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Voices

Chris Blackhurst

As the euro reaches its 25th anniversary, is it now invincible?

Rosamund Hall

Why I’m not doing ‘Dry January’ – and you don’t have to either

Olivia Petter

Are you brave – and warm – enough to go out in just your pants?

<p>Damp squib: only 30 per cent of us will make a new year’s resolution for 2024 </p>
Glenda Cooper

I cringe at my teenage new year resolutions – but I’m glad I made them

Before setting your goals for 2024, dig out your childhood journals, says Glenda Cooper – the wildly unrealistic expectations, and embarrassing lists of boys you intend to kiss, may, in fact, guide your adult choices and strengthen your resolve in the year ahead

<p>This new year needs to be one of action to ensure that victims and potential victims get the protection they need</p>
The Independent View

Women need far better protection from the threat of domestic abuse

<p>Liz Truss, the Lady Jane Grey of British prime ministers</p>
John Rentoul

Truss honours list proves again she is a politician without judgement

<p>Pub chain Wetherspoons has announced a ‘January sale’ that feels regressive </p>
Ryan Coogan

I love a Wetherspoons... but its ‘£1.99 a pint’ sale is irresponsible

<p>A South Korean dog farmer protests against his government’s plans to outlaw the canine meat trade </p>
Elisa Allen

Animal rights is making big gains – here are the latest wins

<p>The cause of the Ukrainian people is just</p>
The Independent View

Ukraine and its people need us, our support has to stay strong in 2024

<p>Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has a steady 18-point lead in opinion polls</p>
Andrew Grice

Here’s how Keir Starmer plans to win the general election

<p>Rosie Jones with Katherine Ryan on Channel 4’s ‘Big Fat Quiz of the Year’ </p>
Cathy Reay

We should count ourselves lucky to have Rosie Jones on our screens

<p>David Jonsson plays Luke Fitzwilliam in the BBC’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder Is Easy’ </p>
Femi Oluwole

It’s a mystery why it took so long for a Black hero in Agatha Christie

<p>I propose that we treat New Year’s Eve for what it is: the last gasp of an exhausted year and the start of a long goodbye to the cold and wet season</p>
Voices

How I’m celebrating a sober New Year’s Eve

<p>The resignation honours list of the former PM proves overhaul of the system is long overdue</p>
Letters

Liz Truss proves the UK honours system is broken

<p>A ‘super-rational but politically inept’ Rishi Sunak promised to ‘stop the boats’, not reduce them</p>
John Rentoul

What I got wrong (and right) in 2023

<p>Part of Holland Park School before its demolition and refurbishment was completed in 2012</p>
Comment

I went to the UK's 'School of Jihadis', and I can't believe how it has

Comment

I went to the UK's 'School of Jihadis', and I can't believe how it has

Lamiat Sabin
<p>Part of Holland Park School before its demolition and refurbishment was completed in 2012</p>
<p>The Conservatives are probably doomed in 2024, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t try and win </p>
Voices

There are ways Sunak can put up an election fight in 2024

<p>I find myself in total agreement with him over his criticism of James Cleverly</p>
Letters

Nigel Farage is right about one thing

<p>Legal cases fuel a media circus to the detriment of wider political debate </p>
The Independent View

Donald Trump must be defeated by the American people at the ballot box

<p>Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on 19 December in Waterloo, Iowa</p>
Voices

Trump’s fate will be decided at the ballot box – not in court

<p>Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on 19 December in Waterloo, Iowa</p>
Voices

Trump’s fate will be decided at the ballot box – not in court

<p>Abba, who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with ‘Waterloo’, look set to release new tracks </p>
Voices

If you hate Abba, 2024 is really not going to be your year…

<p>Earlier this year, Mercer pledged to end veteran forces homelessness. With days left, it’s up by 14 per cent</p>
Letters

It’s time for Rishi Sunak to let Mercer go

Most Commented

Sunak beating Starmer in just four constituencies, poll reveals

284 comments

Israeli bombing of Gaza is killing and maiming children at ‘record pace’

798 comments

Starmer tells voters future of Britain ‘rests in your hands’ in 2024

178 comments

US Navy helicopters destroy Houthi boats after attempted Red Sea hijack

76 comments
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<p>If I am not swollen-legged, footsore and confident that I have earned a lie-in until three hours after sun-up, then I am not doing it right</p>
Voices

Did I do Christmas right?

