To inhabit the rural today is neither to revive idyllic images of the past nor to project technological utopias onto the ...

The rural population is set to swell by 6 per cent by 2025 leading to a boom in the countryside economy, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs predicted. The 2011 census revealed ...

Politicians should "stand up" for the "rural way of life" because it is facing its biggest threat for 20 years, according to the new chairman of the Countryside Alliance. Nick Herbert, who has been ...

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 ...