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

    In the new Trumpian era, liberal democracies must hold their noses – and engage with difficult partners

    Timothy Garton Ash
    New polling says much of the world will welcome Trump. Europe will need to be more transactional abroad – but less so at home
  • Barbara Speed

    Something big is happening in the world of contraception. It’s going backwards

    Barbara Speed
  • Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits University College London<br>Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL (University College London), in London, Britain January 13, 2025, as he prepares to launch a plan to harness AI to spur growth and efficiency in the country. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

    Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time

    Rafael Behr
  • composite of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg

    Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby

    Marina Hyde
  • Lanre Bakare

    We don’t have the swagger of Manchester or the sheen of Leeds, but Bradford has a radical culture all its own

    Lanre Bakare
  • Illustration of internet pins spread over map of British isles with people working in and on top of them

    Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better

    Polly Toynbee

  • Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms

    Johnny Ryan

  • Black mould, wet clothes and sharing a bed – that’s the reality of the cold snap for my kids and me

    Gemma

  • Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

    Owen Jones

  • Zuckerberg, Musk, answer me this: what about the child abuse scandal playing out online?

    Susanna Rustin

  • We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences

    Nesrine Malik

  • Under Trump, cryptocurrency is set to go mainstream – but that won’t make it any safer for investors

    Larisa Yarovaya

  • They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it

    Xaymaca Awoyungbo

  • The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you

    Patrick Schröder
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Why I quit

  • Édaein O’ Connell

    I was terrified of being the last single woman left among my friends. Then I made peace with it

    Édaein O’ Connell
  • Evelyn Rose Worman

    As a teenager, I ditched my hated last name. As an adult, I’ve learned to love it

    Evelyn Rose Worman
  • Marisa Bate

    I delved into my family’s history – and discovered a long-hidden secret. But was it mine to tell?

    Marisa Bate
  • Elle Warren

    I used to think Googling my symptoms kept me healthy. My mother’s death showed me I had to quit

    Elle Warren
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The Guardian view

  • Pouring a glass of water from a kitchen tap

    The Guardian view on chemical pollution: the UK can’t ignore the risks from PFAS

  • Keir Starmer introduces his AI action plan during a speech at University College London East.

    The Guardian view on AI and public services: computers can’t cure all of Britain’s problems

  • Protesters in Vienna demonstrate against Austria’s far-right Freedom party on 9 January 2025.

    The Guardian view on globalisation and its discontents: how the left was left behind

  • The ‘death chamber’ at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville Unit, in Huntsville, Texas

    The Guardian view on capital punishment: an upsurge in executions should concern us all

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Spotlight

  • FILE PHOTO: Donald Trump Watches SpaceX Launch its sixth test flight of Starship Spacecraft<br>FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024 Brandon Bell/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

    Trump and his henchman Musk treat America’s oldest allies as enemies. Britain can’t face that threat alone

    Jonathan Freedland
    The president-elect’s hostility towards other democracies is already clear. There will be no special relationship with him: we should look to Europe
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You may have missed

  • Newborn baby born on boat rescued off Lanzarote

    The image that speaks a thousand words about our inhumane migration debate

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    The birth of a baby boy on a dangerously overcrowded refugee boat should be a wake-up call to all of us
  • destroyed houses on a hillside by the sea

    The Los Angeles fires are a reminder of the cost of forgetting

    Rebecca Solnit
  • Person uses phone to take photo of T-shirt and other clothes with packing boxes in background

    Fast fashion is an addiction. Secondhand shopping mania may be just as bad

    Chloë Hamilton
  • ‘For decades, companies demanded their workers’ loyalty while offering little in return.’

    Why are gen Z shunning ‘hustle culture’ in favour of long-term jobs? Here are three good reasons

    Oli Mould
  • a person holding a phone with someone on the screen

    ‘You’re gonna find this creepy’: my AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it?

    Georgina Findlay
  • Carnaby Street is very busy as the Christmas run up begins., Carnaby Street, London, UK - 03 Dec 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Guy Bell/REX/Shutterstock (13647980d) Despite the cost of living crisis there are still plenty of people out shopping under the Christmas Lights on Carnaby Street early as the Christmas run up begins. Carnaby Street is very busy as the Christmas run up begins., Carnaby Street, London, UK - 03 Dec 2022

    A visit to the high street taught me this: hell is shopping with other people

    Nell Frizzell
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Cartoons

  • Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Gaza – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Gaza – cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Trump in Greenland – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Trump in Greenland – cartoon

    What do Greenlanders make of the US president-elect’s proposed advance on their home?
  • Ella Baron on Los Angeles and the wildfires of misinformation – cartoon

    Ella Baron on Los Angeles and the wildfires of misinformation – cartoon

    While LA burns, the response on social media – not least from the US president – has distracted from the true causes

Columnists

  • Nesrine Malik

    We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences

    Nesrine Malik
  • John Harris

    As tech barons dial up the spreading of lies, why is the BBC dialling down the reporting of truth?

    John Harris
  • Marina Hyde

    There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting

    Marina Hyde
  • Andy Beckett

    Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them

    Andy Beckett

  • I didn’t think it was possible, but this week has been a new low for the Tories

    Polly Toynbee

  • This 77-year-old climate activist should never have been jailed – and now faces a Kafkaesque struggle to get out

    Zoe Williams

  • Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him

    Martin Kettle

  • Kemi Badenoch was supposed to make the Tories serious again. She has failed

    Rafael Behr

  • How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide

    Marina Hyde

  • I don’t want to hear MPs’ personal testimonies in parliament. Issues like assisted dying are for heads, not hearts

    Simon Jenkins

  • Ignore Musk, ignore the critics – you’ll feel the benefit of Labour’s policies in your pocket before long

    Polly Toynbee

  • Labour’s new year resolution? It needs a better story. Here’s one Starmer could tell

    John Harris
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Letters

  • People stand in front of Royal Courts of Justice

    Keeping Gaie Delap in jail is a travesty of justice

  • FILE PHOTO: Migrants cross the English Channel in small boats<br>FILE PHOTO: In this drone view, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants makes its way towards England in the English Channel, Britain, August 6, 2024. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe/File Photo

    Anti-Al Capone tactics could work on people traffickers

    • Hearing MPs’ life stories brings us closer to them

    • It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing

    • Is more outsourcing the remedy for NHS delays?

    • Meta’s ditching of factcheckers is potentially dangerous and a disservice

    • Farmers need help to adapt to climate crisis

    • Nonagenarians and the joy of senior sex

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