South Sudan: World's youngest nation is still at risk
South Sudan will be on life support and suicide watch for the foreseeable future
South Sudan will be on life support and suicide watch for the foreseeable future
Edwin Richard Hatfield, my father died Valentine's Day 1966 when I was 15 months old
Mr Corbyn's planned criticism of David Cameron's migrant benefit demands will alientate Labour supporters who are worried about immigration
Did you choose that arts degree to "signal your virtue" – to demonstrate your social superiority by picking a fancy-sounding, but useless, qualification?
These letters appear in the 15th February 2016 edition of The Independent
Some of us think he's right that courts must test the veracity of the claims
BBC3's move to a digital future comes as broadcasters fight to win the youth audience
The idea that the world wide web is a kind of information Wild West has become something of a cliché. There is a degree of truth in it. If you already know the answer you're looking for, the chances are you'll be able to find it somewhere online: the internet has been a boon to conspiracy theorists. On the other hand, the internet will lead you to questions you would not otherwise have asked.
Vice Chancellor of Birmingham University, Sir David Eastwood, earns almost three times more than the Prime Minister
To the "hang 'em, flog 'em, eletrocute 'em, and just for luck lynch 'em" persuasion, Scalia was an archangel
'I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks'
I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power
Unlike food, the maximum time an individual can go without water seems to be a week
Valentine's Day ramps up our quotidian levels of online schmaltz in an extreme extension of social networking's primary impulse: crafted illusion
Got a question for the Betars? Now's your chance, by tweeting them @Handy using the hashtag 'longestlove'
If teachers expect a struggling child to carry on doing badly, then this policy will have failed
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