• Lahore: NZ, 362-6, beat South Africa, 312-9, by 50 runs
• Black Caps hit record score to book place in Dubai final

New Zealand will take on India in the final of the Champions Trophy after centuries from Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson enabled them to outmuscle South Africa in their Lahore semi-final.

The Black Caps piled on the pressure with a tournament-record score of 362 for six, Ravindra with 108 and Williamson adding 102, and their bowlers finished the job in clinical fashion to seal a comfortable 50-run win.

Dr Andrew Boswell points out major flaws in carbon capture, utilisation and storage, David Stokes says moving away from it would be no bad thing, while Kate Macintosh thinks it is a poor investment

Your editorial (2 March) raises strong fiscal reasons why the Treasury should scrap its £22bn carbon capture and storage plan. The long-term cost is far more, with £59.7bn already allocated in operational subsidies.

However, it is also about the technology. The public accounts committee recently warned of “a high risk that CCUS [carbon capture, utilisation and storage] will not deliver to the timescales or the level of carbon reductions needed”, jeopardising UK carbon targets. MPs also criticised the government’s overreliance on CCUS, neglecting alternatives like renewable energy, saying it risks keeping energy bills high and tied to the volatile gas market, while offering no guarantee of meaningful progress toward net zero.

Finding ‘who you really are’ is a restrictive and divisive preoccupation for young working-class people, says Deborah O’Connor, in response to an article by Ash Sarkar. Plus, a letter by Francis Hanly

Ash Sarkar is right to point out that the left’s sanctimony has alienated sections of the working class (The left keeps getting identity politics wrong – and the right is benefiting from that, 3 March). The young adults I teach include white working- and middle-class boys, and also girls, who struggle to find purpose, place and pride in their identity.

In this increasingly atomised society, many of us have lost our allegiances to broad groups and seek to define our identities in ever-shrinking niches. And in unsafe times, belonging becomes so high-stakes that to be cast from the group for some perceived infringement is terrifying. The need we all have to feel a sense of belonging battles with the desire to be seen for “who you really are”. But the truth is that knowing “who you really are” is your life’s work, and to solidify that in your young adult phase is restrictive and damaging.

New proposal calls for research instead of exclusion of under-16s from algorithms and mobile phone bans in schools

A bill which campaigners hoped would ban addictive smartphone algorithms aimed at young teenagers has been watered down after opposition to tougher measures from the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, and the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson.

The safer phones bill, a private member’s bill from Labour MP Josh MacAlister, will come to the Commons on Friday. It had heavyweight cross-party backing from MPs and a string of child protection charities but will now commit the government to researching the issue further rather than immediate change.

Sir David Manning and other former diplomats highlight major changes in ‘special relationship’

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Something seismic has changed in the US-British relationship that will require the UK to look elsewhere for allies and accept that deals such as cooperation over the British nuclear deterrent are now in question, a former British ambassador to Washington has said.

Sir David Manning told a Lords select committee on international relations that something fundamental was happening to the special relationship and the change was not a blip.

US no longer providing information about targets in Russia, in latest blow after halting military aid

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The US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Donald Trump’s suspension of military aid on Monday, in another serious blow to Kyiv in the war with Russia.

White House officials indicated that both bans could be lifted if peace talks make progress.