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Britain has too much crime because it has too many police forces, apparently. But don’t fret, Britons, the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has had A Big Idea. Sir Mark Rowley, chief of the ever-showered-in-glory Metropolitan Police, has proposed a radical overhaul of the make-up of police forces. What…

Editorial: Ministers are right that change is required. But more inclusive mainstream schools can coexist with rights to special provision

With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

Editorial: After being sabotaged in the Brexit years, one of the UK’s most important bilateral relationships is back on a firm footing

A response by Ken Livingstone asserted London’s diversity – not as a weakness, but a strength. The politicians now peddling division should read it, says Guardian columnist Hugh Muir

After the inquest into the Aboriginal teenager’s death, the coroner found constable Zachary Rolfe operated in a system that failed on a number of occasions to ‘rein him in’

The superstar singer is being used in an argument about sex, pornography, the male gaze, female desire and blond hair that has been going on since before her grandmother was born. Meanwhile, her autonomy is overlooked, writes Zoe Williams

Today we mark the twentieth anniversary of an act of terrorism, almost a classic act of terrorism, in which 52 people died as a result of the planned bomb attacks by four Islamists, three of them British born. The victims represented modern London, for they not only included 32 British…

Yes, defence spending has to rise – but slashing the welfare state to fund it would be a big mistake, say Shahin Vallée of the German Council for Foreign Relations and Joseph de Weck of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism

Only a robot would attempt to turn it into ‘tasty cookies’. A human would just scoop the sugar out again, writes Emma Beddington