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<p>Keir Starmer said he wants to deepen the UK’s relationship with Canada as he congratulated Mark Carney on his victory in the country’s election</p>
Sean O'Grady

Trump has met his match in Mark Carney

The US president respects those made in his own self-image – powerful, determined, and with his people full-square behind him. Canada’s newly elected prime minister could yet lead a new global resistance, says Sean O’Grady

<p>Almost everything Donald Trump has done in his first period in power has shocked, but much less of it comes as a surprise</p>
THe Independent View

It’s time to make American democracy great again

<p>Britain’s attempts to control migration have had minimal obvious effect on the numbers making the dangerous journey across the Channel</p>
The Independent View

Britain tried to control migration… and created the worst of all worlds

<p>BBC Panorama ‘The Truth About Baby Food Pouches’ reveals some products are dangerously high in sugar and low in vital nutrients </p>
dayna brackley

The shocking truth about baby food pouches you need to know

<p>Experts are calling for a change in policy around mammograms</p>
emma clarke

Why shouldn’t men be allowed to perform mammograms?

<p>BP has revealed lower profits, but said it is making progress with its new growth strategy</p>
JAMES MOORE

BP is in a mess – and the climate is being asked to foot the bill

<p>Céline Sciamma’s explosive 2014 film, ‘Girlhood’, follows a group of young women as they leave school and begin a tough new life in Paris</p>
dear vix

Dear Vix: I feel like I’m losing my teenage daughter

<p>Former prime minister Tony Blair</p>
John Rentoul

Tony Blair has exposed the inconvenient facts about net zero

<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky met with Donald Trump as they attended the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday</p>
The Independent View

Let us hope the Trump-Zelensky meeting leads to a better relationship

<p>Children’s long-term education is being hindered by stuck schools </p>
bridget Phillipson

How we’re going to raise standards in ‘stuck’ schools

<p>Former 999 call handler Issy Vine has started a petition demanding that rogue staff be kept out of the police</p>
Voices

A police colleague used a slur about a rape victim – and kept his job

<p>School uniform can be pricey for parents (Jane Barlow/PA)</p>
James Moore

Who’s to blame that school uniforms are absurdly expensive?

Justin Welby

The Pope I knew supported me even at my lowest hour

<p>Nigel Farage has has distanced himself from the US president, saying the tariffs were ‘too much, too soon’ (Ben Birchall/PA)</p>
Andrew grice

The ‘F-word’ that’s tearing Westminster apart

<p>‘For all the talk of her being a breath of fresh air, Badenoch, a Brexit true-believer who genuinely, if preposterously, seems to believe that the party “talked right yet governed left” while in office, is just another comfort-zone Conservative’</p>
Voices

Under ‘Brexit Badenoch’, what is the future of the Tory party?

<p>The savings claimed by Elon Musk’s Doge arent’ what they’re cracked up to be</p>
James Moore

Musk can’t rely on Doge’s dodgy accounting at troubled Tesla

Littered with errors and inaccuracies, Doge’s savings are vastly overstated, writes James Moore. Elon Musk must hope he is better at finding efficiencies at Tesla than he has been for the United States

<p>Nigel Farage campaigning in the Runcorn by-election</p>
Voices

Sorry, Nigel – it isn’t easy bringing up a child with autism

<p>‘Miss Me?’ podcast host, Miquita Oliver, discussed how she went bankrupt aged 27</p>
Voices

What Miquita Oliver’s bankruptcy tells us about women and money

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<p>Mark Carney’s campaign rhetoric gave no quarter. Claiming victory, he insisted that the US ‘will never break us’</p>
Voices

Trump helped Carney his victory – now it’s make or break for Canada

Voices

Trump helped Carney his victory – now it’s make or break for Canada

Mary Dejevsky
<p>Mark Carney’s campaign rhetoric gave no quarter. Claiming victory, he insisted that the US ‘will never break us’</p>
<p>Poll: Does the UK’s sugar tax actually work?</p>
UK Politics

Poll: Does the UK’s sugar tax actually work?

