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CP Scott, 1921 Guardian editor
  • Patients wait for their appointments at a GP surgery in London.

    England’s GPs are squaring up to the government – but it’s an unnecessary battle

    Polly Toynbee
    The tragedy for patients if industrial action seriously disrupts treatment is that doctors and ministers pretty much agree
  • Chillies for sale at the pepper festival in Espelette, south-west France

    Is France scared of spicy food? I used to think so – but now it’s turning up the heat

    Alexander Hurst
  • Rioters set fires, throw a chair and overturn a bin outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on 4 August 2024

    Some are calling these far-right riots an outpouring of legitimate anger. They are not

    Joe Mulhall
  • Southport incident<br>Flowers and tributes near the scene in Hart Street, Southport, where three children died and eight were injured in a "ferocious" knife attack during a Taylor Swift event at a dance school on Monday. A 17-year-old male from Banks, Lancashire, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder over the incident. Picture date: Tuesday July 30, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Southport. Photo credit should read: James Speakman/PA Wire

    I brought my daughter to Southport last week to see my beloved home town. Then it was torn apart by violence

    Kojo Koram
  • Blue hairbrush

    I spent decades straightening my ‘Jewish hair’ – until I realised I was hiding my true self

    Diana Spechler
  • illustration by Matt Kenyon

    The Tories need a clear ideology – Farage and the hard right offer only moral and electoral ruin

    John Harris

  • The Latin American left is smart not to pick a side over Venezuela’s contested election result

    Jordana Timerman

  • Hiring women, rather than just talking about it, works. That doesn’t mean all men are on board, it turns out

    Renate van der Zee

  • Has pop music got less melodic? I’ve immersed myself in 70 years of hits – this is what I’ve found

    Tom Breihan

  • A powerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is proof the BBC hasn’t changed

    Jane Martinson

  • Ignore the Livids of Tunbridge Wells and build homes, but build them well

    Rowan Moore

  • We know Trump is weird – it’s time for the Democrats to get creative with the insults

    Catherine Bennett

  • The BMA’s stance on puberty blockers defies the key principle of medicine: first, do no harm

    Sonia Sodha

  • Housebuilding is a route to bigger, better homes for all, not just the rich

    Torsten Bell
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General Election 2024

  • Owen Jones

    Labour should listen to pro-Gaza voters. But it’s letting toxic narratives about them flourish

    Owen Jones
  • Keir Starmer at the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace on 18 July.

    Can Britain really keep the rise of the populist right at bay? History tells us it can

    David Kynaston
  • Britain's Conservative party opposition leader Rishi Sunak reacts during a debate in the House of Commons in London, on 17 July.

    The Conservative party faces an onerous task to rebuild itself, and every Tory must have a say

    Tobias Ellwood
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

    Andrew Rawnsley

Why I quit

  • Emma Armstrong

    I used to apologise for my unruly children – but there’s no shame in being a working mother

    Emma Armstrong
  • Jason Prokowiew

    After 30 years of dieting I was exhausted. So I started to ask: what if I stopped?

    Jason Prokowiew
  • Callum Bains

    I couldn’t put a boring book down. Now I take pleasure in saying enough is enough

    Callum Bains
  • Kate Wilson

    Arriving in Hollywood with a dream to be a producer, I underestimated the toxic culture waiting for me

    Kate Wilson
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The Guardian view

  • Police officers in riot gear in Liverpool on 3 August 2024.

    The Guardian view on the riots: culpability in high places

  • Becky Francis, an academic who advises the education select committee. Pictured in her office.

    The Guardian view on curriculum reform: a mammoth and delicate task

  • Riot police clash with anti-migration protesters in Rotherham.

