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For decades we were told that privatisation would deliver better services. The experience of millions of passengers tells a different story, says Steve Rotheram, mayor of Liverpool city region ...

Candidates must focus on two issues: affordability and accountability. They are not competing priorities ...

The president apparently plans to focus on the person he most admires - himself - even if Republicans would rather he didn't ...

The breach won't be the last - or the most dangerous - of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents ...

The will of the elected chamber - and a popular, compassionate piece of legislation - must not be frustrated again by a small minority of peers, says Labour MP for Rochester and Strood Lauren Edwards ...

From volunteering to the WI, we have lost so many ways to meet our neighbours. Making that easier can only be good for society, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown ...

The Greens appeal to young and progressive voters here on defence, rent controls and North Sea oil. The Burnham bounce may be about to hit an obstacle, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ...

The anti-fascist consensus about our Nazi past is fundamental to German democracy. But that, shockingly, is being shattered, says Jörg Lau, an international correspondent for the German weekly Die Zeit ...

The scandals are building, his touch perhaps not quite what it was. And, most of all, his party rivals are beginning to sense an opportunity, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff ...

This is a new and dangerous development: a network of vigilantes who have mobilised as politicians and police have failed to act, says Joe Mulhall of Hope Not Hate ...