curtains in Europe: Motivated by fear of Putin, Islamists and

A watch-tower is seen behind barbed wire fence at the green-border near the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey
Europe

New iron curtains in Europe: Motivated by fear of Putin, Islamists and

Adam Thirlwell: an editor with subversive tendencies
Reviews

Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell, book review: Still the next big thing

Evgeny Lebedev and Boris Johnson bedding down
Homeless Veterans

Boris sleeps rough to support Homeless Veterans campaign

Reviews

The Knife review: Cutting-edge duo go out on a high

The duo's Channel 4 satire on modern policing, Babylon
Reviews

Babylon, Channel 4 - review: A dizzying and sometimes incoherent

John Lynch and Gillian Anderson in The Fall
Reviews

The Fall, BBC 2, review: Northern Irish noir still dehumanises women

Reviews

The Fall, BBC 2, review: Northern Irish noir still dehumanises women

John Lynch and Gillian Anderson in The Fall
The trench connection: Graham Iles, William Iles, Pauline Wallace and Emma Sutton, relatives of young soldiers who fought in the First World War, featured in 'Teenage Tommies'
Reviews

Teenage Tommies, BBC2 - TV review: The shocking tale of how Britain's

Bette Midler: the Divine Miss M (BBC2)
Reviews

Bette Midler: the Divine Miss M, BBC2 - TV review: Another promising

John Pasche (1970)
Features

50 years of RCA design: from Bowie album covers to Rolling Stones

Comment

Nigel Farage on HIV: Why the Ukip leader's remarks may actively hinder

Comment

Nigel Farage on HIV: Why the Ukip leader's remarks may actively hinder

Comment

Nigel Farage on HIV: Why the Ukip leader's remarks may actively hinder

Nicolas Anelka appears to make the 'la quenelle' gesture after scoring the first goal for West Brom in the 3-3 draw against West Ham
Comment

Nicolas Anelka gesture: With great footballing prowess comes great

A homeless man dressed up as Santa Klaus looks at his dog in the Champs-Elysees in Paris
Comment

Housing First: Good news for the homeless this Christmas

Olympic champion in gymnastics, Svetlana Khorkina, carries the Olympic torch in front of St.Basil's cathedral just outside the Red Square in Moscow
Comment

Sending homosexual delegates to Sochi doesn't begin to address

Left: Thomas Müller (l) and Mesut Özil (r) celebrate scoring against Turkey to qualify for the Fifa World Cup 2014. Right: A computer graphic of the Campo Bahia facility which will house the German team next summer.
Comment

World Cup 2014: Why Germany's beachside resort may signal a happy

London Mayor Boris Johnson says people should stop 'bashing' the super-rich
Debate

Debate: Boris Johnson is right to say we’re overly eager to bash the

John Major cannot – justifiably, at least – lay the blame for “the collapse in social mobility” at Labour’s door
Comment

John Major's comments on privilege are all very well – but was he

Comment

Remembering Lou Reed

London Mayor Boris Johnson says people should stop 'bashing' the super-rich
Debate

Debate: Boris Johnson is right to say we’re overly eager to bash the

John Major cannot – justifiably, at least – lay the blame for “the collapse in social mobility” at Labour’s door
Comment

John Major's comments on privilege are all very well – but was he

Comment

Remembering Lou Reed

A Fellowe of infinite jest? The Downton Abbey writer says reading Shakespeare in the original requires "a kind of Shakespearian scholarship"
Comment

Julian Fellowes says reading Shakespeare requires an expensive

Comment

Julian Fellowes says reading Shakespeare requires an expensive

A Fellowe of infinite jest? The Downton Abbey writer says reading Shakespeare in the original requires "a kind of Shakespearian scholarship"
North Korean soldiers work on a building project to construct a ski resort at North Korea's Masik Pass. North Korean authorities have been encouraging a broader interest in sports in the country, both at the elite and recreational levels, as a means of en
Asia

North Korea says Switzerland’s refusal to sell it ski-lifts is ‘a

Lon Snowden speaks outside Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport
Europe

