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From the glamorous Harrods-shopping widow, to those offering mountains of cherries from their tree - I’ve met many fantastic people because we happened to live next door to each other, writes Emma Beddington

I was too skinny to realise my dream, she said – but then I got the chance to help others overcome their fear of the water, says writer Gareth Roberts

Nottinghamshire council has borrowed the US president’s playbook – but may soon find that it needs the media more than it thought, says journalist Jon Allsop

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Mental health services must not be allowed to shut themselves off from patients’ families. It is too late to secure justice for young people like Ruth Szymankiewicz, but it can never be too late to learn lessons from hospital failures

In 2007, three years before Cheteshwar Pujara made his debut, Indian social theorist Ashis Nandy remarked that Test cricket was one of the last surviving critiques of the industrial revolution. His point was that, besides its tenacity of focus stretched over five days, it was open to the possibility of…

Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?

Will she go Maga? Will it change the NFL or lift the stock market? The left-field claims are everywhere

Everyone’s got an opinion about the city. But few in the west know the multicultural, unusual Dubai that I’ve seen up close, says poet Momtaza Mehri

Migration is one of the most important issues of our time and needs serious consideration. History will damn much of the UK media for failing to do that, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

Human patterns are cyclical. They always have been and always will be. We let something to continually grow until it reaches the point where it a major factory reset is inevitable, allowing for a new, fresh start. I’ve shared my opinion about London’s nightlife plenty of times and as someone…