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These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likely, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

This week’s Windrush Day reception at No 10 was joyous – but also a reminder of the ugliness behind the ‘island of strangers’ rhetoric, says Labour MP Diane Abbott

Musical history is littered with cases like the failed $100m suit against the singer, and they risk stifling pop music, says music journalist Simon Price

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: There are thousands of people in prison in Britain with no release date, serving sentences that were abolished in 2012

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, plans to leave his money to all his offspring – conceived out of ‘civic duty’

The attacks on lawmakers and a US senator’s callous reaction tell a dark tale of modern America

You don’t have to be a fan of Tucker Carlson to enjoy the spectacle of a Republican civil war

The evidence against the Drax power station is damning, yet the government wants to continue its massive public funding, says campaigner Dale Vince

Those delivering paternalistic lectures to Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae and Sydney Sweeney would do well to revisit recent history, says writer Jennifer Jasmine White

London is embarking on a rewilding journey. The lower reaches of the Thames are, for the first time in centuries, a place to spot seals in abundance, clouds of seabirds, teeming fish, dolphins and even whales. Beavers, carefully reintroduced at Enfield and at Ealing (where they were released by the…