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The night tube sounds like a perfect snapshot of modern London – dark, problematic, sometimes exhilarating, ever-changing and forever awake

There is a simple test that should be applied to such legislation – 'do as you would be done by'

I'm being ridiculous, of course. But this is exactly how women are treated – particularly when it comes to the false accusation of rape

Labour members are voting with their heart rather than their head. Smith's man-for-man policy marking won't be enough to secure victory in the Labour leadership race

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has estimated that to the end of May this year up to 14,000 children have been killed during the Syrian war, with many tens of thousands injured and in need of aid

The complexity of the conflict is well described as three-dimensional chess played by nine players with no rules

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Despite international condemnation of the Saudi regime, it is Britain who still sleeps on the sofa, desperate to save its failing marriage

Burning forests to make way for plantations to support the world's insatiable demand for palm oil is one of the main causes of the astonishing decline in numbers of this species

As talk of transgender issues moves into the mainstream, with high profile stars like Caitlyn Jenner and former boxing manager Kellie (previously Frank) Maloney, the old formal ways of addressing each other seem redundant. I wonder how Caitlyn and Kelly fill in a pompous official form?

Common spelling confusions and filler phrases in this week's Independent

Ordinary Brits now do less than 30 minutes of exercise per week – that's even less than we managed before London hosted the Games in 2012

As Sadiq Khan, a shrewd EU watcher has noted, inserting a rushed UK withdrawal from Europe into a crucial election year in both France and Germany is not smart

The fraud involved a string of quite dreadful lies, lies to your best friend, a man who entrusted in you the task and the honour of being his best man'

Gold medal or no Gold medal, the Olympic swimmer is not above criticism