The United States will do what it always does, and act solely in its own interests. It will ask for everything, including absolute subservience, while offering next to nothing in […]
Sajid Javid has formally launched his campaign to be next Conservative leader The Home Secretary declared as Tories reel from dire European election results Mr Javid insisted the ‘first and […]
The government is currently registering more than three million EU citizens living in the UK, which is by far the biggest change in immigration status for a generation. Unsurprisingly, this is […]
‘In Shiasm,’ the great man, Sayed Hakeem, reminds me, ‘the more knowledge a scholar has, the more humble he must be – otherwise he will become a dictator’ Robert FiskNajaf, southern Iraq @indyvoices The […]
Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Letters The Independent Voices Now that the circumstances have changed, we deserve the right to have our say ( Alamy Live News. ) With […]
The Protestant politicians of the 1970s and the Tory Brexiteers of today have a common denominator: their fear of ‘betrayal’ and their constant assurance that they are speaking for ‘the people of […]
Milestone hit a day and a half after Britain was originally meant to have left EU Guardian staff Sun 31 Mar 2019 Anti-Brexit activists wave EU flags in Parliament […]
Jan 31, 2019 Jean Pisani-Ferry PARIS – After 31 months of the United Kingdom and the European Union arguing over Brexit, the truth is that neither side knows what it […]
Monarch urges Britons not to miss bigger picture at event for Women’s Institute centenary Caroline Davies Thu 24 Jan 2019 The Queen has called for “common ground” and “never losing […]
The media scrum around College Green allows a sanitised version of events to rotate though the Westminster bubble Patrick Cockburn @indyworld The Independent Voices In the Arab Spring of 2011 […]
The ‘Humble Address’ is a Parliamentary mechanism under which MPs can make their desires known directly to the Queen – and they could use it to withdraw Article 50 Philip […]
Our chief political commentator explains the significance of tonight’s votes in the House of Commons John Rentoul @JohnRentoul The Independent Voices Theresa May lost three votes tonight, which are […]
If May survives a confidence vote, she cannot be challenged again for another 12 months. But this rule might persuade some MPs to vote against her now – and they […]
AFP Ministers are to be called in to see the prime minister this evening UK and EU officials have agreed the draft text of a Brexit agreement in […]
Irish passport holders will retain EU travel benefits after Brexit The number of British applications for an Irish passport has boomed following the UK’s vote to leave the European […]
An independent Ireland which deliberately erased its First World War history after its brutal war for freedom has only in recent decades felt able to acknowledge its people’s sacrifice in British uniform by Robert Fisk You’d think that the 100th anniversary of the sinking of a Royal Mail ship – […]
These three regions of Western Europe could look very different within 10 years if the secessionists find new support in the wake of economic crisis and a rising tide of […]
’ By Sibilla Bondolfi, Thomas Stephens This content was published on May 30, 2018 German subtlety: a Brexit float at a carnival parade in Düsseldorf in February (Reuters) The British referendum in […]
Not a soul today is mentioning the terrible war fought between 1980 and 1988, which was fought with our total acquiescence. It’s almost an ‘exclusive’ to mention the conflict at all, […]
Referendums make public opinion easy to manipulate because what voters are being asked to assent to is most often wishful thinking and what they are opposing is a rag-bag of unrelated grievances Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Friday 6 October 2017 Brexit, Krexit and Crexit: Britain leaves the EU, Kurdistan declares independence […]
