The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

In the fourth and final part of our serialisation from LINDA PENTZ GUNTER’S book No to Nuclear, she asks how anyone can see nuclear as value for money given its constantly ballooning costs

CARLOS MARTINEZ responds to liberal hawk Simon Tisdall’s evidence-free China-bashing and asks whose agenda it really serves

Edinburgh’s upcoming by-elections offer tenants a chance to put politicians under pressure over soaring rents and a council that has repeatedly sided with landlords and developers, says ADITI JEHANGIR

In the third of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER explains how the world had a chance to build an energy system around renewables more than 70 years ago — instead, it chose nuclear

Elon Musk says AI will make work optional. The world of abundance he predicts actually spells the end of the capitalist system, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM

Indian students have fought for the right to education, schooling us all in the process. Comrades from the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) — UK comment on the resistance and its ripples here

Tony Benn’s constituents chose him by an overwhelming majority — but because he had inherited a peerage, parliamentary rules declared their choice invalid, writes MAT COWARD

In the second of a four-part serialisation from her new book No to Nuclear, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER highlights how the industry is searching for ways to preserve its relevance

The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON

GUTO DAVIES reports on a placing of a third commemorative plaque in Tonypandy in remembrance of left-wing militancy

MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips