Historical relevance. Click image for full graphic Photograph: Guardian, Find out which political parties national newspapers have supported in every general election since 1945 - and who they are endorsing at the 2010 election, Party support in general elections. The financial position remained extremely poor into the 1970s; at one time it was in merger talks with The Times. The sales let them acquire a capital stock of 838.3 million as of July 2014, supposed to guarantee the independence of the Guardian in perpetuity. Its sister paper, the Daily Mail, was first published in 1896], as well as the Scottish and Irish Editions. Meanwhile, 33% of Americans believe the two major political parties are doing an adequate job representing the public, the smallest percentage expressing this view apart from the 26% reading in October 2013. [254], Guardian journalists have won a range of British Press Awards, including:[251]. [241][244], The paper's nickname The Grauniad (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye. It tends to result from a fragmented legislature and can be unstable Since an editorial in 2000, The Guardian has favoured abolition of the British monarchy. [223] However, the number of online readers had drastically dropped by July 2021. On Thursday, 1 September 2005, The Guardian announced that it would launch the new format on Monday 12 September 2005. [182] In 2008, Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley said that editorial contributors were a mix of "right-of-centre libertarians, greens, Blairites, Brownites, Labourite but less enthusiastic Brownites, etc," and that the newspaper was "clearly left of centre and vaguely progressive". [171] Gates had given the organization $5 million[172] for its Global Development webpage. ", "Obama administration defends massive phone record collection", "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations", "Guardian wins newspaper and website of the year at British press awards", "Battle for the memory of Peterloo: Campaigners demand fitting tribute", "The Manchester Guardian, born 5 May 1821: 190 years work in progress", "The Manchester guardian and British volunteer JH Libraries", "The Guardian's owner apologises for historical slave trade links", "The cruelty and injustice of negro slavery: From The Guardian archive, 15 Nov 1823", "15 June 1833: Striking off the fetters from the limbs of the slave", "From the archive, 24 March 1841: Editorial: Anti-free trade", "From The Guardian archive: On slavery and civil war", "Lincoln opposes abolition of slavery: From the Observer archive, 17 December 1860", "From the archive, 13 May 1861: America and direct trade with England", "Lincoln, evil?
