The Guardian view on online harms: Ofcom is failing at its job
‘I earn £126,000 – but nothing’s left at the end of the month’: readers react to the budget
27 October 2026
Sardinian restaurants ban families from using phones at the table
Silicon Valley parents want the tech they help build out of their children’s schools
26 October 2026
Breaking News Australia
Children’s legal centre that criticised Queensland government has funding slashed
I used to think I had impeccable taste in music. My kids taught me to stop being a snob
Myke Bartlett
25 October 2026
The Guardian view on Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation: cities should be designed around people, not cars
Editorial: The transformation of Europe’s busiest shopping street should be a case study in making cities greener, less congested and more inviting places to live
Where to scatter ashes – and where you can donate your body for medical research
Letters: Readers respond to letters about Rachael Stirling eating some of the ashes of her mother, Diana Rigg
What is the £100k income ‘cliff-edge’?
‘Why would I leave?’: Middlesbrough pushes back against ‘hardest place to grow up’ label
Greg Wise on how he and Emma Thompson coped with failed IVF: ‘We hit an existential crisis – she was not a proper woman and I was not a proper man’
24 October 2026
New York archdiocese finalizing $800m settlement with clergy sex abuse survivors
Agreement with more than 1,300 victims of clergy members and lay leaders would resolve long legal fight
23 October 2026
Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits
Life and love, shaped by the Guardian
We’re teenage girls fighting to ban the use of school uniform in porn. Why have you left it up to us?
Rose, Mae, Aylin and Willow
Authorities said Elizabeth Struhs was ‘safe’. So why did the eight-year-old die?
22 October 2026
Child health in England at risk from sharp rise in NHS waiting times, report says
Adoptees from Korea say they were abused and isolated in the US. Were they also ‘stolen’ from their birth parents?
21 October 2026
Do people become less creative as they get older? Research makes surprising discovery
In the age of AI, learning maths is even more vital