Opinions from the Independent newspaper

• Donald Trump won hearts and minds in Pakistan this week — and we know he needs our help 23/07/2019
  The US president needs Pakistani help with brokering a deal in Afghanistan and allowing hundreds of US troops to go home. This isn't the first time America has reached out, either
• Trump could be the clown who solves the 70-year Kashmir crisis. India and Pakistan should let him try 23/07/2019
  The people of Kashmir have suffered long enough. It's time to roll the dice
• A monumental effort is required to tackle climate breakdown – it is time the media stepped up to the plate 23/07/2019
  In the Second World War, Britain's media was a crucial part of the war effort to save the country from fascism. Now it must meet its responsibility to tackle the climate emergency
• I thought I was being 'blacklisted' by university colleagues, so I demanded to see their emails 23/07/2019
  You may have had your suspicions too, and thought you had no way of proving them. But a simple data request can reveal the obstacles placed in your path
• There's still time for the Queen and Theresa May to kill Boris Johnson's no-deal Brexit – here's how 23/07/2019
  May's official resignation on Wednesday might just spring up some surprises

Opinions from the Guardian newspaper

• In believing Carl Beech, the Met put the public at risk | Ceri Thomas 23/07/2019
  Operation Midland officers must ask themselves how they came to abandon evidence-based policingMany months before the Panorama investigation into Operation Midland was broadcast in October 2015, I sat in a cafe in central London with a very senior officer who had just left the Metropolitan police. He was there as a go-between, doing a favour to ex-colleagues […]
  Ceri Thomas
• The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s leadership: the years of a clown | Editorial 23/07/2019
  If the UK’s new prime minister thinks he can sup with populists like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump over Brexit, he risks ending up as dessertThe Conservative party has finally got a leader it deserves. As the UK’s next prime minister, Boris Johnson won’t be able to outrun boring facts and hide from bad publicity. He faces the most daunting challenge – that o […]
  Editorial
• The Guardian view on violence in Hong Kong: an attack on the idea of democracy | Editorial 23/07/2019
  Criminals may have launched the bloody assaults on rail passengers, but the incident is more likely to inflame than quell the anger at authoritiesWe are very unlikely to find out who arranged for thugs to rampage through a Hong Kong train station, armed with wooden sticks and metal rods, hospitalising 45 peaceful passengers. Yet if their approach was indiscr […]
  Editorial
• Brace yourself, Britain, for a long stint of bad government under Boris Johnson | Rafael Behr 23/07/2019
  Recent history has shown rogue leaders can win elections. Our new PM can be unfit for office but effective at staying thereIf Boris Johnson is the answer, what was the question? To the 92,153 party members who voted for him, the new Conservative leader offers a remedy to two ailments: persistent membership of the EU and shrunken Tory popularity. Applying gen […]
  Rafael Behr
• Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's election as Tory leader – cartoon 23/07/2019
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  Steve Bell