7 h. ago Watch poet and musician Joshua Idehen’s brilliant Music Box performance

British-born Nigerian poet and musician Joshua Idehen is the latest star of The Independent’s Music Box series.

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8 d. ago HMRC urges Brits born on these exact years to make '£2,200' check

Even if your parents did not open an account for you, thousands of Brits have money waiting for them in a tax-free savings account following a now-closed government scheme

Economics

8 d. ago Belgium prince loses bid for benefits after whining his £333,000 royal allowance wasn't enough for him and his British

Prince Laurent of Belgium, 61, the younger brother of King Philippe and a third cousin once removed of King Charles, received €388,000 (£333,000) last year from state funds, reported The Guardian.

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9 d. ago Brazil judge claimed English ancestry and used false name: Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield

Elaborate deception was only recently discovered when judge visited government office to renew his ID cardPolice in the Brazilian state of São Paulo have uncovered that a judge spent 23 years working under a false identity – and a distinctly British one.Born José Eduardo Franco dos Reis – a name fairly typical in a country once colonised by Portugal – he entered law school and served for over two decades as a judge using the false name Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Weird Christian relics: From the 'Holy Foreskin' to the 'head of John the Baptist' and the hand of a butcher's wife

Most biblical scholars also agree that John the Baptist really did baptise Jesus, as recorded in the New Testament. What is less verifiable is the claim that the head of John now lies in a French cathedral.

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1 week ago Artist behind 'worst Donald Trump portrait ever' says her life has taken a bad turn

Donald Trump's whining has had a real effect on the career of British-born Sarah Boardman , who says that her reputation has been damaged by the US President's criticism

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1 week ago Artist of ‘truly the worst’ Trump portrait says her career is threatened

British-born painter Sarah A Boardman disputes US president’s claim that she ‘purposefully distorted’ his imageThe British artist called “truly the worst” by the US president, Donald Trump, after he derided a portrait she created of him, has said the criticism called her “integrity into question” and is threatening her career.The British-born artist Sarah A Boardman painted Trump’s official portrait for the Colorado state capitol building in Denver, where it hung for six years from 2019. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Italian prosecutors probe 'sacrilegious' sales of bone fragments and hair 'belonging to Brit

Italian prosecutors are investigating an illegal marketplace for relics of Carlo Acutis, the late British-born 15-year-old set to become the first millennial saint this month

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1 week ago Exact date households can apply for new £200 cost of living payments confirmed

The Household Support Fund sets aside a pot of cash for local councils, who then distribute the funding to residents on low incomes, or who are vulnerable, or in need of financial support

Economics

1 week ago HMRC urges Brits to claim £1,300 household boost 'as soon as they can'

Amid the wrath of 'Awful April', households across the nation are being warned they could be missing out a cash benefit worth more than £1,300 - even if they're high earners

Economics

1 week ago Parents who earn under £200,000 urged to apply for £4,000 HMRC benefit

The money is designed to help with essential costs that are set to go up at Easter

Economics

2 w. ago What happened to Val Kilmer and ex wife Joanne Whalley after meeting on set

Hollywood icon and Top Gun actor Val Kilmer was previously married to British-born actress Joanne Whalley, with the couple sharing two children together - Mercedes and Jack

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent judges left in awe as contestant born with no arms astonishes them with brilliant drumming skills

Britain's Got Talent judges will be left gobsmacked during Saturday evening's episode after a contestant, born with no arms, stuns them with his incredible drumming skills. 

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2 w. ago Pensioners face 'odd' letter from HMRC amid calls for urgent action to be taken

The latest figures for wages show an increase of around five per cent which means people of state pension age, born before 1959, could be dragged into paying income tax due

Politics

3 w. ago Colorado bows to Trump's demand for 'unflattering' portrait to be removed

An unflattering portrait of Donald Trump made by a British-born artist has been removed from the Colorado State Capitol after the president criticized the painting.

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4 w. ago Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – love and betrayal from the Nobel laureate

This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial TanzaniaA storyteller of understated brilliance, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel prize in literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Born in Zanzibar, Gurnah, now 76, moved to Britain in 1968 as a refugee of the Zanzibar revolution. His books often feature people who leave what they know and arrive “in strange places, carrying little bits of jumbled luggage and suppressing secret and garbled ambitions”, to use the words of a character from his 2001 novel By the Sea. Theft, Gurnah’s first book since his Nobel win, is in part a continued inquiry into familiar themes of exile and memory, home, longing and loneliness. It is also a poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal, set against Tanzania’s tourism boom during the 1990s.The novel follows Karim,...

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