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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Pimlico Plumbers chief executive Charlie Mullins gets out of a blue Bentley in 2018

    The super-rich claim they’ll flee to escape a Labour ‘tax grab’. Here’s an idea for how to stop them

    Polly Toynbee
    If the 1% follow through on their threats, an ‘exit tax’ could raise £500m a year – by plucking golden feathers as they take flight
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Canada is showing that it’s possible to have universal, affordable childcare. Is the UK brave enough to follow?

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Anthony Seldon

    The chaos at Keir Starmer’s No 10 isn’t just political gossip – but there’s a way for him to fix it

    Anthony Seldon
  • A young girl carrying a box of belongings on her head. There is a large truck and a small crowd of people in the background.

    Sudan’s forgotten war is bloody and horrifying – but US bombs aren’t the way to stop it

    Simon Jenkins
  • Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street in 1979.

    Starmer’s opening moves as PM have been as unpopular as Thatcher’s were. Can he recover like she did?

    Andy Beckett
  • Rokhaya Diallo

    France now sees Gisèle Pelicot as a hero – but old myths about rape are harder to change

    Rokhaya Diallo

  • Labour’s carbon-capture scheme will be Starmer’s white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions

    George Monbiot

  • This is the future for Kamala Harris: unless she solves this economic mystery, Trump wins

    Aditya Chakrabortty

  • Is Donald Trump the greatest grifter of them all? Melania is giving him a run for his money

    Emma Brockes

  • What Sigmund Freud can teach us about the Middle East and #MeToo

    Jacqueline Rose

  • Baby boomers, take it from a 91-year-old: a long life with poorer health is bad news, and unnecessary

    Joan Bakewell

  • Could Bear Grylls’ five steps to better mental health help a beta male like me?

    Rich Pelley

  • ‘I felt like Achilles in a hard hat’: an extract from Boris Johnson’s ‘alternative’ memoir

    Ian Martin

  • Facing war in the Middle East and Ukraine, the US looks feeble. But is it just an act?

    Adam Tooze
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Why I quit

  • Sergey Maidukov

    My passion for an argument was relentless – and damaging. Then my granddaughter intervened

    Sergey Maidukov
  • Kat Lister

    After my husband’s death, I papered over my grief with posters and pictures. No more

    Kat Lister
  • Will Clempner

    Hunched over my smartphone while my family slept, I knew I had to break my addiction. But how?

    Will Clempner
  • Helene Rosenthal

    Stressed, sweaty and remorseful, I arrived late for dinner again – and then made a life-changing decision

    Helene Rosenthal
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The first summer I…

  • Diyora Shadijanova

    Getting an allotment totally changed my summer – and radically altered my relationship with food

    Diyora Shadijanova
  • Olivia Lee

    I thought I’d spend the summer on a beach with my boyfriend. Instead, I was single – and walking on hot coals

    Olivia Lee
  • Jo Bateman

    Sea swimming was my saviour. But the dumping of sewage changed everything

    Jo Bateman
  • Ammar Kalia

    After our mum died, we maxed out the credit cards and went on safari in the Serengeti

    Ammar Kalia

The Guardian view

  • Person working in a UK warehouse

    The Guardian view on the employment rights bill: a fairer deal for the world of work

  • Orlando, Florida, after Hurricane Milton made landfall.

    The Guardian view on Hurricane Milton and other disasters: extreme politics is worsening extreme weather

  • Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick composite photograph

    The Guardian view on the Conservative leadership contest: normality is not on the ballot

  • Primary schoolchildren queuing for toast after morning assembly

    The Guardian view on inequality in the UK: what kids can teach us

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Spotlight

  • A rocky outcrop with lots of buildings and the sea below.

    Will the UK ‘give up’ Gibraltar next? In Spain, we’re more worried about Brexit’s absurdities

    María Ramírez
    Ignore warnings of the Rock following the Chagos Islands – new border checks are more of a threat to livelihoods in the territory and beyond
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  • A group of protesters holding placards stand in front of some tall buildings.

