60 m. ago Drinking hydrogen water helped me sleep better, but is a £299 bottle worth the investment?

Could this water bottle improve my health and slow the process of ageing?

Economics

70 m. ago GMB's Susanna Reid clashes with Labour minister in tense exchange over 'petrified' people

GMB's Susanna Reid confronted Treasury minister Emma Reynolds about people being 'petrified' of benefits cuts amid a growing Labour rebellion over welfare reforms

Politics

79 m. ago Dr Dennis Gross's Alpha Beta Glow Pads: why you must try this genius facial tanner

If you buy one beauty item this week make it these

Politics

2 h. ago ‘My honest review of Bella Hadid’s Orebella perfumes as they launch in the UK – are they worth £67?

Bella Hadid’s Orebella perfumes are finally available for UK shoppers, and I was one of the first to try them – but do they match up to the hype, and are they worth spending £67 on?

Economics

3 h. ago Overcompensating on Prime Video review: Benito Skinner's college comedy is an absolute hoot

Overcompensating on Amazon Prime mines Skinner’s closeted college experience for humour... and what it digs up is utter gold

Politics

3 h. ago I Love You, Byeee by Adam Buxton review – a book that is by turns stupid, zany, and surprisingly charming

I was all set to hate Buxton’s brand of self-deprecating chumminess, but his memoir somehow wins you overOne day Adam Buxton ordered two teas with oat milk from the trolley on the train. Unfortunately his came with cow’s milk and, because his need for vegan alternatives is apparently greater than his wife Sarah’s, he asked her to swap. Before Sarah had the chance to reply, the woman serving their drinks intervened, observing sensibly: “She might not want that one.” Buxton retorted with exaggerated gruffness: “She’s my wife, so she’ll have what she’s given!”The comedian, radio and TV presenter recalls what happened next. Passengers shook their heads and looked at Sarah with pity and concern. Sarah sank mortified into her seat. The incident, Buxton writes, made him look “even more like the kind of controlling monster I had just parodied. But maybe,” he reflects, “a husband who makes a joke that lands so badly and embarrasses his wife as I just had is a kind of mons...

Politics

6 h. ago Overcompensating review – an exquisite frat bro orgy of shirt

This college comedy follows a heart throb desperately trying to be ‘totally not gay’. But beneath the razor sharp jokes is a schmaltzy show that tugs at the heartstringsIn the pandemic, Benito Skinner became internet famous for his camply unhinged impressions of celebrities, reality stars and LA types: his roster includes a devil-worshipping Kris Jenner, Billie Eilish at the beach and a twitching, gurgling Timothée Chalamet. By then, the comedian had been uploading videos for years. A clip from 2019 titled Live Footage of Me in the Closet sees Skinner comb his fringe forward, don an Abercrombie tee and travel back to the late 00s to resurrect his teenage self, a boy denying his love for Gossip Girl while repeatedly insisting he’s “not gay” until the screen erupts into a manic collage of Lady Gaga dance routines, Google results for “daniel radcliffe equus naked” and the iTunes page for Glee: The Music, Volume 1.Six years on, Skinner is reprising the role. Overcompensating, an eight-p...

Politics

6 h. ago ‘This depuffing facial tool is a must for hot weather and hay fever sufferers’

If you struggle with a puffy face and eyes, especially during hot weather or hay fever season, when travelling or after late nights, this new facial gadget might help

Politics

10 h. ago Bruce Springsteen is pissed off as he makes explosive statements in historic Manchester gig

Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Manchester's Co-op Live in their 2025 tour

Sport

11 h. ago The Bombing of Pan Am 103 on BBC One review: a powerful warning from the past

The story of the police investigation into the Lockerbie bombings is compelling, if distressing, viewing

Events

11 h. ago Children waiting two years for critical gender care as numbers trapped on waiting lists soar

Waiting lists for children’s gender services have risen by 12 per cent, figures show

Politics

11 h. ago Social care needs minimum of £3.4bn to avoid decline, think tank warns

The Health Foundation called on the Government to ‘signal its commitment’ ahead of the upcoming spending review.

Events

11 h. ago Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection

Cannes film festivalDrawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evilAn icy chill of fear and justified paranoia radiates from this starkly austere and gripping movie from Sergei Loznitsa, set in Stalin’s Russia of the late 30s and based on a story by the dissident author and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was held in the gulag for 14 years during the second world war and harassed by the state until his death in the late 1980s. The resulting movie, with its slow, extended scenes from single camera positions, mimics the zombie existence of the Soviet state and allows a terrible anxiety to accumulate: it is about a malign bureaucracy which protects and replicates itself by infecting those who challenge it with a bacillus of guilt. There is something of Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead and also – with the appearance of two strangely grinning, singing men in a railway carriage – Kafka’s The...

Events

12 h. ago ‘Deeply creepy’: Enormous brooding banner of Trump now hangs next to Lincoln outside Department of Agriculture

Twitter users are scoffing at banner, saying it has a ‘North Korean aesthetic’ and gives off ‘Saddam Hussein vibes’

Politics

13 h. ago I tried out United Airlines’ new Dreamliner seats. These are the biggest changes

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says the new ‘Elevated’ interiors put United on the cusp of being ‘the best airline ever’. The Independent’s US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill was on hand to test out the new seat specs for each class — from business to economy

Politics

14 h. ago Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning review: did someone not get the party time memo?

Despite Tom Cruise stripping down to his swimming trunks, this is missing Vanessa Kirby and a stunt as breathtaking as the previous instalment

Events

14 h. ago Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a massive Tom Cruise ego trip, and I absolutely adored it

This (potentially final) entry in the long-running franchise is inherently absurd, but who cares?

Events

14 h. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We discover if darkness prevails with 'MCU' anti

Cleverly uses human emotions and psychological issues to grand effect while setting up a terrific, turbulent team.

Politics

15 h. ago Taxi driver in France charged with stealing from David Lammy and his wife

Driver allegedly stole luggage and cash from foreign secretary and Nicola Green after ride from Italy to French ski resort A taxi driver has been charged by French police with stealing luggage and cash from the UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, and his wife, Nicola Green. The driver took the couple more than 600km (370 miles) from the town of Forli in Italy to the French ski resort of Flaine, Haute-Savoie, last month. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said Lammy and his spouse were victims in the case and that the driver has been charged with theft after driving off with their luggage. It also denied that the Labour MP for Tottenham had refused to pay the driver. Whitehall sources said no sensitive material was in the pair’s holiday luggage. Prosecutors opened an investigation into a “commercial dispute” in Bonneville after the driver filed a complaint. The Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau, told the BBC the taxi driver was being charged with theft. He sai...

Events

15 h. ago Wisconsin judge argues prosecutors can't charge her with helping a man evade immigration agents

A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man who is in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration agents who were trying to detain him at her courthouse have filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that there’s no legal basis for it

Events