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In six days’ time, David Cameron is likely to be presiding over a most unwelcome achievement: record levels of migration to Britain.

The personal email server that Hillary Clinton used as US Secretary of State is beginning to look like an aircraft’s “black box”. The FBI is examining its every silicon synapse for details of every email she sent, received, saved and trashed. Did any constitute a breach of national security? Democrats are afraid.

During the summer holidays, if you’re in search of artistic expressions of imagination and creativity, instead of the Tate Modern, try the Department for Work and Pensions.

Aristotle was not a fan of interest rates. “Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest” the Greek philosopher taught his followers in 350BC. “Of all modes of getting wealth, this is the most unnatural.” We tend to take a more nuanced view today, but the father of Western philosophy nevertheless might have been at home in modern Britain.

The Labour party has become a more unpleasant place for its own members, or at least for the long-standing ones. Many shied away from attending their constituency Labour party nomination meeting for fear of being called a ‘Tory’.

Keep cards and cash safe in a style. IndyBest finds practical accessories for your valuables

Reason is slipping from the left. Not on economics; it is perfectly sensible for Jeremy Corbyn’s People’s Army to campaign over re-nationalising the railways or taxing the billions of pounds hidden offshore. But on foreign policy the left is giving into a Ukipish, quack Little England agenda of pulling the country out of the Nato alliance. 

If boys were as good at jumping for joy as girls, they would have been pictured doing so yesterday to illustrate newspapers’ GCSE stories.

I watch the white-water rafting guide tuck my little camera into his waterproof pouch as we teeter terrifyingly on a precipitous pile of rocks in the middle of a wide, energetic river in Costa Rica. This is our summer holiday and I really don’t want all my pictures to end up in some quasi-Amazonian grave.

Unfortunately, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is not very interesting. Part of the reason that the super secretive trade deal has been able to dodge scrutiny so nimbly is that the nuance of the legislation hardly makes for great headlines. Crucially, TTIP doesn’t have a face.

“Could the Doctor ever become a woman?” It’s not a new question. After all, this universe is uniquely equipped to replace its lead actor at the first whiff of a contract dispute. But the tone of the question has changed. It’s gone from being an irreverent last-orders musing (alongside “Where are the toilets on the Enterprise?”) to one of substance and even controversy. With an African American Johnny Storm, and an all-female Ghostbusters, film-makers are responding to an increased appetite for diversity (often... Читать дальше...

Without the aid of a crystal ball Azealia Banks called it earlier this month on Twitter, with thousands of others nodding in a chorus of agreement. You put a famous woman on display on-all fours and people will take advantage of it. Granted, she’s wax, but some of the creepier selfies Nicki Minaj’s figure has had to endure give a dark glimpse into the minds of those taking them.

"Lots of stamina" and blindfolding have reportedly been revealed as the biggest turn-ons for users of the hacked adultery website Ashley Madison.

When I arrived at the Intensive Care Unit, minutes after the air raid, a man stopped me. "Don’t go in because there’s no space left in the ICU except for the wounded,” he said. Another man interrupted: “Let him in, he’s a doctor.”

London’s Royal Opera House has unveiled the huge hand-painted silk installation that will hang in the Paul Hamlyn Hall next month.

The amount of information released by the Ashley Madison hackers is really quite staggering: Tens of millions of emails, locations, pick-up lines and even more personal data. And, of course, birthdates.

Here it is, the annual media circus surrounding GCSE results - and with it the onslaught of celebrities writing variations upon, “Don’t worry, I failed all mine and look at my multimillion pound fortune! Real entrepreneurs like me don’t have time for A*s, after all.” From Lord Sugar and Jeremy Clarkson's almost militant anti-education stance, teaming up in the Sunday Times to tell us, with eye-rolling bravado, “Schoolchildren are always told that they must work hard in lessons and pass their exams... Читать дальше...

Grindr users are not that gay, at least according to a new survey.

Haven’t we all at one time or another secretly dreamt of leading the high-flying life of celebrity – the cars, the glamour, the money, and, according to Noel Gallagher, a stalker or two? Having read about his interview with Talksport where he boasted of acquiring a stalker as yet another celebrity token, though be it ‘’not the most attractive woman’’, I couldn’t help but feel enraged at his flippancy. For the first time ever, I have something in common with Noel Gallagher, but it isn’t a case of privilege. Читать дальше...

This week, as students across the country open their GCSE exam results, many will be doing so with fear and trepidation. For me, there was no excitement or anticipation on results day; all I ever felt was a foreboding feeling of dread.

Trying not to write about the possible end of the Labour Party, I shall seek the comfort of fiction. Or, in this case, fictional fiction, which was the subject of my Top 10 in the Independent on Sunday magazine recently.

The name of that rogue businessman, Robert Maxwell, who drowned in 1991, lingers like a bad smell. In 1971 trade inspectors published a report arguing that Mr Maxwell was unfit to run a public company. They were right, but Mr Maxwell was able to argue that he should have been forewarned and given a chance to defend himself before the report was published. The point was taken.

Olympic champion, MP, deliverer of London 2012, member of the House of Lords – the accomplishments of Lord Coe are vast and varied. But he described his newest achievement, becoming president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), with absolute sincerity as the peak of his career.

Isis has killed “the guardian of Palmyra”. Tortured for a month and then beheaded for refusing to betray the secret location of the Roman’s city’s priceless artefacts, Khaled al-Asaad’s gruesome death has appalled his fellow archeologists.

When David Rudisha broke the world record at London 2012, Kyle Langford had no idea who the Kenyan was.