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Highlights

Nine things women wish men understood about how they live their lives

With Saoirse Ronan’s Graham Norton mic drop moment about women’s safety, and a new TV show envisaging how women would live if men weren’t allowed between 7pm and 7am, Anna Hart looks at the things women wish they could do without thinking twice…

<p>A clip of Saoirse Ronan on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ went viral in which she says girls have to think about being attacked ‘all the time’ </p>

<p>The Prince of Wales in Bangalore, India, during his tour to Japan and east Asia </p>

Mihir Bose

Being told to be ‘grateful for empire’ legacy is to accept inferiority

<p>Kemi Badenoch, then Secretary of State for Business and Trade, speaks during TheCityUK conference in April </p>

In Focus

Kemi Badenoch: The battling Boudica who isn’t who you think she is

<p>‘They think it’s all wealthy people who are buying an advantage and wearing boaters at school – we’re not all Etons and Harrows, that’s the minority’ </p>

In Focus

Meet the parents going to court over the VAT on private schools

The Longer Read

<p>A scene from sci-fi film Deep Impact, </p>

Could an asteroid wipe us out – and what are we doing about it?

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid strike on Earth, writes Andrew Griffin

<p>Tim Spector has spent over a decade exploring the human microbiome and what it means to eat well. </p>

Fitness and wellbeing

Tim Spector: ‘Follow this easy 80:20 rule for good gut health’

<p>Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington, on 6 Jan 2021, that some blame for fuelling the attack on the US Capitol</p>

The Longer Read

America’s next civil war has already started – this is how it will end

Voices

Alan Rusbridger

Jeff Bezos needs to choose: be a Trump puppet or a man of courage

Head shot of Alan Rusbridger

When Bezos ordered The Washington Post to endorse neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris for the American presidency, he betrayed a great tradition of his newspaper, says Alan Rusbridger. And losing your bottle when it matters means losing readers, too

Alan Rusbridger

<p>Following Bezos’s decision – according to the paper’s own reporting – at least 250,000 readers promptly cancelled their subscriptions </p>

Health and Wellbeing

Kick-start your winter health transformation

<p>An Ozempic box and injection pen. Influencers have been offered tens of thousands to promote drugs like Ozempic online</p>

Influencers are being offered big bucks to promote weight-loss drugs

Health and Wellbeing

The secrets you need to thrive in winter and beat the seasonal blues

Culture

<p>Hitch-not: Christopher Reeve and Daryl Hannah in 1998’s ‘Rear Window’ </p>

Christopher Reeve’s lost Rear Window remake warrants rediscovery

Inside the turbulent journey to The Cure’s first album in 16 years

The bizarre history of the ‘final gig’, from Oasis to Pink Floyd

<p>Aged 16, Salvador Dalí wrote in his diary: ‘I’m going to be a genius, a great genius, I’m certain of it’ </p>

Salvador Dalí’s genius wasn’t in his art, it was in his branding

John RentoulThe Independent’s chief political commentator

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled Labour’s first Autumn Statement in 14 years</p>

How will the Budget will affect you? John Rentoul answers questions

<p>As he listened to the Budget, Rishi Sunak underwent a Hulk-like transformation</p>

Rishi the Hulk’s last hurrah: angry, energised, personally affronted

<p>Rachel Reeves will deliver the first Budget for Keir Starmer’s Labour government </p>

Labour Budget: Ask our chief political commentator anything

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

<p>Kemi Badenoch is in the running to be the next Tory leader </p>

Your Tory leadership questions answered by our political commentator

<p>Either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch will be the next leader of the Tory party </p>

Tory leadership contest – what comes next? Ask Andrew Grice anything

<p>Rachel Reeves before delivering her ‘Budget for change’ </p>

Labour can’t afford another Budget like this

Chris BlackhurstRenowned business journalist and former editor of The Independent

<p>Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves courted Britain’s top firms </p>

Business Comment

After a love-in with business, is the romance with Labour now over?

<p>Alex Ferguson was axed as an ambassador by Jim Ratcliffe</p>

Business Comment

Why Manchester United were right to bid farewell to Alex Ferguson

<p>Cash on tap? A giant barrel of beer forms part of a demonstration against prohibition in 1920s America</p>

Why taxing our bad habits won’t help Rachel Reeves in the Budget

Sean O'GradyAssociate Editor of the Independent, known for his columns on politics and economics

<p>Tax exemptions have encouraged investment in farmland</p>

Politics Explained

How Reeves’s farm tax could be a political flashpoint

<p>L-R Catherine Mayer, Sandi Toksvig and Sophie Walker, founders of the Women’s Equality Party</p>

Politics Explained

What is behind the rise and fall of the Women’s Equality Party?

<p>US president Joe Biden appeared to refer to Trump supporters as ‘garbage’ </p>

Has Joe Biden’s ‘garbage’ gaffe cost Kamala Harris the US election?

