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Highlights

After the reshuffle, Keir Starmer owes Rishi Sunak a thank you

Sunak has done sufficient admin to prepare for a Labour government

Lauren Crosby Medlicott There’s something about Wales

Letters Once again, the government is showing its true colours

Travel questions

Simon Calder What’s the best destination for a last-minute luxury getaway?

Voices

James Moore Households are more confident in their budgets – but there’s a catch

Marie Le Conte Tory MPs should stop interviewing each other on TV – and do their jobs

Ian Hamilton Over-50s have abandoned the workforce – here’s how to bring them back

Long reads

Steven Cutts Could brain-machine interfaces be right around the corner?

Pranshu Verma Site plan: will robots soon be building our homes?

Steven Cutts Could supercapacitors be the energy storage systems of the future?

Politics Explained

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady Why are MPs questioning the BBC chair on Boris Johnson’s finances?

Politics explained

Adam Forrest Does Liz Truss really think she can stage a comeback?

Politics explained

Chris Stevenson What does the Chinese spy balloon mean for US-China relations?

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What do the Dominic Raab bullying allegations mean for Rishi Sunak?

Most Commented

Rishi Sunak finally replaces Zahawi, but Raab survives – live

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Gordon Brown demands Ofgem boss resigns over prepay energy meter scandal

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Lee Anderson, MP med deputy chair

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Editorial: Plans to abandon the ECHR are arrogant and inhumane

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Editorials

Editorial If Richard Sharp has to go, it will not be entirely his fault

Editorial Plans to abandon the ECHR are arrogant and inhumane

Editorial China’s balloon blunder may play right into Joe Biden’s hands

Culture

Mark Hudson Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance is an essential exhibition

Culture Staff The Week on Stage, from Titus Andronicus to 2:22 A Ghost Story

Zoe Anderson Pam Tanowitz star continues to rise in the ROH’s Secret Things

Travel

Vicky Smith Why you should visit Bavaria outside of Oktoberfest

Travel questions

Simon Calder How safe are planes that are used for ‘wet leasing’?

John Rentoul

The Independent’s chief political commentator

John Rentoul The gap between Labour and the Tories is real

John Rentoul In one sense at least, Sunak has shown he truly is the heir to Blair

John Rentoul The Top 10 literary utopias

Andrew Grice

Political columnist who keeps his ear to the ground inside Westminster

Andrew Grice Tory MPs are haunted by the ghost of John Major

Andrew Grice The government is losing the propaganda battle over industrial action

Andrew Grice Shawcross, Sharp, Johnson, Zahawi: The cosy world of ‘Rishi’s mates’

Chris Blackhurst

Chris Blackhurst An issue that strikes at the heart of higher education

Chris Blackhurst The problem with non-doms isn’t what you think it is

Chris Blackhurst There’s no energy behind the push for electric car charging points

World

At 30 years, Portuguese dog Bobi named world’s oldest by Guinness

Kim Sengupta How Italy is learning from the UK’s Brexit mistakes

News analysis

Jon Stone The EU corruption scandal is an extreme example of something common

Harry Cockburn Nothing says ‘backwards Brexit Britain’ better than a new coal mine

Lizzie Dearden Germany ‘coup plot’ shows conspiracy theories are a real-world threat

Chris Stevenson Sunak can’t afford to let U-turns and Tory rebellions stack up

Sport

Lawrence Ostlere Antoine Griezmann: One of the World Cup’s outstanding performers

Lawrence Ostlere World Cup star Mbappe is king of the chateau for France

Mary Dejevsky

Expert on foreign affairs, Russian politics and diplomatic relations between the Kremlin and the west

Mary Dejevsky Who benefits the most from Boris Johnson’s support of Ukraine?

Mary Dejevsky Trans rights and the constitutional ‘nuclear option’

Mary Dejevsky Are we witnessing the start of a brand new entente cordiale?

America

Andrew Feinberg US and Germany send tanks to help liberate Ukraine

Chris Stevenson A new session of Congress – but the same old problems for Republicans

Chris Stevenson Kevin McCarthy: The Republican now facing an almost impossible job