    Massive rent hikes, dodgy landlords – unlike many MPs, I know what renting is like. We have to fix it

    Chris Curtis
    Landlords have long had too much sway in parliament. Tenants’ rights must be strengthened as a matter of urgency, says MP Chris Curtis
  • A woman hugs a crying child in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on 23 September.

    I wish you could see the living nightmare in Palestine. But how much more must we see before something is done?

    Nesrine Malik
  • A Paris waiter waits for customers outside his restaurant, Paris, France.

    Tipping culture is annoying, unfair and worst of all American – and now it’s coming to Paris

    Alexander Hurst
  • Ariana Grande 2024 press publicity portrait supplied by PR Credit: Katia Temkin

    Social media isn’t driving the plastic surgery boom. Who doesn’t want to look better?

    Martha Gill
  • Israel-Hamas War 2024: Memorial Day in Jerusalem - 13 May 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Nir Alon/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14478190a) Visitors pay tribute to Israel's fallen servicemen and victims of terror on Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron, as they stand before a large screen displaying the portraits of over 1,500 Israelis slain in the October 7th, 2023, Hamas massacre in southern Israel, along with those who sacrificed their lives in the ongoing conflicts in Gaza, at the National Library in Jerusalem. Israel-Hamas War 2024: Memorial Day in Jerusalem - 13 May 2024

    Dear Mum: in Israel this year has been indescribably awful. How I wish you were here

    Etgar Keret
  • The actor Demi Moore looks into a mirror in a bathroom.

    Yes, Andrew Tate is a misogynist, but his real game is exploiting men’s vulnerabilities for cash

    Gaby Hinsliff
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on the Tory leadership contest – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the Tory leadership contest – cartoon

  • Ella Baron on Hurricane Milton – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Hurricane Milton – cartoon

    Walt Disney World is closing its doors as Florida braces for the arrival of the hurricane
  • Martin Rowson on the Conservative party leadership contest – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on the Conservative party leadership contest – cartoon

    Tom Tugendhat has been voted out, leaving James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch still in the race

Columnists

  • Martin Kettle

    The new Tory leader will be Badenoch or Jenrick. Either would be a one-way ticket to another political planet

    Martin Kettle
  • Polly Toynbee

    Two deaths shaped my belief in the right to die. This bill could change everything

    Polly Toynbee
  • Owen Jones

    On the streets of Vienna, I saw Austrians’ rage at the march of the far right – but also their helplessness

    Owen Jones
  • Marina Hyde

    Keir Starmer is an unforced error machine – have they tried turning him off and on again?

    Marina Hyde

  • Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start

    Simon Jenkins

  • Is the Sue Gray debacle another Hartlepool moment for Keir Starmer? Let’s hope so

    Rafael Behr

  • Disabled Palestinians are facing horrors piled upon horrors. I think of their suffering every day

    Frances Ryan

  • Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures

    Zoe Williams

  • A brutal year and a tale of two Israels: the one that is feared and the one that is fearful

    Jonathan Freedland

  • The Tories are deluded to think they’ll be back in power in 2029. Here are three economic reasons why

    Larry Elliott

  • Whether it’s Trump or Harris in office, Starmer will need an incredible US ambassador. Here’s my vote

    Martin Kettle

Letters

  • Heinz advert on the London Underground with a coupe only 3 of their parents, editing out the black father, which has caused controversy

    ‘Racist’ Heinz advert has diverse lessons for us all

  • Child playing with plastic letters at school

    Psychologist shortage is hampering special needs support and intervention

    • We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists

    • Call in Anish Kapoor for an HS2 monument

    • Letters: Cleo Sylvestre obituary

    • Questions of identity and safety for Muslims and Jews

    • Use your local museums or lose them

    • In fair Shoreditch, where we lay our scene … the shape of Shakespeare’s stage

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