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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As The Independent reveals new details about the catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach that may have exposed to the Taliban details of thousands of Afghans who helped UK forces, wider questions now need to be asked about the way officialdom deals with data

As someone who still has anxiety dreams about high school exams, my heart goes out to the Queensland students who studied the wrong Roman emperor

Editorial: Though the US president’s meeting with Xi Jinping appears to have staved off a global trade war, this is far from a win for Washington

Editorial: Labour must not ignore the warnings contained in the updated index of multiple deprivation

It’s ridiculous for the government to splurge on defence while it slashes spending on its most valuable asset: culture, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Talk of ‘small boats’ may dominate politics and the media, but the cost of living crisis is what most adults spend their time worrying about, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has apologised to the PM for her “inadvertent error” in not paying for a licence to rent her hideous four-bed house in Dulwich when she moved into the more cramped but strategic flat in Downing Street; right next to the PM. “Regrettably”, she was unaware of…

From Mamdani-style visual branding to basketball clips, Catherine Connolly found her audience and spoke in a language they understood, says journalist Una Mullally

Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path

Pedestrians, we must rise up against the disrespectful four-wheeled menace

Israel’s airstrikes have exposed the fragility of Trump’s ‘peace plan’. Without international support, it risks crumbling altogether, says Sanam Vakil of Chatham House