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By being scared, embarrassed or even just nervous, I feel present, like I’m still here

The birthday of Donald Trump’s granddaughter has been forced upon my consciousness because an awful lot of people are being weird about it

As thousands of IDF soldiers prepare to occupy the strip, the president is silent. Israel’s ultra-right could want nothing more, says Chatham House’s professor of international relations, Yossi Mekelberg

We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term

It is 1964 and my father is up a ladder in a second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road. This is how we’d spend our Saturdays, hunting for old stuff: philosophy, psychology, fiction and politics. My father, an Indian, was also looking for something in Buddhist and Taoist texts that would…

I’m not necessarily expecting a ‘love you’ from the person on the other end of the line – but don’t make me feel I’ve outstayed my welcome, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles

He’d like to persuade us that chatting to a bot is like having a real pal. Of course that’s nonsense. Still, it’s more money for him, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The election of George Simion would be a troubling – but understandable – repudiation of the country’s pro-EU establishment, says Andrei Popoviciu, a Romanian investigative journalist

Books have been discussed at book clubs for years. It’s time we gave podcasts the same platform

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Shabana Mahmood’s response is pragmatic but overlooks one group of prisoners whose sentences should be reviewed