Ads on the front page, news on the back, and a frankly unbelievable story about a ghost: the Manchester Guardian’s first edition on 5 May 1821 is full of gems. We unearth them in this annotated version
Wed 5 May 2021 01.00 EDT
Guardian’s Cadwalladr in court to fight defamation claim by Brexit backer Banks
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The Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr will appear in court in London next Friday to defend herself against an accusation of defamation brought by Arron Banks, the multi-millionaire businessman and out...
This is Europe: stay close with the Guardian’s email updates
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Never in a generation have so many debates been awakened in Europe, with themes including identity, democracy, minority rights, gender equality, diversity and values. We want to offer readers a better understanding of...
‘They’ll fight for you’: how Scotland’s guardians change young refugees’ lives
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Joseph was just 16 years old when he arrived completely alone in Scotland – a country he had never heard of – seeking safety, after travelling across the world for six months from Vietnam to the UK, living in forests ...
Dare you take the Guardian’s hideously horrible Halloween culture quiz?
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If it is gothic, spooky, scary, haunted or just plain weird, and was in a book, a film, a TV show or some music, you might just be about to get asked about it. How will you fare with these 25 questions about things th...
Guardians of the Galaxy review – cinematic adventure marred by tedious gameplay
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A teenager’s bedroom some time in the 1980s. A boy is listening to his favourite band when his mother enters his room for a heart-to-heart. A very normal situation, only that this boy is Peter Quill, and this is the m...
The Guardian’s climate pledge
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In 2019, the Guardian made a pledge in service of the planet. We declared that the escalating climate crisis was the defining issue of our lifetime, and that quality, trustworthy reporting on the environment was a vit...
Boris Johnson’s climate speech annotated: what he said and what he meant
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Johnson begins his speech conventionally, if dully, by stretching back to the dawn of humanity, as many have done before to stress the momentous nature of the climate crisis, which as the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
Have your photos published in the Guardian’s letters pages
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We would like to highlight some of the best of your photography in the Guardian paper. Since 2014 our letters page has carried amazing images readers have shared: some of them being newsworthy, others more abstract. ...