11 h. ago Rosie Jones says wine bottle was thrown at her in ableist attack on a train

The 35-year-old said the perpetrators ‘shouted slurs’ and mocked the voices of her and comedian Lee Peart.

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18 h. ago The Twits Netflix release date and cast for film based on Roald Dahl best

The animated musical comedy boasts a star-studded voice cast.

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4 d. ago Joy Crookes: 'If politicians did their jobs, artists wouldn't have to speak out'

Joy Crookes takes us inside her brilliant new album Juniper which takes on all comers and reflects someone truly finding their voice

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4 d. ago Voices: I’m struggling to come to terms with my son’s assault

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

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5 d. ago Keir Starmer drops Angela Rayner 'return' hint only weeks after she quit over tax row

The Prime Minister hailed his former deputy and housing secretary as a ‘great story for social mobility’, adding that she will be a ‘major voice’ in British politics for years to come

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1 week ago Voices: The Huntington’s breakthrough gives me hope, but it comes too late for Dad

In 2021, a few years after her father started showing symptoms, Carly Evans tested positive for the Huntington’s disease gene. She writes about the fatal condition that has affected generations of her family, and the hope this week’s breakthrough brings

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1 week ago Strictly Come dancing professional Nancy Xu voices her disappointment that BBC bosses have left her without a celebrity partner in candid video

The Chinese dancer has confessed that she is upset that the Strictly decision makers have overlooked her hard work and dedication, since she joined the show in 2019.

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3 w. ago Voices: Coming to a big screen near you  Elon Musk is undermining Britain again

Calling for ‘revolutionary government change’ at Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is a reminder that the tech billionaire is not best qualified to lecture anyone on free speech and democracy, says Sean O’Grady

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3 w. ago All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert review – excruciating to read

The Eat Pray Love author’s account of her relationship with her late partner Rayya is solipsistic and self-indulgentThe first chapter of Elizabeth Gilbert’s much anticipated new memoir closes on a four-page love letter to Gilbert from her late partner Rayya, who, dead for five years, comes to her in a “visitation”. In Rayya’s voice, Gilbert calls herself babe, baby, or “sunshine baby” multiple times, emotes in all-caps, and grants herself permission to write the details of Rayya’s terrible, humiliating final year. “Let me just look at you for a minute,” “Rayya” says to Liz. “Look at your little rainbow eyes! Look at your sparkling tears! You’re so beautiful!” The letter is deeply self-indulgent and excruciating to read. “You’re going all the fucking way this time – all the way to the enlightenment.”I believe that the dead are gone and that artists don’t need their permission to evoke them. But I was stunned that this solipsistic mess opens the book, because Gilbe...

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