<p>Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (Gareth Fuller/PA)</p>
Voices

Farage is on the brink of another election breakthrough. At what cost?

<p>Is it fair that baby boomers own most of the UK’s housing wealth?</p>
Money

Have your say: How can Britain’s housing divide be fixed?

<p>Do you still believe in the UK–US ‘special relationship’?</p>
UK Politics

‘A myth’: Independent readers reject the UK-US ‘special relationship’

<p>Do you still believe in the UK–US ‘special relationship’?</p>
UK Politics

‘A myth’: Independent readers reject the UK-US ‘special relationship’

<p>People are overwhelmingly in favour of action to combat climate change (Jim Horsfall/PA)</p>
Voices

If most of the world wants climate action, why is it slowing down?

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Voices

How to tackle money stress

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Ukraine war latest: Zelensky aide reveals the one key sanction Putin hates the most

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Canada election results live: Trump congratulates Carney and agrees to meet in future

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Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’

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Amazon says it won’t display tariff costs after Trump called Bezos

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<p>‘As long as people are desperate, they will leave, and as long as they leave, they will die’</p>
Voices

We must face the truth: migration is not a crisis, it’s a symptom

<p>Left to right: Cardinals Arthur Roche, Timothy Radcliffe and Vincent Nichols will vote in the conclave to choose a new pope</p>
Voices

Meet the British cardinals who will help choose the next Pope

<p>Rosamund Hall picks her favourite sparkling wines for spring</p>
Voices

The sun is out – it’s time for a springtime refresh of sparkling wine

<p>Subtle diplomacy: there are more effective ways to negotiate peace than by writing poems</p>
Errors & Omissions

Mea Culpa: Rhyme or reason

<p>Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference in Dover on Thursday</p>
The Independent View

A protest vote is a democratic safety valve: but use it with care

<p>Sir Keir Starmer, centre, with his wife, Victoria, left, at the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome</p>
Voices

Pope’s funeral a chance for PM to seal the deal with European leaders

<p>Subtle diplomacy: there are more effective ways to negotiate peace than by writing poems</p>
Errors & Omissions

Mea Culpa: Rhyme or reason

<p>Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference in Dover on Thursday</p>
The Independent View

A protest vote is a democratic safety valve: but use it with care

<p>Sir Keir Starmer, centre, with his wife, Victoria, left, at the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome</p>
Voices

Pope’s funeral a chance for PM to seal the deal with European leaders

<p>Carpenders Park, where dozens of graves were desecrated earlier this month in what the council branded an ‘Islamophobic hate crime’, has been a place of sacred rest for both Christian and Muslim communities for decades</p>
Voices

My daughter’s grave was destroyed – but I don’t hate those who did it

Voices

My daughter’s grave was destroyed – but I don’t hate those who did it

 Iqbal Khan
<p>Carpenders Park, where dozens of graves were desecrated earlier this month in what the council branded an ‘Islamophobic hate crime’, has been a place of sacred rest for both Christian and Muslim communities for decades</p>
<p>Following the death of Pope Francis, Cardinal Robert Sarah from Guinea has emerged as a potential successor</p>
Voices

What will really decide who becomes the new Pope

<p>Pope Francis</p>
Voices

Pope Francis: pontiff who changed the Catholic Church and the world

<p>Baroness Julia King has drawn attention to soaring global competition for AI researchers, stressing that the UK needs them to grow its economy</p>
Voices

AI is about to change our lives – Britain must not be left behind

<p>This week, Frieda Hughes basks in nature on her balcony</p>
Voices

Why I’m opening the garden I’ve been working on for 21 years

<p>This week, Frieda Hughes basks in nature on her balcony</p>
Voices

Why I’m opening the garden I’ve been working on for 21 years

<p>Flowers and a sign are placed outside the Washington headquarters of the US Agency for International Development, or USAID, on 7 February 2025</p>
The Independent View

The world is facing a new, devastating frontier in the Aids epidemic

<p>The closure of USAID and other cuts has left the Aids community especially vulnerable</p>
Voices

I’m an HIV doctor – we should be very afraid of cuts to Aids funding

<p>Rachel Reeves says trading with EU is more important than the US</p>
Voices

Reeves has backed the EU over Trump – and she’s right to

<p>Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is said to be ‘open’ to a youth mobility scheme with the EU on a ‘one in, one out’ basis</p>
Voices

Could Yvette Cooper’s ‘one in, one out’ EU youth mobility scheme work?