<p>Polly Dunbar and her son, Nat</p>
Voices

‘Gentle parenting’ is no way to bring up children – and I should know

<p>The prime minister Rishi Sunak and his chancellor Jeremy Hunt seem attracted by the idea of reducing inheritance tax</p>
The Independent View

If we are to have tax cuts, the PM must choose wisely

Voices

There is no Nikki Haley ‘moment’

<p>The Conservative right wing wants to seize control of the party before they lose their seats at the general election </p>
Letters

For the Tory party, the writing is already on the wall

<p>Margaret Thatcher greets Jacques Delors at the European Single Market conference in London, in 1988 </p>
Voices

Was Margaret Thatcher right about Jacques Delors after all?

Voices

There is no Nikki Haley ‘moment’

<p>The Conservative right wing wants to seize control of the party before they lose their seats at the general election </p>
Letters

For the Tory party, the writing is already on the wall

<p>Margaret Thatcher greets Jacques Delors at the European Single Market conference in London, in 1988 </p>
Voices

Was Margaret Thatcher right about Jacques Delors after all?

<p>Foreign secretary Douglas Hurd, left, and prime minister John Major, centre, with Jacques Delors at the EC summit in Birmingham, in October 1992</p>
Voices

A single-minded visionary… and the UK’s public enemy number one

Voices

A single-minded visionary… and the UK’s public enemy number one

Chris Blackhurst
<p>Foreign secretary Douglas Hurd, left, and prime minister John Major, centre, with Jacques Delors at the EC summit in Birmingham, in October 1992</p>
<p>After a three-week journey to a remote Gulag in the Arctic wastes, Navalny joked about Father Frost, Russia’s version of Santa Claus</p>
The Independent View

Why Navalny must be freed from Putin’s barbaric tyranny now

<p>Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission, with Margaret Thatcher in 1986 </p>
Voices

Jacques Delors a fanatic federalist? Up yours…

<p>This shouldn’t be about Gaza. It is war of civilisation versus barbarism</p>
Letters

This Christmas we cannot remain indifferent to the suffering Gaza

<p>How long can you leave your Christmas tree up for? </p>
Voices

Why I’m keeping my Christmas tree up until February

<p>How long can you leave your Christmas tree up for? </p>
Voices

Why I’m keeping my Christmas tree up until February

<p>Winston Churchill raises a glass to toast Marshal Tito at the Yugoslav embassy in Kensington 1953 </p>
Voices

Let’s raise a glass to the return of the pint bottle of champagne

<p>The prime minister has tried painting a positive picture of his time in No 10 – but does it stand up to scrutiny? </p>
Voices

Rishi Sunak is out of time to turn around the sinking Tories

<p>Chef Bill Granger’s recipe for success was ‘home-cooked food in a restaurant environment’, says Kathy Lette </p>
Voices

Bill Granger, the chef who lit up a room like a Bondi Beach sunbeam

<p>Cameron Diaz revealed that she and her husband don’t sleep in the same bedroom</p>
Voices

Cameron Diaz is right – separate beds are key to a good relationship

<p>In the last few years, the number of remanded prisoners has risen to 18 per cent of the total population</p>
Voices

The prison population boom has our justice system at a crisis point

<p>Britain is suffering a spike in drug-related deaths, now at a 10-year high</p>
The Independent View

Britain must get ahead of the coming drug crisis

<p>The couple celebrated the rapper’s 54th birthday in one of the world’s wine capitals </p>
Voices

Why I could be friends with Jay-Z and Beyoncé

<p>There are only two named female characters in the whole film: Holly McClane, John’s wife, and Ginny, the pregnant woman who works in the building</p>
Voices

Why all the fuss about Die Hard? It’s pale, male and stale

<p>Starmer has the legality, the country and the economy at the heart of his plans</p>
Letters

Keir Starmer reminds us of the value of ‘experts’

<p>The Covid pandemic meant that many vulnerable children were left unprotected</p>
Voices

We must do more for child victims of modern slavery

<p>The viral food trend – which requires beautifully arranged carved fruit – is all the rage</p>
Voices

Forget butter boards… ‘charfruiterie’ is the only platter that matters

Voices

Forget butter boards… ‘charfruiterie’ is the only platter that matters

Claire Cohen
<p>The viral food trend – which requires beautifully arranged carved fruit – is all the rage</p>
<p>When do you ditch your tree? </p>
Lifestyle

When is the right time to take down your Christmas tree?

