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Kirsty Major

@Kirsty_Maj0r

Kirsty Major is Commissioning Editor of Independent Voices. She hosts The Independent's Double Take podcast. 

Fashion & Beauty

11 best one-piece swimsuits

Protestors hold up a banner during a protest held in solidarity with a University of London cleaners' strike
Voices

A bad Brexit could cripple workers’ rights

Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge at last night's Baftas
Voices

Feminism isn't about what colour Kate Middleton wore to the Baftas

Labour's animal welfare proposal is welcome, but so would housing welfare reform.
Voices

Pets shouldn't have more rights than tenants

Yes, it takes a bit of time and effort to remember to carry around a reusable cup, but it also takes decades for a disposable cup to decompose
Voices

I’m ready to be proven wrong by the ‘latte levy’

Sian and Kirsty get to grips with their boards
UK

Inside the UK's new paddleboarding destination

Voices

Double Take: Why we need a four day work week

Voices

Double Take: I'm queer and trans, stop debating my existence

PornHub's most searched terms include a lot of incest
Voices

Online robots are creating porn – with disturbing results

Voices

Double Take: A united Ireland is the only practical solution to Brexit

Voices

Double Take: Is Blair responsible for our current malaise?

Voices

Double Take: Millennials don't deserve handouts from Hammond

Voices

Philip Hammond’s nightmare housing plan only benefits the rich

Voices

Philip Hammond’s nightmare housing plan only benefits the rich

Clive Lewis has denied claims made about his behaviour at the Labour conference
UK Politics

Clive Lewis accused of groping woman at Labour's 2017 conference

Estate regeneration against the wishes of tenants is a pattern that has played out across 195 estates in Labour-held councils in London
Voices

Why are Labour councils in London being accused of social cleansing?

Demonstrators protest against US President Donald Trump outside Republican congressman Darrell Issa's office in Vista, California
Voices

Double Take: There’s only one way out of the Russia probe for Trump

Bex Bailey speaks at a Labour Party Annual Conference
Voices

Labour will stand by Bex Bailey if it truly believes in its own values

Bex Bailey speaks at a Labour Party Annual Conference
Voices

Labour will stand by Bex Bailey if it truly believes in its own values

Voices

Double Take: Why women, not men, can joke about sexism

It takes more than a T-shirt, mate
Voices

Male feminists need to start practicing what they preach

Corbyn said that Labour would concentrate on nationalising ‘the essentials’ first
Voices

Don't be upset that Corbyn wants to nationalise Greggs

Voices

Will Boris Johnson or Philip Hammond's version of Brexit prevail?

George Monbiot at the World Transformed festival in Brighton
Long Reads

George Monbiot: How we get out of the wreckage caused by neoliberalism

Voices

Double Take: This is how nationalisation could work

Voices

Boris Johnson has once again proven that he is not fit for office

From day to night: Oslo nightclub is just as charming in the morning as it is after nightfall
Food and Drink

Brunch on Saturday

Voices

Double Take: This is how nationalisation could work

Voices

Boris Johnson has once again proven that he is not fit for office

From day to night: Oslo nightclub is just as charming in the morning as it is after nightfall
Food and Drink

Brunch on Saturday

It became clear that people are genuinely excited about the transformative social vision the Labour leader’s new form of politics offers
Voices

Corbyn will win the next election thanks to Momentum’s festival

Voices

Corbyn will win the next election thanks to Momentum’s festival

It became clear that people are genuinely excited about the transformative social vision the Labour leader’s new form of politics offers
'I look forward to working with the UK business to help them manage and implement that change,' said Ms Powers-Freeling
Voices

Uber had this coming, it was never just a ‘tech platform’

Voices

Double Take: Who are the working class?

Voices

Double Take: How to solve the housing crisis

Voices

No one outside of the EU actually wants to trade with Brexit Britain

Voices

No one outside of the EU actually wants to trade with Brexit Britain

The left, especially those who took part in anti-racist protests, never saw the need to hide their political beliefs under any other label
Voices

There’s no such thing as the ‘alt-left’ and white supremacists know it

Voices

Double Take: Brexit has made political satire redundant

Voices

Brexit isn't going to be a wedge between Corbyn and young voters

Voices

We are heading for a tech bubble burst in 18 months

Voices

Podcast: As a GP I know that the UK no longer has a NHS

Momentum's My Nearest Marginal app has changed the way members canvass during elections
Voices

Momentum are in the middle of building their next secret weapon

Voices

With the Tories so weak, Labour's war is the height of stupidity

The capital saw the loss of 600 firefighters and 10 stations during Johnson’s tenure as Mayor of London
Voices

The real reason Boris Johnson suddenly cares about public sector pay

Voices

Double Take: I got it wrong about Jeremy Corbyn

McEnroe has said Serena Williams would rank 700th in the world if she played in the men's tour
Voices

John McEnroe, here is what you should have said about Serena Williams

Voices

I've been asked to audition for the role of terrorist 30 times

Voices

I've been asked to audition for the role of terrorist 30 times

Voices

Double Take: Republicans will turn their backs on Trump over Russia

Voices

Double Take: A brand new podcast from The Independent coming soon

The flats in the Kensington Row development, in Kensington, west London, where some residents affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster are to be re-housed
Voices

