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Adrian Ramsay and I are lifelong campaigners who know how to win elections. We will build a coalition of voters against divisive populist politics, says Ellie Chowns, the Green MP for North Herefordshire

Something was shifting in Iran, but now missiles and the return of foreign interference may tear up the green shoots of progress, says Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, founder of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation thinktank

The new inquiry needs a sharp focus on the reality of this horrific abuse. A process hijacked by opportunists will only fail victims again, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

We’re surrounded by news images of death and violence. Why do Florentina Holzinger’s visceral stage productions still have such impact?, asks Guardian columnist Fatma Aydemir

Editorial: Israel’s strikes against Tehran risk spiralling conflict, flout legal norms and may permanently bury the last chance for nuclear diplomacy

Editorial: It is right to confront child sexual exploitation, but this week’s announcement comes against a backdrop of failure

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The government’s decision to launch a full statutory inquiry into historic grooming cases is long overdue. Thousands of girls were failed not only by their abusers but by the very institutions and individuals meant to protect them. At last, a national reckoning is underway

As a gay woman I’d never really fantasised about my wedding, but I made a sartorial odyssey from Savile Row to Shanghai. Just don’t call it menswear, says writer Eleanor Margolis

Our obligations to each other are ill served if laws focus unduly on those who want assisted dying. The priority should be the best palliative care, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

From politics to business, the determination to exclude women is purely emotional – a fact that remains as unspoken as it is obvious, writes Zoe Williams

First the sandwich chain stopped offering hearty Italian bread, then cranberry sauce vanished. I was outraged