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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the south lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on 24 June 2025.

    Trump is angry with a world that won’t give him easy deals

    Rafael Behr
    In the Middle East as in Ukraine, the president is discovering that simple bullying tricks don’t resolve complex international crises
  • Image: Guardian Design/Getty

    How Lisbon made itself irresistible to tourists – and became the least affordable city in Europe

    Agustín Cocola-Gant
  • Donald Trump with, from left, Giorgia Meloni, Emmanuel Macron, Mark Carney and Keir Starmer at the G7 summit in Canada, 16 June 2025.

    Dear heads of state: Donald Trump won’t love you back. He may be the worst boyfriend the world has ever seen

    Marina Hyde
  • Rachel Reeves, Kier Starmer and Angela Rayner over a view of rush hour traffic queuing for the Dartford Tunnel.

    Overblown infrastructure projects damage lives and imperil democracy. Why is Britain addicted to them?

    George Monbiot
  • A woman sitting in front of a bombsite.

    I spent five years in Iran’s notorious Evin prison but when Israel bombed it I felt horror and fear

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
  • Faiza Shaheen

    Reform’s ludicrous ‘Britannia Card’ is a masterpiece in political manoeuvring

    Faiza Shaheen

  • Britain has a messy relationship with money - no wonder we’re so divided over doctors’ pay

    Polly Toynbee

  • How can RFK Jr ‘Make America healthy again’? He is ignoring the two biggest killers of American children

    Devi Sridhar

  • Trump and Netanyahu aim to remake the Middle East with bombs. Iran shows why that will always fail

    Sina Toossi

  • Socialist Zohran Mamdani could be New York’s next mayor. This is what the western left could learn from him

    Owen Jones

  • Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause

    Nesrine Malik

  • As Starmer unveils his 10-year plan, here’s my advice: don’t fall into the Joe Biden trap

    Sam Alvis

  • Forgive me if I raise an eyebrow at Botox mania – it’s because I still can

    Coco Khan

  • Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism

    Sally Rooney
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How to beat the far right

  • Brazil-Trail-Pic

    A lesson from Brazil – where gig workers have rallied against the right

    Rodrigo Nunes
  • Mexico-Trail-Pic

    What can the global left learn from Mexico – where far-right politics hasn’t taken off?

    Thomas Graham
  • Composite image with Marian Kotleba

    In Slovakia, our grassroots movement helped oust a neo-Nazi. We can do it again

    Alexandra Bitušíková
  • UK

    What smashed the far right in east London? A playbook that said connect, connect, connect

    Margaret Hodge
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Why I quit

  • Gary Nunn

    Thrill-seeking made me feel alive – until the day I hurtled down a volcano on a mountain bike

    Gary Nunn
  • Franco Fubini

    A chance encounter took me from a New York skyscraper to a London food market – and a new life

    Franco Fubini
  • Krissi Driver

    I always needed background noise in my life. Then I turned off my phone and embraced the silence

    Krissi Driver
  • Iman M'Fah-Traoré

    After my mother died, I dreaded my stepfather moving on. Then I realised love isn’t limited

    Iman M'Fah-Traoré
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The Guardian view

  • Protesters in Whitehall hold placards opposed to benefit cuts for people with disabilities as thousands of people march in central London against government cuts.

    The Guardian view on disability benefits: Labour’s rebels are right – these reforms will lead to misery

  • President Donald Trump takes questions from the press on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s vacillating approach to Iran: a ceasefire is welcome, but the danger isn’t over

  • A Palestine Action protest at the entrance of Allianz Insurance in Gracechurch Street, London, on 10 March 2025.

    The Guardian view on Palestine Action: if red paint is terrorism, what isn’t?

  • Health secretary Wes Streeting speaking at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists world congress at ExCel London on 23 June 2025.

    The Guardian view on maternity care failings: Wes Streeting’s new inquiry must learn from past mistakes, not repeat them

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Spotlight

  • Ed Sheeran arrives at New York federal court for his copyright infringement hearing in May 2023.

    I’m no Ed Sheeran fan, but he’s right: when it comes to musical plagiarism, guilt is in the ear of the listener

    Simon Price
    Musical history is littered with cases like the failed $100m suit against the singer, and they risk stifling pop music
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You may have missed

  • Sabrina Carpenter holding two awards.

    When did ‘feminist critique’ of celebrities become nothing more than a snide telling-off?

    Jennifer Jasmine White
    Those delivering paternalistic lectures to Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae and Sydney Sweeney would do well to revisit recent history, says writer Jennifer Jasmine White
  • A man and a woman sitting at a table.

    The internet’s nastiest gossipmonger has been exposed and guess what – he wants his privacy

    Marina Hyde
  • HS2 workers watch a boring machine breaking through at Washwood Heath depot near Birmingham, 9 May 2025

    How bad is the HS2 fiasco now? So bad it’s time to listen to Nigel Farage

    Simon Jenkins
  • Donald Trump with the words 'Nato summit' above his head.

    Why Europe should hijack Nato for its own purposes

    Paul Taylor
  • The Houses of Parliament, London, April 2025

    MPs have personal beliefs, but also solemn duties: that’s why they must reject the assisted dying bill this week

    Gordon Brown
  • young male teenager using mobile phone<br>F3CFJP young male teenager using mobile phone

    I’m a headteacher and a dad – this is how to help boys struggling with masculinity

    Nick Hewlett
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on the Palestinians killed while waiting for aid – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the Palestinians killed while waiting for aid – cartoon

  • Sarah Akinterinwa on Donald Trump's mixed messages after the US strikes on Iran – cartoon

    Sarah Akinterinwa on Donald Trump’s mixed messages after the US strikes on Iran – cartoon

    JD Vance declines to double down on Trump’s stance that Iran’s nuclear sites were totally destroyed
  • Sarah Akinterinwa on the eternal takeaway debate – cartoon

    Sarah Akinterinwa on the eternal takeaway debate – cartoon

    On one hand, you just went food shopping. On the other, what can compare to that warm bag being handed over?

Columnists

  • Nesrine Malik

    Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause

    Nesrine Malik
  • John Harris

    Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about ‘human dignity’

    John Harris
  • Polly Toynbee

    I hope this is the last piece I ever have to write in defence of assisted dying

    Polly Toynbee
  • Martin Kettle

    Easy regime change in Tehran is a nice idea. But look to history: it’s a near-impossible one

    Martin Kettle

  • Will the new Middle East crisis rock the world economy? The markets say no – but I fear they’re wrong

    Larry Elliott

  • The warmongers were wrong about Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Now watch them make the same mistake about Iran

    Owen Jones

  • G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump

    Rafael Behr

  • It’s The Donald Show … without Donald Trump. Welcome to the G-something or other summit

    Marina Hyde

  • Louise Casey is right: children must be saved from grooming gangs. But the culture warriors must be ignored

    Polly Toynbee

  • British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week

    Frances Ryan

  • In Gaza, Israel destroyed its reputation. Attacking Iran is a belated and dangerous attempt to restore it

    Nesrine Malik

Letters

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    Posh schools, power and our class-ridden society

  • Passengers queue at the Jetstar Asia check-in counters at Changi Airport in Singapore.

    Using airline staff as immigration officers is nothing new

    • Teach university students to live in a polarised world

    • Let overseas-trained dentists get to work

    • How to lift one’s spirits amid all the horror

    • Letter: Alasdair MacIntyre obituary

    • Casey review: wider concerns on child welfare must be addressed

    • There’s no simple solution to universities’ AI worries

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