Rich people are complaining about living alongside Grenfell residents

Voices

Double Take: Why we no longer trust the media

Voices

Double Take: Why we no longer trust the media

Voices

Double Take: Years of Tory austerity led to the Grenfell fire

Voices

Grenfell residents are homeless while luxury properties sit empty

Young voters have never held so much power at the ballot box – if they choose to turn up
Voices

Young people, the future of the country is now in your hands

Theresa May's record on national security as Home Secretary is being put under scrutiny
Voices

May should resign – but not for the reasons Corbyn said

Ariana Grande is holding a tribute concert in Manchester
Voices

Victim blaming young girls after Manchester won't defeat Isis

During the EU referendum, Vote Leave spent a whopping 98 per cent of its £6.8m budget on digital advertising, mostly via Facebook
Voices

Facebook ‘dark ads’ will win this election for the Tories

Asia de Cuba
Food and Drink

Latin and Asian fusion menu and Scandi sandwiches

There is still a large proportion of potential voters that could be wooed by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party
Voices

These are the voters Labour should target if it wants to win

Lifestyle

6 tips for finishing a 10k race from a reluctant runner

Only 16 per cent of women negotiate compensation when a job offer is made
Voices

California just made it legal to pay women less than men

TV debates in 2010 and 2015 did not go well for incumbent Prime Ministers
Voices

May admits she has nothing to say to the public by refusing TV debates

Voices

May admits she has nothing to say to the public by refusing TV debates

TV debates in 2010 and 2015 did not go well for incumbent Prime Ministers
The UK has committed £2.3bn to the humanitarian crisis in Syria since 2012, but it isn’t enough
Voices

It's ironic that Boris Johnson just called Lebanon a 'moral example'

I lost a lot of things moving between houses: bedding, kitchenware, lamps, rugs… and then my vote
Voices

As a sofa surfer, I know how hard it is to vote

Since May 2016 the Home Office has the right to deport any Eastern European rough sleepers
Voices

Homeless organisations are helping to deport migrants

Food and Drink

Small Turkish plates and sweet French treats

Food and Drink

Small Turkish plates and sweet French treats

PewDiePie, a Swedish vlogger, has lost deals with Disney over anti-Semitic videos
Voices

When did fascism become so cool, PewDiePie?

Launching UBI is the key to finding the next Mark Zuckerberg
Voices

Facebook makes millions from my data, I deserve the basic income

Lifestyle

Strong by Zumba review: 2017's new fitness trend

Nice ice, baby: sub-zero yoga in Arctic Sweden
Europe

Trying out ice yoga in Swedish Lapland

The Prime Minister discussing – or rather, not discussing – the Trident malfunction on ‘The Andrew Marr Show’
Voices

May just damaged democracy on The Andrew Marr Show

A lack of facts rarely stops Trump from forming an opinion
Voices

After the Berlin terrorist attack, Trump did Isis' work for them

Demonstrators protest against Trump in Chicago, Illinois
Voices

Americans are in denial about Donald Trump

Daniel Ek, chief executive of Spotify, launching the streaming service in Japan
Voices

Is it me or is Spotify's latest campaign creepy, voyeuristic and mean?

Inside the first UK branch of the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse restaurant
Food and Drink

Brunch on Saturday: Boutique steakhouse and comforting Thai soup

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt leaves Downing Street
Voices

Our Government's position on sex education is becoming ridiculous

The look on Trump’s face when he found out exactly how much work he had to do before January
Voices

If you thought Brexit was bad, take a look at Trump's transition team

Someone better tell Trump that the president can’t deport by edict
Voices

Obama deported 2.5m immigrants, so don't act so shocked about Trump

The Front National leader said her victory in the French election is the next step in the political wave sweeping the globe
Voices

Marr was right to interview Le Pen, but his questions were all wrong

Melania Trump
Voices

Melania Trump's efforts to stop cyberbullying should start with Donald

fivethirtyeight.com gives Hillary Clinton a 78.8% likelihood of winning the election
Voices

These are the most shocking Hillary Clinton emails found so far

The UK's only tandem hearse is one such alternative idea being adopted to mark the life of a loved one
Voices

What I learned about dying from funeral industry experts

Melania Trump
Voices

Melania Trump's efforts to stop cyberbullying should start with Donald

fivethirtyeight.com gives Hillary Clinton a 78.8% likelihood of winning the election
Voices

These are the most shocking Hillary Clinton emails found so far

The UK's only tandem hearse is one such alternative idea being adopted to mark the life of a loved one
Voices

What I learned about dying from funeral industry experts

One in six of UK workers are currently self-employed
Voices

Uber's happy go lucky drivers never existed

Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, with bloodied face, sits with his sister inside an ambulance after they were rescued following an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo
Voices

If you care about Omran, look to the Calais Jungle

The militant right may no longer be as visible as it was, but nationalist sentiment is
Voices

The far-right isn't dead – it's gone mainstream

Food and Drink

Brunch on Saturday

The Corbynite movement Momentum was set up to build on the surge that swept Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership
Voices

Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters are celebrating, not gloating

Patrick Bateman lookalike Donald Trump Jr has also made worrying allusions to gas chambers
Voices

If you think Donald Trump is scary, take a look at his kids

Theresa May, a former returning officer for the Oxford Union, is very concerned about safe spaces
Voices

Theresa May’s Cabinet is the ultimate safe space for rich white men

Many of the refugees in The Jungle would be allowed entry into a UK immigration policy based on the Australian points system
Voices

An Australian points-based system won't limit immigration - here's why

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