Good news! 📰🏡 The first of two refuges built by The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign for women escaping domestic abuse has been completed. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

🇬🇧 One Dafe House, So Many Reasons To Say Thank You ▫The house the Independent built: First safe haven for women fleeing domestic abuse is finished ▫Athena Stavrou ▫is.gd/VX0wSI #frontpagestoday #digital #UK The Independent

There are less than 30 trans women registered within the FA system, none at a professional level. So that's under 30 players who have presumably found teams where they are accepted and can play the sport they love. That safe space has been stolen from them. It's so sad.

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

I spoke with hasanabi weeks before he revealed to his streamers that he’d been detained upon returning from overseas. Read the full interview regarding his views on Donald J. Trump and Democrats here: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

We're pleased to have worked with Athena Stavrou of The Independent on this piece about our new Pushed into Poverty report on #maternity pay #endpregnancypoverty independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Threatening concrete action marks a shift in the UK Government's words, but the time for ultimatums has long gone. They must act now to end the catastrophic death and destruction in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinian children cannot wait any longer. The UK must end its

At Hay Festival, Yulia Navalnaya says #DonaldTrump's negotiations with Russia on Ukraine are making Vladimir Putin “feel stronger” Athena Stavrou reports independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

🚨Exc: Son of 70-yo Irish woman in Israeli detention has pleaded for her release. Susanne Björk, also detained in West Bank, says they had to "fight" to be allowed to go to the toilet during interrogation + calls Israeli claims false. Both live in the UK. independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

For those obsessing about Glastonbury maybe focus on the real issue. A genocide being live streamed on our phone screens as the world watches on

🇬🇧 PM: Women Must Not Face Choice Of Violence Or Streets ▫Keir Starmer vows to 'pull every lever' to halve attacks on women and girls has he praises completion of second safe house ... ▫Athena Stavrou ▫is.gd/RVt5qJ #frontpagestoday #digital #UK The Independent

“How will I provide for my children today? I can bear the hunger, but what about my children?" The words of uni lecturer Ihab Abdullah to Bel Trew. Our report: Starving Palestinians trade gold for flour and risk death for aid in Gaza 👇 independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

Air drops into Gaza are dangerous PR. Designed to deflect headlines and release pressure on complicit Western states. They are not a safe, scalable, dignified way to distribute food to 2 million starving people.

One year ago, the quiet seaside town of Southport found itself in the national spotlight for the most tragic reason imaginable. I went to the town to speak see how the community has dealt with such a loss over the last year: independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…