Editorial
Editorials from the Guardian. All Guardian and Observer editorials can be found here
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The Guardian view on Theresa May’s Brexit deal: all options remain openEditorial: The prime minister used a deal with the EU on future relationships to pressure MPs to support her Brexit plan. But she hasn’t got the votes and the latest document cannot be trusted -
The Guardian view on school trips: they should be open to allEditorial: Increasingly expensive jaunts are divisive, put pressure on families and risk causing more harm than good
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The Guardian view on the populist moment: difficult timesEditorial: Populism has arrived. Telling voters the problems that populist parties raise have no easy solution sounds like an excuse for inaction -
The Guardian view on the sentencing of Matthew Hedges: a violation of rightsEditorial: Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt is right to stand firm in defence of the British academic jailed for life in the UAE for spying
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The Guardian view on burning injustices: fanning Brexit’s flamesEditorial: EU membership didn’t cause inequalities and divisions. Yet we are leaving because of them -
The Guardian view on Hong Kong protest trials: a test of freedomsEditorial: The city has been under growing pressure since the ‘umbrella movement’ convulsed it four years ago
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The Guardian view on Brexit chaos: a threat to break up BritainEditorial: Leavers claim Britain’s future lies in going it alone. Not if the country ends up in bits -
The Guardian view on toilet breaks: stop all the clocksEditorial: Companies should cease behaving as though human bodies are a nuisance, and encourage workers to look after themselves
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The Guardian view on poverty in Britain: not just shocking but shamefulEditorial: The report of the UN poverty envoy exposes the grim toll of austerity -
The Guardian view on Brexit delusions: the EU27 have a say, tooEditorial: The draft withdrawal agreement has not shaken but hardened the wishful thinking of leavers
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The Guardian view on the Tories and Brexit: the fantasy is finishedEditorial: The rightwing Brexiters have been exposed. They lied. They had no practical solutions. So they resigned. There is very little time left to rescue Britain from the damage they inflicted -
The Guardian view on Sir Ian McKellen’s tour: truly national theatreEditorial: The actor’s one-man shows, marking his 80th birthday, will take him back to old haunts
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The Guardian view on a Tory Brexit: irreconcilable differencesEditorial: A divided party will be unable to guide country out of the European Union. What then? -
The Guardian view on Sri Lanka: president v prime ministerEditorial: The manner of Ranil Wickremesinghe’s ousting is a step backwards. This constitutional crisis must be resolved peacefully; a punch-up in parliament is an alarming sign
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The Guardian view on Theresa May’s deal: reset the debateEditorial: For too long Brexit has been a matter of conjecture and myth. Now MPs get a glimpse of where Mrs May wants to go for the next two years -
The Guardian view on returning the Rohingya to Myanmar: don’t make them goEditorial: Bangladesh appears poised to repatriate members of the Muslim minority who fled the campaign of violence against them. They would be at grave risk
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The Guardian view on Gaza: the risk of war is realEditorial: The violence of the last few days demonstrates how fragile the situation is, and how easily it could be misjudged -
The Guardian view on Prince Charles at 70: he was the future onceEditorial: The passage of time means that the royal baton, if not the crown, is already passing to the William and Harry generation



The Guardian view on the BBC and the elderly: a burden too far