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<p>‘When Donald Trump got furious with Volodymyr Zelensky it wasn’t just business, it was personal’</p>
sam kiley

What really lies behind Trump’s unbridled fury with Zelensky

‘The Donald’s’ anger with the Ukrainian president in the White House goes beyond the personal, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley – it shows a global shift in strategy from the US away from Ukraine and towards the Kremlin

<p>King Charles meets Volodymyr Zelensky at Sandringham in show of support on Sunday</p>
Hugo Vickers

The King shows extraordinary courage in supporting democracy

<p>‘The coalition of the willing is the first step in renewed European consensus in helping vital aid to Ukraine’</p>
mike crofts

Trust me, what Starmer is offering Ukraine is a masterstroke

<p>If Keir Starmer thought he was a bridge between Trump and European leaders, the US president has blown it up</p>
john rentoul

Starmer’s fawning at the court of Donald Trump now leaves a sour taste

<p>‘Here’s the thing: These banks and their well-paid employees pay an awful lot of tax and, right now, that money is badly needed’</p>
james moore

Massive bonuses for bankers are back. So be it – we need their taxes

<p>Olivia Rodrigo ‘Obsessed’: ‘I'm so obsessed with your ex / I know she's been asleep on my side of your bed / And I can feel it / I'm starin' at her like I wanna get hurt / And I remember every detail you have ever told me’</p>
Voices

I’m obsessed with my boyfriend’s ex – and it’s becoming unhealthy

<p>‘In a week in which we have Trump’s crackers AI video, I would argue that a dog sound bath is the only sane response’</p>
Kat Brown

Keen to escape a world going mad? Try a dog sound bath

<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has locked horns with Donald Trump before</p>
The Independent View

Europe must ensure Ukraine can win peace from a position of strength

<p>Some people would say, ‘Well, just leave. Why put up with it?’ But that’s easier said than done when you have something to prove</p>
Christine Walsh

I’m a top chef: You wouldn’t believe the sexist horrors I’ve witnessed

<p>‘Most people save a long time to buy a home, and if house prices rise over that time, then you risk being penalised due to circumstances beyond your control. That’s unfair’</p>
The Money Column

Are LISAs fit for purpose?

<p>‘Many of the changes the Climate Change Committee is recommending – heat pumps, electric cars, and lower-carbon diets – will likely become second nature in the next decade’</p>
The Eco Chamber

Climate recommendations? No stress. It’s easy to achieve them at home

<p>Paying for porn legitimises the industry, giving it a set of standards to abide by that moderate what can and cannot be shown</p>
Olivia Petter

Why it’s time we banned free porn

<p>If Keir Starmer thought he was a bridge between Trump and European leaders, the US president has blown it up</p>
John Rentoul

Starmer’s fawning at the court of Donald Trump now leaves a sour taste

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The Independent View

Memo to Jeff Bezos: Never has a free press been more important

<p>Rosamund Hall selects her favourite natural wines</p>
The Wine Down

Natural wines may be incredibly divisive – but please give them a go

<p>Parents are struggling with the cost of baby formula milk after prices had soared (PA)</p>
Dayna Brackley

The baby formula industry is exploiting us – and parents are paying the price

Families are struggling to feed their infants. As the CMA prepares to release its report, Dayna Brackley explores the shocking truth behind the price of baby formula
<p>Heathrow airport hailed a strong business performance (Steve Parsons/PA)</p>
James Moore

If growth is ever to take off, we need to talk about a FOURTH runway

<p>Think rosé’s just for summer? Think again – here’s what to drink in winter too...</p>
the wine down

Think rosé’s just for summer? Here’s what to drink in winter

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<p>The Reform leader Nigel Farage had ruffled feathers earlier by saying on radio that Volodymyr Zelensky was rude to Donald Trump in the Oval Office</p>
Voices

