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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Emirates Stadium, London, UK - 17 Aug 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Paul Marriott/Shutterstock (14642054ca) Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer celebrates the second Arsenal goal (2-0) as he watches his beloved team Arsenal, at the Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers EPL match Arsenal v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Emirates Stadium, London, UK - 17 Aug 2024

    Keir Starmer is an unforced error machine – have they tried turning him off and on again?

    Marina Hyde
    After fewer than 100 days, it’s hard to think of anyone who has squandered so much electoral capital so quickly for so little
  • Owen Jones

    On the streets of Vienna, I saw Austrians’ rage at the march of the far right – but also their helplessness

    Owen Jones
  • A Palestinian child at Ibn Rushd school in Al-Zawaida following an Israeli airstrike, Gaza, 6 October 2024.

    Today, our hearts are breaking for the children of Gaza. Tomorrow, we must give them peace

    Gordon Brown
  • Nels Abbey

    When a Heinz advert features racist stereotypes to sell pasta sauce, it’s vital to speak out. So I did

    Nels Abbey
  • The Diego Garcia airbase, a joint UK-US military facility on the Chagos Islands.

    Britain needs to abandon its delusions of empire – giving up the Chagos Islands is a good start

    Simon Jenkins
  • Shada Islam

    Look at this photo of Ursula von der Leyen’s new team – and tell me the EU doesn’t have a diversity problem

    Shada Islam

  • Is the Sue Gray debacle another Hartlepool moment for Keir Starmer? Let’s hope so

    Rafael Behr

  • It is a year since my mother was murdered at her kibbutz. Out of this horror, surely peace must come

    Yonatan Zeigen

  • Pro-war, anti-Netanyahu: that has been the Israeli liberal conundrum in a terrible year

    Aluf Benn

  • British Muslims deserve safety and belonging. War in Gaza has made us fear we’ll lose both

    Zara Mohammed

  • I wish you could see the living nightmare in Palestine. But how much more must we see before something is done?

    Nesrine Malik

  • A year marked by trauma and grief – and questions about what it means to be Jewish in Britain

    Dave Rich

  • My passion for an argument was relentless – and damaging. Then my granddaughter intervened

    Sergey Maidukov

  • Tipping culture is annoying, unfair and worst of all American – and now it’s coming to Paris

    Alexander Hurst
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Why I quit

  • Sergey Maidukov

    My passion for an argument was relentless – and damaging. Then my granddaughter intervened

    Sergey Maidukov
  • Kat Lister

    After my husband’s death, I papered over my grief with posters and pictures. No more

    Kat Lister
  • Will Clempner

    Hunched over my smartphone while my family slept, I knew I had to break my addiction. But how?

    Will Clempner
  • Helene Rosenthal

    Stressed, sweaty and remorseful, I arrived late for dinner again – and then made a life-changing decision

    Helene Rosenthal
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The first summer I…

  • Diyora Shadijanova

    Getting an allotment totally changed my summer – and radically altered my relationship with food

    Diyora Shadijanova
  • Olivia Lee

    I thought I’d spend the summer on a beach with my boyfriend. Instead, I was single – and walking on hot coals

    Olivia Lee
  • Jo Bateman

    Sea swimming was my saviour. But the dumping of sewage changed everything

    Jo Bateman
  • Ammar Kalia

    After our mum died, we maxed out the credit cards and went on safari in the Serengeti

    Ammar Kalia

The Guardian view

  • Oil supertankers anchored at the Bandar Abbas Anchorage, in the Straits of Hormuz, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - one of the most important waterways for the export of petroleum, from which 20% of the world's petroleum production passes through the narrow straits.<br>MN29Y4 Oil supertankers anchored at the Bandar Abbas Anchorage, in the Straits of Hormuz, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - one of the most important waterways for the export of petroleum, from which 20% of the world's petroleum production passes through the narrow straits.

    The Guardian view on Israel and Iran: there will be no winners from an all-out war

  • coroner's court london england

    The Guardian view on the coroner’s role: if deaths can be prevented, they should be

  • Sue Gray

    The Guardian view on the Sue Gray debacle: changing faces will not be enough

  • Little boy looking out of a window

    The Guardian view on privatised care failures: a service crying out for change

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Spotlight

  • A protester holds a mock dead baby during a march in London last month.

    Tales of infanticide have stoked hatred of Jews for centuries. They echo still today

    Howard Jacobson
    A year after the 7 October attack, the myth of ‘blood libel’ persists in the media coverage of Gaza violence
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    Yes, Andrew Tate is a misogynist, but his real game is exploiting men’s vulnerabilities for cash

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  • Kim Leadbeater

    Too many people have been condemned to die in misery and pain. My assisted dying bill can change that

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  • Owen Jones

    What atrocity would Israel have to commit for our leaders to break their silence?

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Cartoons

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    Martin Rowson on the Conservative party leadership contest – cartoon

  • Stephen Lillie on Sue Gray’s exit and Labour’s game of political chess – cartoon

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    The prime minister is having to reshuffle his top team after the departure of his embattled chief of staff
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Columnists

  • Nesrine Malik

    I wish you could see the living nightmare in Palestine. But how much more must we see before something is done?

    Nesrine Malik
  • John Harris

    British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues

    John Harris
  • Frances Ryan

    Disabled Palestinians are facing horrors piled upon horrors. I think of their suffering every day

    Frances Ryan
  • Zoe Williams

    Starmer is boxing himself in over Europe – and putting approval ratings above young people’s futures

    Zoe Williams

  • A brutal year and a tale of two Israels: the one that is feared and the one that is fearful

    Jonathan Freedland

  • The Tories are deluded to think they’ll be back in power in 2029. Here are three economic reasons why

    Larry Elliott

  • After the ‘Tory idol’ speeches, who most looks like a leader in waiting? Our panel passes judgment

    John Harris, Katy Balls, Sahil Dutta, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones and John Redwood

  • Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness

    Rafael Behr

  • As the waters rise, a two-year sentence for throwing soup. That’s the farcical reality of British justice

    George Monbiot

  • Former PMs have a wealth of experience. Why not put some on the Tory leadership ballot?

    Simon Jenkins

  • Call this a party conference? It’s more like a weird Tory festival of mass delusion

    Polly Toynbee

  • With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions?

    Nesrine Malik
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Letters

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    Keir Starmer must not yield to rightwing opposition over EU youth mobility

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    • Is Sue Gray’s fall the same old sexist story?

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