The Independent

The Independent's double standards for JK Rowling

15 December 2021 12:45 am

It’s fair to say that JK Rowling’s latest intervention has put the cat amongst the pigeons. The Harry Potter author…

After 50 years, I’m out of the agony-aunt business

9 April 2016 9:00 am

It’s clear that Vladimir Putin has had a facelift, which might explain why Wendi Deng would take an interest in…

Would you like to buy an American’s vote?

26 March 2016 9:00 am

Killing time in a Heathrow first-class lounge, I notice how many men adopt an unmistakable ‘first-class lounge’ persona. They stand…

I rallied to the call of the newly created Independent — and never regretted it

20 February 2016 9:00 am

It had been many years since I had seen anything of Andreas Whittam Smith, but he popped up on the…