It is no surprise that anxiety is increasing, nor that it is distributed unequally. More money for mental health services is neededIt is 10 years since the UK government began to measure happiness. As part of its annual population survey, the official …
The Guardian view on soaring US gun violence: America must face the problem | Editorial
The US already had more guns than people when sales began rising a few years ago. It is now set for its highest number of gun killings in 20 yearsAs Covid cases surge once more in the US, another public health crisis is pummelling the country too. Last…
The Guardian view on chefs: underpaid, overworked and in demand | Editorial
An acute shortage of staff offers an incentive to improve a stressful working cultureWhite Heat, by Marco Pierre White, is one of the most influential recipe books of the past 30 years. Published in 1990, its edgy black and white photography popularise…
The Guardian view on high pay: the fat cats are still there | Editorial
Vast disparities in income may have lost some of their power to shock. But they remain a gross injusticePublic anger about the vast salaries extracted from business by the highest-paid people surfaces less often than one might expect, given highly cons…
The Guardian view on the Art Fund Museums Prize: serving communities | Editorial
The past year has rightly shifted the way that cultural value is estimatedIn living memory, there has been no worse year for museums and galleries, along with many other arts organisations. With closure forced on them by the pandemic, they were unable …
The Guardian view on children’s care in crisis: the high price of neglect | Editorial
After years of cuts, the pandemic has left social services and the young people they support brutally exposed About the only good thing that can be said about the worsening crisis in children’s social care is that it is being talked about. The extremel…
The Guardian view on Poland’s hot political summer: changing weather | Editorial
The Law and Justice party’s authoritarian grip on the country’s politics has been weakenedAt a glance, it has been business as usual this summer for Poland’s conservative-nationalist government. There has been a fierce row over attempts to introduce a …
The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s foreign policy: a lethal vacuum | Editorial
Parochial complacency define the prime minister’s view of the world, leaving him unequal to the crisis in AfghanistanThe prime minister told parliament on Wednesday that Britain was prepared for the fall of Kabul and also that it could not have been f…
The Guardian view on buildings – out with the new! For the planet’s sake | Editorial
Tearing down old structures and throwing up new ones is how we usually make our streetscapes. It’s also ruinous for the climateA new and highly swanky hotel lands in Edinburgh, a mass of shimmering bronze-coloured coils, and all anyone can think to say…
The Guardian view on the Taliban’s advance: not an American debacle but Afghans’ tragedy
People are losing their homes, their freedom and their hope. That should be more of a priority than US credibility“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’ll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan…