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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Reform leader Nigel Farage during a general election campaign event in Blackpool, 20 June, 2024.

    Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

    Frances Ryan
    The British public is more liberal and tolerant than you would believe from our politicians. Time for Keir Starmer to appeal to Britain’s best side
  • A soldier fires a rifle in woodland.

    Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU

    Simon Nixon
  • Prince Harry, in a suit and shirt but no tie, sits – with TV lights behind him – on a sofa in a recording studio opposite a woman on another sofa holding a notebook

    Memo to Harry: megaphone diplomacy isn’t working. You could write to your dad – it only costs a stamp

    Stephen Bates
  • An elderly man's hand on a walking stick

    We all know the crisis in UK social care damages lives and the economy: it’s the Treasury we must convince

    Layla Moran
  • Justine Greening

    Let’s be clear: this Conservative party is dead. Those who killed it should own up so we can move on

    Justine Greening
  • Illustration: Nathalie Lees

    Here’s a radical way to save England’s collapsing justice system: get rid of juries

    Simon Jenkins

  • Germany needs a unifier. In Friedrich Merz, it is getting a chancellor whose instincts are to divide

    Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes

  • The English question now isn’t about Reform or party politics: it’s the rage that means we can’t talk to each other any more

    John Harris

  • Labour promised trans people dignity. I am not sure it knows the meaning of the word

    Nicky Bandini

  • Australians have soundly rejected Trump-style culture wars. Now Albanese must act with courage and vision

    Julianne Schultz

  • It’s right to remember the dead of 1939-45. But keep the anger about current wars too

    Simon Tisdall

  • Baby food pouch hysteria? It’s just another way of making mothers feel guilty

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  • I worked in the Vatican for 18 years – this will be the most unpredictable conclave yet

    Ariel Beramendi

  • My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant

    Sheila Hancock
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How to beat the far right

  • Brazil-Trail-Pic

    A lesson from Brazil – where gig workers have rallied against the right

    Rodrigo Nunes
  • Mexico-Trail-Pic

    What can the global left learn from Mexico – where far-right politics hasn’t taken off?

    Thomas Graham
  • Composite image with Marian Kotleba

    In Slovakia, our grassroots movement helped oust a neo-Nazi. We can do it again

    Alexandra Bitušíková
  • UK

    What smashed the far right in east London? A playbook that said connect, connect, connect

    Margaret Hodge
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Why I quit

  • Gary Nunn

    Thrill-seeking made me feel alive – until the day I hurtled down a volcano on a mountain bike

    Gary Nunn
  • Franco Fubini

    A chance encounter took me from a New York skyscraper to a London food market – and a new life

    Franco Fubini
  • Krissi Driver

    I always needed background noise in my life. Then I turned off my phone and embraced the silence

    Krissi Driver
  • Iman M'Fah-Traoré

    After my mother died, I dreaded my stepfather moving on. Then I realised love isn’t limited

    Iman M'Fah-Traoré
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The Guardian view

  • Trump talks to silhouetted reporters with helicopter and Washington Monument in the background

    The Guardian view on Trump’s shock therapy: warehouse and transport workers are the first victims of a class war

  • Baby asleep on father's chest

    The Guardian view on paternity leave: campaigners are right to demand more

  • Palestinians receive hot meals from charities in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on 2 May 2025.

    The Guardian view on Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza: hunger as a weapon of war

  • Rachel Reeves and Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor and now Canada’s PM, at the fund’s launch on 9 July 2024.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s pension reforms: building on flawed foundations

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Spotlight

  • Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach airport in Florida, 1 May 2025.

    One hundred days in, Donald Trump faces a problem: he can rage, but he can’t govern

    Jonathan Freedland
    Americans are beginning to worry about their future amid a shrinking economy, warnings of empty shelves – and the president’s failed promises
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You may have missed

  • Keir Starmer standing at a lecturn that has a slogan on the front: Securing Our Borders. Behind him to his left is another slogan: Organised Immigration Crime Summit.

    Does human rights law really stop the UK controlling migration? No – and Keir Starmer knows that

    Jamie Burton
    It would be wrong for Labour to collude in the attack on the European convention. It’s fuelled by myths and false narratives
  • A crowd of people gathered around a radio.

    In the Madrid power cuts, I saw patience and common sense – but we were woefully unprepared

    María Ramírez
  • Visual by Guardian Design/Getty Images

    In Poland, we know all about fighting illiberal regimes. Here are our lessons for the Trump age

    Jarosław Kuisz and Karolina Wigura
  • People drinking outside a pub.

    We may be ‘the healthiest generation ever’, but as I work out I wonder ... would I be happier at the pub?

    Isabel Brooks
  • A woman places flowers in front of a portrait of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow, 2009.

    Telling the incredible tale of Anna Politkovskaya has taught me one thing: I could never be that brave

    Maxine Peake
  • Aftermath of a Russian missile attack in Kyiv<br>Young people wait while rescuers search for their 17-year-old friend Danylo Khudia and his parents at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump’s ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians

    Nataliya Gumenyuk
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Cartoons

  • Rebecca Hendin on the Farage-Trump nexus – cartoon

    Rebecca Hendin on the Farage-Trump nexus – cartoon

  • Ella Baron on British politicians’ obsession with ‘change’ – cartoon

    Ella Baron on British politicians’ obsession with ‘change’ – cartoon

    Reform party leader Nigel Farage is the latest to turn calls for change into electoral success
  • Becky Barnicoat on early signs of summer – cartoon

    Becky Barnicoat on early signs of summer – cartoon

    The UK has had the warmest start to May on record, while last month was the country’s sunniest April since records began in 1910

Columnists

  • Polly Toynbee

    Enjoy this victory, Nigel Farage – because it could also be the start of your downfall

    Polly Toynbee
  • Marina Hyde

    Is Farage’s win a new dawn? We could ask Labour, but they’re still fast asleep

    Marina Hyde
  • George Monbiot

    The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear an Evan Davis podcast about heat pumps?

    George Monbiot
  • Zoe Williams

    It’s the anti net-zero, anti-woke Tony Blair – how was this man ever considered a progressive?

    Zoe Williams

  • The Tories have shown Labour exactly how not to fight Farage

    Rafael Behr

  • If Starmer is willing to help Trump host a lucrative golf tournament, will he caddy for him too?

    Marina Hyde

  • Donald Trump, beware – this is what a global liberal fightback looks like

    Timothy Garton Ash

  • We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost

    John Harris

  • Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Youth centres may seem tame fare for politicians. But I’ve seen firsthand how they cut crime

    Simon Jenkins

  • Inside Labour’s top-secret plan for new towns, I see signs of hope

    Polly Toynbee

  • Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

    George Monbiot
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Letters

  • A poster declaring:"Say no to racist Reform UK" in a shop window in Runcorn town centre 48 hours ahead of the byelection

    Labour must offer a hopeful vision to voters, not ape Reform

  • A bluebell wood.

    Government is gaslighting us on planning bill and nature

    • I have used men’s toilets safely for years – and I bet other women have too

    • Passing on precious kitchen objects

    • The questions behind our social interactions

    • An overhaul is not enough: Ofsted must go

    • Dear Diary, this will be fascinating one day

    • Spare us from the Farage barrage

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