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Portrait of CP Scott
Comment is free…
but facts are sacred
CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Dominic McKenzie The Observer Comment Trumps Appeal web version

    We can rage about Donald Trump. Or we can be curious about why he appealed to so many

    Peter Hyman
    Progressives would do well to try to understand how millions of Americans turned to him because he offered real hope of prosperity, security and fewer wars
  • Donald Trump looking defiant pointing into the camera.

    Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee

    Simon Tisdall
  • Víkingur Ólafsson stands, hands clasped, on stage with a piano behind him.

    Brahms for the soul on the night the US election results came in

    Rachel Cooke
  • Women leans against fence in field of green crops

    We can prepare for hurricanes, heatwaves and flooding – but only if we are bold at Cop29

    Ban Ki-moon
  • Paul Taylor

    The collapse of Germany’s government will delight Trump – and his European friends

    Paul Taylor
  • Republican Nominee Donald Trump Campaigns For President Across Pennsylvania<br>READING, PENNSYLVANIA - NOVEMBER 04: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Santander Arena on November 04, 2024 in Reading, Pennsylvania. With one day left before the general election, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground states of North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Think you know how bad Trump unleashed will be? Look at the evidence: it will be even worse

    Jonathan Freedland

  • As a jaded tech journalist, I’m in a battle to keep ‘smart’ devices out of my home – despite my partner’s efforts

    Victoria Turk

  • I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost

    Oliver Hall

  • Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: any lessons learned from Trump 2.0 will be immediately forgotten

    Marina Hyde

  • I’m a farmer – and I’m glad to see tax loopholes closing for cynical investor landowners

    Guy Singh-Watson

  • It is galling to see Starmer ingratiate himself with Trump – but it would be horribly negligent if he didn’t

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Trump’s return is terrible news for Ukraine. Europe should step into the breach – but will it?

    Timothy Garton Ash

  • Yes, Trump is awful. But if there’s a silver lining, it’s a chance for progressives to reflect on what they got wrong

    Simon Jenkins

  • I wear a white poppy because Remembrance Day’s staged fervour does little to honour my grandad

    Phineas Harper

Understanding the US election

  • Composite of the flag being torn in half.

    Why did Trump win, and what comes next? Our panel reacts

    Moustafa Bayoumi, Ben Davis, Lloyd Green, Arwa Mahdawi and Bhaskar Sunkara
    Trump and the Republicans have swept the US election. What does this mean for the country, and the Democratic party?
  • Owen Jones

    I’ve been on the road speaking to the US right. Trump’s victory was not a surprise

    Owen Jones
    • Guy Fawkes and Donald Trump.

      Remember, remember, the fifth of November, when a bad guy tried to blow up a political system

      Marina Hyde
    • Jonathan Freedland

      Here’s how the winner of the 2024 US presidential election did it

      Jonathan Freedland
    • JoJo Burgess

      Yes, Bidenomics is working here in Pennsylvania. But maybe not enough to win the White House

      JoJo Burgess
    • Mona Mawari

      Here in Michigan, we know the Democrats have failed on Gaza – and they’ll pay dearly for it

      Mona Mawari
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Why I quit

  • Elle Warren

    I used to think Googling my symptoms kept me healthy. My mother’s death showed me I had to quit

    Elle Warren
  • JD Murphy

    I thought I could ‘man up’ and deal with my high-stress job. Then it made me too sick to work

    JD Murphy
  • Rose Rouse

    As a hippy-punk grandmother, here’s how I learned to stop disturbing the baby – and his parents

    Rose Rouse
  • Sergey Maidukov

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

    Sergey Maidukov
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The Guardian view

  • The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist, by Leonardo da Vinci, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

    The Observer view: how Leonardo, Van Gogh and Monet help us to transcend the gloom

  • Republican supporters celebrate in front of a huge screen showing Fox News's projection of a Trump win.

    The Observer view on US election: lessons for the left in wake of damning defeat

  • A fire helicopter makes a drop over a wildfire in California.

    The Guardian view on Trump’s planet-wrecking plans: the UK government’s resolve will be tested

  • A group of children sitting down in a school hall during a educational assembly.

