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Former England captain was reportedly ‘puzzled’ by the prince’s move at the Invictus Games in 2018

Last week was Beckham week, although I’m not sure it actually was. Not really. Tom Bower’s hatchet job on David and Victoria Beckham had been promised for ages, and I know that many journalists were looking forward to it. After his successfully skewering of the likes of Mohamed Al-Fayed, Conrad…

Graphic designer and typographer who was the art director of Nova and the Independent magazine

Over 200 signatories urge government to reverse decision enabling action against writer under anti-terrorism law

Exclusive: Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen spoke to The Independent about his family and the EU on a visit to London to celebrate the life of his relative Otto von Habsburg

The author’s intelligent and witty first novel effortlessly fuses a love story, a mystery and postcolonial narratives

Prejudice has meant authors from the north of England struggle to find publishers and their stories go unheard

The murder of a Japanese tourist on a fictional Caribbean island sparks a rebellion among the local women in an urgent novel mirroring a real-life case

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