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CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Children evacuated from Afghanistan arrive in the UK in August 2021.

    The UK’s broken refugee policy is delivering vulnerable children into the hands of people smugglers

    Alf Dubs
    The government is preventing refugee families being reunited – but one simple proposal could change that
  • A protest at the Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 2022

    The 1.5C global heating target was always a dream, but its demise doesn’t signal doom for climate action

    Bill McKibben
  • Samantha de Bendern

    Putin’s war machine reshuffle reveals his deepest fear – the rise of Kremlin rivals

    Samantha de Bendern
  • An image of some old-fashioned weighing scales. The Houses of Parliament are pictured on one side of the scales, and an image of planet Earth is on the other.

    Yes, Rishi Sunak, the world is a scary place. That is why we need a new prime minister

    Rafael Behr
  • Properties to let in Selly Oak, Birmingham

    Far too many Britons are at the mercy of exploitative private landlords. I have a five-point plan to fix that

    Stephen Cowan
  • Renate van der Zee

    Amsterdam is sick of ‘party tourists’. It should take drastic measures to stop them

    Renate van der Zee

  • Can the civil service survive the chaos and incompetence of Team Sunak? Of course we can: we’re optimists

    The civil servant

  • My fellow citizens – we share confined spaces, but do I have to overhear your chat, your music, your TikTok?

    Zoe Williams

  • So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose

    Marina Hyde

  • Rafah refugees are pouring into our starving, overcrowded city – and we hope they keep coming

    Eman Mohamed

  • Laughing, chatting, singing, GPT-4o is AI close to human, but watch out: it’s really not human

    Chris Stokel-Walker

  • Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope

    Gordon Brown

  • Trump’s hush-money case has proved he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal?

    Margaret Sullivan

  • Should Baby Reindeer’s creator have written about his alleged stalker? I did the same thing – and it helped me heal

    Paul Burston
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Why I quit

  • Tara Judah

    I stopped chasing the Hollywood vision of female friendship – and embraced the person I am

    Tara Judah
  • Radhika Sanghani

    I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free

    Radhika Sanghani
  • Janine Parkinson

    As a stunt performer, I lived on the edge of danger – but I had to step back from the precipice

    Janine Parkinson
  • Hannah Witton

    Life as a YouTube creator was great, but 12 years in, I felt like I was trapped on a hamster wheel

    Hannah Witton
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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

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference about his 'stop the boats' policy in Downing Street, London on 15 November 2023.

    The Guardian view on asylum and Northern Ireland: Rishi Sunak has sabotaged his own legacy

  • A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan.

    The Guardian view on protecting Sudan’s civilians: there is no more time to be lost

  • Emergency workers walk among debris in front of a residential building damaged as a result of a missile attack in Kharkiv on 14 May.

    The Guardian view on Russia’s new offensive: Ukraine’s allies must renew their focus

  • A general view of staff on an NHS hospital ward.

    The Guardian view on health spending: a broken promise that voters are unlikely to forget or forgive

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Spotlight

  • Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour party<br>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she has defected to Labour, hitting out at the "broken promises of Rishi Sunak's tired and chaotic government". Picture date: Wednesday May 8, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Elphicke. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

    Polly Toynbee
    After Natalie Elphicke’s welcome, would Labour turn any Tory dregs away? This is beneath the dignity of a party on the verge of power
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You may have missed

  • Post office scandal, London, UK - 23 Apr 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (11872250a) A group of former sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses have seen their names cleared at the Court of Appeal Post office scandal, London, UK - 23 Apr 2021

    Our Post Office victory is being twisted by those who don’t want to see its like again

    Alan Bates
    Litigation funders didn’t ‘exploit’ subpostmasters, they helped us. Those who attack them have corporate interests at heart
  • Raphaël Glucksmann speaking in Paris, France, 2 May 2024

    In France, we’ve been desperate for a real alternative to Macron and Le Pen. Finally, he’s here

    Alexander Hurst
  • The newly re-elected Labour Party Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, poses for the media on the Millennium Bridge before his swearing in ceremony in London, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

    What should Labour learn from Sadiq Khan? Take a stand – and don’t back down

    John McTernan
  • Natalie Elphicke defects to Labour party<br>Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons, London, after it was announced she has defected to Labour, hitting out at the "broken promises of Rishi Sunak's tired and chaotic government". Picture date: Wednesday May 8, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Elphicke. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    Keir Starmer should be embracing the Tories’ disgruntled voters – not their turncoat MPs

    Polly Toynbee
  • Christiana Figueres

    I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope

    Christiana Figueres
  • Stephanie Clifford,Stormy Daniels,Susan Necheles,DonaldTrump<br>In this courtroom sketch, defense attorney Susan Necheles, center, cross examines Stormy Daniels, far right, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, as former President Donald Trump, left, looks on with Judge Juan Merchan presiding during Trump's trial in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

    Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind

    Emma Brockes
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak keeping children safe – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak keeping children safe – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s meeting with unions on workers’ rights

    Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s meeting with unions on workers’ rights

    The talks come amid divisions over whether the proposals have been watered down since they were first proposed by Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner.
  • Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s dire prophecies for the next five years – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s dire prophecies for the next five years – cartoon

    The prime minister has kickstarted his election campaign with warnings about war, immigration and AI

Columnists

  • Polly Toynbee

    I’ve seen how firms cheat the law to exploit workers and here’s a warning: those days are ending

    Polly Toynbee
  • Simon Jenkins

    Britain’s ‘most dangerous’ years lie ahead, warns Sunak. It’s cheap politics from a floundering PM

    Simon Jenkins
  • Nesrine Malik

    Cries of defiance are all Palestinians and their supporters have left to keep hope alive

    Nesrine Malik
  • John Harris

    Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon

    John Harris

  • Joe Biden is desperate for this war to end – but neither Netanyahu nor Hamas is in any hurry

    Jonathan Freedland

  • Piers Morgan won’t care where the Baby Reindeer saga goes. But Netflix should

    Marina Hyde

  • The students protesting in Dublin are on the right side of history – and they know it

    Owen Jones

  • Why is Britain’s mental health so incredibly poor? It’s because our society is spiralling backwards

    George Monbiot

  • Natalie Elphicke is a hard-right Tory. Her defection sums up Labour’s contempt for progressive voters

    Owen Jones

  • Starmer may be bland – but that passes the taste test in a country sick of spicy politics

    Rafael Behr

  • Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

    Marina Hyde

  • Rachel Reeves is right: this government is gaslighting us over the economy

    Polly Toynbee
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Letters

  • A row of cars charging at Wetherby Services, North Yorkshire.

    Don’t despair about the climate. Be part of the social tipping point

  • Kenyan woman standing among withered maize crops

    The world’s poorest didn’t cause the climate crisis, but they bear the brunt of it

    • When doctors withhold futile treatments, that isn’t ‘assisted dying’

    • Not all culture was lost during the war

    • The Tories deserve to be abandoned by voters

    • Rachel Reeves should be brave and stop blaming the economy

    • Labour should commit to a public housing ministry in its manifesto

    • The shocking stupidity of the smart meter system

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