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The abject obedience of GOP members and the 4 November election results do not augur well for Republicans in the midterms

After a post-mortem on its Bihar assembly poll performance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has decided to crack down on the booming ecosystem of election-time music. On Saturday, the party said it will send legal notices to singers and creators who used RJD flags, symbols or leader names in their…

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

Editorial: The latest report on the pandemic shows that grave failings were not limited to Boris Johnson. The government needs to prepare for the next crisis

Editorial: The wider TV and film industries have a long way to go in including disabled actors and creators, and leaving stereotypes behind

To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The party sees its harsh policies as politically necessary. But what happened to talking up the value of migrants for a thriving economy and society, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

There is no point pretending that change is not happening, or that it can be avoided. But these are the risks we must address