The Independent Voices

The different paths of Jeff Bezos and Travis Kalanick in the past few days show that the harsh commercial world, in this case, has celebrated the good guy and punished the bad

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This week, over 120 countries are gathered at the United Nations to agree a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Theresa May, true to form, has not even bothered to turn up and the UK will, shamefully, have no official representative. Meanwhile we know that Trident does nothing to protect us from modern threats

Most people talking about 'populism' don't know what the term actually means, so it's time to set them straight

He died in April, surrounded by his family, and the next morning one of his beloved Spitfires flew over the house

Some say we can replace the German trade with Commonwealth trade anyway. But over 50 per cent of the UK's trade is with or through Europe and less than 10 per cent is with the Commonwealth. Hence a 10 per cent drop in EU trade requires a 50 per cent increase in Commonwealth trade

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'My government will engage in a game of competitive buck-passing over the Grenfell Tower tragedy. It will seek to avoid a Tory party civil war over Brexit (good luck with that one!). And it will do all it can, up to and beyond risking the peace in Northern Ireland by inserting itself in the colon of the DUP, to avoid the general election the country needs if this present paralysis is to pass'

Europe is surely in little mood to pander to the grandiose dreams of the Tory party's right wing

The aim of the European negotiators may be to destabilise the British side. If so, expect a hostile response in the European media, for that is what they will be briefed to report

After years of being told to do the wrong things by the NHS and advised to quit my job, I got angry – and I started trying anything. I got exorcised in Haiti and bathed in chicken blood in South Africa. I had my neck vertebrae manipulated in China and got stoned in Colorado. I wasn't religious but I even went to Lourdes. And eventually I found a cure

Macron wants to try to push his agenda as hard as he can in his first 100 days so he can secure as many successes as possible during his extended political honeymoon

It was Hollande's prime minister Manuel Valls, a classic Socialist Party success story who rose from Spanish immigrant to the second highest office in the French state, who announced that the party was 'dead and gone', and that he wanted to join En Marche! This was within a couple of days of Macron's presidential victory

'You have my sympathies. All I had to do was get 27 different countries to unanimously agree a negotiating position. You had to deal with the Conservative Party'

Local councils are often criticised for building up significant cash reserves – and for borrowing money to plug day-to-day spending shortfalls. But they have been forced into difficult choices by savage cuts by central government

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Beyoncé fans, like most ardent pop fans, are not much interested in plain old human reactions. They want fanfare and pomp and official photocalls from their pop hero. They want a surprise eight-part concept album dropped overnight on Tidal and a video montage with Beyoncé dressed as St Francis of Assisi or perhaps Boudicca, newborn baby under each arm

Though little, in reality, can ever be done about a single terrorist driving a vehicle into any group of innocent people, there are already some lessons that emerge from this episode, and arguably ones that should have occurred to the authorities before

You'll want the boys in blue at your parade, of course, to protect the marchers from heterosexual hate crimes. You know the type – all those attacks on straight pubs, with swastikas and 'You're going 'straight' to hell!' graffiti-d on the windows. Pride is a safe space where you can finally walk the streets as a man and woman without checking ahead

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