Food, fuel and medicine shortages will quickly follow a no-deal Brexit which will trigger three months of border chaos, leaked government documents admit. The dossier also warns that new border checks would be needed in Ireland contradicting repeated denials…
Workers at a Royal Dutch Shell plant in Pennsylvania were forced to choose between attending a speech by Donald Trump or earning less than their coworkers who did. Attendance was optional, but contract workers who chose not to stand in the crowd would not q…
Steven Soderbergh has always been a difficult filmmaker to pin down. Mixing high-brow and low-brow fare as various in genre as Solaris, Magic Mike, Schizopolis and Unsane, across a wild range of budgets, the American has seemingly done it all in his 30-year c…
For a few months in 1998, Quentin Tarantino decided to become a Broadway star, and today no one wants to talk about it. Despite the sometimes unnecessarily intimate knowledge many of us have of the visionary filmmaker, with everything from his pre-fame video …
It doesnt matter whether you like Brexit or not, Daniel Nivern was saying as we walked up Baker Street, you still have to take China into account. Of course he would say that as co-founder and CEO of CRCC Asia, which is the worlds biggest provider of work exp…
The day before had been a near gale less than ideal for beginners on the river. At the second attempt, we arrived on the banks of the Deben, near Woodbridge, to find a dead calm; from one extreme to the other. Our skipper, a family friend and member of the …
Continuing his weekly series about the complexities of the Middle East, Ahmed Aboudouh examines the conflict in Yemen. Southern separatists in Yemen have seized control of the city of Aden, the temporary seat of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government, in an acti…
With the passing of Judith Krantz in June, its possible that the sun has set on the kingdom of which she was one of the queens that of the bonkbuster novel. The bonkbuster was born in the 1980s, which is appropriate; these brick-sized books celebrated what m…
The mayor of Dayton, Ohio – where nine people were murdered this month in a mass shooting – was given a round-the-clock security detail following her war of words with Donald Trump. Initially, a two-person team of detectives guarded Nan Whaley for six days a…
The Home Office has increased its profit on UK visas by millions of pounds a week since outsourcing visa operations to a Dubai-based firm that has been deluged with complaints and accused of exploiting vulnerable applicants for profit, The Independent can rev…
The second ball Steve Smith faced after lunch was met with a lavish straight drive. He was on 57 and there was an inevitability about what was coming. Before lunch, he reached his half-century lifting Jack Leach over wide long-on, rotating an unnecessary 180 …
Wales made no mistake against England the second time round, as a 13-6 victory in Cardiff not only made up for their Twickenham defeat, but sent them to the top of the World Rugby rankings. How it is worked out by World Rugby that a side who had earlier in t…