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

  • Private schools are on the offensive because Labour looms – and their privileges are under threat

    Lola Okolosie
    Britain’s fee-paying schools could soon lose their controversial VAT exemption, and fear their protests are falling on closed ears
  • Emma Brockes

    IVF, egg storage, fertility ‘windows’: I’m so relieved all that is behind me

    Emma Brockes

  • I literally cannot say Imran Khan’s name on Pakistani TV – this madness has to end

    Hamid Mir
  • John McDonnell

    There’s only one way to tackle Britain’s mortgage meltdown – get the banks to cough up

    John McDonnell

  • Sunak had a chance to rise above Johnson’s toxic legacy – and he blew it

    Rafael Behr
  • Natalie Morris

    A bit Caribbean, a bit British. We millennials owe it to the Windrush generation to embrace both

    Natalie Morris

  • Who will pay to rebuild Ukraine after all this death and destruction? It has to be Putin and Russia

    Denys Shmyhal

  • The curse of the Harry and Meghan media empire: so much content, but we only care about the Windsors

    Marina Hyde

  • Even Boris Johnson seems to have given up the Partygate fight – he knows his power is waning

    Katy Balls

  • So daytime naps can boost your brain power? No wonder I’m a crossword genius

    Tim Dowling

  • David Cameron left Britain exposed to the pandemic – where’s the outrage?

    Owen Jones

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

    Oleksandr Mykhed

  • Why are Tory MPs trying to bring the Orbán playbook to British politics?

    Alex Faludy

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

    Frances Ryan
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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

  • Mark Taubert

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

    Mark Taubert
  • 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
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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 mortgages: the crunch is coming

    Editorial: Westminster is forever blowing property bubbles. What happens when they burst?

    • The Guardian view on Labour and Brexit: slowly getting it right

    • The Guardian view on danger at sea: looking out for all those in peril

    • The Guardian view on David Cameron and George Osborne: a duo’s dangerous delusions

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Spotlight

  • A tale of extraordinary barbecues – and the council that shut them down

    Jonathan Nunn
    A row over Burgess Park in my area of south London is typical of local authorities that misunderstand the point of community spaces, says food writer Jonathan Nunn
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You may have missed

  • Vodafone and Three merging would be a disaster – not least for your bills

    Nicholas Shaxson
    For customers’ mobile costs to come down, we need more telecoms providers, not fewer, says Nicholas Shaxson, cofounder of the anti-monopoly Balanced Economy Project

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

    Hannah Jane Parkinson
  • 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
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This is Europe

  • Helene von Bismarck

    Why did it take a murderous war on Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?

    Helene von Bismarck

  • 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
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Cartoons

  • Steve Bell on the Ukraine reconstruction conference in London – cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on George Osborne’s day at Covid inquiry – cartoon

    The former chancellor and David Cameron have both defended their austerity policy to the panel

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

    Rishi Sunak is to miss a vote on whether to impose sanctions on Boris Johnson over his Partygate denials because of other diary plans, Downing Street has signalled

Columnists

  • Owen Jones

    David Cameron left Britain exposed to the pandemic – where’s the outrage?

    Owen Jones
  • Frances Ryan

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

    Frances Ryan
  • Polly Toynbee

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

    Polly Toynbee
  • John Harris

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

    John Harris

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

    Jonathan Freedland

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

    Marina Hyde

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

    Simon Jenkins

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

    Andy Beckett

  • Extreme websites peddle conspiracies, but what about the mainstream outlets that do it too?

    Owen Jones

  • 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
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Letters

  • Time to turn the tide on water mismanagement

  • Countering Tory lies on people smugglers

    • Why direct action is vital to fight injustice

    • The perfect power nap to keep you alert

    • There can be no ‘moving on’ from the Windrush scandal

    • Scientific advisers are not blameless in UK’s Covid record

    • Could a binge drinker be taken seriously as health secretary?

    • Brought to tears by Ashes recollections

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