Katy Guest
@katyguest.bsky.social
Deputy opinion editor at the Guardian
(sometime book publisher/ editor; occasional reviewer/ events chair; former bricklayer; full-time cat lady; DMs open)
(sometime book publisher/ editor; occasional reviewer/ events chair; former bricklayer; full-time cat lady; DMs open)
Hat tip to the Guardian headline writers today, somebody's on fire over on the news desk: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Don’t Cry for free outside theatre as Evita scene moved offstage in West End
Paying audiences divided over staging in which they get video feed of Rachel Zegler singing on balcony to passersby
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June 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hat tip to the Guardian headline writers today, somebody's on fire over on the news desk: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
My cat has started doing impressions, what do you think?
May 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
My cat has started doing impressions, what do you think?
It’s summer in the park so I got my knees out and had an ice cream.
April 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s summer in the park so I got my knees out and had an ice cream.
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“Benefit cuts with a red rosette are no different from those stained blue. And yet cuts signed off by a Labour government are in a sense particularly brutal. They come with a tinge, not just of fear, but despair and betrayal.”
My col. in tomorrow’s paper www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. in tomorrow’s paper www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan
The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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March 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“Benefit cuts with a red rosette are no different from those stained blue. And yet cuts signed off by a Labour government are in a sense particularly brutal. They come with a tinge, not just of fear, but despair and betrayal.”
My col. in tomorrow’s paper www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. in tomorrow’s paper www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social puts her finger on it right here:
ps the somewhat more serious version is here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and Starmer sat side by side – and the gulf between two nations seemed wider than ever | Gaby Hinsliff
The US president’s day of diplomacy involved an alleged rapist, a claimed trafficker and then Britain’s PM. It said everything about our new era, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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February 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social puts her finger on it right here:
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It’s that time of year again! The Guardian is opening its two-week work experience for underrepresented journalists: disabled people, POC, and now working class. It is paid at the London living wage.
This scheme changed my life. Go on, give it a go: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...
This scheme changed my life. Go on, give it a go: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...
February 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
It’s that time of year again! The Guardian is opening its two-week work experience for underrepresented journalists: disabled people, POC, and now working class. It is paid at the London living wage.
This scheme changed my life. Go on, give it a go: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...
This scheme changed my life. Go on, give it a go: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...
Things in the garden, Feb 2025. I tidied up some rotten old leaves and found a bit of spring underneath.
February 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Things in the garden, Feb 2025. I tidied up some rotten old leaves and found a bit of spring underneath.
When you walk to work through a Disney movie:
January 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When you walk to work through a Disney movie:
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This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis.
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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January 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This column has been the second most read on the whole Guardian site today and it’s all credit to Rosy who literally used her last voice to speak out about this country’s care crisis.
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please do continue to read and share. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Superb, moving & enraging journalism from @francesryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet NHS assessors think it’s fine to leave her alone for hours at a time, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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January 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Superb, moving & enraging journalism from @francesryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blue Monday was a great day here as one magnificent colleague brought in the unwanted Bounties from a box of Celebrations and I ate most of them.
January 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Blue Monday was a great day here as one magnificent colleague brought in the unwanted Bounties from a box of Celebrations and I ate most of them.
Things in the garden, Jan 2025: nemesia and viola hanging on; hellebore and primrose coming through.
January 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Things in the garden, Jan 2025: nemesia and viola hanging on; hellebore and primrose coming through.
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I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do | Gaby Hinsliff
I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do | Gaby Hinsliff
There is a nagging sense that justice still has not been done. At a Reform rally, I watched Nigel Farage exploit that
“Sophie” was 12 years old when she walked into Oldham police station to report a sexual assault. For a vulnerable child, first…
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January 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I saw first-hand how the grooming scandal is being weaponised. This is what Starmer must do | Gaby Hinsliff
Two flowers still clinging on and two coming out in my garden on Christmas Day.
December 25, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Two flowers still clinging on and two coming out in my garden on Christmas Day.
Brilliantly evocative piece here by John Harris.
Latest from me: this year, the time I spent travelling around a surreal, forlorn, often broken country was brilliantly soundtracked by English Teacher's This Could Be Texas, an album for our times www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I travelled up and down the UK this year. One album sums up what I saw | John Harris
Weariness, confusion, flashes of anger – for me, English Teacher’s lyrics evoke the texture of British life today, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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December 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Brilliantly evocative piece here by John Harris.
Merry Solstice, one and all, at last! Here’s to everything getting brighter from here on in.
December 21, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Merry Solstice, one and all, at last! Here’s to everything getting brighter from here on in.
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
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December 12, 2024 at 7:55 AM
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
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December 4, 2024 at 8:22 AM
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
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They’ve released the Christmas Discourse Schedule! Lots to look forward to this year.
November 26, 2024 at 7:48 AM
They’ve released the Christmas Discourse Schedule! Lots to look forward to this year.
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'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'
The week's column
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The week's column
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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'
The week's column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The week's column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s what I learned at #COP29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening, says UK's Ed Miliband
- Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future
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- Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what I learned at Cop29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening | Ed Miliband
Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future, says energy secretary Ed Miliband
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November 25, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Here’s what I learned at #COP29. Rows aside, an unstoppable transition to clean energy is happening, says UK's Ed Miliband
- Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Britain wanted much better outcomes on many issues, but seeing the ambition at the conference gives me hope for the future
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I'm all for the willing suspension of disbelief. However ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great movies can play fast and loose with history. But not Gladiator II with its rhinos and cafe culture | Charlotte Higgins
It’s hard to know where to begin when presented with the full, lavish spread of historical inaccuracy offered by this sequel, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer
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November 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I'm all for the willing suspension of disbelief. However ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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With excellent timing, @alcs-uk.bsky.social has joined Bluesky. Don't forget to update your accounts by the 30 November deadline. And if you're a writer and you haven't joined, you're missing out on royalties collected on your behalf. It's a no-brainer. NUJ and SoA members join for free.
November 15, 2024 at 10:07 AM
With excellent timing, @alcs-uk.bsky.social has joined Bluesky. Don't forget to update your accounts by the 30 November deadline. And if you're a writer and you haven't joined, you're missing out on royalties collected on your behalf. It's a no-brainer. NUJ and SoA members join for free.