The House of Commons was united against a common enemy – Nigel Farage

Voices

The House of Commons was united against a common enemy – Nigel Farage

Joe Murphy
<p>The Reform leader Nigel Farage had ruffled feathers earlier by saying on radio that Volodymyr Zelensky was rude to Donald Trump in the Oval Office</p>
<p>The tide is turning on bitcoin</p>
Voices

Millennials love bitcoin and now the Boomers are joining in too

<p>The late John Prescott named a crab after him, which was one of the more gentle sobriquets given to the ‘Prince of Darkness’</p>
Voices

‘Give peace a chance?’ Mandy might try giving silence a chance instead

<p>Charles, then the Prince of Wales is greeted by US President Donald Trump (Victoria Jones/PA)</p>
Home News

Have your say: Should Trump’s state visit go ahead?

<p>Keir Starmer greets Canada’s Justin Trudeau as he arrives for a summit on Ukraine at Lancaster House in London</p>
The Independent View

It’s time for Europe to take the lead in Ukraine peace talks

<p>Keir Starmer greets Canada’s Justin Trudeau as he arrives for a summit on Ukraine at Lancaster House in London</p>
The Independent View

It’s time for Europe to take the lead in Ukraine peace talks

<p>Restaurants, warehouses and supermarkets are experiencing particular difficulties since they employ a higher proportion of people from the EU</p>
Voices

Come on, Keir: even right-wingers support the EU youth mobility scheme

<p>We want to know what you think. How can the UK make rail travel value for money? (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)</p>
Rail Travel

Tell us how Britain’s railways can be improved for commuters

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Starmer says Europe ‘must do heavy lifting’ on Ukraine peace deal

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Ukraine war live: Trump attacks European leaders in tirade

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Zelensky should give in to Trump on Ukraine ceasefire, says Mandelson

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Farage accused of ‘licking Trump’s boots’ for calling Zelensky ‘rude’ in Trump clash

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<p>Donald Trump berates Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during Friday’s White House visit</p>
Voices

Trump has lost his right to lead the free west – Starmer must step up

<p>America first: Donald Trump a day after his White House meltdown with Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelensky</p>
Voices

Trump’s new world disorder is a threat to European security

<p>Donald Trump accused ‘disrespectful' Volodymyr Zelensky of ‘gambling with World World Three’ </p>
Voices

Zelensky has laid bare the truth about Trump, the Godfather President

<p>Calvin Robinson has faced backlash after mimicking Elon Musk’s salute at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington DC at the end of January</p>
Voices

Has Calvin Robinson, the oddball Rev, been ‘cancelled’ by the church?

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The Independent View

Ukraine is not going to get the peace it needs and deserves

<p>‘Rachel Reeves has sounded the retreat on nom-doms’</p>
Voices

Is Rachel Reeves inadvertently setting a sly trap?

<p>Calvin Robinson has faced backlash after mimicking Elon Musk’s salute at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington DC at the end of January</p>
Voices

Has Calvin Robinson, the oddball Rev, been ‘cancelled’ by the church?

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The Independent View

Ukraine is not going to get the peace it needs and deserves

<p>‘Rachel Reeves has sounded the retreat on nom-doms’</p>
Voices

Is Rachel Reeves inadvertently setting a sly trap?

<p>International development minister Anneliese Dodds</p>
Voices

Dodds’s resignation is like Robin Cook’s – principled, but pointless

Voices

Dodds’s resignation is like Robin Cook’s – principled, but pointless

John Rentoul
<p>International development minister Anneliese Dodds</p>
<p>Keir Starmer in the Oval Office with Donald Trump</p>
Voices

Starmer had his best day as PM – that doesn’t mean he can trust Trump

<p>Flats for sale in Britain: figures from Zoopla show that the gap in price between them and houses has never been wider </p>
Voices

Want to grab a bargain when it comes to somewhere to live? Try this

<p>Bridget Jones did find her other man, hidden in plain sight/ And I found mine</p>
Voices

