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24-hour parks and alcohol bans: what cities could learn from Paris’s ‘heatwave mode’

Following a devastating heatwave in 2003 that killed 15,000, France has adopted four alert levels to help people cope with extreme temperatures, says Helen Massy-Beresford, a British journalist and editor who lives in Paris

The Guardian - UK

From hype to reality: Assessing TVK’s first month in Tamil Nadu

The 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election has fundamentally altered the state’s political landscape. Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), the two-year-old party led by actor-turned-politician C Joseph Vijay has done what several political formations failed to achieve over the last three decades: break the near six-decade dominance of the Dravidian duopoly. For…

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Is the Cockroach Janata Party threatening the system, or just letting off steam?

While addressing the crowd gathered at the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest at Jantar Mantar on Saturday, founder Abhijeet Dipke invoked the famous Spiderman quote: “With great power comes great responsibility.” It is worth holding him to that standard, and asking what CJP has done right, and what it has…

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Keir Starmer couldn’t beat the curse of Brexit – a politics poisoned by nationalism

The outgoing prime minister’s efforts to mobilise a healthier kind of patriotism fell flat. Andy Burnham may stand a better chance, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Britain is still stuck on its ex – but after 10 long, lonely years, does the EU feel the same way?

As a podcast host, I speak daily to people on both sides of the breakup. A decade after the referendum, it’s clear who’s moved on, says Paris-based podcaster Katy Lee

The Guardian - UK

Does microneedling work? I’ll wait for better evidence before repeatedly stabbing my face

Microneedling is a popular way to try to embrace eternal youth. But the quality of research into the practice is poor

The Guardian - AU

Graftbuster in the dock

A Supreme Court decision to launch an independent probe into a gold-bar bribery claim is more than just the due process of law.

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Reversing Brexit is the Labour Party's best hope

In the next few weeks, Britain's ruling Labour Party will almost certainly select a new leader to replace Keir Starmer, the country's deeply unpopular prime minister. But this prospect has not inspired hope of a political or economic renewal. Among British media and, more importantly, global financial markets, the consensus…

Bangkok Post

'Waste not, want not' a winning mantra

Waste management is one of the most essential public services a city can and must provide. When it breaks down -- even briefly -- thousands of tonnes of rubbish pile up fast. Foul odours spread across neighbourhoods. Worse still, disease can follow, turning a local nuisance into a public health…

Bangkok Post

Hope and doubt shadow new Iran agreement

If is a big and most consequential word in the English language. The word connotes wishes, conditionality, and often aspirations. If also is one of the shortest words holding a very long explanatory meaning which embodies hope but just as easily signals fatalism.

Bangkok Post

Voices: A decade after Brexit, we need the EU back on Britain’s side

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If the country follows the public mood and resolves its fractious relationship with its most important neighbour, things can only get better over the next 10 years – especially compared to the last 10

The Independent UK

Air conditioning for all? France divided over response to record-breaking heatwave

The heat is on. Enough to make Parisians take the plunge into the once notoriously polluted Canal Saint Martin. France this Tuesday awakening from its hottest night on record, enough to test the tempers of city dwellers as they sizzle under the zinc roofs of top floor apartments built for…

France 24

The Guardian view on extreme heat: as risks escalate, adaptation plans are dangerously lagging

Editorial: Record-breaking temperatures should focus minds on the UK’s lack of preparedness for the climate dangers ahead

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the politics of Scotland: like Labour, the SNP is in need of renewal

Editorial: The sentencing of Peter Murrell brings limited closure to a major scandal. But John Swinney’s government faces new challenges in a changing landscape

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How the Govt’s wager on AI could backfire

Comment from Victoria University: When Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced 8700 public service job cuts alongside a drive to embed AI across government, it was framed as freeing public servants from drudgery

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‘We’ll swallow our ego’: Te Pāti Māori ponders the ultimate tactical sacrifice

Analysis: A one-tick campaign could lead to a one-term govt by deliberately producing an overhang in Parliament to give the left a majority, writes Marc Daalder.

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Six steps to manage illicit tobacco trade

Comment from Otago University: Tobacco industry studies claim the black market is booming, but independent data shows a different story.

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Welcome to the Andy Burnham show: the Westminster frenzy sucking up the British media’s attention

Despite Friday’s awful rail crash, it was the PM-in-waiting’s journey from Manchester to London that dominated the headlines, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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I kept fearing the worst on our family holiday. But when a real emergency happened, I learned I can cope

Worry was a pesky, uninvited visitor. I envied my partner and children who appeared genuinely switched off and relaxed

The Guardian - UK

JD Vance has written another book? Couldn’t he just concentrate on his day job?

As the US tries to limit the damage from the Iran war, its vice-president has admitted he doesn’t understand diplomacy, writes Arwa Mahdawi. Of course not: he’s been too busy churning out another memoir

Newslaundry

What the Lucknow fire says about the everyday gamble of being alive in India

What lies in an afternoon? A few desperate phone calls, corridors swallowed by thick black smoke, shattered windowpanes, and lives trapped inside rooms that had seemed utterly ordinary only minutes earlier. Imagining death by burning is not easy. Many find a grim comfort in believing that smoke suffocated the victims…

The Guardian - US

A super El Niño threatens disaster. Trump is handling it recklessly

The administration interrupted data streams that are key to forecasting. These systems should not be vulnerable to political whims

The Guardian - UK

Look at Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister. This is no ‘decent man’ who got unlucky

From Gaza to the Peter Mandelson row, his abandoned pledges to the ‘island of strangers’ claim, Starmer’s time at No 10 was truly dismal, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Air pollution is a fixable problem – just look at how London and New York have cleaned up their acts

We’ve shown that rapid, measurable progress is achievable in our cities. Here’s how that can now be replicated worldwide, say mayor of London Sadiq Khan and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg

The Guardian - UK

I could listen to gardeners chat for hours. It always sounds like they’re up to no good

Blame my uncle and his contempt for rules and regulations, writes Zoe Williams

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