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Coronavirus diary: I didn’t think any of it applied to me – but suddenly it did

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2020/03/22/17/central-london-5.jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 I was woken by the silence. That is when I should have known the world…

Family immigration rules that put a £18,600-a-year price tag on love are ‘heartbreaking’

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/09/17/The%20Independent%20logo%20main.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 When Ashley, a minister in the Salvation Army, and his Georgian wife, Teya, returned from…

New immigration rules accused of splitting up families

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/09/17/The%20Independent%20logo%20main.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Britons on low incomes are being forced to live apart from their families because of…

4,115 names in 24 hours, and counting (continued)

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/11/09/17/The%20Independent%20logo%20main.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 Today we publish the names of almost 5,000 people who have joined us in calling…

When obsessive adoration turns into hate: Nick Cohen on the sinister haunting of the famous

https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/10/25/11/newFile-1.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&crop=3%3A2 ANDREW Farquharson is by any definition an obsessive fan. The unemployed fitness fanatic stalked, phoned…