Like Bridget Jones, I’ve had my fun with toyboys

<p>Anneliese Dodds has resigned as minister for international development over the prime minister’s bid to cut the foreign aid budget to increase defence spending (Lucy North/PA)</p>
Voices

Anneliese Dodds had to resign over cutting aid to the world’s poorest

<p>Anneliese Dodds has resigned as minister for international development over the prime minister’s bid to cut the foreign aid budget to increase defence spending (Lucy North/PA)</p>
Voices

Anneliese Dodds had to resign over cutting aid to the world’s poorest

<p>Donald Trump praised ‘tough negotiator’ Keir Starmer before discussing the ‘special relationship’ between the US and UK</p>
Voices

Let’s not get carried away with Starmer’s White House ‘love-in’

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Europe

Readers have their say on the US, Nato, and Europe’s security dilemma

<p>‘This is a full rearmament agenda which has little to do with Ukraine itself’</p>
Voices

Diane Abbott: Russia isn’t the threat to the West that Starmer claims

<p>‘If there were an “All the President’s Men” equivalent today, would The Washington Post bother to dig? Would it even be bothered?‘</p>
Voices

Jeff Bezos has plunged democracy into darkness

<p>BP has said it will dramatically cut its renewables spending</p>
Voices

Expanding Gatwick is the perfect excuse for BP to ditch green energy

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The Independent View

Starmer must stick to his principles when dealing with Trump

<p>Badger: stop the cull or Keir gets it</p>
Letters

How badgers could lose Labour the next election

<p>‘This is a can-do, will-do Starmer. No going back now. More of the same, please’ </p>
Voices

This is a can-do, will-do Starmer – more of the same, please

<p>Are Elon Musk’s increasingly wild antics now actively putting people off from buying a Tesla? </p>
Voices

Tesla’s sales and shares are slumping. Are Elon’s antics to blame?

<p>Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has slashed the aid budget to fund a dramatic increase in defence spending (Frank Augstein/PA)</p>
Voices

Making the most defenceless people pay for UK defence is reprehensible

<p>‘This match should never have been scheduled, and by playing it, the ECB and the ICC are complicit in normalising the unacceptable’</p>
Voices

Has English cricket no shame? Playing Afghanistan is a disgrace

Voices

Has English cricket no shame? Playing Afghanistan is a disgrace

Gemma Abbott
<p>‘This match should never have been scheduled, and by playing it, the ECB and the ICC are complicit in normalising the unacceptable’</p>
<p>MP Mike Amesbury speaks to media outside Chester Ellesmere Port and Neston Magistrates’ Court at an earlier hearing (PA)</p>
Voices

My daughter gets no sick pay – but a convicted MP gets paid in prison

<p>Germany Election</p>
Europe

Should the UK and Europe step away from Nato – and US influence?

<p>Starmer announcing a drastic increase in military spending in the House of Commons</p>
Voices

Starmer tries to channel his inner Churchill

<p>Energy prices are rising, as Ofgem hikes its price cap for April</p>
Voices

Yes, there is an energy crisis – but must Britain bear the brunt?

<p>Energy prices are rising, as Ofgem hikes its price cap for April</p>
Voices

Yes, there is an energy crisis – but must Britain bear the brunt?

<p>A Ukrainian soldier on patrol in partially occupied Toretsk, the site of heavy battles with the Russian troops in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on 22 February</p>
Voices

Trump’s axis of friendly dictators is a threat to joint intelligence

<p>Home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures to give police more power when it comes to phone thieves</p>
Voices

Of course the police should have the power to go after stolen phones

<p>Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has joined Prostate Cancer Research as an ambassador (Dan Kitwood/PA)</p>
Letters

Rishi’s prostate cancer mission is well-intentioned… but unnecessary

<p>President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin</p>
The Independent View

America’s siding with tyrannical dictatorships is a step too far

<p>‘Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko is holding prominent citizens behind bars’</p>
Voices

What will Trump do about the 1,400 hostages in Belarus?

