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Kate at 50: Why she’s finding ageing harder than the ‘Mossy Posse’

As the coolest ‘It-girl’ of her generation reaches a milestone birthday, she happily admits she’s in denial about it but, says Peta Hicks, her friends think she may be struggling more than she lets on...

<p>The model faces up to celebrating her 50th birthday after being in the business for more than 30 years </p>

<p>People pray over the flag-draped coffins of victims of the bomb that exploded during a funeral service in the city of Kerman, Iran </p>

A bloody attack by Islamic State provides a chilling warning to us all

<p>Harrison Marshall has lived for almost 12 months in his skip house in southeast London </p>

I’ve lived in a skip for a year and it has taught me a lot about life

<p>JFK was inaugurated at 43, while New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern was in her thirties</p>

Is a man the same age as Taylor Swift too young to lead a country?

Voices

<p>A report involving an XL bully dog featured a ‘lovely malapropism’</p>

Errors & Omissions

Mea Culpa: tell me why the caged dog is free

<p>Gillian Anderson’s dress was embroidered with pictures of vulvas </p>

Why Gillian Anderson’s ‘vagina’ dress was problematic

<p>People’s attention spans have decreased dramatically in recent years </p>

ALAN RUSBRIDGER

Can’t finish this sentence? Pay attention! (Democracy depends on it)

The Longer Read

<p>The first 15 years of Dr Waheed Arian’s life were spent in a perpetual state of war </p>

‘Refugees need compassion - my life was changed by it’

<p>Not so stellar: the fashion designer’s label is among those suffering </p>

Are the middle classes killing off luxury fashion?

<p>Those involved lived a lavish life off of the back of drug money but the police were watching </p>

Inside the phone hack that exposed Britain’s leading criminal gangs

Politics Explained

<p>To borrow one of the prime minister’s current catchphrases, the party is back at square one – and the Sunak bounce has now disappeared</p>

Politics Explained

Does the latest dire opinion poll mean it’s all over for the Tories?

<p>Given Keir Starmer’s inherent habitual caution, the pamphlet contains some striking hostages to fortune</p>

Politics Explained

What does Labour’s new ‘campaign guide’ tell us about its policies?

<p>Rows about Brexit trade rules and funding from Westminster have effectively paralysed Stormont </p>

Politics Explained

Can Westminster finally recall the Northern Ireland Assembly?

<p>Mark Francois, implausibly the leader of one of the larger ideological groupings in the Conservative Party </p>

Politics Explained

A field guide to the varied species of Tory MP

Most Commented

Rishi Sunak pleads with House of Lords to back Rwanda deportation bill - live

282 comments

Tory MP did not vote against Rwanda bill because Labour MPs ‘giggled’ at him

120 comments

Tory revolt fizzles out as Sunak wins crunch vote on flagship deportation plan – live

306 comments

Kyiv targets St Petersburg oil facility in rare attack on Putin’s home city – live

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Editorials

The Independent View

The Rwanda plan remains doomed to fail

<p>We also know what Mr Trump intends to do. He plans to take revenge</p>

The Independent View

Reckless, impetuous, childish, graceless? Welcome to Trump 2024

<p>A Typhoon plane bound for Yemen takes off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus</p>

The Independent View

Even ‘minor’ military raids in the Middle East spin out of control

Culture

<p>The cast of ‘Cowbois'</p>

Cowbois is a sexy swagger through the queer side of cowboy culture

<p>Francesca Hayward in ‘Manon’ </p>

Francesca Hayward is a head-turning heroine in Royal Ballet’s Manon

<p>It’s been a great year for reading... here are our tops picks of 2023 </p>

The 25 best books of the year, from Zadie Smith to Paul Murray

Travel

<p>The standout destination in the Middle East is Oman – where rainfall in the autumn months is at a minimum</p>

Where can I catch the sun on a break in September?