Editorials

The Independent View

Now the reality for ‘working people’ becomes painfully clear

The Independent View

A Halloween Budget that was as much trick as treat

<p>Thus far, the Starmer-Reeves relationship has looked solid</p>

The Independent View

The chancellor’s Budget gamble rests on one ambition – economic growth

Politics Explained

Politics Explained

Why the sun is setting on Jenrick’s bid to rule the Tory empire

<p>Keir Starmer</p>

Politics explained

Soundbites that dogged the politicians who coined them

<p>Rachel Reeves in Washington DC </p>

Politics Explained

Why Rachel Reeves is facing a ‘persnuffle kerfuffle’ over debt rules

<p>Rachel Reeves in Westminster on Wednesday</p>

Politics Explained

What changes to workers’ rights mean for the Budget – and the economy

Alan RusbridgerPulitzer Prize winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of The Guardian

<p>King Charles at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Samoa</p>

The royal family’s finances are a mystery: it’s time to open the books

<p>Parliament will debate assisted dying laws in the UK this week </p>

My father wanted to die – this is why the law should have allowed it

<p>This drone image provided by Kairat Kassymbekov shows flooding from Hurricane Milton in Tampa</p>

How many more hurricanes before we wake up to the climate crisis?

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

<p>Condemning your opponent as fascist is one of the last places to go </p>

Calling Trump a fascist isn’t the knockout blow Kamala thinks it is

<p>Foreign secretary David Lammy will visit Beijing in an attempt to fix the UK’s relations with China </p>

Will David Lammy’s trip to Beijing fix the UK’s China problem?

<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is greeted by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer as he arrives in Downing Street on Thursday </p>

Can Zelensky’s plan for peace actually work?

Jon SopelFormer BBC North America Editor and co-host of the News Agents podcast

<p>The Democratic candidate and current vice-president speaks at a campaign rally in swing-state Georgia </p>

Kamala is in trouble – Trump’s opponents don’t know how to fight him

<p>Melania Trump has been notably absent from her husband’s latest election campaign </p>

Trump has a problem with women. Does that include Melania?

<p>Donald Trump at a campaign rally </p>

Voters may be better off with Kamala – but dream of being like Trump

America

<p>Victory or bust: supporters of Donald Trump don gas masks and Maga hats in their attack on Capitol Hill on 6 January 2021 </p>

Should the US brace for violent protests if Trump loses?

<p>Activists from the Abolitionist Action Committee stand outside of the US Supreme Court building in July </p>

Why a Trump win could lead to record numbers of death row executions

<p>Donald Trump’s attempts to claim victory in the 2020 election culminated in the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol</p>

Who will stop Trump becoming a dictator if he wins or loses this time?

News analysis

<p>Breaking the mould: as the latest to be handed the keys to No 11, Reeves’s personal mission has come to fruition – now the real work begins </p>

Rachel Reeves is our first female chancellor – there’s ‘peril’ in that

<p>Prison and probation services are under-resourced to the point that it’s essentially incapable of doing the job – could AI help? </p>

What would house arrest look like when a robot is the prison guard?

<p>Partygoers flee the Nova festival in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 </p>

Nova festival: ‘Twelve months on, there’s no time for trauma’

<p>An Iranian woman walks past a huge anti-Israeli banner carrying pictures of missiles, in Tehran, Iran</p>

Iran is on course to build a nuclear bomb and for a high-stakes gamble

Simon CalderThe Independent’s travel correspondent – and one of the UK’s most trusted travel journalists

<p>Going places? Northern trains at York railway station</p>

Prosecution for railcard offences? Here’s how to avoid them

<p>Ryanair and easyJet lead the way in terms of the number of passengers flown without a fatal crash</p>

Which airline is the best bet to reassure fearful flyers?

Travel

<p>Board and Lodz-ing: the luxurious Grand Hotel in the central Polish city </p>

Travel questions

This Pole star is a shining example of historic low-key tourism

<p>Hot topic: the Grand Prismatic Spring in Wyoming </p>

How can we make the most of our Yellowstone trip?

<p>Be prepared to use the ‘convertible mark’ in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina</p>

What’s the best way to pay those bills in the Balkans?

Jim WhiteFounding member of The Independent, celebrated football pundit and sports presenter

<p>Leap of faith: the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham cost the city £778m, a level of cost that probably factored into the city’s council declaring of bankruptcy in 2023 </p>

Is the crisis-hit Commonwealth Games about to run its last race?

<p>‘I love you, Daddy’: Adam Peaty hugs his son George after winning silver in the men’s 100 metres breaststroke</p>

Why Paris 2024 is turning into the ‘Dadlympics’

<p>Thomas Tuchel as he is announced as the new England manager at Wembley Stadium</p>

Appointing Thomas Tuchel is a damning indictment of English football

Sport

<p>The England coach during a nets session at Headingley, Leeds, in May </p>

The real Freddie Flintoff and why we should revel in his TV comeback

<p>Argentina have emerged as Rugby Championship challengers for the first time </p>

How Argentina found themselves on the brink of rugby history