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‘Michael Mosley told me how his own health battles drove him on’

Head shot of Maria Lally

From the daily routine Mosley kept with his wife, to fighting insomnia and reversing his type 2 diabetes, Maria Lally, who regularly talked to the presenter, reflects on the man who always lived by the rules that he set for others, changing not only his own health but that of a generation...

<p>Dr Michael Mosley first found fame with his revolutionary 5:2 diet </p>

<p>Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on their rooftop in New York City on 28 November 1980</p>

Interview

Blondie’s Chris Stein on Debbie Harry and a life of love and loss

<p>Oxford and Cambridge have been knocked off their perch</p>

Inside Story

The real reason Oxford University has lost the top spot

<p>Camel crossing: on a 3000-km round trip, our adventurer got a good experience driving in Saudi</p>

First Person

I drove across Saudi Arabia solo – and what I found may surprise you

Voices

<p>Nigel Farage says Reform UK will become the ‘real opposition’ to Labour</p>

Sean O’Grady

Farage is a conman with too many people falling for his silver tongue

<p>A senior party official has since said that the policy – which in its most basic form was an aim to reduce the number of medical interventions in childbirth – has been scrapped</p>

Harriet Toner

The Greens’ stance on childbirth isn’t just tone-deaf – it’s dangerous

<p>Rishi Sunak’s minor mistakes have kept alive the narrative of a particularly gaffe-strewn campaign</p>

John Rentoul

Is Rishi Sunak running the worst election campaign in history?

The Longer Read

<p>A ‘civilised agreement’ has been made between the two friends to avoid overshadowing the couple’s big day, insiders say </p>

Inside Story

Harry’s difficult ‘divorce’ from Hugh Grosvenor’s wedding of the year

As the Duke of Westminster – formerly ‘Britain’s most eligible bachelor’ – gets married, all eyes are on the biggest name missing from the grandest guest list. Polly Dunbar charts Prince Harry’s sorrowful separation from the ‘sustainable Saltburn set’ he was once so happily at the heart of...

<p>As we live longer, we are all going to have to rethink the segments of our life</p>

Health and Wellbeing

Why ‘chrysalis thinking’ is key to successful midlife reinvention

<p>Pupils run across the historic cobbled yard at Eton College </p>

When it comes to parents being snooty about state schools, I’ve won

Politics Explained

<p>Rishi Sunak’s latest pledge will be seen as red meat for Tory voters</p>

Politics Explained

Rishi Sunak’s welfare reforms: what is the prime minister promising?

<p>Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves would inherit extremely tight public spending budgets should Labour win in July </p>

Politics Explained

Which taxes could rise if Labour wins the general election?

<p>Davey’s party are only polling at 9 per cent for voting intention </p>

Politics Explained

Will the Lib Dems getting more MPs than Reform UK spark calls for PR?

<p>Nigel Farage’s ability to grab media attention will probably propel the issue higher up the agenda</p>

Politics Explained

Has Nigel Farage turned this into the ‘immigration election’?

Most Commented

Voter turnout for general election could be worst in modern history

397 comments

Israel rescues four Nova music festival hostages from central Gaza

303 comments

The real losers from a VAT raid on private schools? The children

170 comments

Lib Dem manifesto to pledge under 35s can live, study and work in EU despite Brexit

282 comments

Editorials

<p>The public would take more notice if the parties took several issues out of their ‘too difficult’ box</p>

The Independent View

Labour and the Tories must stop avoiding the difficult issues

<p>Many potential voters feel politically homeless </p>

The Independent View

If this election sees record low turnout, blame our politicians

8 June 2024

The Independent View

D-Day service may be remembered as the moment Sunak lost the election

Culture

<p>Flannery O'Connor in 1952, the year ‘Wise Blood’ was published </p>

Book of a lifetime: Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

<p>Francesca Hayward (Titania) in ‘The Dream’, The Royal Ballet</p>

Ashton Celebrated: a loving tribute to Royal Ballet choreographer

<p>Audrey Hepburn starred with the cantankerous Rex Harrison in the 1964 film </p>

My Fair Lady at 60: Creepy and chauvinistic or cosy and comforting?

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>The sun sets over the sea near Durdle Door in the English county of Dorset</p>

Errors & Omissions

Mea Culpa: lots of things are ‘smaller than Dorset’

<p>The real leader of the opposition will be Angela Rayner</p>

The opposition to a Starmer government will come from within Labour

<p>Rayner, left gave a strong performance in a crowded, disconnected and occasionally disorderly format</p>

Angela Rayner had a very successful debate... against Liz Truss

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

Labour took a risk calling Sunak a liar – but it will pay off

Rishi Sunak’s tax bombshell has blown up in his face

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

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

Chris Blackhurst

<p>Jen-hsun Huang in his trademark black leather jacket </p>

How the new Steve Jobs cashed in on AI – and amassed a $100bn fortune

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

Business Comment

How our water crisis could be fixed – without costly nationalisation

<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?

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>Gareth Southgate watches on at Wembley on Friday night</p>

Southgate’s ruthless England cull is the gamble that will define him

<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

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

<p>Swedish soldiers operate on a Combat Vehicle 90 during training with Finnish hunting units as part of Nato’s Nordic Response exercise</p>

EU voters close to Russia crave one thing above all – security

<p>If the ban casts doubt on Biden’s credentials as a Democrat, he could lose as many votes as he gains</p>

Biden’s ‘border order’ is the new ‘Trump’s wall’, but will it work?

<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?

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