<p>Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on a visit to the White House earlier this month</p>
Voices

It’s time MPs investigated the Jewish Chronicle’s secret ownership

<p>A new government plan could mean cheaper energy up north, and higher costs down south</p>
UK Politics

Readers divided over ‘postcode lottery’ energy pricing

<p>Do you still believe in the UK-US special relationship?</p>
Home News

Poll: Do you still believe in the UK–US special relationship?

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves</p>
Voices

When flag-waving Rachel Reeves went to Maga-land, cap in hand

<p>The Trump peace plan, now leaked, carries with it the unspoken but lethal notion that various tracts of Ukraine can be transferred to Kremlin control with few ill effects for the inhabitants</p>
The Independent View

Ukraine has a chance of defying the odds – but it depends on one thing

<p>Ed Miliband, energy secretary</p>
Voices

So will regional energy prices really spark poll tax-style riots?

<p>Yin and Gaz are contestants on the BBC’s Race Across the World – and separated after 31 years of marriage</p>
Voices

Would you go on Race Around the World with your ex? I would

Voices

Would you go on Race Around the World with your ex? I would

Charlotte Cripps
<p>Yin and Gaz are contestants on the BBC’s Race Across the World – and separated after 31 years of marriage</p>
<p>More and more schools are taking a strong stance against smartphones</p>
Home News

Addiction and bullying: Why readers want phones banned in classrooms

<p>Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says damage caused by tariffs has to be taken seriously</p>
Voices

What we need from Andrew Bailey’s Bank of the bleedin’ obvious

<p>‘The many Tesla models sold in the UK, almost ubiquitous in some cases, are shipped in from China and Germany, but there’s no reason why these Muskmobiles couldn’t be sourced from his expanding operations in the USA’</p>
Voices

Does anyone really want a Chevrolet in downtown Doncaster?

<p>‘Research found that 70 per cent of people in Britain prefer national pricing, with 85 per cent believing zonal pricing is inherently unfair’</p>
Voices

Postcode pricing won’t reduce energy bills – and I should know

<p>‘Research found that 70 per cent of people in Britain prefer national pricing, with 85 per cent believing zonal pricing is inherently unfair’</p>
Voices

Postcode pricing won’t reduce energy bills – and I should know

<p>Should your postcode decide your power bill? (Ben Whitley/PA) </p>
UK Politics

Poll: Should how much you pay for energy depend on where you live?

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The Independent View

Rachel Reeves has been dealt a tough hand – she must hold her nerve

<p>Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves</p>
Voices

‘Security’ is a sound enough slogan – but can Labour deliver it?

<p>‘Without guidance, schools are left to fend for themselves in a crowded digital marketplace. An app store is not an accreditation system’</p>
Voices

Do you know what apps your child uses in school? You should…

<p>Donald Trump’s forays into economic policy have proven expensive</p>
The Independent View

It’s official – Donald Trump is bad for the world economy

<p>‘What Kisin and Braverman failed to recognise is that today’s multi-ethnic English identity is not so much a break with a thousand years of English identity, but a continuation of it’</p>
Voices

Why are politicians still fighting over who can be English?

<p>Should mobile phones be completely banned in school? (Alamy/PA)</p>
Home News

Tell us if smartphones should be banned in schools

<p>Keir Starmer speaks to children during a visit to St Michael’s Junior School in Bath following the rollout of 750 new free breakfast clubs across England</p>
Voices

Is Labour’s breakfast club rollout a poorly disguised bribe?

<p>Donald Trump nominated Jerome Powell to head the US Federal Reserve </p>
Voices

Could Trump, the ‘puerile president’, now sink the global economy?