<p>The Arctic is the most inspiring of landscapes</p>

How my love of the Arctic’s frozen beauty became a novel obsession

John RentoulThe Independent’s chief political commentator

<p>‘The prime minister summoned journalists to Downing Street this morning to try, yet again, to turn things round for a Tory party miles behind in the opinion polls,’ writes John Rentoul </p>

Robert Harris is right – Sunak’s popularity has entered ‘death valley’

<p>Rishi Sunak’s policy survived a rebellion after would-be rebels announced they would not vote down an unchanged Bill</p>

Rishi Sunak has won the Rwanda vote but lost his credibility

<p>Prime minister Rishi Sunak holds a cabinet meeting during another disaster week for his party </p>

The Tory civil war is about so much more than stopping small boats

Andrew GricePolitical columnist who keeps his ear to the ground inside Westminster

<p>The space between us: Rishi Sunak with his now ex-deputy co-chairman Lee Anderson, who resigned the post in rebellion against the Rwanda bill</p>

It’s crunch time for Rwanda – but mainly for Rishi’s leadership

<p>Ed Davey was minister for postal affairs between 2010 and early 2012</p>

Is this the worst week yet for the Lib Dems?

<p>For Labour, a Trump victory is a nightmare it desperately hopes to avoid</p>

Why Trump’s return to the White House could be a headache for Sunak

Chris Blackhurst

<p>Birmingham’s HS2 station is still going ahead, with the construction site at Curzon Street</p>

Business Comment

A TV drama forced Sunak to act over the Post Office. Can HS2 be next?

<p>KPMG is one of the so-called ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms that between them earned 98 per cent of audit fees from FTSE 350 companies last year </p>

Business Comment

We need a regulator with teeth to control ‘Big Four’ accountancy firms

<p>As with our foreign policy, the commercial interests of the UK are being quietly subsumed into the US </p>

Business Comment

Companies are deserting the UK – where’s the vision to stem the flow?

News analysis

<p>Iranian missiles – seen here during a training drill – have hit Pakistan, Iraq and Syria in recent days</p>

Iran is striking nations around it – but it will be wary of wider war

<p>People take part in a protest on the streets of the Yemeni Red Sea city of Hodeidah</p>

The Houthis are used to being hit by missiles – they won’t go quietly

<p>Mortgage rates down but shared ownership is still the only way for some </p>

Business Comment

Beware the pitfalls of shared home ownership

<p>Leader of Freedom party (PVV) Geert Wilders (C) gestures next to Dutch MP Fleur Agema (L) one day after the House of Representatives elections, The Hague, Netherlands, 23 November 2023.</p>

Does the rest of the 2020s belong to the far right?

Sport

<p>JPR Williams after playing his last international game, salutes fans from the stands of Cardiff Arms Park, 1979. The final score was Wales 27 England 3</p>

Why rugby wizard JPR Williams was the last of the great amateurs

<p>Wayne Rooney has been sacked as Birmingham City manager after just 15 games </p>

Wayne Rooney may never recover from his latest very public humiliation

Mary DejevskyExpert on foreign affairs, Russian politics and diplomatic relations between the Kremlin and the west

<p>After missile attacks on Houthi positions in Yemen, is it time for the Middle East to prepare for the worst? </p>

Are we witnessing the opening salvos of World War 3?

<p>Opposition presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih visiting a market during a campaign visit in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on Wednesday</p>

We should pay attention to the Taiwan elections (the Russians are)

<p>Israel has not so far, and may never, admit responsibility for the killing of Saleh al-Arouri</p>

The killing of a Hamas chief risks wider war in the Middle East

America

<p>Joe Biden speaks in Belfast on 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement</p>

Biden says Brexit deal can bring ‘significant’ US investment to NI

<p>Such leaks remind countries like Russia – as well as US allies – of the sheer scale and reach of Washington’s operations</p>

The diplomatic damage done by the Pentagon leak won’t last long

<p>Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley wrote a tweet attacking ‘weak and woke’ ideology the day she declared her candidacy</p>

Republicans are running on ‘wokeism’ – but don’t know what it is