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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Watson and barristers with press microphones in foreground and old and modern buildings behind

    I have now spoken to police officers who say they were misled by Murdoch’s empire. I won’t let this rest

    Gordon Brown
    Evidence suggests an elaborate cover-up. The Met must act
  • Maxine Peake

    Telling the incredible tale of Anna Politkovskaya has taught me one thing: I could never be that brave

    Maxine Peake
  • Young woman holding baby son in blanket<br>CNJ05B Young woman holding baby son in blanket

    Like many mothers, I struggled with breastfeeding. Now we know we’re not ‘failures’

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Mona Eltahawy

    I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces

    Mona Eltahawy
  • Prayers outside Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome, where Pope Francis will be buried, 24 April 2025.

    As Pope Francis is laid to rest, is his legacy of a more compassionate Catholicism at risk?

    Julian Coman
  • Russia Ukraine War<br>A destroyed car is seen in front of a house damaged by a Thursday Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

    We hid in the bathroom as bombs fell on Kyiv. Is this Trump’s idea of peace?

    Oleksandr Mykhed

  • Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Is one-nation Toryism dead? Not yet, but it can’t let Reform and the right provide all the answers

    Henry Hill

  • In Kyiv, we don’t believe in the fantasy of Trump’s ‘peace deal’. Our reality is more dead civilians

    Nataliya Gumenyuk

  • We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green?

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Should benefit claimants risk having their bank accounts spied upon and driving licences revoked? I don’t think so

    Neil Duncan-Jordan

  • Youth centres may seem tame fare for politicians. But I’ve seen firsthand how they cut crime

    Simon Jenkins

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

    Rodrigo Nunes

  • Hungary’s Péter Erdő is a strong candidate to be the next pope – and that’s reason to be fearful

    Alex Faludy
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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

  • Pro-Harvard demonstrators rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves

  • Joan Didion.

    The Guardian view on posthumously publishing Joan Didion: goodbye to all that

  • Nigel Farage speaks at a news conference in Dover, Kent

    The Guardian view on Conservatives in crisis: a shrinking party without purpose

  • Cardinals escorting Pope Francis's body in St Peter's Basilica, Rome

    The Guardian view on the coming papal conclave: Catholics at a crossroads

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Spotlight

  • Illustration by Guardian Design/Getty Images/Alamy

    It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe

    Phil Mongredien
    Having missed out in my youth, I thought that was that – until I took a revelatory trip with my sons. We’re going again this year
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You may have missed

  • Artist impression of K2-18b issued by the University of Cambridge.

    Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered

    Nathalie Cabrol
    A new study of a sphere orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light years from Earth is raising hopes. Here’s why the evidence is inconclusive, says astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol
  • Keir Starmer with wind turbines in the background

    Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong

    Rafael Behr
  • Robert F Kennedy Jr discusses the findings of the latest autism survey during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services, 16 April 2025.

    RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies

    John Harris
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Teenagers having sex is news to no one. Thank goodness the government has seen sense on this

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Ed Miliband leaving Downing Street, London in April 2025.

    Why is Ed Miliband a target for all sides? Because he’s a lefty politician who gets things done

    Andy Beckett
  • Jordana Timerman

    Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started

    Jordana Timerman
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Cartoons

  • Sarah Akinterinwa on this age of anxiety – cartoon

    Sarah Akinterinwa on this age of anxiety – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on Pope Francis’s funeral – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Pope Francis’s funeral – cartoon

    World leaders gather at the Vatican on Saturday as the pope is laid to rest
  • Ben Jennings on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine – cartoon

    Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of jeopardising a peace deal by refusing to consider ceding Crimea to Russia

Columnists

  • Simon Jenkins

    Youth centres may seem tame fare for politicians. But I’ve seen firsthand how they cut crime

    Simon Jenkins
  • Polly Toynbee

    Inside Labour’s top-secret plan for new towns, I see signs of hope

    Polly Toynbee
  • George Monbiot

    Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime

    George Monbiot
  • Larry Elliott

    Trump’s an unstable bully – but it’s hard to defend the economic orthodoxies he is attacking

    Larry Elliott

  • Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times

    Owen Jones

  • With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster

    Nesrine Malik

  • Britain needs houses, and Labour’s bold plan will address that. But it may require more migrants

    Polly Toynbee

  • Votes for 16-year-olds? Sorry, but I’m not convinced

    Simon Jenkins

  • The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It’s time to hear from them

    Frances Ryan

  • Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t

    Martin Kettle

  • Truss social: the latest venture from a woman who really knows what the people want

    Zoe Williams

  • In Trumpland, ‘defending free speech’ means one thing: submission to the president

    Rafael Behr
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Letters

  • Pope Francis visits the Varginha favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2013.

    Let Pope Francis’s humanity be a lesson to the world

  • Man in a hospital bed talking to a doctor

    Prostate cancer, race and the need for tests

    • How to change the world? Good grows out of unhistoric acts

    • The death of your dog is hard to bear

    • I walked the Pennine Way to help other children

    • Ethical alternatives to American goods

    • Lowering the voting age will benefit democracy

    • Unequal pain of Birmingham’s bin strike

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