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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust.

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Flávia Milhorance

I am a journalist covering Brazilian affairs for the foreign media, such as The New York Times and Guardian. I also edit and write for the environment and foreign policy …

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Philip Orrell

Content writer, Copywriter, Proofreader

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Abigail Edge

Award-winning journalist and occasional editor, living in Birmingham, UK.abigailedge.com

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Steve O'Brien

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Cynthia Okoroafor

I’m a writer, audio-visual content developer, producer, and budding screenwriter living in Lagos, Nigeria. I love music, movies, arts, culture, food, drinks, and life. You'd also find me rather impassionate …

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Latest Articles

Clean energy’s dirty secret: the trail of waste left by India’s solar power boom

Under the scorching sun, a sea of solar panels gleams in the semi-arid landscape. Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern India, is the world’s third-largest solar power plant, with 25m panels across a huge 50 sq km site, and a capacity of 2,050MW of clean energy. India has …
By Flavia Lopes
• The Guardian

‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’: 10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s Knife

‘At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was attacked and almost killed by a young man with a knife,” begins Salman Rushdie’s new memoir. The book, titled Knife, reflects on the attack at the Chautauqua Institution, where the …
By Ella Creamer
• The Guardian

The murder of women is an Australian scandal. So how do we defeat the monster tormenting our nation’s soul? | Kristine Ziwica

This year alone, 19 women have been killed in Australia, according to the Australian Femicide Watch. The majority of those women, just like the 74 women murdered in 2023, were allegedly killed by someone known to them. Fifty years ago a group of Sydney feminists broke into two adjoining vacant …
By Kristine Ziwica
• The Guardian

Gove says three Muslim-led groups and two far-right to be assessed for extremism

Three Muslim-led organisations and two far-right groups will be assessed under the government’s controversial new extremism definition, Michael Gove has told MPs. The communities secretary named the Muslim Association of Britain, Mend and Cage as groups with “Islamist orientation and beliefs” that would be held to account following the launch …
By JIM11bowh§ih i
• The Guardian

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting wins inaugural Nero book of the year prize

The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at a ceremony in London on Thursday. “This is a wonderfully ambitious and entrancing novel about a family imploding …
By Ella Creamer
• The Guardian

Joanne Harris: ‘Some of us don’t see the line between the books and the world’

When Joanne Harris wrote Chocolat, her novel of morality and magic set in a cloistered French village, she did not expect it to be published, let alone succeed. Her agent thought that it was “very unfashionable writing” and “wasn’t at all the kind of thing he felt would be commercial”. …
By Ella Creamer
• The Guardian

How I stopped comparing my appearance to my identical twin’s – and healed our relationship | Lara Rodwell

“Why are you fat, and why is she thin,” a puzzled middle-aged man asked, as my identical twin Katy and I strolled into a restaurant in central Mumbai for a post-yoga samosa. It wasn’t the first time we had been asked this question – but each time it hurt just …
By Lara Rodwell
• The Guardian

‘Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine’: US braces for presidential election no one wants

In past years, the first phase of the general election has involved at least one of the presidential nominees introducing themselves to the broader public and presenting their case for taking the country in a new direction. But that has been rendered unnecessary this year: former president Donald Trump and …
By Joan Greve
• The Guardian

‘Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine’: US braces for presidential election no one wants

In past years, the first phase of the general election has involved at least one of the presidential nominees introducing themselves to the broader public and presenting their case for taking the country in a new direction. But that has been rendered unnecessary this year: former president Donald Trump and …
By Joan Greve
• The Guardian

Joe Biden delivers feisty State of the Union address with vision for his second term

Joe Biden confirmed a new US mission to deliver aid to Gaza and repeatedly took aim at Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Thursday, offering a pointed preview of the general election in November. Biden’s most significant announcement came toward the end of his roughly hour-long …
By Joan Greve
• The Guardian

‘We are the guinea pigs’: Arizona mining project sparks concerns for air and water

Growing up on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border, Denise Moreno Ramírez got respite from the border town bustle by hiking through sycamore and juniper trees in the mountains near her home. These isolated mountains – known as the Sky Islands – provide a crucial habitat for native plants and …
By L.F.A.
• The Guardian

Is ill-health holding back the UK economy?

Growing numbers of people are leaving the jobs market because of long-term illnesses. It’s coming at a huge personal and national cost, says economics editor Larry Elliott New figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest there are 2.8 million people classified as not looking for work because of health …
By Courtney Yusuf
• The Guardian