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Wealth tax almost impossible to implement, leading economist warns

‘No country in the world has ever successfully had a wealth tax’, IFS director Paul Johnson told The Independent

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The challenges facing Rachel Reeves are clear – and painful

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: All the signs are that the reforms to the NHS, social security and the civil service are only the beginning of a longer, and inevitably more painful, process of change

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Staggering security breach after journalist included in Trump admin chat outlining plans to bomb Houthis in Yemen

President’s national security team used an encrypted messaging app to talk about a planned strike on Houthi militants — and accidentally included a prominent journalist in their group chat

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Startup CEO accused of spending investor cash on ‘call girls’ after financial regulators barred him from Wall Street

Exclusive: RocketStar CEO Christopher Craddock is accused of brazen financial wrongdoing, but his attorney told The Independent that the company “denies the allegations and looks forward to vindicating itself in court.”

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Shocking figures reveal UK spends double the defence budget on working age benefits

Analysis by The Independent has revealed the scale of Britain’s welfare bill to the taxpayer

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Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state

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Inside horror of bombed Gaza hospital after boy recovering from surgery killed in his bed

Feroze Sidhwa tells The Independent of the destruction wrought on Nasser Hospital by a bomb – which Israel says was targeting a senior Hamas leader

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Holocaust survivor, 87, questioned by police after laying flowers at Trafalgar Square during Gaza protest

Stephen Kapos was among nine people called in over 18 January pro-Palestine protest

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Ricky Gervais clears up long-running rumour about The Office US

Exclusive: After Carell left ‘The Office’ in 2011, reports suggested that Gervais had auditioned to replace him

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Ricky Gervais explains why he turned down Steve Carell’s Office US role

‘It made no sense at all,’ said actor

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Why don’t Texans want a casino? It’s not the law, it’s the principle

Residents of a Texas town said no to a multi-billion dollar company that wanted to open a casino. They have won for now, Rhian Lubin reports

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‘Kids are still struggling’ Five years on, how the Covid pandemic changed life on a single UK street

IN FOCUS: The entire country was placed into lockdown five years ago this weekend. Colin Drury reports how one street remembers an unprecedented moment in history

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Milwaukee mother deported to Laos ‘shaken’ as she faces decades without family in U.S.

SPECIAL REPORT: Despite being born in Thailand and becoming a permanent U.S. resident, Ma Yang has been sent to the other side of the world to a country where she knows no one. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar traces her journey to the Laotian capital of Vientiane

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A Where’s Wally tattoo and a stick-on Hitler moustache: Non-crime hate incidents now set to be scrapped

As the Home Office announces the scrapping of non-crime hate incidents, The Independent looks back at examples recorded by police forces that are a questionable use of time

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Russian drone pilots hunting down Ukrainian civilians on the streets: ‘Like playing a computer game’

ON THE GROUND: Ukrainians living in bombed-out Kherson tell world affairs editor Sam Kiley how Russian drones target them as they go about their daily lives – and how their brutal injuries are cared for in a hospital forced underground

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‘This shouldn’t happen in a democracy’: Trump tries to arrest academic suing administration over antisemitism executive order

A Cornell student asked a federal court for protection from deportation while he challenged a Trump administration policy on foreign student protest. Two days later, he got an email saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement wanted to arrest him reports Josh Marcus

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Heathrow airport resumes some flights after fire closure leaves thousands stranded worldwide

Counterterror police investigate blaze that caused power cut, upsetting travel plans of up to 300,000 passengers

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Dream holidays in ruins as thousands of travellers reel from Heathrow chaos

Thousands of passengers around the world faced delays and cancellations after the mysterious blaze

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Why Seb Coe lost the room in crushing IOC presidential election defeat

ANALYSIS: Coe finished a distant third in the race for the prestigious role leading the Olympic movement after making enemies inside the IOC, writes Lawrence Ostlere – but that was not the only reason

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Bella Ramsey received autism diagnosis after crew member spotted signs

Actor says they were diagnosed while filming first season of The Last of Us

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UK attractions still lagging behind pre-Covid visitor numbers as tourists stay away

Exclusive: All the top 10 sights are in or very close to London

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The Cheesecake Factory ditches 13 items in shakeup of its massive menu

More than 20 new items are also being added to The Cheesecake Factory’s menu

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F1 news LIVE: Horner explains brutal Red Bull decision to drop Liam Lawson for Yuki Tsunoda

Follow all the latest news from the world of F1 with Lawson’s time at Red Bull ending after just two races

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‘I’m living in fear’: Historian researching India faces deportation from UK for spending too much time in India

Home Office orders Manikarnika Dutta to leave UK for exceeding permitted number of days abroad while conducting research in India

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Meghan Markle sends handwritten note to podcaster concerned about her after backlash

The host of the ‘Not Skinny But Not Fat’ podcast says she was ‘flabbergasted’ by Meghan’s letter to her

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