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Portrait of CP Scott
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but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Liz Truss speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 22, 2024.

    Liz Truss has kindly offered to ‘save the west’. But who will save her from her delusions?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    The former PM’s book claims she was undermined by ‘establishment’ enemies. It instead shows exactly why her friends deserted her
  • Chris Whitty

    This new bill could wipe out smoking and vaping – the only losers would be those who profit from it

    Chris Whitty
  • An overcrowded boat of migrants in the film Io Capitano (2023)

    The EU’s new migration pact is intended to neutralise the far right – it risks empowering it

    Daniel Trilling
  • Benjamin Netanyahu at a wartime cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 14 April 2024.

    Netanyahu faces tough questions on Iran – because we Israelis don’t need any more forever wars

    Dahlia Scheindlin
  • Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

    Iran’s missiles were shot down – but they still delivered what Tehran was hoping for

    Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
  • Alan Bates leaves Post Office Horizon Inquiry, London, England, Uk - 09 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14426251a) Former subpostmaster ALAN BATES gives a statement outside Aldwych House as the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry continues. Alan Bates leaves Post Office Horizon Inquiry, London, England, Uk - 09 Apr 2024

    The Post Office inquiry is finally exposing the part politicians played in the Horizon scandal

    Sam Fowles

  • For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away

    Nesrine Malik

  • Reform UK’s rise may tempt Sunak into moving further right. Let the Netherlands be a cautionary tale

    Tarik Abou-Chadi and Simon van Teutem

  • There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook

    George Monbiot

  • As a US diplomat, I helped circumvent Trump’s Muslim ban – then realised I was part of the problem

    Josef Burton

  • After Iran’s attack on Israel, the world must act: this is a crisis that threatens us all

    Simon Tisdall

  • Thanks to Cass, evidence not ideology will be used to guide children seeking gender advice

    Sonia Sodha

  • Peers know the Rwanda bill is flawed and dangerous. We must use every power to oppose it

    Simon McDonald

  • Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

    Andrew Rawnsley
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Why I quit

  • Gareth Roberts

    Working for the Royal Mail sounded like an ideal job. But I discovered it’s falling apart, just like its vans

    Gareth Roberts
  • Ying Reinhardt

    I stopped apologising for my poor German, and something wonderful happened

    Ying Reinhardt
  • Corin Hirsch

    Buried under chicken wings and with cholesterol soaring, I knew I’d had my fill of reviewing restaurants

    Corin Hirsch
  • Nomi Kaltmann

    I’m an Orthodox female rabbi, but I’ve had to leave my unwelcoming synagogue behind

    Nomi Kaltmann
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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

  • A giant billboard in central Tehran showing Iranian ballistic missiles

    The Guardian view on Iran and Israel: they need to step back from the brink of open warfare

  • Rush hour on the M4 smart motorway.

    The Guardian view on smart motorways: not so clever without a hard shoulder

  • Two pilgrims follow a yellow waymark on the Camino de Santiago.

    The Guardian view on pilgrimage: a 21st-century spiritual exercise

  • Council House in Birmingham.

    The Guardian view on local councils: they must meet the needs of communities, not just Whitehall

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Spotlight

  • José Andrés carrying a box of food from World Central Kitchen to help survivors of Hurricane Dorian, in the Bahamas, September 2019

    How did a Spanish chef gain a hotline to the White House?

    María Ramírez
    José Andrés sends cooks into disaster zones. He has led a backlash over Gaza against Netanyahu that no protest or politician could have matched, says María Ramírez of elDiario.es
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You may have missed

  • A protester's hand, holding the placard 'Do not abandon the hostages'

    I believe in another Israel – one not defined by Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies

    Naama Lazimi
    The Israel that I meet every day is made up of people who want to forge a path towards peace and security for all
  • A woman wearing a hijab walks near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 2 May 2021.

    What has 20 years of banning headscarves done for France?

    Rokhaya Diallo
  • Rishi Sunak in a white shirt, wearing glasses

    Waiting for this flailing government to call an election is excruciating. We need parliamentary reform

    Simon Jenkins
  • Owen Jones

    Blood, chaos and decline: these are the fruits of unbridled western hubris

    Owen Jones
  • Peter Pellegrini speaks after winning Slovakia's presidential election run-off in Bratislava on 6 April 2024.

    The pro-Putin far right is on the march across Europe – and it could spell tragedy for Ukraine

    Armida van Rij
  • Emma Brockes

    Joe Biden has gained an inch in the polls – and Democrats are jubilant

    Emma Brockes
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on fears over the perilous game being played between Israel and Iran – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on fears over the perilous game being played between Israel and Iran – cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on the choices facing Netanyahu – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on the choices facing Netanyahu – cartoon

    After the Iranian missile and drone attack, Israelis are in a more vulnerable position than ever
  • A sleeping Rishi Sunak is beset by monsters of privatised water, bankrupt councils, local elections and more

    Chris Riddell on the nightmares disturbing Rishi Sunak’s beauty sleep – cartoon

    A sleeping Rishi Sunak is beset by monsters of privatised water, bankrupt councils, local elections and more

Columnists

  • Jonathan Freedland

    The OJ Simpson trial was sensational – and a portent of the strife-torn America we see today

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Marina Hyde

    On your marks, get set, dope! Welcome to the Enhanced Games – the sporting event no one wants

    Marina Hyde
  • Andy Beckett

    Margaret Thatcher set Britain’s decline in motion – so why can’t politics exorcise her ghost?

    Andy Beckett
  • Frances Ryan

    Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

    Frances Ryan

  • When Rishi Sunak speaks, the nation shrugs. There’s no coming back from that

    Rafael Behr

  • Can you smell what The Rock is cooking? Could it be the most surreal presidential bid yet?

    Marina Hyde

  • Even its old boys are turning on the stuffy Foreign Office. They’re right to do so

    Simon Jenkins

  • The Tory party has lost the plot – and could be bad news for Labour

    John Harris

  • Six months in, the war in Gaza has dramatically shifted – and Israel is running out of road

    Nesrine Malik

  • After six months, the war in Gaza is making Israel a pariah state

    Jonathan Freedland

  • An MP who gives colleagues’ numbers to blackmailers. Isn’t William Wragg just right for this Westminster?

    Marina Hyde

  • The doomsters were wrong about the minimum wage. They’re wrong about Labour’s new deal for workers, too

    Larry Elliott
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Letters

  • Man waving a Union flag against an open sky

    This is the kind of Britain we must now strive to become

  • The HSBC bank in Shildon, County Durham before closure.

    Witnessing the sad decline of communities in County Durham

    • How to ensure your postal votes are on time despite unreliable Royal Mail

    • I earned more as a bin worker than a veterinary nurse

    • Pro-Palestinian feeling in Ireland has deep roots

    • Time for volunteers to get equal protection from sexual harassment

    • Can Wes Streeting’s private sector plans save the NHS?

    • The stupidity that is letting Royal Mail fail

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