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Spruiked by online influencers as a way of gaining insight into our health, experts say at-home tests oversimplify complex factors and can cause unnecessary distress

Youth unemployment in London is at record levels; let’s help by giving discount travel to the young, not 60 year olds

Kemi Badenoch may look like a stronger leader now, but Jenrick is a dangerous rival – he knows where the Conservatives have been going wrong, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome

The idea that the liberal rules-based order can survive his presidency now seems complacent. This is a historic moment – and a time to act, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

In 1997, AR Rahman was 30. After five years of composing film music that had made him one of India’s most beloved composers, he was brimming with freshness and an eagerness to create something beyond music for cinema. The timing was perfect – India was celebrating 50 years of its…

As we have seen after Adelaide writers’ week, defending the right of people to speak, even when we deeply disagree with them, is very, very difficult

Millennial pink hair. Thigh-high boots styled with T-shirt dresses. Dare we even mention the Harambe of it all?

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The prime minister has concluded that approaching the president pragmatically is the best means of avoiding escalation – and outlasting ‘peak Trump’

Editorial: Rising violence in hospitals is part of a disturbing pattern that must be addressed with actions as well as words