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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Keir Starmer has said his chancellor will face no further action for ‘inadvertently’ failing to obtain a licence to rent out her home, and then misleading him about it. But she has fallen far below the standards that she set for her political opponents

The king is reduced to a blustering CEO, Prince William to his head of HR. This de-princing could leave the entire House of Windsor facing redundancy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The King’s action was brutal and necessary, yet he still has obligations to his brother

Proposition 50 would undermine the best example of reform in redistricting – and any benefit to Democrats might be negligible

There is no popular way to raise taxes, and with Labour tanking in the polls, my advice to the chancellor is this: do it anyway, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

To save democracy, here’s a mantra we should all live by

What is and is not constitutional is determined, in effect, by loyalists on the supreme court and their bad-faith enablers

Films such as Frankenstein still use disability as shorthand for moral depravity. But human behaviour is far scarier than human appearance, says journalist Kathryn Bromwich

The singer’s lyrics about an open marriage gone sour resonate with many women her age. They’re sick of pretending to be fine with relationships that are not, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

In California, daily life under Trump is marked by sporadic resistance and avoidance. Neither will defeat the autocrats, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As The Independent reveals new details about the catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach that may have exposed to the Taliban details of thousands of Afghans who helped UK forces, wider questions now need to be asked about the way officialdom deals with data