The Latest Breaking News on Comment

Uh oh! Grim realisation as I left work in the pitch black on Thursday evening (yes, that was me you saw out the window! The only person in the city who went to an office on the 2nd January!)... is London the worst place I could have ended up at…

Factory closures highlight the turbulent shift to a green economy, exposing political challenges and the urgent need for a equitable move to net zero

Five Asiatic lions, seven western lowland gorillas, three reticulated giraffes, 53 Darwin’s frogs, 65 Humboldt penguins…it’s been a busy day at London Zoo as our zookeepers have begun the mammoth task of counting every animal for our annual stocktake, a headcount of every animal in our care.

Dismissed as a loser at the time, the former US president left behind an enduring legacy – with lessons for today, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

What unites the right like nothing else? Grooming gangs. And the Conservatives have kicked off 2025 by placing it front and centre. “The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal…No one in authority has joined the dots. 2025 must be the year that…

A concussion inspired me to challenge the invisibility of middle age, find my voice and discover how music might ward off dementia

They are stacked three-deep in the shelves, which for a bookish person seems appropriate. The problem is there’s no order at all

That so many seem willing to normalise that anti-democratic outrage is frightening, says Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

The tech sector has always thrived on ideas and innovation but in recent years, large parts of it have stuttered. For the third year in a row, investments across the industry fell in 2024 and European startups struggled to raise even half of the $101 billion raised when the sector…

The arrival of a child is as good a reason as any to upsize, but this is no longer an option for many ‘second steppers’, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’