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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Keir Starmer at the Nato summit in Washington DC, 11 July.

    It’s worrying to see the prime minister cheerleading for war. Will Ukraine turn into Starmer’s Iraq?

    Simon Jenkins
    The Nato summit offered a chance to work towards resolution. But instead, Starmer talked about long-range missiles
  • The shadow cabinet in 2006, with David Lidington front row, second left, front rowstand outside at the Racquet Club in Liverpool, Monday March 6, 2006, after a meeting. They are: (front L to R) Theresa May, David Lidington, Theresa Villiers, David Cameron, William Hague, Cheryl Gillan, Peter Ainsworth Caroline Spelman, (middle L to R) Oliver Letwin, Alan Duncan, Andrew Mitchell, David Willetts, Andrew Lansley, (back L to R) David Davis, Patrick McLoughlin, George Osborne, David Mundell, Chris Grayling, Phllip Hammond, Francis Maude, and Oliver Heald. See PA Story POLITICS Tories. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Andrew Parsons/Pool/PA.

    I suffered 13 years in opposition – here’s my advice to my despairing fellow Tories

    David Lidington
  • Nesrine Malik

    Hidden behind the celebration of Labour’s ‘landslide’ win is a depressing disfranchisement

    Nesrine Malik
  • man holds sign saying 'trump' in big letters with stars

    Did Donald Trump just win the election?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Tom Usher

    Beards are alpha, ‘rat boys’ are in – and the rules of masculinity are as baffling as ever

    Tom Usher
  • A woman holds a Georgian national and an EU flags in front of riot police blocking a street to prevent demonstrators during an opposition protest against "the Russian law" near the Parliament building in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The Georgian parliament on Tuesday approved in the third and final reading a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a threat to democratic freedoms and the country's aspirations to join the European Union. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

    Georgia is on the frontline of the struggle between Russia and the west. Will its democracy survive?

    Nathalie Tocci

  • Take it from a former prisons inspector: letting offenders out early won’t fix our broken system

    Anne Owers

  • I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough

    Callum Bains

  • The Trump shooting is a reminder: we live in a grim new era of political violence

    Moira Donegan

  • Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by taxing the rich and taxing them hard

    George Monbiot

  • Humanity, empathy, keeping hope alive: Gareth Southgate has quietly led England to the brink of victory

    David Goldblatt

  • What is it about weather apps that has us all – including Queen Camilla – so obsessed?

    Coco Khan

  • The rich were led to believe they were different. Those days are numbered

    Will Hutton

  • Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

    Andrew Rawnsley
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General Election 2024

  • Illustration showing four notebook pages filled with scrawls and doodles including the just-visible words "Coffey" "Sunak" and "LIES", with a blank page laid on top in the centre

    The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board

    Stewart Lee
  • Kenan Malik

    Muslims aren’t single-issue voters. Gaza was a lightning rod for their disaffection

    Kenan Malik
  • Jeremy Corbyn

    People-power led to my re-election. It is the start of a new politics

    Jeremy Corbyn
  • Ellie Chowns

    The Green party won four seats when it should have been 40. Surely it’s clear that Britain needs electoral reform

    Ellie Chowns

Why I quit

  • Kate Wilson

    Arriving in Hollywood with a dream to be a producer, I underestimated the toxic culture waiting for me

    Kate Wilson
  • Browsing a bookshelf

    Self-help was meant to make me feel better. Instead it turned toxic - and borderline dangerous

    Emily Goddard
  • Brian Hanson-Harding

    After years of obsessive learning, my piano sits silent – and I’m happy with that

    Brian Hanson-Harding
  • Anya Ryan

    Dating apps took over my life – so I ditched them and learned to live in the moment

    Anya Ryan
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The Guardian view

  • Giorgia Meloni with Viktor Orbán.

    The Guardian view on the far right in Brussels: the centre must do more than hold

  • Three boys in Ukraine pretend to be soldiers in one of Francis Alÿs’s films about children at play

    The Guardian view on outdoor play: ministers should give it a whirl

  • Donald Trump, surrounded by US Secret Service agents, leaves the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s shooting: America’s future must be set by voters, not the gun

  • A mother and child walk up a street.