<p>Food banks are being used in record numbers</p>
Letters

We need a Labour government for the many and not the few

<p>The Christmas message is that Jesus, who miraculously survived a massacre, was ‘born among the occupied and marginalised’ </p>
The Independent View

Christmas should have been a time of joy – instead, Gaza is mourning

<p>This year’s Christmas looks a happy one. It was not always thus</p>
Voices

What you need to know about the royal family’s Sandringham Christmas

<p>This year’s Christmas looks a happy one. It was not always thus</p>
Voices

What you need to know about the royal family’s Sandringham Christmas

<p>Every patient gets a Christmas cracker and a present – it’s usually a wash bag or socks</p>
Voices

Help! I’m stuck in hospital for Christmas dinner

<p>I have friends whose work drink horror stories keep them up at night</p>
Voices

Don’t do as I’ve done at the office Christmas party...

<p>A child wakes up to find presents on a new bed at Christmas, delivered by Zarach</p>
The Independent View

Your generosity has given children a Christmas to remember

<p>Supported by The Independent, the Leeds-based charity Zarach has raised enough money to provide 540 beds for children in time for Christmas </p>
Voices

Gordon Brown: Why I support The Independent’s Christmas charity appeal

<p>Cleverly’s remarks as regards spiking his wife at a Downing Street reception are repugnant to say the least </p>
Letters

Our Home Office continues to be a den of chaos

<p>People with diabetes aren’t banned from eating sugar </p>
Voices

Why I’ll be eating chocolate and cake this Christmas – sod diabetes

<p>Maybe I’m still put off by Mog’s last small screen Christmas outing, where she sauntered right out of the uncanny valley and into a cloying Sainsbury’s ad</p>
Voices

The Mog Christmas special causes one big problem for parents like me

<p>Despite our current allegiance to it, turkey dinner is a fairly new Christmas tradition </p>
Voices

Let’s face it – no one really likes turkey, do they?

<p>The trick is to notice our tension levels rising before we reach boiling point and act</p>
Voices

How to get through Christmas without losing your temper (or your mind)

<p>Hurry, hurry: Christmas shoppers on London’s Regent Street (PA)</p>
Voices

Men – don’t go shopping on Christmas Eve before you’ve read this…

<p>To be clear, this is not a love story</p>
Voices

This beloved Christmas classic is much dirtier than you think

Voices

This beloved Christmas classic is much dirtier than you think

Ryan Coogan
<p>To be clear, this is not a love story</p>
<p>Every apparent turning point in the NHS crisis has been eclipsed by new signs that its problems are deep-seated</p>
The Independent View

The breast cancer crisis is a symptom of deeper problems in the NHS

<p>A new report from Alzheimer’s Research UK shows that dementia risk rises with increasing deprivation</p>
Voices

What we can do to protect people from dementia

<p>In 2024, the US constitution is going to be stress-tested like never before</p>
Voices

Defeating Trump in court will be dangerously destabilising to America

<p>I am no apologist for Coyle’s misjudgements, character or abilities, but if work requires you to undertake training, is it not a business expense?</p>
Letters

Are we overreacting to the Labour expenses scandal?

<p>I am no apologist for Coyle’s misjudgements, character or abilities, but if work requires you to undertake training, is it not a business expense?</p>
Letters

Are we overreacting to the Labour expenses scandal?

<p>For someone who boasts that if he sees a problem he won’t walk around it, Keir Starmer has been on a year-long detour</p>
Voices

The green problem that Labour still needs to tackle

<p>The yearly trip back to Birmingham feels like both a luxury and an obligation</p>
Voices

The joy of rediscovering your hometown at Christmas

<p>There were all sorts of reasons to be noticed in 2023... some more endearing than others </p>
Voices

From Mary Earps to Michelle Mone: the heroes and villains of 2023

The Independent View

The government’s U-turn on spousal visas proves it is unfit to govern

<p>To refer to junior doctors as ‘doctors in training’ betrays a total lack of understanding and disregard for the profession</p>
Letters

I am tired of the NHS being used as a political football

<p>Rail passengers were warned to expect more delays... Oh, and fares are going up, too </p>
Voices

My chaotic ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ Christmas journey home

<p>Yesterday, James Cleverly, the home secretary, slipped out a statement announcing the new migrant income threshold had been revised down, to £29,000 </p>
Voices

Climbdown on migrant visas exposes Rishi Sunak’s cruel incompetence

<p>Members of the UN Security Council hold splinter meetings at the United Nations headquarters</p>
Voices

A chaotic week at the UN that proved US diplomacy isn’t what it was

<p>Sunak’s shifting position on legal migration tells us how he intends to outmanoeuvre hardline critics in his own party </p>
Voices

Rishi Sunak’s new year resolution? To call his right wing’s bluff

<p>“A silicon duck muzzle for small dogs. This is what economists call a ‘win-win’” </p>
Voices

The ultimate gift guide for Republican politicians this Christmas

<p>‘Feathered whiteness against a blanket of red, adorn him with a necklace’ </p>
Voices

First, position your owl...

Voices

First, position your owl...

Frieda Hughes
<p>‘Feathered whiteness against a blanket of red, adorn him with a necklace’ </p>
<p>Buckingham Palace: the saddest building in London? </p>
Voices

Why I’m proposing we move our MPs and Lords... into Buckingham Palace

<p>Brianna Ghey was stabbed with a hunting knife 28 times in her head, neck, chest and back</p>
Voices

I’m a psychologist – this is why children kill

<p>‘Staff in every part of the NHS are nothing short of awesome and deserve better’ </p>
Letters

Doctors deserves better than a health secretary who undermines them

<p>The ‘Triples’, named after their divisional designations, were trained and funded by the UK </p>
The Independent View

The UK must repay its debt to Afghan heroes – before it is too late

<p>The ‘Triples’, named after their divisional designations, were trained and funded by the UK </p>
The Independent View

The UK must repay its debt to Afghan heroes – before it is too late

<p>If Brexit made us a free country, why are we more locked in than ever? </p>
Voices

Brexit will really start to bite us in 2024. How ready are you?

<p>The end of a one-mile section of the first completed HS2 tunnel under ancient woodland near Southam, Stratford-on-Avon (PA)</p>
Voices

Sending HS2 funds to London is another slap in the face for the north

<p>Paralympic swimming sensation Ellie Challis could not access her Premier Inn hotel room because of a broken lift</p>
Voices

No room at the (Premier) Inn… if you’re disabled

<p>Olly Alexander, the UK’s entry in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest </p>
Voices

Olly Alexander isn’t even the most political thing about Eurovision

<p>US President Joe Biden </p>
Voices

The main reason Joe Biden’s numbers are sagging against Trump

<p>Zarach was founded by a teacher, Bex Wilson, who witnessed at first hand the deleterious effects that lack of rest can inflict upon young, developing minds and bodies</p>
The Independent View

This Christmas, help The Independent give a bed to a child in need

<p>‘We can start by sparing a thought and giving thanks to all those who will be giving up their Christmas celebrations to keep us all safe’ </p>
Letters

We can only hope for better things to come in 2024

<p>The former deputy Commons leader was suspended for six weeks </p>
Voices

Bad to the Bone: is this the sleaziest parliament of all time?

<p>Zarach was founded by a teacher, Bex Wilson, who witnessed at first hand the deleterious effects that lack of rest can inflict upon young, developing minds and bodies</p>
The Independent View

This Christmas, help The Independent give a bed to a child in need

<p>‘We can start by sparing a thought and giving thanks to all those who will be giving up their Christmas celebrations to keep us all safe’ </p>
Letters

We can only hope for better things to come in 2024

<p>The former deputy Commons leader was suspended for six weeks </p>
Voices

Bad to the Bone: is this the sleaziest parliament of all time?

<p>‘University Challenge’ is ‘a window into an academic and intellectual world to be admired, but not to be a part of’ </p>
Voices

University Challenge is intrinsically elitist, that’s why I love it

<p>‘On 16 December, two women were shot inside the complex. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety’ </p>
Voices

My fears for my family trapped by snipers in Gaza’s Catholic church

<p>Supermarket prices remain high – but the inflation drop means the prime minister has made good on one of his five priorities</p>
Voices

The inflation drop is Rishi’s surprise Christmas gift to the nation

<p>‘The decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that Trump is ineligible under the American constitution to hold office again, is a brave and a momentous one’ </p>
Voices

Judges have just given Donald Trump exactly what he wanted

<p>Sunak welcomes Joe Biden to Downing Street in July </p>
Voices

Rishi Sunak is in denial – proof Brexit has failed mounts by the day

Voices

The Senate is creating a path for Trump to act on his fascist rhetoric

<p>‘HMS Diamond’ is on her way to the Red Sea as part of a coaliton to protect commercial shipping </p>
The Independent View

A breakthrough is needed for humanitarian as well as economic reasons

<p>‘Was it not the Conservative Party that itself reduced local housing targets in the first place?’ </p>
Letters

Tories are protecting the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us

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