<p>‘The Ukrainians have been attacking us from the very beginning, every passing day, maybe with two or three exceptions,’ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at Antalya</p>
Voices

The ‘post-Western’ future is here – here’s what that looks like

<p>Rachel Reeves is seeking to strengthen trade relations with other countries</p>
Voices

It’ll take a miracle for the economy to grow under Rachel Reeves

Voices

It’ll take a miracle for the economy to grow under Rachel Reeves

Sean O'Grady
<p>Rachel Reeves is seeking to strengthen trade relations with other countries</p>
<p>The parent WhatsApp groups never stop – even in the Easter holidays </p>
Voices

Nothing is more toxic than a school parents’ WhatsApp group

<p>Readers have their say on Gen Z’s turn to Christianity</p>
Lifestyle

Readers have their say on Gen Z’s turn to Christianity

<p>‘I was privileged to personally view this tiny miracle, Charlotte’s chapbook, on her birthday’</p>
Voices

How a 200-year-old book instantly took me back to my childhood

<p>Pope Francis has died aged 88</p>
The Independent View

Pope Francis was the people’s pontiff. His successor must be too

<p>Pope Francis has died aged 88</p>
The Independent View

Pope Francis was the people’s pontiff. His successor must be too

<p>More than half of parents surveyed said they would support a complete ban on smartphones in schools </p>
Voices

Smartphones are ruining kid’s lives - and schools alone can’t fix this

<p>Rachel Reeves in Washington last year for a G20 meeting</p>
The Independent View

Rachel Reeves goes to Washington – and will need nerves of steel

<p>Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences cost the UK taxpayer £145m last year</p>
The Independent View

The high costs of an inhumane policy

<p>Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton gestures in a live Australian TV debate, as prime minister Anthony Albanese looks on</p>
Voices

Australia must choose between climate reality and Trump-style denial

<p>Climate change means Hull could one day better Bordeaux for wine production</p>
Voices

With Hull the ‘new Bordeaux’, could we be quaffing Cotes de Yorkshire?

<p>Liz Truss and Nigel Farage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC last year</p>
Voices

Nigel Farage’s party has been talking to Liz Truss – a big mistake

<p>‘The government’s ambition is to create the “healthiest generation of children”. But that cannot happen when Big Food has such a stronghold in so many young lives’</p>
Voices

The screen ban on junk food ads doesn’t go far enough for kids’ health

<p>Sir Alan Bates, who has led the campaign for wrongly convicted postmasters</p>
Voices

The government’s failure to compensate postmasters is shameful

<p>‘Keir Starmer risks losing the green vote’</p>
Voices

Why the government’s drive for economic growth risks a green backlash

<p>As Donald Trump’s secretary of state Marco Rubio suggests the US will abandon peace efforts ‘within days’, Vladimir Putin stands to become the principal beneficiary once more</p>
The Independent View

The abject failure of Donald Trump’s peace initiative is plain to see

<p>The Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly backed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill before it was struck down by the then Westminster government (Jane Barlow/PA)</p>
Voices

The consequences of the Supreme Court ruling that nobody’s thought of

Voices

The consequences of the Supreme Court ruling that nobody’s thought of

Diana Thomas
<p>The Scottish Parliament overwhelmingly backed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill before it was struck down by the then Westminster government (Jane Barlow/PA)</p>
<p>This week, poet and artist Frieda Hughes reflects on the all-female Blue Origin space flight</p>
Voices

I do not need to go up into space to understand the value of gravity

<p>Jake Wallis Simons, former editor of ‘The Jewish Chronicle’ </p>
Voices

Scandal at the Jewish Chronicle shows Leveson was wasting his time

<p><a href="/news/health/learning-disabilities-autism-hospital-nhs-b2734869.html" title="‘Every day she begs for help’: Father fighting for daughter detained in hospital for years to be freed"></a>Streeting’s approach to reform is fundamentally sound, which is to bring in the people who made the NHS the best it has ever been and put them to work</p>
Voices

Wes Streeting must cut and run to a safer seat – his country needs him

<p>‘Are the Americans and the Europeans finally converging on a peace plan for Ukraine? Or was this week’s Paris meeting the prelude to an imminent parting of the ways?’</p>
Voices

