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There’s no such thing as a perfect legislative solution. It’s about finding one that’s workable – for the community, for the economy and for nature

The government shutdown is not an accident. Trump’s budget would push millions into poverty and must be stopped

Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policy

The media loves to manufacture outrage about what students get up to – and to discipline those who dare challenge conservatives, says Jason Okundaye, a Guardian assistant newsletter editor

Keir Starmer is taking the lead on tackling the climate crisis. With the US backing away, now is the moment when other nations must step up, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

The former French president zealously promoted a zero-tolerance penal system. Luckily for him, his prison visitors include powerful friends, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Editorial: The former prince’s retirement from public life is welcome. Problems around royal secrecy and entitlement remain to be tackled

Editorial: The world said ‘never again’ after Darfur’s genocide. Yet it stood by as catastrophe loomed

Elections across the US next week should be easy pickings for the opposition. But they’re finding it hard to beat a player who breaks all the rules, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Other lives: Fashion retailer who opened his own menswear boutiques and dressed windows for Harrods and Selfridges

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