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Every August 15, the country wakes up unusually early, not out of patriotism but because every street and apartment block is blaring Mere Desh Ki Dharti and Vande Mataram on loop through Ahuja speakers, which were last repaired when Nehru was still around. 

Many of her admirers gloss over her desire to break up the UK as Scotland’s first minister. But in her memoir, it plays a starring role, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

We need everyday solutions like ‘cool banks’ and shaded areas, as well as serious policies on emissions, says María Ramírez, deputy managing editor of elDiario.es

For so many other kinds of traumas we have a shared language, grief and ritual. But what happens when these stories belong to our children?

The vet’s diagnosis of ‘it could be a stomach bug or lymphoma’ was not exactly reassuring but, admittedly, the patient was wagging his tail

The DC takeover is, first and foremost, an attempt to deflect from the Epstein case. But that’s not all that’s going on

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: No democratic society should concede the principle of the right to a fair trial, one uncontaminated by misreporting that might influence a jury. But new guidance that permits police to share a suspect’s ethnicity and nationality with the public will enable the force to defend itself…

Labour is reversing a decade of stagnation and we’re making progress on wages, jobs and trade. But there is more to do, says Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer

Editorial: IHT is unpopular, but voters can be persuaded if the argument is about levelling life chances for young people

Editorial: Historical neglect of vocational training means the sector has a mountain to climb if government housebuilding and infrastructure targets are to be met

It is August, so therefore I find myself in the midst of an intergenerational trip – and somehow unearthing a personality I thought I’d shed decades ago, writes journalist and author Nell Frizzell