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Katherine Butler

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Katherine Butler is a journalist and former comment editor at The Independent.

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Snickers for breakfast, frozen pizza for dinner: French cuisine is a

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Farage and Le Pen: the sanitised faces of extreme populism

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Sweden tops the best places to live if you’re old – but the UK

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Bridget Jones is single again, thank God. We need you more than ever

Marks & Spencer's new advertising campaign
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Why do we treat Marks and Spencer like a national institution? It's

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (C) attends a session of the Assembly of Experts in Tehran on September 3, 2013.
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Rouhani: The new friendly face of Iran - or is he?

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Angela Merkel and the myth of charismatic leadership

Dame Agatha Christie, at work on a typewriter in March 1946 in her home, Greenway House, in Devonshire.
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It doesn’t take Poirot’s little grey cells to figure out this is

Features

At that hour: dealing with death

Comment

Syria: Hail the Power of this humanitarian doctrine

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John Kerry's Middle East 'talks': Peace is not made through pantomime

Protestors hold pictures of Savita Halappanavar, who was allegedly refused a pregnancy termination after doctors told her it was a Catholic country, in Dublin, Ireland, on November 14, 2012.
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Abortion and Ireland: The cowardice that let Savita Halappanavar die

Protestors hold pictures of Savita Halappanavar, who was allegedly refused a pregnancy termination after doctors told her it was a Catholic country, in Dublin, Ireland, on November 14, 2012.
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Abortion and Ireland: The cowardice that let Savita Halappanavar die

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Abortion and Ireland: The cowardice that let Savita Halappanavar die

Protestors hold pictures of Savita Halappanavar, who was allegedly refused a pregnancy termination after doctors told her it was a Catholic country, in Dublin, Ireland, on November 14, 2012.
Comment

Restaurant ‘concepts’ are so much sound and fury - why can't we

Ed Miliband takes the applause of the conference crowd with his wife Justine
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Notebook: Justine Miliband's style revolution was a triumph for Labour

Borobudur rises above the jungle
Asia

The search for perfect balance in an Indonesian idyll

Rizki, right, and Melli, Jakarta sex-workers
Asia

Safe sex? Indonesia's conservatives would rather 'sinners' and

Rizki, right, and Melli, Jakarta sex-workers
Asia

Safe sex? Indonesia's conservatives would rather 'sinners' and

Commentators

Katherine Butler: Confessions of a royal tea-party republican

Commentators

Katherine Butler: See this film and then say that bombing Iran is ok

Commentators

Katherine Butler: We'll always need the Marie Colvins

Uggie the wonder dog from the French movie 'The Artist'
Commentators

Katherine Butler: Women! Do everything and then learn how to shoot

Commentators

Katherine Butler: The power of making, baking and growing

Commentators

Katherine Butler: Dangerous power game the West should refuse to play

World Politics

The Year in Review: Protest

Europe

Spy-swap scientist pays a price for his freedom

Commentators

Katherine Butler: Dangerous power game the West should refuse to play

World Politics

The Year in Review: Protest

Europe

Spy-swap scientist pays a price for his freedom

Africa

Minister accuses rival of links to terrorism

Africa

Minister accuses rival of links to terrorism

Middle East

Tehran bazaar shuts its doors in anger at Ahmadinejad tax hike

Middle East

Iran seeks friends to fight sanctions

Middle East

Iran's leaders hit out at nuclear 'bullies'

Middle East

Iran fights back against UN sanctions

Middle East

Iran fights back against UN sanctions

World Politics

UN inquiry into elections would face powerful foes

Middle East

Iran touts nuclear gains and quashes protests

Middle East

Iran steps up nuclear game as Revolution Day looms

Middle East

For sale: Gaza zoo where the zebras were not all they seemed

World Politics

The new Afghan plan: buy off Taliban

Middle East

British directors lead boycott of Iran's cultural showpiece

Americas

A battle to save the living

Middle East

Fears of violence escalating as bomb kills Iranian scientist

Middle East

Independent Appeal: Rappers who speak their minds in the name of peace

Middle East

Opposition supporters suffered torture and rape after Iranian

Middle East

Attempts to free sailors run aground

Middle East

Attempts to free sailors run aground

Middle East

Fears for Iranian Nobel peace laureate in regime crackdown

Americas

Honduran crisis 'threatens democracy'

Middle East

Iran's reformists use key anniversary to defy regime

Asia

UN chief defends dismissal of official

Asia

UN chief defends dismissal of official

World Politics

Iran ducks out of nuclear confrontation with West

World Politics

World savours the success of buffet diplomacy

World Politics

The Big Question: What is at stake in the Geneva talks for Iran

Middle East

Iran defies Western pressure with missile test-firing

World Politics

Blix warns that tough tactics could benefit Iran'shardliners

Asia

Stop passing the buck on terror, Pakistan tells UK

Americas

US has 'scrapped plan for missile shield in eastern Europe'

Middle East

Iraqis can contain surge in terrorism, says Petraeus

Middle East

Hardliners seek to put opposition in the dock

Middle East

TV blackout and boycott mar Ahmadinejad's swearing-in

Middle East

As Ahmadinejad is anointed, his victims pay the price of dissent

Middle East

As Ahmadinejad is anointed, his victims pay the price of dissent

Middle East

Mourners met with force as they flock to Neda's grave

Africa

Public flogging holds no fear for woman who dared wear trousers

Middle East

Showdown as Mousavi breaks cover

Middle East

Shots fired to clear streets as Iranians defy ban on protests

Middle East

Shots fired to clear streets as Iranians defy ban on protests

Middle East

British embassy staff to stand trial over protests

Features

Iran's hybrids unveiled

Middle East

Attack of the clerics threatens Ahmadinejad's election hopes

Africa

New Darfur crisis looms as Bashir digs in on aid

Middle East

A love letter for Roxana from her film director partner

Middle East

Khatami pulls out of election in Iran

Middle East

Iranian students held over protest at war-graves move

Middle East

Tourists targeted in Cairo market bombing

Middle East

On the streets of Tehran, even the hardliners are weary of

Middle East

Explainer: Israel's attack on Gaza

Africa

Thabo Mbeki tells Mugabe to form unity government

Africa

Darfur's return to hell

Africa

Rich African states 'squander their wealth' as children die

Africa

Dear Sissy: West Africa's newest agony aunt takes on sexual traumas

World Politics

The Year in Review: World politics

Obituaries

Carlo Felice Cillario: Opera conductor

Africa

Dear Sissy: West Africa's newest agony aunt takes on sexual traumas

World Politics

The Year in Review: World politics

Obituaries

Carlo Felice Cillario: Opera conductor

Europe

Poland threatens to block EU treaty in demand for more power

Health News

Coroner blames out-of-hours care for death of misdiagnosed woman

Europe

Explore Provence on a self-guided cycling tour

Asia

Two die in cartoons protest as Pakistani violence worsens

Profiles

Prince Turki al Faisal: 'We want to give British people better

Americas

US envoy says Clarke terror claims are false

Europe

Starbucks takes on café society in Paris

Europe

Man accused of killing Anna Lindh confesses

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