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Protesters angered by police violence, parliamentarians’ wages and inflation are staging nationwide demonstrations.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Accommodating those who must wait for the Home Office to work through a backlog of claims will inevitably risk unpopularity. But now the government has won its appeal against the closure of one protest-hit Epping hotel, Yvette Cooper must be allowed to proceed with phasing out…

Editorial: The US president’s move against Lisa Cook shows his despotic bent, but the Fed was never democracy’s guardian. It’s time to rethink who really controls money

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

A hunger-monitoring group has confirmed what we already knew about Palestinians’ suffering. The US has the power to end it

On the bright side, it’s not as bad as France, where the government may have to be bailed out by the IMF. There the tumbrils are rolling and the French Left is planning what looks like a general strike, with the fun slogan, “Bloquons tout” or ‘block everything’. Emmanuel Macron…

The restaurant means little to activists – it’s simply a tool to bludgeon perceived enemies and flex conservative power

This humanitarian catastrophe is barely of passing interest to Donald Trump. The curse of our times is how little we can do about it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The president’s unconstitutional vision would bring a racist practice back to a city that has banned it for decades

So-called experts are warning women about men who try too hard to look like feminists. There are worse red flags than that, says writer Rachel Connolly