<p>‘Financial planning isn’t just about building wealth. It’s also about making better trade-offs throughout life’</p>
Voices

The money advice Brits would give their younger selves

<p>The government has announced the newly rebranded AI Security Institute will no longer focus on ‘bias or freedom of speech’ concerns, concentrating instead on crime and national security </p>
The Independent View

AI is profiting from human creativity – creators deserve a fair share

<p>Trump meets with Macron on Monday and Starmer on Thursday </p>
Voices

We can easily guess how Trump’s talks with Macron and Starmer will go

<p>Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with President Volodymyr Zelensky during his visit to Ukraine in January (PA)</p>
Europe

Starmer’s plan to send British troops to Ukraine divides opinion

<p>It cannot be permissible for the AI profiteers to scrape creative words and pictures from the internet without permission, acknowledgement and payment</p>
Voices

AI must not thrive at the expense of the UK’s creative industries

<p>Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz says US president Donald Trump ‘no longer cares about the fate of Europe’</p>
The Independent View

Europe must prepare to defend itself as US support for Nato wanes

The Independent View

Europe must prepare to defend itself as US support for Nato wanes

Editorial
<p>Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz says US president Donald Trump ‘no longer cares about the fate of Europe’</p>
<p>Family affairs: (From left) Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch </p>
Letters

Who will lead the resistance against Trump? I choose James Murdoch…

<p>Friedrich Merz, leader of the centre-right CDU and winner of the German election</p>
Voices

Why Friedrich Merz is the right man to unite Europe against Trump

<p>Elon Musk has a flair for the dramatic move</p>
Voices

Musk might want to take a look at himself before sending snarky emails

<p>Energy secretary Ed Miliband</p>
Voices

Wait a minute… has Ed Miliband done something right?

<p>Energy secretary Ed Miliband</p>
Voices

Wait a minute… has Ed Miliband done something right?

<p>The clip, made in 2004 for American satirical show <em>Saturday Night Live </em>and once thought deleted, is a spoof commercial for ‘Donald Trump’s House of Wings’</p>
Voices

What Trump says about Zelensky proves it takes one to know one…

<p>Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for Europe’s ‘independence from the USA’</p>
Voices

Is Europe ready for a US-free Nato?

<p>Vladimir Putin needs Donald Trump to ensure his survival by sanctioning his ‘win’ in Ukraine</p>
Letters

Give Trump some credit – he has turned the tables on Putin

<p>Many readers backed calls for mandatory retesting</p>
Home News

Regular tests, and age limits – readers debate future of road safety

<p>Andrii Serhieiev, a Ukrainian soldier with the 53rd brigade who lost a leg in battle, stands in front of a destroyed Russian armoured vehicle near the front line</p>
The Independent View

Ukraine’s valour has shown how one person can change history

<p>Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky gives a press conference in Kyiv</p>
Letters

Trump and Musk could – and should – learn from Zelensky

<p>‘Remodelling the EU and forging Europe into a powerful economic and political democratic bloc will take 10 years. But Starmer can signal that change this week’</p>
Voices

How Starmer can stand up to Trump in Washington summit

<p>Sinkholes have appeared in the village of Godstone, Surrey</p>
Voices

Never been worried about sinkholes? here’s why you should be

<p>Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, seems happier to side with the brutal tyrant Vladimir Putin than to support America’s allies</p>
Voices

Why I support The Independent in opposing Trump’s assault on democracy

<p>‘We don’t need to cosy up to Trump or Putin. We need to stand up to bullies before they create more havoc’</p>
Letters

The UK must be strong on Trump – and on Putin

<p>An election poster showing AfD candidate Alice Weidel is displayed on a street in Magdeburg, eastern Germany</p>
The Independent View

