Screenwriter who had stammer as a child wrote script about George VI, played by Colin Firth, overcoming speech impediment

Lib Dem leader uses conference speech to urge change ‘so that even the wealthiest racists cannot buy power’

Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya has issued a defiant election message to Vladimir Putin at a Hungarian rally. The current Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban is reportedly an old friend and political ally of Putin. As Russia heads to the ...

Vaughan Gething will become the first black leader of any European country when he is sworn in as First Minister of Wales next week. Addressing Labour Party members in Cardiff on Saturday (16 March), Mr Gething said: “Today, we turn a page in th ...

President also blasts US surge in Islamophobia in comments that could portend broader shift in sentiment towards Gaza invasion

President Joe Biden on Friday praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s bombshell remarks calling for new elections in Israel, just a day after the New York Democrat said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. was an “obstacle” to peac ...

In a statement shared with the Guardian, László Nemes says The Zone of Interest director’s speech ‘resorted to talking points disseminated by propaganda meant to eradicate all Jewish presence’

Sir Keir Starmer accused the Tories of thinking “working people don’t need culture” as he pledged a raft of measures aimed at boosting access to the arts, including a crackdown on ticket touting. However, the Labour leader warned the p ...

The brothers’ separate appearances have stirred further speculation of growing family tensions

Senate majority leader says Israeli prime minister has ‘lost his way’ and warns that country risks becoming ‘a pariah’

Sunak should have immediately returned Frank Hester’s £10m. The PM’s speech about hate suddenly seems a long time ago, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The fallout from Jonathan Glazer’s rousing yet willfully misconstrued acceptance speech makes him the latest in a long line of artists who have tried to use a public stage for good

Middlesbrough MP was placed on precautionary suspension in October over speech at pro-Palestinian rally

Clerics say Michael Gove’s anti-extremism strategy risks targeting Muslims and may threaten freedom of speech and peaceful protest

Director of The Zone of Interest, winner of best international film, has received both criticism and support for his Academy Awards acceptance speech

George Galloway hit out at Labour and the Conservatives in his first House of Commons speech on returning to parliament, claiming most people “feel a wish for a plague on both their houses”. The leader of the Workers Party of Britain criticised t ...

In speech as president of Women of the World festival, queen shows audience objects thrown at palace windows in 1914 protest

Exclusive: Arts Council England has never previously sought costs following a tribunal claim against them, a spokesperson confirmed to The Independent; this is an exceptional case.

Exclusive: Arts Council England has never previously sought costs following a tribunal claim against them, a spokesperson confirmed to The Independent; this is an exceptional case.

Johansson portrayed the Alabama Senator delivering a speech from a “strange, empty kitchen” on the late-night sketch comedy show