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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Keir Starmer and Donald Trump

    Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t

    Martin Kettle
    I’m not saying Britain should refuse every sort of free trade agreement with the US, but there may be options that better suit Labour’s purpose
  • Emma Brockes

    It’s the economic end times, so obviously I’m thinking about my takeaway coffee

    Emma Brockes
  • A protest against welfare cuts outside parliament in Westminster on 26 March 2025.

    The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It’s time to hear from them

    Frances Ryan
  • Liz Truss speaking on stage.

    Truss social: the latest venture from a woman who really knows what the people want

    Zoe Williams
  • Sam Fowles

    The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean

    Sam Fowles
  • Online Harms Bill – amended Eleanor Shakespeare illo WEB

    In Trumpland, ‘defending free speech’ means one thing: submission to the president

    Rafael Behr

  • Trump-style book censorship is spreading – just ask British librarians

    Alison Hicks

  • How Netflix turned a Black dating show loved by millions into TV trash

    Nels Abbey

  • No bab, Brummies don’t sound stupid – all the ignorant people who mock our accent do

    Emily Watkins

  • My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive

    Jackie Bailey

  • What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space

    Marina Hyde

  • Why was I deported from Hong Kong? There should be no more ministerial visits until the UK gets an explanation

    Wera Hobhouse

  • While Starmer’s hand was forced on British Steel, it’s time to forge ahead with more nationalisations

    Owen Jones

  • Europe’s race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online

    Johnny Ryan
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How to beat the far right

  • 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
  • Australia

    As a hate-filled kid, I turned to far-right ideology. Now I help others avoid that path

    Matthew Quinn
  • Illustration

    In these dark times, Americans must harness the power of the civil rights movement again

    Al Sharpton

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

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, meets China’s vice-premier, He Lifeng, during a visit to Beijing earlier this year.

    The Guardian view on UK-China relations: a dilemma made sharper by Brexit

  • A pile of fly-tipped rubbish in Birmingham

    The Guardian view on Birmingham’s bin strikes: a wake-up call for Labour

  • A man walks past an illuminated Nvidia logo

    The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s industrial policy: inward turn by ultimatum

  • A claim form for carer’s allowance

    The Guardian view on unpaid carers: the scandal of their allowances is far from over

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Spotlight

  • Trade war FLAGS

    The ‘new world order’ of the past 35 years is being demolished before our eyes. This is how we must proceed

    Gordon Brown
    We have seen the conflict and tragedy that can follow when an old era collapses. Countries that believe in multilateralism must come together now
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You may have missed

  • A triangular wooden sauna floating on a lake

    My stay at a Swedish eco-retreat was blissful. What’s emerged about it since points to a much darker truth

    Laura Hall
    Stedsans seemed to embody Scandinavia’s love of nature – until its owners moved to Guatemala, apparently leaving behind 158 barrels of human waste
  • Scottish Liberal Democrats Hold Spring Conference In Inverness<br>INVERNESS, SCOTLAND - APRIL 04: Former Scottish Conservative MSP Jamie Greene (L) joins Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey (R) and Scottish leader Alex Cole-Hamilton (C) at the Liberal Democrat Scottish Conference at the Eden Court Theatre after joining the party this morning, on April 04, 2025 in Inverness, Scotland. During the UK general election in July 2024, Scottish Liberal Democrats gained four seats in Scotland, including a surprise victory in the constituency of Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, coming in fourth with 9.7% of the overall vote share. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

    I’ve quit the Tory party because it’s become a Trumpesque mess. Others will follow

    Jamie Greene
  • A cheese toastie on a board.

    Grate expectations: cheese toasties are having a moment, and I’m all for it

    Lauren O'Neill
  • Kendall Jenner holding a can of Pepsi

    Marketing’s ‘woke’ rebrand has ultimately helped the far right

    Eugene Healey
  • BEN JENNINGS OPINION 250326 (WEB) Handmaid's Tale

    The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow

    Deborah Frances-White
  • Nadeine Asbali

    As a child, I was afraid of my friends seeing me pray. Watching Eid live on the BBC was a huge moment

    Nadeine Asbali
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on American rockets – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on American rockets – cartoon

  • Pete Songi on Keir Starmer’s attempt to save British Steel at any cost – cartoon

    Pete Songi on Keir Starmer’s attempt to save British Steel at any cost – cartoon

    British Steel is to deploy emergency measures in a race against time to save the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe
  • Ben Jennings on Zelenskyy's invite to Trump – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Zelenskyy’s invite to Donald Trump – cartoon

    Ukraine’s president has urged Trump to visit his country before a deal is done to end the war

Columnists

  • Owen Jones

    While Starmer’s hand was forced on British Steel, it’s time to forge ahead with more nationalisations

    Owen Jones
  • Marina Hyde

    What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space

    Marina Hyde
  • Nesrine Malik

    It is difficult to imagine a post-American world. But imagine it we must

    Nesrine Malik
  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour has done right by British Steel – now it must speed up a radical strategy for all industry

    Polly Toynbee

  • Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature

    George Monbiot

  • What’s the true cost of Donald Trump? All the crises around the world that we’ve no time to fix

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Trump’s tariffs are ruinous, but are western sanctions any better? Just look at Syria

    Simon Jenkins

  • One stock seems truly doomed this week: if you hold any Kemi Badenoch, accept my condolences

    Marina Hyde

  • Trump is pushing students towards Britain – ministers, don’t let your immigration obsession stand in the way

    Polly Toynbee

  • There are opportunities for Keir Starmer in Trump’s trade chaos. Here’s how he can seize them

    Martin Kettle

  • I’ve seen many phoney trade wars come and go. This is the real thing

    Larry Elliott

  • Israel deporting two Labour MPs? The British government is finally outraged

    Owen Jones
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Letters

  • Two tents of people sleeping rough are set up on the pavement outside a branch of the bank HSBC

    The sinister psychology at the heart of populism

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement.

    Academies fuel explosion in school costs

    • Garden birds need a hedge against decline

    • A Boat Race ritual that would bring me joy

    • How Britain could forge a steelmaking revolution despite British Steel’s woes

    • Our highs and lows along the Pennine Way

    • Threats to nature in Labour’s planning bill

    • Katy Perry’s blast-off was a waste of space

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