menu_open Columnists

The Guardian
We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better

latest 3

The Guardian

Lee Elliot Major

Nigeria’s big tax gamble is great in theory but people are already checking their pockets

Let’s not mince words. Nigeria’s new tax regime, which landed on our heads this January, is the most ambitious attempt to reshape the state since,...

yesterday 10

The Guardian

Cheta Nwanze

Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action

Over the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently...

yesterday 30

The Guardian

Moira Donegan

After Trump’s attack, we Venezuelans need to know what comes next – authoritarianism or democracy

In 1936, Venezuelans learned for the first time what it meant to transition towards democracy. While this was not the only period of transition the...

yesterday 50

The Guardian

Jesús Piñero

Trump’s Venezuela strike won’t distract voters from the crises at home

Immediately after Donald Trump ordered a military strike in Venezuela, many critics focused on how that attack violated international law as well...

yesterday 20

The Guardian

Steven Greenhouse

Some want to ban vital geoengineering research. This would be a catastrophic mistake

A few months ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a Georgia representative, held a hearing on her bill to ban research on “geoengineering”, which...

yesterday 20

The Guardian

Craig Segall And Baroness Bryony Worthington

Six years after George Floyd, we must stand against an ICE killing in Minneapolis

On 25 May 2020, America witnessed a stunning act of police brutality when a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. The...

yesterday 10

The Guardian

Austin Sarat

If Black contestants get a raw deal on The Traitors, that definitely is reality TV

Has the world gone woke? Some would have you believe it has, but I disagree. We’re not very “woke” if we’re still surprised when Black people are...

yesterday 10

The Guardian

Athena Kugblenu

What fashion trends will follow us into 2026?

yesterday 10

The Guardian

Sunil Badami

This summer, I thought I’d finally relax – but doing nothing is the hardest thing

For many of us, the long summer break makes us dream of the beach. Me too. Except, in my dream, I’m digging a hole, trying to beat the rising tide....

yesterday 10

The Guardian

Sunil Badami

Albanese’s handling of the Bondi attack exposed his weaknesses. An inquiry will mean uncomfortable questions for Labor

On the final parliamentary sitting day of 2025, Anthony Albanese walked to work, striding breezily into Parliament House past a huddle of...

yesterday 10

The Guardian

Dan Jervis-Bardy

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

For a serial liar, Donald Trump can be bracingly honest. We’ve known about the mendacity for years – consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from...

yesterday 4

The Guardian

Jonathan Freedland

Martin Rowson on Keir Starmer’s relationship with Donald Trump – cartoon

yesterday 8

The Guardian

Jonathan Freedland

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

Another week, another freak weather phenomenon you’ve probably never heard of. If it’s not the “weather bomb” of extreme wind and snow that...

yesterday 70

The Guardian

Gaby Hinsliff

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

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, rarely utters the words “Donald Trump” in public. Since the US president took office, Sánchez has typically...

yesterday 100

The Guardian

María Ramirez

Here’s why Labour is struggling to deliver: the British state is immense, but pull the levers and nothing happens

Governments come into office brimming with confidence. They say their election win is a mandate for change, and that work on its manifesto pledges...

previous day 30

The Guardian

Larry Elliott

Want to scare a Hollywood star? Just set up a fundraiser in their name

It’s a tough time to be famous in Hollywood, what with dwindling respect levels for movie stars and the inability of anyone under 35 to recognise...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Emma Brockes

ICE agents have killed – again. The Trump administration blames the victim

A woman in Minneapolis has died as her neighbors fought Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation. On Wednesday morning, a group of local civilian...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Moira Donegan

Brooklyn Peltz Beckham set an important trend. Will other men follow?

After attempting to make his mark as a footballer, photographer and chef, at last Brooklyn Peltz Beckham appears to have secured his legacy. He...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Polly Hudson

America’s most crucial political faultline is in New York City

If, like me, you’re a faithful reader of the New York Post, the election of Zohran Mamdani as the new mayor of Gotham was the best thing to happen...

previous day 10

The Guardian

John R Macarthur

As the Israeli bombs fell, my family committed an act of rebellion: we planted a garden in Gaza

My 12-year-old brother Mazen ran into the kitchen, shouting that the eggplants were sprouting. He held up the tiny green shoots, his hands shaking....

previous day 10

The Guardian

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

The deliciously delusional popularity of Toowoomba pasta – a viral seafood dish inexplicably named for my home town

One of the things that happens when you grow up somewhere that isn’t a big city, and then you move to a big city (much like Babe, pig in the city),...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Trump’s Venezuela incursion has nothing to do with its freedom

Whatever else the US attack on Venezuela is ostensibly about – oil, drugs, communism – it’s not about the freedom of the Venezuelan people. If...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Judith Levine

Slowly but surely, a state can repress its people. Why is the UK channelling Viktor Orbán’s Hungary?

I saw, at first hand, the slow erosion of the rule of law in Hungary. It began not with a single shocking act but with quiet legal changes that...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Lydia Gall

Maduro is gone, but his regime is intact. What happened behind the scenes?

As late as Saturday afternoon, fires continued to smolder in parts of Caracas. Residents throughout the city, stunned and anxious, filled grocery...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Alejandro Velasco

If geoengineering is ever deployed in a climate emergency, transparency is key

As the world faces the challenges of the climate crisis and critical threshold levels or tipping points may be reached soon, a disputable idea is...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Ines Camilloni

The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children

An online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has...

previous day 20

The Guardian

Editorial

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

Of all the commandments for living under Donald Trump, the first is always this: don’t believe him. Nothing he says can be taken at face value;...

previous day 70

The Guardian

Aditya Chakrabortty

Trump is destroying the rules of international behaviour. Australia can – and must – act now

Donald Trump has commanded a precision military operation against a neighbour he didn’t like. Venezuela’s president was abducted and is now in...

previous day 10

The Guardian

Allan Behm

Some US media are cheerleading Trump’s Venezuela raid. That’s not their job

If you believe the early public opinion polls, Americans are uncertain about last weekend’s raid on Venezuela and the seizure of the country’s...

previous day 2

The Guardian

Margaret Sullivan

The Guardian view on the new global disorder: Britain and Europe must find their own path

Occasionally, history generates smooth changes from one era to another. More commonly, such shifts occur only gradually and untidily. And...

previous day 20

The Guardian

Editorial

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

The US is advancing a new global order. Over the past eight decades Washington pursued – when it suited American interests – an order based on...

previous day 30

The Guardian

Armida Van Rij

What should Australians do when the heat is on?

previous day 20

The Guardian

It Might Be Time To Face Some Cold

As a climate scientist, I know heatwaves in Australia will only get worse. We need to start preparing now

When the forecasts for this week started to roll in, my mind immediately drifted back to Australia’s black summer. I had taken my daughters down to...

previous day 50

The Guardian

Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

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

They are far into the lethal zone. Three people who are being held in prison on charges connected with the protest group Palestine Action have been...

wednesday 200

The Guardian

George Monbiot

Surprise dip in inflation a lightbulb moment – but RBA unlikely to deliver interest rate bargains

A new year and we are straight back into talk of inflation. But while the November inflation figures released on Wednesday were lower than...

wednesday 1

The Guardian

Greg Jericho

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state

When a bleary-eyed Trump explained the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro this past Saturday, he invoked the Monroe doctrine: while the US president...

wednesday 50

The Guardian

Jan-Werner Müller

Rosalía’s Lux is more than epic Catholic pop – it grapples with a world fraught with complexity and crisis

I went into Lux primed not to like it. Not because I doubt Rosalía’s virtuosic talents or her intense intellectual curiosity, but because the...

wednesday 20

The Guardian

Carlos Delclós

Keir Starmer has a historic opportunity to fix this awful Brexit – if he follows this plan

Good things may come to those who wait, but when it comes to repairing the Brexit settlement Britain was left with by Boris Johnson, the waiting...

wednesday 10

The Guardian

Naomi Smith

New year resolutions? How to free yourself from brain rot in 2026

wednesday 10

The Guardian

Look!! A Bird!!

Democrats can win back the White House in 2028. Here’s how

By January 2029, Donald Trump will be capping off a nearly 14-year stretch at the helm of American politics. While he will no longer serve as...

wednesday 10

The Guardian

Colin Seeberger

We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse

Sea levels are rising faster than at any point in human history, and for every foot that waters rise, 100 million people lose their homes. At...

wednesday 3

The Guardian

Brent Minchew And Colin Meyer

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

For an inveterate liar, Donald Trump is remarkably honest. The best guide to what he thinks is what he says. When forecasting his likely course of...

wednesday 30

The Guardian

Rafael Behr

The Guardian view on Britain and Europe: time to move together, faster and further

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for 2026 was to talk more about the domestic issues that concern British voters. Donald Trump knocked that plan off course....

wednesday 30

The Guardian

Editorial

The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house-room to an ill-advised debate

Most readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun will have been moved by the portrait of its eponymous AI narrator. As a solar-powered...

wednesday 20

The Guardian

Editorial

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

‘We do need Greenland, absolutely,” Donald Trump told the Atlantic on 5 January, with the hand-wavy follow-up, “We need it for defence.” His...

wednesday 2

The Guardian

Zoe Williams

Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland – cartoon

wednesday 10

The Guardian

Polly Hudson

We live in a surveillance culture – but why would I want to track my son or husband?

News just in: the sky is blue, water is wet, and tracking our kids’ every move with phones or AirTags is causing a “deeply concerning” increase in...

wednesday 7

The Guardian

Polly Hudson

‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages,...

wednesday 9

The Guardian

Polly Hudson

Nicki Minaj’s Maga conversion is doing nothing for her career – or is it?

Starships are meant to fly, but Nicki Minaj’s musical career is now doing a Maga-propelled nosedive. For the past few months, the rapper and former...

wednesday 20

The Guardian

Arwa Mahdawi