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s father arrives in Moscow

Jack Wilshere was pictured smoking last week
Comment

Jack Wilshere debate: The problem with English football isn't

Jack Wilshere was pictured smoking last week
Comment

Jack Wilshere debate: The problem with English football isn't

Jack Wilshere was pictured smoking last week
Comment

Jack Wilshere debate: The problem with English football isn't

John Kerry waits to speak at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali, Indonesia.
UK

US commando raids: John Kerry defends capture of Libyan terror suspect

Europe

Turkey double murder case: Son found guilty, father acquitted

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of the People of Freedom (PDL) party reacts at the Senate, Rome
Europe

Italy Crisis: Berlusconi backs down on confidence vote

Striking teachers out in force in Birmingham's Victoria Square
Education News

Teachers stage one-day strike in defiance of Education Secretary

One in seven men on the London gay scene are HIV positive, while one in 20 twenty suffer from the infection nationally.
Comment

HIV: Winning abroad, losing at home

President Hassan Rouhani at the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York
World Politics

Iran wants nuclear deal in three-to-six months, reveals President

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood protestors shout slogans during a demonstration in front of the group's headquarters in Moqattam district, Cairo.
Africa

Muslim Brotherhood banned as Egyptian court seizes party's funds

Dilma Rousseff and President Obama talking in the Oval Office in April 2012
Americas

Brazil plans national Internet redesign in order to avoid US web

In Hangzhou, just south of Shanghai, the typhoon brought huge tidal waves on the Qiantang river
Asia

Typhoon Usagi hits China: Death toll rises to 33

Scientists are certain that humans are causing climate change, despite an apparent 15 year 'hiatus' in global warming
Science

Climate change 'hiatus': Scientists seek to qualify evidence of

Nigel Farage arrives at the Ukip party conference in London
UK Politics

'Complete and utter nonsense': Nigel Farage rubbishes Hitler Youth

UK Politics

'Complete and utter nonsense': Nigel Farage rubbishes Hitler Youth

Nigel Farage arrives at the Ukip party conference in London
The leader of UKIP Nigel Farage last night said that Ayling’s comments were “slightly odd” and admitted he did “recruit” her but was not involved in her selection as a local candidate.
UK Politics

Nigel Farage: We are experiencing a Romanian crime wave

The leader of UKIP Nigel Farage last night said that Ayling’s comments were “slightly odd” and admitted he did “recruit” her but was not involved in her selection as a local candidate.
Independent Plus

Indyplus updates: Nigel Farage speech at UKIP conference

Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan's chairman and chief executive, apologised for initially dismissing the affair as "a tempest in a teapot"
Business News

JP Morgan fined £570m over ‘London Whale’ trading losses

New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police
News

Syria terror probe: Four arrested in Britain

New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police
News

Syria terror probe: Four arrested in Britain

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo glides towards Earth after a test flight
Home News

Branson prepares for blast-off: 700 tickets for Virgin Galactic

Police officers stand guard outside the headquarters of the Golden Dawn far-right party in Athens
Europe

Greek anti-fascist rapper murdered by ‘neo-Nazi’ Golden Dawn

The US government is set to seize the 36-storey building on Fifth Avenue
Americas

US to seize 'Iran-owned' New York skyscraper

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has asked customers not to bring firearms into the company's coffee shops
Americas

Starbucks tells US customers: Leave guns at home

The cost of the scrapped government initiative is predicted to continue rising significantly, MPs have warned.
Home News

Cost of abandoned NHS IT system to hit £10bn

Many members of the Bullingdon club, pictured, have moved on to high-earning careers in the city
Comment

University blues: Why this Bullingdon snap is just the beginning for

Immanuel Kant: The philosopher inspired such a debate in Russia that a man was shot several times with rubber bullets
Europe

Russian man shot in quarrel over Immanuel Kant’s philosophy

Family seeks answers over Mark Duggan's death as an inquest opens on 16 Septembe
Crime

‘Lies, misinformation, and delay’: Family of Mark Duggan angry as

UN weapons inspector Ake Sellstrom hands his report to UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon
Middle East

Syria crisis: ‘clear and convincing evidence of sarin gas’ says UN

A South Korean guard is on patrol at the customs, immigration and quarantine office as South Korean workers approach Kaesong Park on 16 September.
Asia

Kaesong Park open for business: North and South Korea resume

A psychiatric hospital was destroyed by fire in the Novgorod region town of Luka.
Europe

