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Despite the claims that London is ‘lawless’, I’ll be honest: I broadly feel safe in the city I’m lucky enough to call home. As a born and raised Londoner, it has changed beyond recognition in just the 25 years I’ve lived here – and looking even further back, the stories…

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza

Knowsley is a Labour stronghold. But judging by the polls and the people I spoke to, the messages of the right are truly cutting through, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

The Hillsborough campaigners have always said those who harm and mislead the public must be held to account. A new law, in their name, will do that, says justice secretary David Lammy

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Keir Starmer’s government may have broken the spirit of what it pledged in its winning election manifesto, but an alternative administration led by the soft-left mayor of Greater Manchester would represent a repudiation of it. The parliamentary party needs to calm down

Editorial: As protesters go on trial, it is clearer than ever that ministers chose the wrong target and the wrong process

Editorial: The industry’s retreat from the UK reflects a deeper shift about how Beijing is rewriting the rules of innovation

The president has shown no interest in uniting the US, nor in defending free speech – he is weaponizing this time for his gain

The whole pantomime is meaningless. The leader makes his or her speech, the commentariat falls upon it, and to anyone half normal reality simply continues, undisturbed, writes Zoe Williams