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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: In U-turn after U-turn, Labour’s dizzying inconstancy shows a staggering disregard for millions of women who are owed what they have worked for all their lives

The actor was promoting her new lingerie line – and in 2026, marketing requires more than a glossy ad

I travel to my friend’s house with a bag of dice and other strange accoutrements that, in an 80s teen film, would lead to me being thrown into a dumpster. I love it

Universal credit to rise faster than inflation, benefit hurdles eased, extra help for children and young people … I bet you had no idea, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene

After relatively little in the news about the massacre of civilians inside Iran this month, the world is finally beginning to catch up on the horrors unfolding. Protests against the economic situation quickly turned to calls to bring down the government and grew to 186 towns and cities across Iran.…

As senators refuse to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown, a partial shutdown is likely. For Democrats, it’s the right move

I’d been catching sight of a billboard displaying what I suspected to be some rogue punctuation every time I drove into Cardiff. This time, I had to stop and capture the evidence, writes Adrian Chiles

The ‘mother of all deals’ is as much about the tariff-heavy geopolitics of the Trump era as it is about bilateral trade, says Asian studies professor Ravinder Kaur

After months of community resistance, the president backed down. Leadership from below succeeded when politics as usual failed, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Manners and respect are the norm for kids here. Treating them like a nuisance won’t do anything to help France’s declining birthrate, says Helen Massy-Beresford, a British journalist who lives in Paris