    The Guardian view on the online far right: thugs have brought devastation

  • Samantha Harvey

    The Guardian view on list-making: a habit that is part of what makes us human

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Spotlight

  • British Royal Air Force F-35s complete first operational missions<br>epa07672838 A handout picture provided by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) showing a British Royal Air Force (RAF) F-35B Lightning of No. 617 Squadron Royal Air Force sitting on the aircraft dispersal at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, 21 June 2019, issued 25 June 2019, during recent training away from their home base of RAF Marham in Britain. The Squadron, made up of pilots and support personnel from the RAF and Royal Navy, have been training out of Cyprus to test their working practices away from their usual main operating base in the United Kingdom. EPA/CPL NICHOLAS EGAN / BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE / HANDOUT MANDATORY CREDIT: MOD/CROWN COPYRIGHT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    The UK’s arms sales to Israel are tiny – but here’s why Netanyahu’s government is panicking about a possible ban

    Azriel Bermant
    Netanyahu is becoming increasingly isolated, and Britain remains one of its closest allies in Europe. Starmer’s decision will count
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You may have missed

  • Shadow of a child on a playground swing<br>Shadow of a child on a playground swing - stock photo

    I have three daughters. These are the ways the two-child benefit limit affects us every single day

    Anonymous
    As politicians go back and forth on scrapping the policy, four of us are barely getting by on the money provided for three
  • Illustration: Bill Bragg/The Guardian

    The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • Kamala Harris at a rally in Atlanta, 30 July 2024

    Trump’s usual sexist sneers don’t work against Harris – and to top it off, she’s laughing at him

    Emma Brockes
  • A young girl's 'hat trick' provides an amusing interlude for the Queen when she visited the Washington wildfowl park as her Silver Jubilee tour of the North East continues. The youngster's hat slipped as she was presenting a rose to the Queen. With the Queen are Prince Philip and Sir Peter Scott (extreme right).<br>G7NWC2 A young girl's 'hat trick' provides an amusing interlude for the Queen when she visited the Washington wildfowl park as her Silver Jubilee tour of the North East continues. The youngster's hat slipped as she was presenting a rose to the Queen. With the Queen are Prince Philip and Sir Peter Scott (extreme right).

    The new town I grew up in radically improved life for my family. Labour is right to champion them

    George Clarke
  • Illustration

    Sea swimming was my saviour. But the dumping of sewage changed everything

    Jo Bateman
  • The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, France, 26 July 2024

    The Paris Olympics may look fair and inclusive on TV. The truth is much darker

    Rokhaya Diallo
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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on the plight of asylum seekers amid Britain’s riots – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the plight of asylum seekers amid Britain’s riots – cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on the government’s response to far-right riots – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on the government’s response to far-right riots – cartoon

    Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer have warned those involved that they will feel the full force of the law
  • Nigel Farage as a clown, aka 'Farago Dogwhistle, the Clacton carpetbagger'

    Chris Riddell on Nigel Farage and his dogwhistle politics – cartoon

    The riots in Southport and elsewhere are meat and drink to the leader of Reform UK

Columnists

  • Martin Kettle

    Labour is still in its ‘phoney’ period. Far tougher tests await in autumn

    Martin Kettle
  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people

    Polly Toynbee
  • Zoe Williams

    We have allowed the demonisation and dehumanisation of male refugees. They are victims too

    Zoe Williams
  • George Monbiot

    Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future

    George Monbiot

  • The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken

    Polly Toynbee

  • Kemi Badenoch wants to drag the Tories further right. That is a huge mistake

    Simon Jenkins

  • A new terror has entered the Gaza war: that it is ushering in an age of total immorality

    Nesrine Malik

  • At last, the chance to legalise assisted dying in the UK – and end the untold, unnecessary anguish

    Polly Toynbee

  • Keir Starmer, please – scrap the distasteful weekly brawl that is PMQs

    Simon Jenkins

  • It might be hard to take the future of the Conservative party seriously right now – but we must

    Martin Kettle

  • By disciplining MPs for voting to pull children out of poverty, Keir Starmer has shown us who he really is

    Owen Jones

  • Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all

    George Monbiot
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Letters

  • The Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which houses asylum seekers, on 4 August.

    Why Britain ended up with far-right riots on its streets

  • Doctor's laptop computer and stethoscope in surgery

    GPs have been forced to take industrial action

    • Britain’s pharmacists could be treating more people

    • Putting tofu firmly in readers’ mouths

    • Trump exploits the end of the American dream

    • Are ultra-processed foods always harmful?

    • Labour must focus on the prison population

    • Looking to spark a love for electricity pylons

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