51 h. ago Voices: Is the NHS in crisis? Join The Independent Debate as public satisfaction hits record low

A ‘startling collapse’ in public satisfaction with the NHS has left many questioning what needs to change. Have your say below...

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4 d. ago The financial markets no longer believe in Donald Trump’s ‘stable genius’

Editorial: The president’s obsession with tariffs risks a repeat of the mistakes of the 1930s – and on ‘Liberation Day’, the world may pay a heavy price

Politics

7 d. ago What is ‘abundance’ liberalism, and why are people arguing about it?

A new book has sparked debate with its provocative claim that progressive public policy in the US is brokenIs progressive public policy in America broken? Do many left-leaning laws actually make life more expensive for struggling people? Is regulatory red tape hindering growth and innovation? Have Democratic-run cities, such as New York and San Francisco, become giant billboards against liberal governance?These arguments wouldn’t sound out of place in a policy paper from a conservative thinktank. Yet their newest champions are two of America’s best-known left-leaning journalists, the New York Times’ Ezra Klein and the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson – and they believe the left is overdue for a reckoning of sorts. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago People are furiously debating what ideal toast colour actually is

A group of footballers have sparked a debate after revealing their preferred shade of toast – with plenty of members of the British public wading in on the debate too

Economics

1 week ago Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy? | Polly Toynbee

Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties As the chancellor ekes out every last billion this week, it’s worth stepping back and remembering one key reason why Britain fares worse than its neighbours: Brexit. On Monday, MPs debated whether to rejoin the EU following the success of a public petition that gained 134,000 signatures. Don’t hold your breath. The government replied by quoting its not-until-hell-freezes-over manifesto pledge: “there will be no return to EU membership”. But the global Trumpquake has shaken all certainties, upended all that seemed solid. The European defence emergency has made talk of Brexit and its future less taboo on both sides of the Channel. Close observers note the ice breaking. “Things are moving in the right direction,” says Charles Grant of the Centre for European Reform (CER).Nonetheless, Labour is so paralysed by Brexit that despite its hunt for growth, it has said noth...

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1 week ago This book brings the grim horrors of London’s rental market to life

As Irish writer and journalist Róisín Lanigan publishes her debut novel about a young couple who move into a property too good to be true, Katie Rosseinsky looks into the recent rise of fiction unravelling the nightmarish realities of London’s housing market

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3 w. ago Trump claims Ireland suffers housing crisis because ‘they’re doing so well’

Donald Trump claimed Ireland's housing crisis has arisen because the country is “doing so well” in a meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the White House on Wednesday, 12 March.

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3 w. ago I was in a row over a bus gate online...days later a police officer showed up at my house. Why aren't they using resources to fight real crime?

A road scheme campaigner has accused police of allowing public debate to be 'weaponised' after an officer was sent to his home to grill him about an online spat with a rival activist.

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