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Keir Starmer is taking the lead on tackling the climate crisis. With the US backing away, now is the moment when other nations must step up, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

The former French president zealously promoted a zero-tolerance penal system. Luckily for him, his prison visitors include powerful friends, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Editorial: The former prince’s retirement from public life is welcome. Problems around royal secrecy and entitlement remain to be tackled

Editorial: The world said ‘never again’ after Darfur’s genocide. Yet it stood by as catastrophe loomed

Elections across the US next week should be easy pickings for the opposition. But they’re finding it hard to beat a player who breaks all the rules, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Other lives: Fashion retailer who opened his own menswear boutiques and dressed windows for Harrods and Selfridges

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Keir Starmer has said his chancellor will face no further action for ‘inadvertently’ failing to obtain a licence to rent out her home, and then misleading him about it. But she has fallen far below the standards that she set for her political opponents

The king is reduced to a blustering CEO, Prince William to his head of HR. This de-princing could leave the entire House of Windsor facing redundancy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The King’s action was brutal and necessary, yet he still has obligations to his brother

Proposition 50 would undermine the best example of reform in redistricting – and any benefit to Democrats might be negligible

There is no popular way to raise taxes, and with Labour tanking in the polls, my advice to the chancellor is this: do it anyway, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee