Long before they created Joey, the equine hero of ‘War Horse’, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones used puppets to tell the stories of their native South Africa. On the eve of the London revival of ‘Ubu and the Truth Commission’, Boyd Tonkin meets the pair pulling the strings
It was a sense of powerlessness among the Palestinian population that drove the previous intifadas, and that can be found in abundance today
She, not Bernie Sanders, is overwhelmingly the second choice of Joe Biden supporters
Bribery strikes at the heart of UK justice. It is pernicious; the slightest hint that is acceptable and it will only grow
The following letters appear in the 15 October edition of the Independent
If you're a woman, niceness is your obligation - as well as your downfall
There are signs of the Islamic Republic's meddling across the Middle East
He’s a metrosexual, says the Daily Mail in its headline. What they’re saying, in effect and with no real evidence, is that he’s a big old jessie
For all its heavyweight muscle, ‘Britain Stronger in Europe’ lacks financial clout
The porn industry is notoriously bad for its treatment of female stars. So what does it take to make a feminist porn film, and is it really possible to produce porn that is separate from the industry?
A second outing for the new politics, and Jeremy Corbyn does it quite well, but David Cameron can still do it better
So far this year, three-quarters of Domino pizza orders have been made online
The Tories seem to forget that they were the last government - at some point they will have to take responsibility for their handling of the nation
We filter out information that does not fit our exsiting biases
Plus Michael Gove, hero of the left, and more from Alastair Campbell
In the not-quite half-century since homosexual acts in private were legalised in most of the UK, we have seen a transformation in the fortunes of what we now call the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual a
Marlon James’s third novel is such a stand-out winner, in both its bold form and equally bold subject matter