Why US diplomats Witkoff and Rubio are now courting the Europeans

<p>‘Are the Americans and the Europeans finally converging on a peace plan for Ukraine? Or was this week’s Paris meeting the prelude to an imminent parting of the ways?’</p>
Voices

Why US diplomats Witkoff and Rubio are now courting the Europeans

<p>The staff at this HIV/AIDS clinic in Jinja, Uganda, are working for free after losing their US funding</p>
The Independent View

Aids devastation highlights America’s deterioration under Trump

<p>‘Sainsbury’s is my family’s preferred grocer. But if Roberts doesn’t live up to his promises by keeping prices competitive, and if he is tempted to ease up when it comes to the battle with his rivals, then I’m afraid we’ll switch to Tesco’</p>
Voices

Sainsbury’s has joined the supermarket price war – but can it win?

<p>Josh Burt with his wife, Hannah, and their two children </p>
Fitness and wellbeing

What it’s like to live with cancer – when it’s your wife’s diagnosis

<p>Birmingham residents have been warned to take care of their personal rubbish and watch out for bin raiders (REUTERS)</p>
UK Politics

‘Give councils more money’ Readers weigh in on Birmingham bin strikes

<p>‘In the pursuit of economic prosperity, the UK should not lose sight of the humanitarian principles that define our society’</p>
Voices

Britain must not trade away its values for a deal with Trump

<p>‘If you were to believe some of the more excitable comments by some journalists and anti-trans women’s groups, trans people will be barred from all public facilities by the end of the Easter holiday. Not so’</p>
Voices

The law will protect trans people like me, no matter what you think

<p>‘There is another measure which is long overdue and now needs to be considered: a new youth mobility scheme with the EU, which would boost growth not only in London but across Britain and Europe’</p>
Voices

Sadiq Khan: This will get us closer to Europe – and a post-Trump bump

<p>Joaquin Phoenix finds an AI love interest in Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze’s 2015 movie ‘Her’</p>
Voices

An AI boyfriend is the only logical option

<p>‘If you were to believe some of the more excitable comments by some journalists and anti-trans women’s groups, trans people will be barred from all public facilities by the end of the Easter holiday. Not so’</p>
Voices

The law will protect trans people like me, no matter what you think

<p>‘There is another measure which is long overdue and now needs to be considered: a new youth mobility scheme with the EU, which would boost growth not only in London but across Britain and Europe’</p>
Voices

Sadiq Khan: This will get us closer to Europe – and a post-Trump bump

<p>Joaquin Phoenix finds an AI love interest in Scarlett Johansson in Spike Jonze’s 2015 movie ‘Her’</p>
Voices

An AI boyfriend is the only logical option

<p>‘The Supreme Court’s judgement just adds to the weight of state abuse of trans women’</p>
Voices

Trans women like me are outlawed – what are you so scared of?

The Independent View

The US needs to understand truth and trade are not interchangeable

<p>‘The decision to shut out from the hearing the people most closely affected by it made the decision weaker’</p>
Voices

We let the Supreme Court decide ‘what a woman is’ – they chose wrong

<p>Supposed ‘free speech’ absolutist Elon Musk</p>
Voices

The difference between ‘hate speech’ and ‘freedom of speech’

<p>‘The truth is that Trump and Vance have played their hand so badly that they now need a UK trade deal as much as we do’</p>
Voices

How can Starmer seal the deal with Trump?

<p>Petrol prices contributed to a dip in inflation last month (Peter Byrne/PA)</p>
Voices

Inflation falls – now will the Bank of England go big and slash rates?

<p>An unreliable and capricious US president cannot define the UK national interest and wield a veto over how Starmer performs his tricky balancing act</p>
Voices

Starmer’s ‘liberation day’ from Trump lies in a new EU customs deal 

<p>According to JD Vance, a UK-US trade deal could be on the horizon</p>
The Independent View

If Starmer pulls off a trade deal with the US, he’ll seal his legacy

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