92 m. ago ‘This is not the way we do it!’ The View condemns political violence following Charlie Kirk assassination

‘We should be able to voice whatever opinions we have,’ Sunny Hostin said on show the day after the assassination

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4 h. ago Voices: ‘Error of judgement’: Starmer’s backing of Mandelson draws fury from Independent readers

Our community has criticised Starmer’s initial defence of Mandelson, questioning the prime minister’s judgement, and calling for accountability over the Epstein-linked scandal

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6 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson admits he's genuinely frightened to voice views after Charlie Kirk death

Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said he's scared to be a newspaper columnist after right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed in Utah yesterday

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6 h. ago Voices: The fatal flaw that made ‘Air Miles Mandelson’ crash and burn

The combination of money and immorality in Peter Mandelson's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has created a stench for Starmer, writes Sean O’Grady. The question is how long it will hang around

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6 h. ago Vantage Data Centers Announces Opening of Second London Campus with Landmark Public Art Installation

Vantage Data Centers Announces Opening of Second London Campus with Landmark Public Art Installation  Voice of Alexandria

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7 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson says he’s ‘genuinely frightened’ to voice his views after Charlie Kirk’s death

Right-wing activist was killed while speaking at Utah Valley University

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8 h. 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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9 h. ago AD FEATURE: Artists take on climate change in a new project that is uniting communities in Wales

The Good Ancestor Project gives artists and activists from African, Welsh and diaspora backgrounds the chance to raise their voices

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9 h. ago Common UK bird can mimic human voices and is 'clever as chimpanzees'

The Eurasian jay is a member of the crow family and has been described as 'clever as chimpanzees' after a professor discovered the bird's intelligence

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9 h. ago Common garden bird so clever it can solve problems and 'mimic human voices'

A professor has described certain birds as being 'clever as chimpanzees', primarily corvids which are members of the crow family.

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10 h. ago Voices: How Trump’s state visit could determine whether Mandelson survives

Calls for Keir Starmer to fire Peter Mandelson after the Epstein revelations are perfectly understandable, writes Simon Walters. But the US president’s impending state visit presents the prime minister with a diplomatic quandary of epic proportions

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11 h. ago ‘I was lost but football gave me strength’: Afghan women refugees on their fight for recognition

Exiles from the Taliban in England and Australia are using the sport to battle prejudice and give a voice to women and girls in Afghanistan“I felt quite lost,” says the goalkeeper Elaha Safdari. “I didn’t know anyone, but little by little football gave me the strength and power to start again, to start from zero, to build, to keep going and to keep pushing myself forward.”It is four years since a 17-year-old Safdari arrived in England, part of the Afghanistan women’s development team evacuated first to Pakistan then to the UK after the US withdrawal of troops and the concession of power to the Taliban. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Voices: My wife is changing, seemingly without reason – could it be dementia?

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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19 h. ago Gary Lineker takes aim at the BBC as he wins major gong at NTAs and declares 'this demonstrates that it's ok to speak up for those who have no voice'

The football legend, 64, stunned viewers as he scooped the win for Best TV Presenter, ending Ant McPartlin and Dec Donnelly's 23-year winning streak.

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19 h. ago National Television Awards viewers emotional after 'voice of Albert Square' collects EastEnders top prize

The BBC soap won Best Serial Drama for the 14th time

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21 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing win big at National Television Awards after nightmare year of scandals

Strictly Come Dancing was nominated for the Talent Show Award at this evening's NTAs, going up against Britain's Got Talent, The Voice UK, Bake Off and The Great Pottery Throw Down

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27 h. ago Went Up the Hill review – icy ghost story feels a little empty

Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps star as a pair of strangers tethered by a late mutual relative who begins to inhabit their bodies. It’s deadly serious – too seriousWent Up the Hill is one of those stiff, formally austere films that critics feel obliged to describe as “meditative” or “cerebral”. It’s a deeply pensive ghost story with a difference, following Jack (Dacre Montgomery), a man who learns about his mother, Elizabeth – who abandoned him as a child – via unconventional means. She speaks to him through her widowed wife, Jill (Vicky Krieps), after her death by suicide. And vice versa, she can also enter Jack and speak to Jill, creating a strange dynamic with three characters in two bodies.In a more conventional horror production, these “from the grave” conversations might be staged with wild eyes, demonic voices, spinning heads and splattering fluids. But this is a steely, deadly serious work, directed by Samuel Van Grinsven with a hand so steady it could thread a needle in a...

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28 h. ago Voices: Chill out, dudes – Ben and Jerry’s are getting their just desserts

After years of boardroom battles with Unilever, the founders of the world-beating ice-cream brand now want to take back control and re-establish a link with progressive, hippy culture – so why did they sell it for $300m in the first place, asks James Moore

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28 h. ago Voices: Starmer’s Mandelson nightmare gives Badenoch her first good PMQs

Keir Starmer was on the defensive over Peter Mandelson and the Conservative leader drove home her advantage, writes John Rentoul

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29 h. ago Voices: Starmer is risking becoming mired in sleaze as he backs Mandelson over ‘best pal’ Epstein

Amid all the fallout from the Epstein ‘Birthday Book’, could the revelation that the US ambassador helped the late paedophile broker a $1bn deal, when he was Labour’s business secretary, be the point of no return, asks Sean O’Grady

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