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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Reform party leader Nigel Farage speaking to the media following his election win in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, 5 July

    I went to see how the Tories are handling defeat – and found Faragism and a total lack of reflection

    Polly Toynbee
    Even after election wipeout, the Conservatives are too blinded by ideology to see their voters don’t want a Reform merger
  • Food bank items at Peckham Pantry in London.

    Where’s the cash for child hunger? Labour is running out of time to find it

    Frances Ryan
  • Mark Leonard

    How can Keir Starmer keep Britain safe? As the US withdraws, he must renew Britain’s role in Europe

    Mark Leonard
  • 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 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

  • Did Donald Trump just win the election?

    Arwa Mahdawi

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

    Tom Usher

  • 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 ta xing the rich and ta xing them hard

    George Monbiot

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

    David Goldblatt
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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

  • Callum Bains

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

    Callum Bains
  • 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
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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

  • George Monbiot

    Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by ta xing the rich and ta xing them hard

    George Monbiot
  • 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

  • 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

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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