Holly Baxter
@hollybaxter.bsky.social
Long-form staff writer, The Independent
Novel writer (CLICKBAIT, 2023)
Brit in NYC, originally from Newcastle
Unlikeable female protagonist
I did gentle parenting by mistake
Novel writer (CLICKBAIT, 2023)
Brit in NYC, originally from Newcastle
Unlikeable female protagonist
I did gentle parenting by mistake
Trump held the Cabinet meeting from Hell yesterday. I did the analysis, and you wouldn't believe the amount of "free speech advocates" who got super angry about it!!!!1111!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
‘Taking the gloves off’: Trump just held the Cabinet meeting from Hell
Holly Baxter reports on a wild-eyed, fast-talking Pete Hegseth and Trump’s detour from ‘fat drugs for fat people’ to extrajudicial killings to Melania’s thoughts on the construction noise around the n...
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump held the Cabinet meeting from Hell yesterday. I did the analysis, and you wouldn't believe the amount of "free speech advocates" who got super angry about it!!!!1111!! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Great news! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump and Hegseth finally get rid of woke, pronoun-loving military men with beards!
It’s ‘highest male standard’ — zero fat, zero beards and zero diversity, writes Holly Baxter, as Hegseth exhorts US generals to WAR ... on culture
www.independent.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Great news! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
After nearly 40 years in the US, this family are self-deporting because it's become untenable to stay. One of the sadder interviews I've done in my writing career www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
They’re self-deporting, after nearly 40 years in the United States
Holly Baxter speaks to a family who are packing up nearly four decades of their lives and voluntarily leaving the country before they can be detained
www.independent.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
After nearly 40 years in the US, this family are self-deporting because it's become untenable to stay. One of the sadder interviews I've done in my writing career www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
It just gets worse - and weirder - every time Trump meets with Zelensky www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
This was so much worse than the last time Trump met Zelensky
Analysis: The low point among a sea of low points was probably the U.S. president laughing and saying, ‘So you’re saying if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections?’ Holly Baxter wri...
www.independent.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It just gets worse - and weirder - every time Trump meets with Zelensky www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The strangest members of Trump's inner circle now have more power than they've ever had before www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Meet the strangest members of Trump’s inner circle
They have deep connections with secret societies. His brother is in DOGE. And they may or may not be personal friends of Elon Musk. Holly Baxter spends the day with Simone and Malcolm Collins, who bel...
www.independent.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The strangest members of Trump's inner circle now have more power than they've ever had before www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I know people are going to have *thoughts* about this piece. But after a weekend of lots of articles about how reticent women feel about raising little boys, I'm thinking about how we might do that joyfully
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So you’ve had a boy. Now how the heck do you raise him?
In a world of the manosphere and ‘Your Body, My Choice’, can masculinity be positive, or is all always toxic? Holly Baxter speaks to the experts, including trans men who were raised as girls, about th...
www.the-independent.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I know people are going to have *thoughts* about this piece. But after a weekend of lots of articles about how reticent women feel about raising little boys, I'm thinking about how we might do that joyfully
www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...
www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...
If you're wondering who came up with that Medal of Motherhood idea for the Trump White House, it was Malcolm & Simone Collins. I've been speaking to them over a number of weeks - and there's a big discrepancy between who they 'perform' as and who they really are www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Meet the pronatalist ’trad’ parents telling Trump how to increase birth rates
Simone and Malcolm Collins started out with two elite degrees, a startup and a progressive vision for the future. Now, they’re the internet’s most hated couple, raising their kids inside a new religio...
www.independent.co.uk
April 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If you're wondering who came up with that Medal of Motherhood idea for the Trump White House, it was Malcolm & Simone Collins. I've been speaking to them over a number of weeks - and there's a big discrepancy between who they 'perform' as and who they really are www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Writing this took a lot out of me, in a good way. It's one of those stories where you wake up at 3am to write a few sentences in your Notes app, and where I know I'll stay in touch with the people I interviewed
They were told they’d die young.
Then a ‘miracle drug’ changed everything — and they have to grapple with what that means.
Then a ‘miracle drug’ changed everything — and they have to grapple with what that means.
They were told they’d die young. Then a miracle happened
A new medication was supposed to change everything for people with the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis. But it also changed people’s lives in ways they didn’t expect, Holly Baxter reports
www.independent.co.uk
April 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Writing this took a lot out of me, in a good way. It's one of those stories where you wake up at 3am to write a few sentences in your Notes app, and where I know I'll stay in touch with the people I interviewed