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Highlights

Seventies roller rink dubbed ‘Studio 54 on wheels’ gets London reboot

Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace was legendary in LA. Now model Liberty Ross and pop star Usher have teamed up to bring it back to life

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady Why the teachers’ strike could be a long fight

Marie Le Conte Why the Playboy cover by a French minister annoys me

Travel questions

Simon Calder Is it possible to get to Angel Falls safely?

Voices

Borzou Daragahi The international community cannot be allowed to forget about Yemen

Richard Ogier Protests, riots, violence: So, is France still a great place to live?

Scarlett Westbrook Migration and the climate crisis go hand in hand

Long reads

Christian Shepherd An ‘experiment for peace’? The island stuck between China and Taiwan

Isaac Stanley-Becker Trump, the Pope and Yoda: the rise of Midjourney

Naomi Schanen How the climate crisis is killing Mexico’s butterflies

Politics Explained

Politics explained

Adam Forrest Is Sunak’s grooming gangs crackdown just ‘dog whistle’ politics?

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What use is the CPTPP trade deal to Britain?

Politics explained

Sean O'Grady What Covid MP’s suspension could mean for Johnson on Partygate

Politics explained

Andrew Grice Why’s the government trying to house asylum seekers in military bases?

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No 10 admits Brexit played role in chaos amid calls for crisis meeting – latest

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Officials at port say Brexit is a factor behind queues - live

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Corbyn was never a friend, says Keir Starmer – despite previously calling him one

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Grooming gangs don’t just come ‘from one ethnic background’, Tories warned

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Editorials

Editorial On small boats, the government is all tough talk and empty promises

Editorial There are no shortcuts: we will all have to pay to fix sewage leaks

Editorial Trump’s indictment is another demeaning ‘first’ for the 45th president

Culture

Martin Chilton Books of the Month: From Max Porter’s Shy to Michael Frayn’s memoir

Geoffrey Macnab No one loves a revolution quite like the French… or its cinema

Laura Paterson Scotland pauses involvement with Venice Biennale for review

Travel

Ianthe Butt The UK’s hottest new hotels

Travel questions

Simon Calder Will airlines allow flyers on board if they’re off the passenger list?

John Rentoul

The Independent’s chief political commentator

John Rentoul The anti-woke rhetoric from Suella Braverman is working with Tories

John Rentoul Jeremy Corbyn’s terrible warning to Keir Starmer

John Rentoul Top 10 concerts that changed the world

Andrew Grice

Political columnist who keeps his ear to the ground inside Westminster

Andrew Grice Starmer could do with taking a leaf out of Blair’s book

Andrew Grice Humza Yousaf has already made his first mistake

Andrew Grice Rishi Sunak is winning his arm-wrestling contest with Boris Johnson

Chris Blackhurst

Chris Blackhurst A peek behind the closed doors of private family finance

Chris Blackhurst We’ve set a trap for ourselves on Sunak and Starmer’s tax returns

Chris Blackhurst The words ‘bank’ and ‘panic’ go together far too easily

World

Shweta Sharma China vows to ‘fight back’ as Taiwan president begins US trip

Arpan Rai Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on ‘espionage’ charges

News analysis

Maya Oppenheim How the UK’s dearth of transparency around wages harms gender equality

Pat Hurst British firms least enthusiastic on working with start-ups – report

Jonathan Bunn Weak public investment an ‘institutional failure of the British state’

Neil Lancefield Courses to avoid fines taken by record 1.8m offending drivers in 2022

Sport

Jamie Gardner IOC not stalling decision over Russia and Belarus, insists Bach

Imy Brighty-Potts Five powerhouse sportswomen you need to know about

Mary Dejevsky

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

Mary Dejevsky Why the King’s address to the German parliament was so significant

Mary Dejevsky Why the West should worry about the end to the Putin and Xi summit

Mary Dejevsky Twenty years on, what lessons have we learned from Iraq?

America

Ashley Parker Republicans are running on ‘wokeism’ – but don’t know what it is

Alastair Jamieson Witnesses in Trump election meddling probe ‘may have lied under oath’

Vishwam Sankaran ChatGPT cheating by students is already on the rise, surveys suggest