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Highlights

Keir Starmer is confident that asylum is now a Labour issue

Rishi Sunak must be either desperate or deluded to make a promise he cannot keep to stop the boats

Politics explained

John Rentoul What is Labour’s plan for dealing with boats crossing the Channel?

Lauren Crosby Medlicott ‘I felt I had failed my baby’: Mothers on the strain of neonatal care

Letters Gary Lineker should be applauded for speaking out against the Tories

Voices

Emilie McDonnell Want to solve the small boats crisis? Here are the workable options

John Rentoul This bill is designed not to stop the boats – but to fight an election

Marie Le Conte Will small boats prove the sticking point of Sunak’s premiership?

Long reads

Dino Grandoni The fight against the mysterious illness causing starfish to melt

Lily Kuo Taiwan waits for fighter jets – but it needs people to fly them

Rick Noack The ‘zombie fire’ in France that’s been burning since summer

Politics Explained

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady Can Rishi Sunak make the small boats law a success?

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What is the plan to tackle migrant small boats and will it work?

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What does Boris Johnson have to fear from the Partygate inquiry?

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What is behind Isabel Oakeshott and her role in the Hancock leaks?

Most Commented

Rishi Sunak’s plan to stop small-boat crossings breaks international law, UN says

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Labour backs Gary Lineker’s right to attack Sunak’s migrant plan

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Camilla crowned Independent’s most influential woman of the year 2023

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Gary Lineker vows to keep ‘speaking up’ despite BBC criticism over small boats tweet

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Editorials

Editorial We still have a long way to go for gender equality

Editorial End the scandal of diverting apprenticeship money to high-flying MBAs

Editorial Boris Johnson’s final resignation honours list is problematic

Culture

Culture Staff The Week on Stage, from Shirley Valentine to Sleepova

Martin Chilton Books of the month: From Eleanor Catton to Sebastian Barry

Zoe Anderson Coppélia is a sharp, smart take on a classic from Scottish Ballet

Travel

Travel questions

Simon Calder What’s the best way to get to inaccessible Granada?

Andrew Eames How to do Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi by train

John Rentoul

The Independent’s chief political commentator

John Rentoul The vacuum at the heart of the next Labour government

John Rentoul Mea Culpa: northern lights and contrasting conditions

John Rentoul Boris Johnson is trying to use Sue Gray as part of a desperate ploy

Andrew Grice

Political columnist who keeps his ear to the ground inside Westminster

Andrew Grice Rishi Sunak’s asylum plan risks making the UK a global pariah

Andrew Grice How Britain – and Boris – led the way in global fight against Putin

Andrew Grice The battle lines for next year’s general election have been drawn

Chris Blackhurst

Polestar’s quest for a truly carbon-neutral car by 2030

Chris Blackhurst Sunak has much to do to stem the flow of London stocks to New York

Chris Blackhurst Hiring management consultants is often just a back-covering exercise

World

Alastair Jamieson Tens of thousands join angry protests over Greek train disaster

Namita Singh At least 15 killed in Indonesia landslide, dozens missing

News analysis

Sam Blewett What we know about Braverman’s new ‘stop the boats’ Bill

Ian Jones Small boat arrivals: How have they affected UK asylum applications?

Matilda Head Rising support for euthanasia and divorce ‘marks UK socially liberal’

Andrew Griffin Why TikTok is already banned for some people

Sport

Tom White Mbappe’s goals in numbers after breaking PSG scoring record

Luke Baker The death of John Motson is the death of the last ‘voice of a sport’

Mary Dejevsky

Expert on foreign affairs, Russian politics and diplomatic relations between the Kremlin and the west

Mary Dejevsky Will there be a second anniversary for the war in Ukraine?

What is driving Putin’s relentless assault on Ukraine?

Mary Dejevsky Putin v Zelensky: The personality clash that defines the Ukraine war

America

Ashley Parker Republicans are running on ‘wokeism’ – but don’t know what it is

Alastair Jamieson Witnesses in Trump election meddling probe ‘may have lied under oath’

Vishwam Sankaran ChatGPT cheating by students is already on the rise, surveys suggest