Comments from Kemi Badenoch and particularly Robert Jenrick on developments in the Southport case will doubtless prompt condemnation. But treated dispassionately, they’re fascinating as examples of what you might call the Farage-isation of the modern Conservatives. (mini-thread)

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A Crown Court in the South East has just listed a bail trial for the first week of 2028.

It warms my heart to be able to publish this. After a decade of being locked away in hospitals and care homes, Nicholas Thornton, a young man with Autism is finally free It comes a year after The Independent and Channel 4 News told his story independent.co.uk/tv/news/autism…

Analysis: Ukraine is facing 50,000 Russian troops in Kursk – can they hold out? independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

Our #TruthAboutYouth campaign launched today in an article in The Independent, sharing our research by We Are Social which found media coverage of young people is twice as likely to be negative than positive independent.co.uk/news/media/med…

Exclusive: More than 150 apartment block residents face eviction after no fault notices served weeks before Christmas Residents at Vive Living Childers Street in Deptford have been served with a Section 21 eviction notice independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

'There's a war against buskers': Inside the crackdown on buskers – and why street artists are at risk bigissue.com/culture/music/…

My story with David Maddox splashes the front page of The Independent today

This is an extraordinary intervention. If drones can bring in drugs they can also bring in weapons & explosives. To hear some of our high security prisons holding much of our national security risk have effectively 'ceded' airspace to them is chilling. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/1…

‘I’m terrified’: Disabled benefit claimants on the impact of Labour’s £5 billion cuts to welfare independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

🇬🇧 Trump Warns Iran: We Won't Kill Your Leader - For Now ▫US president threatens Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wants ‘unconditional surrender’ ▫@beltrew Andy Gregory ▫is.gd/yxTB30 #frontpagestoday #digital #UK The Independent 🇬🇧

MPs will vote on Tuesday on whether to make PIP harder to claim for a future generation of disabled people. For The Independent I spoke to claimants, experts and a former assessor about the uphill battle many already face to get what they're entitled to. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Drugs crisis in jails ‘worse than ever’ as seizures by prison officers near record independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

🇬🇧 Drugs Crisis In Prisons 'Worse Than Ever' ▫Exclusive: Blue-light emergency responses now ‘a normal part of life’ in prison, experts warn ▫Andy Gregory ▫is.gd/F4qfoZ #frontpagestoday #digital #UK The Independent