The Guardian

The Guardian is an English-language daily newspaper founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian. The current title dates from 1959 and the newspaper moved its headquarters to London in 1964. Its website is theguardian.com.

The logo of The Guardian.

Quotes

1920s

• India broods the horror of the cold-blooded massacres by the Moplahs, still daily showing how Hindus fare in the hands of fanatical Mohammedans. The public, obscurely but rightly, connect the holocaust of Hindu lives and property with Khilafat preachers and realize that the rule even of the arrogant British is better than no rule.
  • The Manchester Guardian (12 December 1921), as quoted in Vikram Sampath Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)

2010s

• We have grounded our new editions in the qualities readers value most in Guardian journalism: clarity, in a world where facts should be sacred but are too often overlooked; imagination, in an age in which people yearn for new ideas and fresh alternatives to the way things are.
  • Katharine Viner "Welcome to a new look for the Guardian", TheGuardian (15 January 2018).
  • Viner was appointed editor-in-chief of The Guardian in 2015.

• We want the Guardian to play a leading role in reporting on the environmental catastrophe. [...] We will continue our longstanding record of powerful environmental reporting, which is known around the world for its quality and independence. [...] We will report on how environmental collapse is already affecting people around the world, including during natural disasters and extreme weather events. [...] We will use language that recognises the severity of the crisis we're in. [...]
  • "The Guardian‍'‍s climate pledge 2019" (15 October 2019).

2020s

• This is the moment for truth

Convicted felon Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States. Just as we did in 2016, we will hold the coming administration to account and rigorously challenge what will come.

This is a perilous time for America and the world.

We don't have a billionaire proprietor – but we have something even more powerful on our side. We've got you. This is why we're inviting readers like you in Canada to access our brilliant, investigative journalism with exclusive digital extras to unlock:

• • viewed on 2024-11-13 in Donald Trump's land seizures tweet sparks anger in South Africa (Thu 23 Aug 2018)

Quotes about The (Manchester) Guardian

• Nor can I say that the non-Conformist Conscience has never disappointed me. At one time it was the backbone of this country, nobly presented as it was in old days by the Manchester Guardian.
  • Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, Volume II (1922), p. 168

• Jim Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
  • "A Conflict Of Interest" (31 December 1987), by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, Yes, Prime Minister (BBC)

• We talk a lot about what's wrong with the US media. Everyone here has access to a better option, the UK-based Guardian, which has neither the timidities nor the right-leaning pretenses of neutrality; it stands proudly on its 203-year progressive history. Proud to write for it.
  • Rebecca Solnit Aug 9 2024 on Twitter

See also

• The Guardian on global warming