Nicola Sturgeon’s immense political talent is undeniable. The nationalism was the problem

Many of her admirers gloss over her desire to break up the UK as Scotland’s first minister. But in her memoir, it plays a starring role, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Salmond, independence strategy and sexism: what we’ve learned from Nicola Sturgeon’s book

Former Scottish first minister also reflects on gender recognition and the Covid crisis in new memoir

Lord Desai obituary

Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and history

Should we ban opinion polls?

They claim to reflect public sentiment. But they’re better thought of as just another species of misinformation

Digested week: Reeves’s tears and standing room only for Macron’s Westminster speech

Crying in the Commons is not unusual – unless the chancellor is doing it – as attention turns to Trump’s state visit

Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat

Paul Webb said he ensured books and material were pulled from children’s section of Kent libraries, but it emerges they were never there

Should we give babies the right to vote?

Strange as it may seem, it’s hard to refute the arguments for truly universal suffrage

‘I could hear the Camerons sniggering at us’ – Sarah Vine’s How Not to Be a Political Wife, digested by John Crace

Michael Gove’s ex on her compassionate pieces for the Daily Mail, struggling to survive on an MP’s salary, doing Sam Cam’s ironing and becoming a laughing stock after Brexit

Politics can destroy relationships – just ask Sarah Vine and Michael Gove

In her memoir, Vine pins the downfall of her marriage on Brexit. But the finer details tell a story we might all be familiar with, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian view on Ed Davey’s mission: build politics around care. If not, cruelty will define it

Editorial: Personal experience shapes the Liberal Democrat leader’s agenda, offering a humane alternative and exposing a state oblivious to quiet sacrifice

Residents of Dorset village that inspired Thomas Hardy fight back against expansion

Row breaks out in Marnhull, location used in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, over plans to build 120 homes

Gerry Adams considers suing Meta over alleged use of his books to train AI

Former Sinn Féin president says Facebook owner included at least seven of his books in trawl of copyright material

A Climate of Truth by Mike Berners-Lee review – a white-hot takedown of environmental policy

The climate professor is justified in identifying the thinktanks, fossil fuel companies and politicians responsible for exacerbating the climate crisis but his list of remedies is underpowered

Michael Lewis and John Lanchester: ‘Trump is a trust-destroying machine’

Before the 2024 election, the two authors tried to stop Donald Trump’s plan to gut the US federal government with an investigation that transformed the image of civil servants from bureaucrats to superheroes. Now their worst fears have been realised

For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat