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CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • John Swinney and Jenny Gilruth wave smiling at the SNP conference

    Why Scottish nationalists should see Burnham as a real threat – and an opportunity

    Rory Scothorne
    The PM’s goals may spell bad news for the SNP. Ironically, his EU bridge-building could also resurrect their dreams of independence
  • Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison lean forward on a sofa, watching a laptop screen in The Social Reckoning

    I’m sick of smug celebrities on the podcast circuit. No wonder there’s a fuss when someone speaks the truth

    Imogen West-Knights
    It was so refreshing to hear Aaron Sorkin admit he was bad at parts of directing after his movie flop. If only others could be as frank
  • A humanoid robot walks in a car park in the sun past a banner reading "People over AI: Hands off our data"

    Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it

    Carly Dober
  • England / UK: Meeting of the World Anti-Slavery Convention, Exeter Hall, London, 12-23 June 1840. Oil on canvas, Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846), 1840The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade was principally a Quaker society founded in the eighteenth century by Thomas Clarkson. The slave trade had been abolished throughout the British Empire in 1807. In August 1833 the British government passed the Slavery Abolition Act, advocated by William Wilberforce, which abolished slavery in the British Empire from August 1834, when some 800,000 people in the British empire became free. This monumental painting records the 1840 convention of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which was established to promote worldwide abolition. A frail and elderly Thomas Clarkson addresses a meeting of over 500 delegates. (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    British people can’t be made to pay for the wrongs of slavery – but we must confront our complicated history

    Andy Burnham
  • Protesters at a rally hold a sign showing Netanyahu's face marked with a bloody handprint

    This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop nationalist populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules

    Jonathan Freedland in Tel Aviv
  • Liz Truss wearing pink speaking into a microphone at a lectern with her name projected above her, gesturing with both hands raised.

    How do you bounce back from Liz Truss-level public failure? Don’t be shameless; do show remorse

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • A pro-EU demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament, 21 October 2026.Anti-Brexit and Pro-EU Protest in London, UK - 21 Oct 2026

    Opening the EU debate again is clearly a political minefield. But we have to do it

    Simon Jenkins
  • Lula da Silva wins presidential runoff election against Flavio Bolsonaroepa13331996 Supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 25 October 2026. Lula won the presidential runoff election against Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). EPA/ANDRE COELHO

    Could 2026 be the year that democracy fought back?

    David Van Reybrouck
  • Jeremy Nguyen cartoon pumpkins Yayoi Kusama

    Jeremy Nguyen on a very arty pumpkin – cartoon

    When a Halloween pumpkin gets the Yayoi Kusama treatment
  • John Healey delivers budget speech in the House of Commons October 28th 2026

    The Guardian view on Labour’s fiscal devolution: the future of Burnhamism will play out in municipal England

  • Richard Dawkins at the Oxford Union in 2014

    The Guardian view on 50 years of The Selfish Gene: flawed, outdated, yet still a model of truly popular science writing

  • Kemi Badenoch speaking in the House of Commons on 28 October.

    The Guardian view on a changing Brexit debate: Kemi Badenoch is trapped in denial

  • A London bus shelter poster criticising Elon Musk

    The Guardian view on online harms: Ofcom is failing at its job

Spotlight

  • An architectural illustration for the transformation of the Oxford Street areas, with pedestrianised zones, grass and trees.

    We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too

    Sadiq Khan
    We’ll revive the in-person shopping experience with a transformation of the area, inspired by the John Lewis and Selfridges founders who first set up there, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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    The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage

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  • Police officers face protesters near Porte de Vincennes in Paris, 24 October 2026.

    Could Europe’s autumn of discontent threaten the survival of the EU?

    Catherine De Vries
  • Andrew Boff, chair of the London Assembly, at City Hall, London, January 2025.

    This man has quit Badenoch’s increasingly hard-right Tory party – others should be brave enough to do the same

    Polly Toynbee
  • Are we doomscrolling our way into a democratic crisis? That’s what the playwright James Graham fears may be happening, as he suggests that our algorithms have led us into ‘a massive crisis of the new’ and are preventing us from imagining a different future

    'Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck' | Playwright James Graham – Radical Thinking – podcast

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Radical Thinking

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    'Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck' | Playwright James Graham – Radical Thinking – podcast

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  • In the latest episode of Radical Thinking, Gove joins Aditya Chakrabortty to discuss the future of the right, his record on Brexit and austerity, and the Spectator’s position on Islam

    Why Michael Gove worries about Britishness | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

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  • Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak to Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian with Aditya Chakrabortty

    'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking

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Columnists

  • Zoe Williams

    The tabloids that used Thomas Markle to attack Meghan should now reflect. I bet they won’t

    Zoe Williams
  • Larry Elliott

    Is this play-safe budget a sign that the prime minister is planning an early election?

    Larry Elliott
  • Andy Beckett

    If British Library reading rooms become ‘co-working spaces’, what, exactly, is a national library for?

    Andy Beckett
  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    Burnham promised big change – where was it? Instead we got the Martin Lewis budget

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Illustration: Guardian Design

    Will John Healey’s ‘breathing space’ budget deliver what Britain needs? Our panel responds

    Polly Toynbee, Hettie O'Brien, Rohan Sathyamoorthy, Kevin Cashman, Nik and John McDonnell
  • Polly Toynbee

    My advice for Burnham’s first budget? Hit the banks – and hit them hard

    Polly Toynbee
  • John Harris

    As a young man, magazines were my window to the world. That wonder will be lost when all the shops have gone

    John Harris
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Don’t call me ‘mumsy’ – the contempt behind that word makes me livid

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Chancellor John Healey displays the red budget briefcase to the media in Downing Street, London, on 28 October 2026

    This budget fails to live up to Andy Burnham’s grand rhetoric

  • London, England, UK. Anonymous schoolgirls in uniforms

    Don’t just ban school uniforms from pornography – ban them altogether

  • Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

    Sex was sacred in the time of Gilgamesh

  • Rescue workers forming a chain to move debris in an effort to reach children trapped in Pantglas junior school, Aberfan.

    Aberfan and a lack of accountability that still affects society today

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