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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: This latest five-day walkout, over yet another double-digit pay demand, coincides with a flu epidemic and adds to already unbearable pressure on the NHS. The BMA is now pushing its luck – which will only help health secretary Wes Streeting to prevail

Councils do not have the money or resource to fix it alone, says Sally Orlopp from the charity Centrepoint

Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership do, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer, The Biography

The Russian strategy of exporting chaos to provoke extremism only works if liberals succumb to cynicism and despair, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The US president’s $10bn defamation claim against the broadcaster is opportunistic, bullying, and almost entirely without legal merit. It should serve as a rally cry to those who seek to defend the corporation as a priceless fortress of public service journalism

Editorial: The US president has repeatedly targeted American media in an attempt to muzzle debate and scrutiny. His attempt to export the bullying must be resisted

Editorial: New appointments for urgent and complex care should be welcomed. But NHS dentistry requires more radical surgery

Rescheduling marijuana might seem an unlikely move for a Republican president – but it perfectly coheres with his ‘America First’ worldview, says academic Kojo Koram