Sean OGrady
@sogrady.bsky.social
Journalist, Associate Editor at the Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/author/sean-ogrady
Every woman should feel safe in an NHS maternity ward www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Every woman should feel safe in an NHS maternity ward
Editorial: The staggering shortcomings in care for mothers at hospitals and failure to implement recommendations to correct them have resulted in lives lost and ruined – the health secretary could def...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Every woman should feel safe in an NHS maternity ward www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Donald Trump is selling out his allies while he still has time www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
Donald Trump is selling out his allies while he still has time
The most transactional president in US history, now nearly 80, knows he is running out of road in his second term and has realised there is more to gain by hiking the price of Pax Americana than by in...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Donald Trump is selling out his allies while he still has time www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama is extraordinary study in resilience www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama is extraordinary study in resilience
Narges Rashidi is brilliant at conveying the silent trauma that pervades this BBC drama series
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December 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama is extraordinary study in resilience www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
This Budget will squeeze working people until it hurts www.independent.co.uk/voices/budge...
This Budget will squeeze working people until it hurts
Editorial: Make no mistake, this was a traditional Labour ‘tax and spend’ budget of the kind not seen since before the days of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – and while it will please the party, for man...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This Budget will squeeze working people until it hurts www.independent.co.uk/voices/budge...
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Reeves to hit 100,000 high-value properties with mansion tax in Budget
Reeves to hit 100,000 high-value properties with mansion tax in Budget
Reeves to hit 100,000 high-value properties with mansion tax in Budget
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Reeves to hit 100,000 high-value properties with mansion tax in Budget
Prisoner 951 tells the harrowing story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s abduction www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Prisoner 951 tells the harrowing story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s abduction
Narges Rashidi is brilliant at conveying the silent trauma that pervades this BBC drama series
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Prisoner 951 tells the harrowing story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s abduction www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Why Donald Trump can’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
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Sorry, Donald, but there is no Nobel Peace Prize for appeasement
The craven plan being cynically cooked up by Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart to carve up Ukraine is no peace deal, writes Sean O’Grady. The Nobel committee shouldn’t even dream of tapping up...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Why Donald Trump can’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/ukrai...
Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid
Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of B...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson
Editorial: That 23,000 people in England alone lost their lives because of the dithering of the former leader is a fitting – and awful – denouement to the political career of a man who was never up to...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This shameful Covid report leaves no way back for Boris Johnson www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
The casual cruelty of the MoD’s Afghanistan cover-up is now clear for all to see www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
The casual cruelty of the MoD’s Afghanistan cover-up is now clear for all to see
Editorial: The damning findings of parliament's most powerful select committee show a toxic cycle of failures that put our allies’ lives at risk – even as bureaucrats tried to keep their mistakes a se...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The casual cruelty of the MoD’s Afghanistan cover-up is now clear for all to see www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Are the latest Epstein revelations the beginning of Maga’s end? www.independent.co.uk/voices/lates...
Are the latest Epstein revelations the beginning of Maga’s end?
Despite being named in newly released emails from the convicted paedophile, Trump insists he has no case to answer – and that is starting to fracture his base, says Sean O’Grady
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November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Are the latest Epstein revelations the beginning of Maga’s end? www.independent.co.uk/voices/lates...
Why is Rachel Reeves considering lifting the two-child benefit cap? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Why is Rachel Reeves considering lifting the two-child benefit cap?
Voters are split over the issue but removing one of the last planks of austerity would give Labour something to cheer about in an otherwise grim Budget, says Sean O’Grady
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November 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Why is Rachel Reeves considering lifting the two-child benefit cap? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It’s coup season – can the PM survive this nasty new strain of the sniffles? www.independent.co.uk/voices/coup-...
It’s coup season – can the PM survive this nasty new strain of the sniffles?
Labour is once more showing its formidable talent for self-destruction, prompting Sean O'Grady to wonder if there are any potential cures that Keir Starmer and his troubled MPs can reach for
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November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s coup season – can the PM survive this nasty new strain of the sniffles? www.independent.co.uk/voices/coup-...
This BBC crisis is about more than one stupid error – to be saved it must be reformed www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
This BBC crisis is about more than one stupid error – to be saved it must be reformed
Editorial: The state broadcaster has been struggling for years with its coverage of the most sensitive subjects, and bold changes must be made if it is to be rescued from its own worst instincts
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November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This BBC crisis is about more than one stupid error – to be saved it must be reformed www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Donald Trump’s $1bn lawsuit won’t finish the BBC off – but Nigel Farage might www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-t...
Donald Trump’s $1bn lawsuit won’t finish the BBC off – but Nigel Farage might
As the US president contemplates suing the corporation over ‘Panorama’, the Reform UK leader is already dancing on its grave. Both men share an ideological project that would thrive on the broadcaster...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Donald Trump’s $1bn lawsuit won’t finish the BBC off – but Nigel Farage might www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-t...
Labour cannot afford many more weeks like this one www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Labour cannot afford many more weeks like this one
Editorial: Starmer’s government has been busy emulating the ‘chaos and confusion’ that characterised the final days of the last Conservative administration, ahead of a Budget that will be profoundly d...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Labour cannot afford many more weeks like this one www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
Why it’s not too soon for Angela Rayner to write a memoir www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Why it’s not too soon for Rayner to write a memoir
She may not have been in Downing Street for long but, with lots of voter appeal and plenty still to say, the former deputy prime minister is right to get writing, says Sean O’Grady
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November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Why it’s not too soon for Angela Rayner to write a memoir www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Elon Musk is worth every cent of his trillion dollars (with reservations) www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-...
Elon Musk is worth every cent of his trillion dollars
Tesla shareholders have put the world’s richest man on the superhighway to being our first trillionaire – and it could be a breakthrough moment for all of mankind, says Sean O’Grady
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November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Elon Musk is worth every cent of his trillion dollars (with reservations) www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-...
Why Reeves could impose pay-per-mile Budget tax on electric cars www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Why Reeves could impose pay-per-mile Budget tax on electric cars
Fuel duty on petrol vehicles has been frozen for so long that the Treasury has set its sights on electric cars instead, as Sean O’Grady explains
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November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Why Reeves could impose pay-per-mile Budget tax on electric cars www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
David Lammy finds himself in a perilous position www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
David Lammy finds himself in a perilous position
Editorial: Forgetting to wear a poppy to his first appearance leading PMQs now looks like the least of the justice minister’s problems. His lack of candour with the Commons about yet another foreign-n...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
David Lammy finds himself in a perilous position www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...