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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Caravan for Trump demonstration in West Palm Beach, Florida, 2 June.

    Crowing about the Trump verdict will only hurt Biden – populists thrive on claims of persecution

    Simon Jenkins
    The more the political establishment damns the ex-president, the more those outside its reach are drawn to him
  • Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay receives an ovation on returning to Commons on 22 May, before his resignation.

    There should be over 100 disabled MPs, but there are barely any. UK politics has a huge accessibility problem

    Lucy Webster
  • Keir Starmer holds a card detailing his policy priorities at the launch of the Labour party campaign bus on 1 June.

    Starmer? Sunak? Millions know they are different but still feel alienated. Ignore that at your peril

    Nesrine Malik
  • Shaista Aziz

    White male MPs make mistakes and are mostly forgiven. Not so women of colour like Faiza Shaheen

    Shaista Aziz
  • Ljubljana Castle in the colours of Palestine on 30 May

    I’m glad Slovenia is recognising Palestine at last – but why did my country hesitate for so long?

    Ana Schnabl
  • Coventry and Leicester cat show at Sutton Leisure Centre

    A dialogue with your pets? Do you really want a cat to say you look dog-rough today?

    Coco Khan

  • The ANC’s total supremacy in South Africa is over. Now a healthier future can begin

    Alexis Akwagyiram

  • Bohemian Bristol Central could be the one contest Labour loses on election night. Here’s why

    Owen Jones

  • This much now seems clear: Sunak can’t avoid a Tory collapse, but he might shape a resurgence

    Katy Balls

  • I’d like to say Johnson and Brexit made me quit politics. But they were symptoms of the problem, not the cause

    Rory Stewart

  • Sisterhood with a sexual edge! This is why I Kissed a Girl is unmissable viewing

    Florence Scordoulis

  • Socialism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply about wanting to make a fairer society

    Will Hutton

  • You can laugh all you like at Ed Davey’s antics if they restore the Lib Dems’ clout

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Child sex abuse is all around us – and online it can start with legal porn

    Sonia Sodha

Why I quit

  • Becki Jacobson

    After a lifetime of discomfort, I stopped wearing a bra – and I’ll never wear one again

    Becki Jacobson
  • Lucretia Grindle Lutyens

    No matter how I tried, I couldn’t get my stepchildren to accept me. So I stopped

    Lucretia Grindle Lutyens
  • Tara Judah

    I stopped chasing the Hollywood vision of female friendship – and embraced the person I am

    Tara Judah
  • Radhika Sanghani

    I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

    Radhika Sanghani
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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

  • Nigel Farage

    The Guardian view on Nigel Farage: a serial loser looks to win big in British politics

  • Protesters hold a banner reading 'Mallorca is not for sale'

    The Guardian view on beach protests in the Balearics: locals need a better deal

  • Yachts in Monaco

    The Guardian view on taxing billionaires: we need to talk about the super-rich

  • A child using an Apple iPhone

    The Guardian view on social media harms: the tech giants must be more open

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Spotlight

  • CHILE-ARGENTINA-BOLIVIA-CLIMATE-COP27-UN-MINES-ENERGY-ENVIRONMEN<br>Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company SQM (Sociedad Quimica Minera) in the Atacama Desert, Calama, Chile, on September 12, 2022. - The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools meets the dazzling white of a seemingly endless salt desert where hope and disillusionment collide in Latin America's "lithium triangle." A key component of batteries used in electric cars, demand has exploded for the "white gold" found in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile in quantities larger than anywhere else in the world. (Photo by Martin BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

    Mariana Mazzucato
    Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato
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You may have missed

  • Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen on TV in 2015.

    The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right

    Mariam Lau
    Marine Le Pen’s rupture with her German allies reveals a tactical fault line between the ‘old’ right and the ‘new’
  • Diane Abbott at a rally by her supporters in front of Hackney town hall.

    There are three ways for Labour to head off looming disaster over Diane Abbott – but there’s not much time

    Simon Woolley
  • Jonathan Kennedy

    Scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old herpes virus – and perhaps how modern humans came to rule the world

    Jonathan Kennedy
  • Chris Mullin

    I’ve seen Labour stitch-ups in my time. But nothing as shameless as this

    Chris Mullin
  • Doctors operate on a Palestinian at the United Arab Emirates field hospital in Gaza on 11 May.

    Denouncing the war is all very well – but the people of Gaza also need urgent medical care

    Belkis Wille
  • Emma Brockes

    They say the lunch break is dying – but don’t give up your hour of freedom

    Emma Brockes
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on 93-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s fifth marriage – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on 93-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s fifth marriage – cartoon

  • Ella Baron on President Zelenskiy’s call for more western aid – cartoon

    Ella Baron on President Zelenskiy’s call for more western aid – cartoon

    The Ukrainian president says Donald Trump risks being a ‘loser president’ if he imposes a bad deal on his country
  • A diminutive Donald Trump on the Lincoln Memorial with a sign saying 'guilty'.

    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump trying, and failing, to fill Abraham Lincoln’s boots – cartoon

    The former US president, convicted on 34 counts, pales into insignificance beside the former great

Columnists

  • Andy Beckett

    Diane Abbott might now be allowed to stand as a Labour MP, but the damage is done – and it’s deep

    Andy Beckett
  • Owen Jones

    Power-drunk and arrogant: if this is how Starmer’s Labour treats its MPs, what will his party be like in power?

    Owen Jones
  • Marina Hyde

    So Trump moves closer to jail and nearer to the White House. This is our world in 2024

    Marina Hyde
  • Polly Toynbee

    Memo to Labour amid the Diane Abbott debacle: stop the pointless rows, stop making enemies

    Polly Toynbee

  • Six televised rounds of Starmer v Sunak? I can’t imagine anything worse

    Zoe Williams

  • Our schools don’t prepare young people for life. National service could change that

    Simon Jenkins

  • The pensioners’ party plays its last moth-eaten card: national service for the young

    Polly Toynbee

  • In dismissing calls for Netanyahu’s arrest, the west is undermining its own world order

    Nesrine Malik

  • Farewell, Michael Gove: from Brexit to levelling up, you sowed the seeds for this Conservative crisis

    John Harris

  • Both feted and gilded, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics

    Aditya Chakrabortty

  • Make this the punishment election – damning the Tories for 14 years of cruelty and lies

    Jonathan Freedland

  • It’s Corbyn’s last stand. But can he beat Labour’s Starmerite machine?

    Andy Beckett
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Letters

  • Faiza Shaheen

    Faiza Shaheen has been badly let down by Labour – as have voters

  • Girl on her father's shoulders in the summertime

    Sunscreen advice should factor in ethnicity and skin colour

    • A slow handclap for standing ovations

    • Politicians could learn from Rob Burrow’s honesty and dignity

    • There’s no point in marching on with national service

    • Coping with the loss and burial of babies

    • A caffeine-free life will give you a buzz

    • Trump can now call himself a conviction politician

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