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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Illustration: Ben Jennings

    Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain

    Aditya Chakrabortty
    Our capital has many problems, but it is time to push back against attacks from those who neither know nor understand it
  • Frances Ryan

    Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

    Frances Ryan
  • Martin Kettle

    Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

    Martin Kettle
  • members of the royal family on the balcony at Buckingham palace

    King Charles looked for heroes to honour – and picked William, Kate and Camilla. Laugh? Cry? You choose

    Norman Baker
  • Rafael Behr

    Starmer must drain the poison from the immigration debate – it’s what the public wants

    Rafael Behr
  • Henry Hill

    Rishi Sunak has staked his premiership on Rwanda – but the electorate will punish him for it

    Henry Hill

  • Do you speak a ‘big’ global language? Here’s what my tiny language can teach you

    Ana Schnabl

  • Hate crime against east Asian people in the UK rocketed during Covid – and it hasn’t gone away

    Sarah Owen

  • Britons don’t like culture wars, but that doesn’t mean the ‘woke mob’ messaging will stop

    Owen Jones

  • It’s clearer than ever that Brexit has failed – let’s not inflict its miseries on young people

    Zoe Williams

  • Sunak and his cabinet think one packed Rwanda flight will save them. It won’t

    Enver Solomon

  • Britain is sicker and poorer than it used to be. Sunak’s response? Attack disabled people

    Frances Ryan

  • Our leaders seem determined to give war a chance. Their thirst for conflict endangers us all

    Jeremy Corbyn

  • It’s St George’s Day, and England needs a reset. Here are three ways to do it

    Tom Baldwin
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Why I quit

  • Hannah Witton

    Life as a YouTube creator was great, but 12 years in, I felt like I was trapped on a hamster wheel

    Hannah Witton
  • Josef Burton

    As a US diplomat, I helped circumvent Trump’s Muslim ban – then realised I was part of the problem

    Josef Burton
  • Gareth Roberts

    Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered it’s falling apart, just like its vans

    Gareth Roberts
  • Ying Reinhardt

    I stopped apologising for my poor German, and something wonderful happened

    Ying Reinhardt
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Starmer's path to power

  • Brian Brivati

    Labour is the party of sound defence and hatred of tyranny. Now it must show that in Ukraine

    Brian Brivati
  • Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

    Britain’s record on aid has been badly tarnished. Here’s how Labour can restore it

    Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
  • Charlotte Higgins

    Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts

    Charlotte Higgins
  • Phineas Harper

    Keir Starmer’s got his work cut out to fix Britain’s housing crisis. This is my six-point plan

    Phineas Harper
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The Guardian view

  • Rishi Sunak and the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, visit an engineering firm in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 25 March 2024.

    The Guardian view on Sunak’s spending pledges: a Potemkin village of pretend policy

  • The Brics summit in Johannesburg on 23 August 2023, L to R: Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s president Xi Jinping, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

    The Guardian view on globalisation’s discontent: it’s not right for poor countries to fund the rich

  • Migrants are brought into Dover Port by a RNLI lifeboat after being picked up in the English Channel.

    The Guardian view on sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example

  • A cattle-drawn hay-laden cart move down a dusty road in Segou Region, Mali, West Africa.

    The Guardian view on the Sahel and its crises: the west can still make a difference

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Spotlight

  • Ukrainian servicemen from an air defence unit at their position near Kyiv, Ukraine, November 2023

    The west defends Israel’s skies. Not doing the same for Ukraine is a deadly mistake

    Nathalie Tocci
    In Kyiv, I saw life under Russian aerial attack. If Europe doesn’t share its air defence systems now, Putin’s threat will only spread
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You may have missed

  • Remains of a ballistic missile near the Dead Sea after Iran’s attack on Israel.

    Iran seems like it’s in escalation mode – but all-out war with Israel is the last thing it wants

    Lina Khatib
    The country is on the defensive. While Israel has ironclad support from its allies, Tehran is vulnerable and isolated
  • Stefano Varalta (Benvolio), Joseph Taylor (Romeo) and Aaron Kok (Mercutio) leaping into the air in Romeo & Juliet by Northern Ballet at Leeds Grand theatre

    As an actor, I know the value of culture. As West Yorkshire’s mayor, I’ll use it to enrich lives and provide jobs

    Tracy Brabin
  • Image: Guardian Design/Getty

    Monopoly: the Movie? Pop culture has become a series of lukewarm adverts – and it’s all so very dull

    Dan Hancox
  • Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

    My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza

    Eva Ladipo
  • Simon Price

    Pop is awash with nepo babies – Lennon and McCartney are just the latest. But why aren’t they better at it?

    Simon Price
  • A billboard poster depicting missiles, Tehran, Iran, on 19 April.

    In this shadow war between Iran and Israel, the outline of a different future is visible

    Jonathan Freedland
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Cartoons

  • Sarah Akinterinwa on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending – cartoon

    Sarah Akinterinwa on Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda mission accomplished – cartoon

    The PM gets through his ‘emergency legislation’ after four-and-a-half months of parliamentary ping-pong
  • Ben Jennings on the Conservatives whipping up fear of migrants – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the Conservatives whipping up fear of migrants – cartoon

    Rishi Sunak is desperate to get his Rwanda bill passed and to ‘stop the boats’

Columnists

  • Polly Toynbee

    The expansion of free childcare has been a Tory-fied mess of a bright Labour idea

    Polly Toynbee
  • Frances Ryan

    Britain is sicker and poorer than it used to be. Sunak’s response? Attack disabled people

    Frances Ryan
  • Simon Jenkins

    No matter how bad the Rwanda bill is, a bunch of unelected peers shouldn’t decide its fate

    Simon Jenkins
  • Nesrine Malik

    Ravaged by austerity, chastened by Brexit: how can Britain have influence abroad when it’s broken at home?

    Nesrine Malik

  • A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it

    John Harris

  • Of course a society that demonises poverty will try to prosecute vulnerable, unpaid carers

    Zoe Williams

  • Britain’s defence policy is more like one big declaration of war

    Owen Jones

  • Starmer can’t dodge the Europe question for ever. In office, the economy will answer it for him

    Martin Kettle

  • There’s a gaping hole at the centre of the Tory party where ideas should be. The risk is Liz Truss will fill it

    Rafael Behr

  • Jammed 999 lines and not enough ambulances to go round: come see the sharp end of this NHS crisis

    Polly Toynbee

Letters

  • Families being helped ashore on Dungeness beach after being rescued in the English Channel by the RNLI in 2023.

    A grownup debate, not game-playing, is the only way to address the refugee crisis

  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

    • The struggle to access good Parkinson’s care

    • Clock this delightful paean to dandelions

    • Burnout is not a disease, but a symptom of an unhealthy work culture

    • We shouldn’t have any beef with conscientious farmers

    • With her comments on slavery, Kemi Badenoch shows a poor grasp of history

    • Britain must develop a partnership of equals with Africa

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