Helen Coffey
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 47
- Latest publication
- Sep 26, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Independent
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Can you keep someone prisoner in a care home against their will? (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. There is a line is utterly chilling coming from actor Rosamund Pike in her portrayal of Marla Grayson in 2021’s I Care A Lot, which exposed just how much the American guardianship system is open to – and rife with – abuse. There’s two types of people in this world: predators and prey. I am a f***ing lioness.” In the film, the cold, unscrupulous Grayson is a professional legal
Fines for flagging? How St Georges cross went from patriotic to racist nuisance (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. It’s hard to pinpoint when it happened – the exact moment when the England flag went from being a benign show of patriotism to a dog-whistle call to racism. At one point, the St George’s flag was even considered the “safe”, more inclusive alternative to the union jack, the latter having been co-opted by the National Front in the late 1970s. Football was arguably the driving f
This fashion event assault on a protestor shows how casual violence against women is (opens the original)
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I may not work in fashion, but I can tell you what’s definitely not a good look: physically restraining a woman, pushing her to the floor, covering her mouth with your hand and pinning her down with your legs so that she cannot speak or escape. Especially when you’re a man in a position of power, and it’s done in plain sight in the middle of a fashion show. Shocking video footage of the above incident was shared online after Steven Kolb, CEO and president of the Council of Fashion Designers of A
We should be more scared of climate change destroying humanity than AI (opens the original)
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If I were to tell you that a huge existential threat to national security, economic prosperity and all human life on Earth was currently looming over us, your terrified mind might jump straight to AI. After all, 10 years is what we’ve been generously given before humanity is potentially wiped out, according to the latest tech bro chat. That number was recently lobbed into public discourse like a grenade by Evan Hubinger, a leading safety researcher at Anthropic, who warned in a series of Twitter
Welcome to the £1,000 driving licence (opens the original)
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Learning to drive was once seen as an essential rite of passage. It symbolised more than the sum of its parts: the crossing of one of the first invisible barriers into adulthood. Getting your licence was physical proof that you were deemed a responsible enough member of society to be trusted behind the wheel of a speeding vehicle; being able to transport yourself around, rather than relying on parents or public transport, was the ultimate flex of independence and freedom. But while being able to
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