    The Guardian view on the two-child cap: scrap this nasty policy

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Spotlight

  • A gatekeeper butterfly on a flower in the UK

    Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important

    Tony Juniper
    This isn’t down to one wet, cold British spring but a disturbing longer-term decline in Britain’s insects. Thankfully, we can help, says the campaigner Tony Juniper
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You may have missed

  • Taylor Swift performing at the Letzigrund Stadium, Zurich, Switzerland, 9 July 2024.

    I’m a Swiftie, but the staggering size of the Eras tour has left me feeling alienated

    Elle Hunt
    From the prices to the endless album rereleases, I feel like a conscript in a campaign for cultural and economic dominance, says journalist Elle Hunt
  • Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street on 9 July.

    Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

    Polly Toynbee
  • Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick in March 2020.

    A fight for the soul of the Tory party is inevitable. Rishi Sunak staying on may make it worse

    Katy Balls
  • Novak Djokovic responds to the crowd after beating Holger Rune at Wimbledon on Monday.

    Novak Djokovic, Elon Musk and others should grasp this: fame and public affection are not the same thing

    Mark Borkowski
  • Cas Mudde

    Patriots for Europe? Viktor Orbán’s new EU group is another hollow victory for the far right

    Cas Mudde
  • two young children in a playground

    Labour has power at last. Will it use it to scrap the inhumane two-child benefit cap?

    Ruth Patrick
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Cartoons

  • Guy Shrubsole on Donald Trump’s enhanced stature following the assassination attempt – cartoon

    Guy Shrubsole on Donald Trump’s enhanced stature – cartoon

  • Ella Baron on Keir Starmer, England’s biggest fan – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Keir Starmer, England’s biggest fan – cartoon

    As Euro 2024 comes to a climax with England taking on Spain, the new prime minister will be preparing his lines
  • Illustration of Britannia and a lion, hoping for an England win in Euro 2024

    Chris Riddell on how things are looking up for Britannia, on and off the pitch – cartoon

    With Keir Starmer in No 10, all that’s needed now is an England football win in Berlin

Columnists

  • Jonathan Freedland

    Gareth Southgate has proved that quiet competence can lift a nation – it’s a lesson that goes far beyond sport

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Marina Hyde

    A weekend of deranged hope, dread and stockpiling flares – it’s the Euro 2024 final

    Marina Hyde
  • Larry Elliott

    Rachel Reeves says the UK’s public finances are in a dire state – but here’s why I’m cautiously optimistic

    Larry Elliott
  • Rafael Behr

    Keir Starmer has a plan to turn the populist tide – and Britain’s allies pray it works

    Rafael Behr

  • Joe Biden now relies on instruction manuals, so here’s a good one: ‘Walk to podium, smile, wave goodbye’

    Marina Hyde

  • The left in France has beaten back the far right. This is how we do the same in the UK

    Owen Jones

  • Cleaning up our fetid politics is Keir Starmer’s toughest task yet. Here’s how he can do it, fast

    Polly Toynbee

  • Travelling round Britain, I found it at a crossroads between fury and hope. Which way will Labour take us?

    John Harris

  • The left revolt against Labour is significant – and the party ignores that at its peril

    Owen Jones

  • Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale

    Marina Hyde

  • He’s beaten and humiliated, but Rishi Sunak has one final job to do – for party and country

    Simon Jenkins

  • Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy

    Polly Toynbee

Letters

  • The shadow of a young girl or boy playing on a swing.

    Even Nigel Farage opposes the two-child cap. Labour must scrap it

  • A mugshot of Lucy Letby.

    The Lucy Letby trial and the limits of expert opinion

    • How race influences our perception of art

    • The crisis in the prison service goes back to a 1952 act nodded through parliament

    • Paying the price of water companies’ failures

    • Much of Michael Heseltine’s advice to Angela Rayner is good, but he is wrong about local councils

    • Why everyone should have ‘zero days’ and do the worst job first

    • How to get the postal service back on track

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