Memphis Barker

Memphis Barker is Deputy Comment editor of the Independent

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Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson in Broad City

Love Friends but want something more feminist, racially diverse, and risqué? Then watch Broad City

The days of an all-straight, all-white cast of twentysomethings, lounging around an apartment like Monica's, are over

Samsung Smart TV: If you don't mind, I'll take one that's a little more stupid

Welcome to the Internet of (Snooping) Things

Isis video: Piers Morgan thinks you need to watch it to find a man burning alive outrageous. He's wrong

To click is to play into the hands of these murderers

‘Affordable’ housing? Tell me another...

When private property developers attack the Government for not making them build enough cheap homes, you know something's gone wrong

The leader of Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau holding up a flag as he delivers a message

The BBC has just done more to eradicate ‘terrorism’ than all our wars since 9/11

You can say that without being utterly facetious

Heart of stone: the Temple of Karnak

Cruising from Aswan to Luxor: A lost jewel on the Nile

Memphis Barker lives like a pharoah with a whole riverboat and the nation's archaeological treasures all to himself

A quarter of a billion pounds a year is being spent on computers in schools, according to the latest figures from Besa, the educational suppliers’ organisation (Getty)

Technology in schools? Just a mad, bad iPad fad

Spend the money on teachers instead

Andy Murray's logo: The new dark mark

This will get the kids talking in the playground

French President Francois Hollande observes a minute of silence surrounded by heads of state including (LtoR) Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Donald Tusk, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan and Queen Rania Al Abdullahas they attend the solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris

Charlie Hebdo: Political Islam is more ally than enemy in the fight against jihad

To mistake them for each other plays into the hands of terrorists

Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party

I thought about voting for the Green Party. Now I'm unthinking it

If it sounds too good to be true, it might be in the their manifesto

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The Budget 2015

What George Osborne said... and what he really meant
Life under Isis: Sunnis face an even bleaker future in Iraq if the militants' reign of terror is finally defeated

Life under Isis

Sunnis face an even bleaker future in Iraq if militants' reign of terror is finally defeated, says Patrick Cockburn
New genetic map of Britain shows successive waves of immigration going back 10,000 years

A nation of immigrants

How a remarkable new genetic map tells a story of Britons' survival
The weird world of Boris Berezovsky: Alexander Litvinenko's inquest has provided an intriguing insight into the dead tycoon

The weird world of Boris Berezovsky

Alexander Litvinenko's inquest has provided an intriguing insight into the dead tycoon
Apple, Google and Amazon are said to be chasing second acts - will their efforts to evolve succeed?

Apple, Google and Amazon are evolving

Rumours abound that Apple is moving into cars, while Google is searching for profit streams that don't involve ads and Amazon is selling itself as more than a store. Kevin Maney reports
Soaring sales of wet wipes have contributed to increase in debris on beaches and 'fatbergs'

Why are we obsessed with wet wipes?

Simon Usborne investigate what impact these moist squares of pseudo cloth are having on our environment
Common interview: The rapper-cum-actor reveals the films that influenced his role alongside Liam Neeson in Run All Night

Common on films that influenced him

The rapper-cum-actor was the star of the Oscars. And now he is facing off with Liam Neeson in a high-octane thriller
Goût de France: Gallic gastronomy is fighting back with a series of slap-up suppers

Gallic gastronomy is fighting back

French embassies across the world, plus more than 1,000 restaurants, will serve dinners designed to show off the classic Repas Gastronomique des Francais
The Railway Children stage show and Harry Potter studio celebrate the golden age of steam

Celebrating the golden age of steam

The Railway Children is now on its second lengthy run in a specially-built venue behind King's Cross station, while the Harry Potter studio tour opens a new, permanent attraction tomorrow - complete with the red Olton Hall steam engine
Team is parachuted in to raise morale and marks at St Aldhelm's Academy in Poole

Education: Reforming St Aldhelm's Academy

Three years ago the academy in Poole had the worst GCSE results in the UK and was temporarily closed after a damning Ofsted report called it 'dysfunctional and unsafe'
11 best women's fragrances for spring

11 best women's fragrances for spring

Update your fragrance choice with our spring scents
Barcelona 1 Manchester City 0: Pep Guardiola returns to witness genius Lionel Messi at work

Barcelona vs Manchester City

Guardiola returns to witness Messi's genius at work
Kevin Pietersen's Test Match Special debut: Cue mayhem and incident as KP takes the mic

Pietersen's Test Match Special debut

Cue mayhem and incident as KP takes the mic
Life under Isis: How the jihadis 'poke their noses into everything' and govern all aspects of life in the territory they have taken

How Isis govern every aspect of life in the territory they've taken

Harsh fines for apparently harmless violations help keep the organisation's finances intact, reports Patrick Cockburn in the third part of his series on the Islamic State
Gemma Arterton on 'The Voices' and why she's turned her back on Hollywood

Gemma Arterton on 'The Voices' and why she's turned her back on Hollywood

The former Bond girl on her new black comedy - and why pretty-girl roles aren't enough