Comment Rishi Sunak’s inflation promise is absurd – and the electorate will not forgive him It is a political error to target an aspect of the economy the government cannot control. By Wolfgang Münchau
Conservatives Is Rishi Sunak too rich to rule? The Prime Minister, who is worth an estimated £730m, is the first front-line politician to be on the Sunday Times Rich List. By Zoë Grünewald
Germany is isolated once more – and no one now trusts Olaf Scholz For Europe, the German chancellor’s first year in office has been a series of broken promises and fractured relationships. By Wolfgang Münchau
Kenneth Roth on Harvard fellowship controversy: “My biggest concern is for academic freedom” Alona Ferber
Ghosts of the Cultural Revolution Tania Branigan’s Red Memory shows how Xi Jinping’s China is erasing the violence and tyranny of Mao’s purges from history. а> By Katie Stallard
Audio Long Reads “Nothing prepares you”: a journey through Ukraine at war – Audio Long Reads Bruno Maçães and Katie Stallard
Energy and Climate Change Why Rishi Sunak is complicit in Shell’s “greenwashed” mega-profits India Bourke
Cost-of-living Crisis How universal public services can end the cost-of-living crisis Christopher Olk, Colleen Schneider and Jason Hickel
Energy and Climate Change The godfather of the electric car: “The UK will have no auto industry without battery manufacturing” Emma Haslett
Energy and Climate Change Meet the renewables installer who is training the next generation Samir Jeraj
Long reads The twilight of the British Union If Labour wins the next election it will face nationalist opponents in Scotland and England. Could the UK survive? By James Hawes