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CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Iran ProtestsIranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo)

    I know the terrible cost of speaking out in Iran – and I beg the world to stand with those speaking out now

    Nasrin Parvaz
    Survivors of the regime like me are reliving our nightmares as brave Iranians fight for their freedom. They say they have nothing to lose but their chains
  • Composite

    The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again

    Martin Kettle
    As I write my last regular column for the Guardian, my thoughts turn to the lessons and hope we can take from history
  • Malu Rosing

    Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale

    Malu Rosing
  • Federal Agents Descend On Minneapolis For Immigration Enforcement OperationsMINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 14: A portrait of Renee Good lies at a memorial near the site where she was killed a week ago, on January 14, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Good was fatally shot by an immigration enforcement agent during an incident in south Minneapolis on January 7. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

    After the shooting of Renee Good, we see dissent can be fatal in Trump’s America – all bets are off

    Emma Brockes
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  • Anti-US protests in Nuuk, Greenland, on 15 March 2025.

    Whether or not Trump invades Greenland, this much is clear: the western order we once knew is history

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • A poster calling for people to delete their X accounts due to the AI chatbot Grok's image-creation feature, London, 13 January 2026.

    Liz Kendall’s response to X ‘nudification’ is good – but not enough to solve the problem

    Nana Nwachukwu
  • Danish shop owner Jesper Tonnesen with an anti-Maga cap he designed with the slogan ‘Make America go away’, Copenhagen, 13 January 2026.

    My Danish-Indian family has experienced empire first-hand. For all of us, Trump’s imperialism is terrifying

    Mira Kamdar
  • Clcokwise from top left: Margaret Thatcher in 1979, Tony Blair in 1997, Theresa May in 2016 and Keir Starmer in 2024.

    Labour and the Tories are banking on a return to the ‘old normal’. That’s not what voters want

    Rafael Behr
  • Walney offshore wind farm, off the coast of Cumbria, UK.

    With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong

    Ed Miliband

Cartoon

  • Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s U-turns – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer’s U-turns – cartoon

    The government has scaled back its plans for digital ID

The Guardian view

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    The Guardian view on Labour policy U-turns: a dangerous pattern that corrodes confidence

  • A TransPennine Express train crosses the River Irwell between Manchester and Salford on the newly constructed Ordsall Chord railway, part of the part of the Northern Powerhouse investmentPGYM3F A TransPennine Express train crosses the River Irwell between Manchester and Salford on the newly constructed Ordsall Chord railway, part of the part of the Northern Powerhouse investment

    The Guardian view on Labour’s plan for railways in the north: a slow train coming

  • Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives at the U.S. Federal Reserve in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

    The Guardian view on Trump’s assault on the Fed: it is part of an affordability blame game

  • A protest at the Houses of Parliament in July 2025.

    The Guardian view on long waits for disability benefits: the system should not push people closer to poverty

Spotlight

  • European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen with then Greenlandic prime minister Múte B Egede at the opening of the commission’s new office in Nuuk, Greenland, March 2024

    Trump is ready to grab Greenland. The EU should move first – and offer it membership

    Robert Habeck and Andreas Raspotnik
    The US president’s threats to the territory show Europe needs a new strategy for its far north: one based on cooperation, not domination

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    Sorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever

    Sadiq Khan
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    The UK’s high streets have reached a tipping point – and Reform will reap the benefits

    John Harris
  • María Ramírez

    Why Spain’s prime minister has broken ranks in Europe – and dared to confront Trump

    María Ramírez
  • Activists from People vs Big Tech, WeMove Europe, Avaaz and European Digital Rights protest at the EC headquarters in Brussels on 19 November 2025.

    Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies

    Armida van Rij

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    A broken housing market is driving inequality right across Europe – and fuelling the far right

    Kirsty Major
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    Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain’s housing crisis. Which will succeed?

    Jaime Palomera
  • Peter Apps

    Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis?

    Peter Apps
  • composite image by Guardian Design

    Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here’s why

    Justin Kadi

How to beat the far right

  • Brazil-Trail-Pic

    A lesson from Brazil – where gig workers have rallied against the right

    Rodrigo Nunes
  • Mexico-Trail-Pic

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

    Thomas Graham
  • Composite image with Marian Kotleba

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

    Alexandra Bitušíková
  • UK

    What smashed the far right in east London? A playbook that said connect, connect, connect

    Margaret Hodge

Columnists

  • Marina Hyde

    Show some gratitude, people – Nadhim Zahawi has joined Reform for our benefit, apparently

    Marina Hyde
  • Owen Jones

    Iran’s protesters need our support – not another western-intervention disaster

    Owen Jones
  • Jonathan Freedland

    From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Why is Trump interested in Greenland? Look to the thawing Arctic ice

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Zoe Williams

    If Donald Trump thinks Greenland should be his, how long before he sets his sights on Scotland?

    Zoe Williams
  • George Monbiot

    Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility

    George Monbiot
  • Rafael Behr

    Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan?

    Rafael Behr

Letters

  • Alan Rickman at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014

    Alan Rickman was the model of friendship and care – and then there was that voice

  • Trinity Hall, Cambridge

    Trinity Hall admissions policy has not changed

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    Drams, dams and endangered salmon

  • Close up of young father holding his newborn baby son in his arms

    Paternity leave continues to exclude the self-employed

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