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Selling off assets to foreign owners, deregulating markets, and liberalising financial services only leads to inequality and instability, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation

Given recent history and the state of the world now, perhaps the thing that makes older people happiest is not being under 45, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

To counter the crisis caused by Trump, Friedrich Merz has little choice but to abandon decades of military and economic caution

The president has just four years until a successor takes the reins, but the new approach he has forged – exceptionalist, isolationist – is likely to endure, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The combination of being attacked from the sky above and the rising waters beneath our feet is terrifying

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As the chancellor prepares to present her plans for social security reforms she must assess whether her cost-cutting measures are unnecessarily punitive, or indeed realistic

Editorial: The chancellor-elect’s proposals for gamechanging spending on defence and infrastructure are the right response to a new era

Editorial: A pan-Arab coalition resists US-Israeli policy on Gaza, while Donald Trump’s reported Hamas talks signal a potential reversal of longstanding strategy

As the White House handpicks members of the press pool, questions for the president amount to fluffy valentines

To celebrate his wife Priscilla Chan turning forty last weekend, Mark Zuckerberg did something truly extraordinary. The CEO of Meta, known for years as a buttoned-up computer nerd, donned the same sparkly jumpsuit worn by Benson Boone at the Grammys and re-enacted his viral performance for their enraptured guests. “This…

I’m not saying everything was better in the good old days – but a lot of things really don’t need the latest bells and whistles, writes Adrian Chiles