Agricultural distress in the 1920s is routinely quoted among the causes of the Great Depression. This article challenges the conventional wisdom. World agriculture was not plagued by overproduction ...

David Arnott is a PhD research student at Bangor University currently working on a Welsh European Funding Office Flexible Integrated Energy Systems (FLEXIS) project. The aim of this part of the ...

Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of history looking at the past behind the present. On a Cambridgeshire farm, he compares the current milk crisis with the 1930s wheat crisis. Show more Jonathan ...

To me, just about anything baseball legend Yogi Berra has to say is amusing. There’s a vast collection of his quotes over the years, and one relevant to an issue at hand is, “It’s déjà vu all over ...

WHAT HAPPENS if a large, high-income economy, burdened with high levels of debt and an overvalued, fixed exchange rate, attempts to lower the debt and regain competitiveness? This question is of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...