The best defence against the AfD in Germany is to offer hope

The Independent View

The best defence against the AfD in Germany is to offer hope

Editorial
<p>An election poster showing AfD candidate Alice Weidel is displayed on a street in Magdeburg, eastern Germany</p>
<p>‘The letter is revealing because it so clearly sees Nigel Farage as the main threat faced by Labour’</p>
Voices

Starmer’s secret letter reveals that he sees Farage as the real threat

<p>‘It’s no wonder the birth rate is plummeting: for Millennials and Gen Z, having a child is unaffordable – and it rules out sunny holidays’</p>
Voices

The half-term office exodus is far worse for parents – trust me

<p>‘If a stalker feels confident in attending a televised event full of cameras and the media, what are the chances for someone like me to stay safe?’</p>
Voices

If Emma Raducanu isn’t safe at work, what hope do we have?

<p>‘The case surrounding Mangione is, in many ways, the most brazen display of misogyny anyone could ask for’</p>
Voices

Luigi Mangione highlights our fetishisation of ‘dangerous’ men

<p>‘The case surrounding Mangione is, in many ways, the most brazen display of misogyny anyone could ask for’</p>
Voices

Luigi Mangione highlights our fetishisation of ‘dangerous’ men

<p>With the current direction of the USA, we can only face the challenge it poses by working with our neighbours who share our values</p>
Voices

Now the UK should think twice about sharing intelligence with America

<p>Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones has said ministers must justify every line of government spending</p>
Voices

The Treasury AI game exposing some very tricky trade-offs

<p>Morocco is already exploiting the huge potential of solar energy</p>
Business Comment

Why solar power from Morocco could keep energy bills down in the UK

<p>Lisa Nandy’s father was on the board of the National Theatre</p>
Voices

Protests and boycotts are killing off the arts

<p>‘Re-conviction rates in this country clearly show that prisons are not working’</p>
Letters

Prisons are the problem, not the solution

<p>Customers at the Apple store in New York</p>
Voices

It’s time to say no to the government spying on our secrets

<p>A senior minister has said the UK is in a ‘potentially good position’ with its relationship with Donald Trump, provided it handles the US administration ‘correctly’ (Pool via AP)</p>
Americas

Readers praise Independent for pledging to speak out against Trump

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are right to defend themselves against Putin’s aggression</p>
The Independent View

We will not be silent in the face of Trump’s assault on truth

<p>Customers at the Apple store in New York</p>
Voices

It’s time to say no to the government spying on our secrets

<p>A senior minister has said the UK is in a ‘potentially good position’ with its relationship with Donald Trump, provided it handles the US administration ‘correctly’ (Pool via AP)</p>
Americas

Readers praise Independent for pledging to speak out against Trump

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are right to defend themselves against Putin’s aggression</p>
The Independent View

We will not be silent in the face of Trump’s assault on truth

<p>Former education secretary Michael Gove took over as editor of The Spectator in 2024</p>
Voices

Get real, Gove: you’re the one with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome)

Voices

Boris is a Trump apologist – where is his Churchillian spirit now?

<p>The only female is engaged, monogamy being an owl undertaking/ That cannot be snatched from the claws of his Eurasian rival</p>
Voices

Hoots of desire: how an owl’s yearning led to cross-species obsession

<p>Sir Keir Starmer plans to suggest sending fewer than 30,000 European troops to Ukraine</p>
Europe

Tell us if you think British troops should be deployed in Ukraine

The Independent View

Starmer’s tough stance on Ukraine is necessary for dealing with Trump

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Voices

I’m single at 40 – and I feel like a hag

<p>The former PM will also be conducting a Q&A in the pro-Remain city of Edinburgh</p>
Voices

£121 for a Boris ‘meet and greet’? How desperate must he (or we) be?

<p>‘The precise composition of the inevitable coalition could depend on tiny percentages, and on how many of the smaller parties exceed the 5 per cent threshold to get into parliament’</p>
Voices

German election is litmus test for Trump’s right-wing impact on Europe

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