    The Guardian view on Bridget Phillipson’s sound advice: schools should focus on belonging

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Spotlight

  • A New Year's Eve party for elderly people in Krakow, Poland, 31 December 2023.

    Do people become less sociable with age? Not me – I’ve barely stopped since turning 90

    Sheila Hancock
    Scientists think there may be benefits for older people who step back. I prefer to have ‘thank you and goodbye’ parties with my dearest friends, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
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You may have missed

  • World Central Kitchen resumes work in Gaza<br>DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA - MAY 01: Members of World Central Kitchen serve meals to displaced Palestinians, in Deir Al-Balah province in the central part of the Gaza Strip on May 01, 2024. The international food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) resumed its operations in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after seven of its aid workers were killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month. Palestinians queued to receive food. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    Despite the deaths of our colleagues in Gaza, World Central Kitchen will keep serving up food – and hope

    José Andrés
    The horror of 1 April will stay with us. But to desperate people, we know a plate of food is as powerful as any weapon, says José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen
  • Quincy Jones cradles his Grammy awards in 1991.

    Quincy Jones’s music was the soundtrack to so many Black lives – and something we could be proud of

    Michelle Kambasha
  • Central Helsinki, Finland

    I moved to Finland believing it was a progressive dream. It hasn’t turned out that way

    Mike Watson
  • Rachel Reeves leaving No 11 Downing Street before delivering the budget on 30 October.

    Here is the real story of Labour’s historic budget – investment over decline

    Angela Rayner
  • Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, New York, 27 October 2024.

    Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights?

    George Monbiot
  • A woman rides along a cycle lane next to heavy traffic in Birmingham

    Speeding delivery e-bikes are a menace – but the solution isn’t to push all cyclists into the road

    Peter Walker
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Cartoons

  • An unconscious Liberty with her crown smashed is dragged by the scruff of the neck by a tiny-fingered orange hand and huge black-suited arm into the shadows.

    Chris Riddell on the fate of Liberty after the election of Donald Trump – cartoon

  • Martin Rowson on what Trump’s victory will mean for the environment – cartoon

    Martin Rowson on what Trump’s victory will mean for the environment – cartoon

    The election of a ‘climate denier’ poses ‘a major threat to the planet’, environmentalists say
  • Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on Trump’s victory and a bleak outlook for the planet – cartoon

    The president-elect has pledged to row back on US climate commitments and ‘drill, drill, drill’

Columnists

  • Simon Jenkins

    Yes, Trump is awful. But if there’s a silver lining, it’s a chance for progressives to reflect on what they got wrong

    Simon Jenkins
  • Timothy Garton Ash

    Trump’s return is terrible news for Ukraine. Europe should step into the breach – but will it?

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • Polly Toynbee

    It’s OK to feel despair at Trump’s victory. The important thing is not to give up

    Polly Toynbee
  • Andy Beckett

    If I were a cautious, centre-left prime minister, Trump’s victory would have me worried

    Andy Beckett

  • Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him

    George Monbiot

  • Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out

    Aditya Chakrabortty

  • The shocking US election result will create a new world order – and launch a fresh wave of Trump wannabes

    Martin Kettle

  • Left, right, Harris, Trump: all prisoners of political nostalgia in an era few understand

    Rafael Behr

  • What to do after Grenfell? Stop building these family-unfriendly tower blocks for a start

    Simon Jenkins

  • All these sad stories of the stricken rich prove one thing: Labour’s budget is on the money

    Polly Toynbee

  • Hidden behind this budget is a terrible bombshell: billions in cuts for disabled people

    Frances Ryan

  • We’re supposed to ‘put politics aside’ to celebrate Kemi Badenoch – but how can we?

    Nesrine Malik
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Letters

  • Lawn signs in Beverly Hills, Michigan on 5 September 2024.

    Donald Trump embodies a collective madness in America

  • A wreath decorated with red and white poppies at the Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph in London on 11 November.

    Poppy mania and the endless fight for peace

    • Raising fees will not solve the funding crisis at universities

    • The importance of knowing your vulva from your vagina

    • Why exporting endangered eels to Russia makes sense

    • Keir Starmer is unable to stand up to Donald Trump

    • Remembering black and Asian soldiers who died in the two world wars

    • Resign, Joe Biden, and let Kamala Harris be the first female US president

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