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CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
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    double quotation markThe Letby inquiry report makes one thing crystal clear: too much NHS management is scandalously poor

    Tom Dolphin
    Non-medical managers are the only safety-critical part of the service that do not have a regulator. Lady Justice Thirlwall says that must change. So do we
  • MPs security budgetEMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28
File photo dated 19/03/22 of Elizabeth Tower, part of the Palace of Westminster with a Metropolitan Police officer in Parliament Square, London. Security measures for MPs will be bolstered with a £31 million package that will include providing elected politicians with a dedicated police contact to liaise with over safety issues. Issue date: Wednesday February 28, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS MPs. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

    double quotation markI have faced abuse, assaults and death threats because I’m an MP. It’s making politics a no-go zone

    Dawn Butler
    A new report highlights the dangers experienced by those who seek to serve the public. People are being deterred and your democracy is suffering
  • A woman checks her phone walking past a Sobyanin and Tolstoy election billboard, Moscow skyscrapers behind

    double quotation markTo understand the threat to our real democracy, watch Putin’s fake one

    Rafael Behr
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  • Gordon Brown

    double quotation markBig-money donations poison British politics. We can stop the mega-rich buying access and influence

    Gordon Brown
  • Raw vegetables lying on gray wooden surface

    double quotation markIt’s my self-care tip of the year: I quit our local veg box scheme, and set my mind free

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Variety's 2025 Power of Women Los Angeles, Presented by Lifetime - ArrivalsSydney Sweeney at Variety's 2025 Power of Women Los Angeles, Presented by Lifetime at the Beverly Hills Hotel on October 29, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

    double quotation markAre you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you

    Marina Hyde
  • ‘Polls encourage us all to see politics as a kind of game within a game’.

    double quotation markPolling turns politics into one big game. There are too many of them – and that does us no good

    Jonathan Liew
  • Peter Walker

    double quotation markWhen is an ebike not an ebike? When it has a powerful, illegal engine. Get this menace off our roads

    Peter Walker
  • Polling station signs outside Canford Cliffs library during local council elections, Poole, 4 May 2023.

    double quotation markThank goodness Labour’s ‘shambolic’ plan to reorganise local councils has been paused. What was it thinking?

    Polly Toynbee
  • Nicola Jennings on asylum-seeker plans in Oxfordshire – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on the proposal to house asylum seekers in Oxfordshire – cartoon

    Piddington has ‘voted’ for independence over proposals to house migrants nearby – amid reports that far-right activists may hold a protest in the village
  • Houthi fighters in Yemen

    The Guardian view on the Houthi advance in Yemen: another vital Middle East artery becomes a battlefield

  • Voters at a polling station inside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm on 13 September 2026.

    The Guardian view on Sweden’s election result: an opportunity that progressive parties must not squander

  • A "Thirlwall Inquiry" banner stands inside ornate Liverpool Town Hall with wood paneling and gold trim

    The Guardian view on Lucy Letby: Thirlwall should have waited for the pending case review

  • The Bank of England's columned facade flies a Union Jack flag against a blue sky

    The Guardian view on the Bank of England’s £120bn bill: power without accountability

Spotlight

  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and European Council president Antonio Costa in Brussels in June 2025.

    double quotation markCanada should become an EU state in all but name. Here’s how to make that a reality

    Fabian Zuleeg
    From the UK to Japan, so many countries need to quickly be brought inside the European tent without the rigours of full membership

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    double quotation markPhone coverage across the London tube? That’s sent me hurtling down a tunnel of despair

    Lucy Pasha-Robinson
  • Donald Trump and King Charles inspecting a guard of honour at Windsor Castle, September 2025

    double quotation markWake up, Britain: Donald Trump’s US is no friend of ours. We must secure our own place in the world

    Simon Jenkins
  • Monty Don in the Paradise Garden at Longmeadow, his garden in Herefordshire.

    double quotation markIt’s time for a Gardeners’ World that reflects Britain’s gardens in all their messy, realistic chaos

    Claire Ratinon
  • Aftermath of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, 8 September 2026.

    double quotation markRussia is raining death on Ukraine’s women and children. Our hands shake, but we keep going for love

    Alina Sarnatska
  • Kirsty Major

    double quotation markA broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right

    Kirsty Major
  • Jaime Palomera

    double quotation markBarcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain’s housing crisis. Which will succeed?

    Jaime Palomera
  • Peter Apps

    double quotation markCould Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis?

    Peter Apps
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    double quotation markVienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here’s why

    Justin Kadi
  • Brazil-Trail-Pic

    double quotation markA lesson from Brazil – where gig workers have rallied against the right

    Rodrigo Nunes
  • Mexico-Trail-Pic

    double quotation markWhat can the global left learn from Mexico – where far-right politics hasn’t taken off?

    Thomas Graham
  • Composite image with Marian Kotleba

    double quotation markIn Slovakia, our grassroots movement helped oust a neo-Nazi. We can do it again

    Alexandra Bitušíková
  • UK

    double quotation markWhat smashed the far right in east London? A playbook that said connect, connect, connect

    Margaret Hodge

Columnists

  • Owen Jones

    double quotation markAs Reform celebrates £72m in donations, tell me this: are you ready to see two rich men buy our democracy?

    Owen Jones
  • Nesrine Malik

    double quotation markThe US right still paints Muslims as the ‘enemy’. But they are fighting for a brighter future for Americans

    Nesrine Malik
  • John Harris

    double quotation markWarning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can

    John Harris
  • Marina Hyde

    double quotation markMemo to King Charles: you can’t stop the Sussexes’ reality show bandwagon. You only spice up the script

    Marina Hyde
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    double quotation markTech whistleblowers warn AI could wipe out humanity. Doomspeak or not, we must take these claims seriously

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markMy plea to MPs: this is the final chance to save the assisted dying bill. Make your mark on history

    Polly Toynbee
  • George Monbiot

    double quotation markIs Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans?

    George Monbiot
  • Andy Beckett

    double quotation markFarage is clearly struggling – I saw that for myself. But his legacy will be a poison that runs deep

    Andy Beckett
  • Two elderly women in Downham Market walk with a shopping trolley and walking stick

    Pension peril: is it time to unpick the triple lock?

  • Waymo self-driving minicabA Waymo self-driving minicab in training on Tothill Street in Westminster, central in London, ahead of the driverless taxi service being launched in the UK. Picture date: Friday September 4, 2026. PA Photo. The Waymo driverless taxi is an electric vehicle equipped with several on-board sensors that remove the need for human input from behind the steering wheel when in full operation. The taxis currently operate in various cities across the globe such as Tokyo, San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

    Why I can’t wait to get into a driverless car

  • Young boy eating his breakfast in morning light

    The families facing a food crisis in school holidays

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    Doctors, not cameras, save babies in intensive care

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