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As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy

As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world

Politicians have divorced the issue of global heating from soaring prices – Australians must take bold action at the ballot box

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The US president’s latest spurious outpourings – not least his suggestions that Volodymyr Zelensky is a ‘dictator’ and that Kyiv is to blame for Russia’s invasion – have further perturbed European leaders. It now falls to Sir Keir Starmer during his visit to Washington next week…

Editorial: The rule of law is under threat around the world, making it all the more vital to defend it at home

Editorial: As Europe innovates to boost defence without public service cuts, Britain clings to fiscal restraint – an unaffordable risk in an unstable world

A former publican is on a mission to visit every boozer in the UK to boost the flagging industry. I suspect his true motivation is just to have fun, and there’s nothing wrong with that, writes Adrian Chiles

Hear ye, hear ye, a town from an insular island principality off the coast of Spain is feuding with an exiled princess over their coat of arms. No, this is not a headline sung by your local 11th-century bard, but the honest-to-god story that multiple newspapers splashed on today.

A friend sent me the image by surprise and I felt a lot of things very strongly: love, upset, amusement, pleasure and anger, writes Adrian Chiles