Thirty-seven die as 19th Century wooden psychiatric hospital in Russia

Europe

Thirty-seven die as 19th Century wooden psychiatric hospital in Russia

A psychiatric hospital was destroyed by fire in the Novgorod region town of Luka.
A parade of the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and a mass rally in Pyongyang in celebration of the 65th anniversary of North Korea
Asia

Fisherman kidnapped by North Korea escapes back to the South after 41

Europe

Flipping the bird: Angela Merkel’s election opponent gives German

Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
Europe

Skip work, have sex: Russians celebrate 'day of conception' as

American born al-Amriki addresses a press conference in Mogadishu in 2011.
Africa

American jihadist rapper and British Islamist militant killed in

American born al-Amriki addresses a press conference in Mogadishu in 2011.
Africa

American jihadist rapper and British Islamist militant killed in

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, who ordered a review of the temporary release scheme in July
Crime

Watchdog warns of inadequate checks for life sentenced prisoners being

Coronation Street star Michael Le Vell awaits a decision from the jury
Crime

Michael Le Vell: Coronation Street actor was 'a drunk, bad husband and

New iPhone products are due to launch at 5pm 10 September
Tech

iPhone news round-up: Four most exciting features of the iPhone 5S

Crime

Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell's accuser denies lying over

Nick Clegg refused to condone Chris Huhne's comments about the UK press
UK Politics

‘British press free to report what they want’: Clegg refuses to

Opposition candidate in Moscow mayoral election, Alexei Navalny
Europe

Moscow mayor election: Alexei Navalny demands new vote after losing to

Boris Johnson, seen here in Melbourne, has submitted a proposal for exceptional non-EU job applicants to be allowed quick access to work in London
Home News

Boris Johnson proposes ‘London Visa’ for job applicants in tech

Police say they are not treating the incident as suspicious
Home News

Toddler survives 100ft plunge from fifth floor flat

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of an attempted burglary at Buckingham Palace
Crime

Two men arrested over Buckingham Palace break-in

A Minotaur V rocket carrying NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) as it launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia
Science

Nasa launches spacecraft LADEE to investigate levitating moon dust

Barack Obama says action in Syria would be 'designed to deter'
News

Barack Obama tells US people: 'Syria is not another Iraq or

Dennis Nilsen lived at 195 Melrose Avenue between 1978 and 1981
Crime

'I don’t think we’ll be going for a viewing': Flat where 'Muswell

Hitler's bodyguard and secretary has died aged 96
Europe

'Hitler was no brute': Führer’s defiant bodyguard and witness to

Hitler's bodyguard and secretary has died aged 96
Europe

'Hitler was no brute': Führer’s defiant bodyguard and witness to

Did Pope Francis call a make a phonecall to a gay man struggling with his faith?
Europe

'Christopher? It's Pope Francis': Did the Pope make a reassuring phone

House prices rose by 0.4 per cent in August
Home News

Almost a third of parents have adult children living at home as house

Hitler's bodyguard and secretary has died aged 96
Europe

'Hitler was no brute': Führer’s defiant bodyguard and witness to

Did Pope Francis call a make a phonecall to a gay man struggling with his faith?
Europe

'Christopher? It's Pope Francis': Did the Pope make a reassuring phone

House prices rose by 0.4 per cent in August
Home News

Almost a third of parents have adult children living at home as house

'Merkel app' in use on smartphone in Berlin
Europe

Angela Merkel launches augmented reality app as part of election

David Camerson says migrant benefits for non-workers need to be reduced
UK Politics

David Cameron: Curb migrants' benefits

Myles Thompson-Edwards
Crime

Jailed rapist collected tights of victims

Home News

Royal Mint issues first ever £20 coin

Alan Hansen
News

Comment: Alan Hansen's many years on Match of the Day have been

Condom advert in Pakistan banned
Middle East

Pakistan's first TV condom ad banned

David Cameron, George Osborne, and Mark Carney arrive at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg
World Politics

'G20 should be ashamed': Oxfam urges summit to fight global tax

Dustin Bockman lies on top of his record-breaking alligator
Americas

What a catch: Mississippi hunters celebrate after record-breaking

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