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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The collapse of a spying case ahead of the trial is not just an embarrassment for Keir Starmer, it is a reminder that his government must strike a more effective balance in its approach to Beijing – by protecting national security without compromising diplomatic and economic…

‘The Firm’ as a modernising strategy was already falling apart, but with the shocking allegations so fully in the public domain, it has now collapsed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Watching my daughter’s strong sense of self has forced me to reflect on my own adolescence through the wildly misogynistic early 2000s

But will the powerful men who kept company with Epstein be held to account?

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory

Every year, I refused the crates of fruit she tried to palm off on me each autumn. Now I wish I’d taken them, writes Zoe Williams

I am not celebrating the end of the ‘war’ because this was not a war – and it’s not over, either

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back

Editorial: Dispelling confusion about the collapsed case would build confidence that the government has a coherent policy

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty