With great beaches, culture and nature, the resort town of Palanga and the wild Curonian Spit offer an affordable – and cooler – alternative to the Med

Devolution, tax, the EU and immigration: these are all opportunities for growth if Burnham abandons the excessive caution of the past few years, says economist Jonathan Portes

If civil society can show courage with little support, why is the European Commission afraid to claim its own DSA wins, writes Alexandre Alaphilippe.

Minister insists court ruling that blocked deportation of Eritrean man ‘will not undermine basis’ of deal with France * UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer’s returns deal with France will go ahead, a cabinet minister has insisted, despite a high court ruling that temporarily blocked the deportation of an Eritrean man. Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, said the last-minute injunction stopping the 25-year-old from being flown to Paris would not scupper the “one in, one out” scheme for ever. Continue reading...

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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