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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor

  • Others debate whether Putin’s attack on Ukraine is genocide. As bombs rain down on us, I have no doubt

    Oleksandr Mykhed
    It is now clear that Russian forces have no real strategy, only brutal tactics to wipe out a people and a culture

  • In the video they are laughing – now Johnson has danced into a new job, and the joke’s still on us

    Frances Ryan

  • Safety checks run down and boom time for criminals: this is why the UK is becoming the ‘dustbin of Europe’

    Polly Toynbee

  • Dear white Britain: we hate to say we told you so about Boris Johnson – but we told you so

    Nels Abbey

  • ‘Evil people smugglers’ are easy to blame for migrant boat tragedies. Here’s the truth

    Diane Taylor

  • Kerala is rolling out free broadband for its poorest citizens. What’s stopping your government?

    Oommen C Kurian

  • Why did it take a war for Germany to wake up to the Russian threat?

    Helene von Bismarck

  • Ancient Britons built Stonehenge – then vanished. Is science closing in on their killers?

    Jonathan Kennedy

  • I thought I should always be positive with my patients – until I found out how damaging that can be

    Mark Taubert

  • Conspiracy theories are festering in Britain – and our politicians are making it worse

    John Harris

  • Millions are facing soaring mortgage rates. How did we leave them so vulnerable?

    Will Hutton

  • What will life after globalisation look like? The Venice Biennale may hold the answer

    Lorenzo Marsili

  • How to infiltrate posh society: bang on about beauty and invest in some tweed

    Alex Clark

  • Why do politicians think voters lean more to the right than they do?

    Torsten Bell
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The Heat or Eat Diaries

  • The other day in the supermarket I was accused of stealing. Heartlessness has crept into everyday life

    James
    Things are difficult but I am determined not to accept lesser treatment. And I urge others in my position not to accept it either, says James

  • The mind of the asylum seeker is like an engine – always turning, always trying to find ways to survive

    Paul

  • Inflation may be down, but my food bill is shooting up and Britain feels more toxic than ever

    Sharron Spice

  • My dad is ill, but his flat’s ceiling is falling in and our food bill has doubled. There’s no one to help us

    Siobhan

  • In my freezing house, gripped by fear, I scrawl ‘things can get better’ on a chalkboard

    Marin

  • Rich people help themselves, poor people help each other – I saw a food bank user take in a homeless friend

    Sophie
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Why I quit

  • Elle Hunt

    Dogs represented a love I could never attain – so I gave up waiting, and adopted a wonderful cat

    Elle Hunt
  • Julia Keller

    I was overwhelmed by shame when I quit grad school. Now I’m a quitting guru

    Julia Keller
  • Laura Kay

    When my running app broke it was a revelation: ‘being better’ is about taking care of yourself

    Laura Kay

  • Why I stopped arguing about the climate emergency and tried the silent treatment instead

    Helena Echlin
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Starmer's path to power

  • Claire Ainsley

    The centre left is on the up around the world. Here’s what Keir Starmer can learn from it

    Claire Ainsley
  • John Harris

    Dear Keir, the polls are tightening and frankly, people are worried. You have to raise your game

    John Harris
  • Katherine Sangster

    This is how Labour can win back Scotland – and achieve a majority UK government

    Katherine Sangster
  • Neal Lawson

    Labour must be a broad church. Starmer’s purge of the left puts his future government in peril

    Neal Lawson
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The Guardian view

  • The Guardian view on teacher shortages: pay must go up, and workload down

    Editorial: Recruitment and retention problems are harming children’s learning. Ministers have failed to act

    • The Guardian view on a PM’s patronage: Boris Johnson’s shameful honours list

    • The Guardian view on stem cells and embryos: creating life’s likeness in a lab

    • The Guardian view on nonfiction by women: so much buried treasure

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Spotlight

  • People voted for Boris Johnson knowing he was a liar. It’s too late to start shifting the blame

    Nesrine Malik
    Britain is in thrall to an aristocratic class that feels entitled to power
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You may have missed

  • Good riddance to Nadine Dorries – but I won’t forget her political twists and turns

    Hannah Jane Parkinson
    Her career has taken in the good, the bad and the frankly unbelievable
  • Eleanor de Jong

    Nobody I’ve been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt ‘proud’ of their illness

    Eleanor de Jong

  • There is so much more for us to worry about than men masquerading as women to access single-sex spaces

    Kathryn Bromwich

  • Forget culture wars: the Covid inquiry is a stark reminder of what government is really about

    Zoe Williams
  • Katy Guest

    Selling yourself is a minefield for all of us – not just students. Here’s how to do it in 600 words

    Katy Guest
  • Larry Elliott

    The west has broken its promises to developing countries – and we’re all paying the price

    Larry Elliott
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This is Europe

  • What will life after globalisation look like? The Venice Biennale may hold the answer

    Lorenzo Marsili
  • Nathalie Tocci

    Putin’s threat hangs over tiny Moldova, but its people filled me with hope

    Nathalie Tocci
  • Rokhaya Diallo

    If Macron doesn’t know why he’s despised, he hasn’t been listening

    Rokhaya Diallo

  • Has France really gone to hell? Its catastrophist discourse is at odds with the facts

    Alexander Hurst
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Cartoons

  • Ella Baron on the Partygate debate in the Commons – cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on how the Covid inquiry is exposing Tory ministers’ failings – cartoon

    From growing health inequalities to a lack of planning, the UK’s unreadiness for a pandemic is being laid bare

  • The emperor’s new clothes: Boris Johnson departs after being exposed – cartoon

    He resigned as an MP after being found guilty of repeatedly lying to parliament over Partygate

Columnists

  • Jonathan Freedland

    To save their own skins, Trump and Johnson are destroying something precious: our faith in the law

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Marina Hyde

    Are Tory MPs as deluded as Boris Johnson? It’s a tough act to follow, but they’re doing their best

    Marina Hyde
  • Simon Jenkins

    If the UK is really moved by starvation in North Korea, demand an end to cruel sanctions

    Simon Jenkins
  • Andy Beckett

    So long as we treat Boris Johnson as a lone wolf, the other Tory beasts will roam free

    Andy Beckett

  • The hard right and climate catastrophe are intimately linked. This is how

    George Monbiot

  • Brexit was Johnson and Johnson was Brexit. Now that he has gone, Britain must think again

    Martin Kettle

  • Labour must counter the Tory bonanza of uncosted policies. But not at the expense of childcare

    Zoe Williams

  • Boris Johnson is gone, but his toxic Brexit myths will go on poisoning UK politics

    Rafael Behr

  • Sad, confused, deluded: spare a thought for the friends of Boris Johnson at this difficult time

    Marina Hyde

  • The US holds its nose over Saudi Arabia’s human rights record – when the price is right

    Nesrine Malik

  • This is Starmer’s moment. Thatcherism has collapsed, and the Tories are at each other’s throats

    Polly Toynbee

  • Farewell, Boris Johnson: Britain will not miss your attempts to play Trump

    Simon Jenkins

Letters

  • Letter: Roger Squires (Rufus) obituary

  • Letter: Pete Brown obituary

    • Wellbeing of school staff is as vital as pupils’ progress

    • We must not ignore coalmines in the fight to reduce methane emissions

    • Eating the rainbow can lead to food waste

    • Reality v research on low-traffic neighbourhoods

    • Please, spare us more pictures of Boris Johnson

    • For those who lost loved ones during Covid, Boris Johnson’s deceit is sickening

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