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The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, before it changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for The Guardian the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main newsprint sections have been published in tabloid format. As of July 2021, its print edition had a daily circulation of 105,134. The newspaper has an online edition, TheGuardian.com, as well as three international websites, Guardian Australia (founded in 2013) Guardian New Zealand (founded in 2019) and Guardian US (founded in 2011). The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion, and the term "Guardian reader" is used to imply a stereotype of a person with liberal, left-wing or "politically correct" views. Frequent typographical errors during the age of manual typesetting led Private Eye magazine to dub the paper the "Grauniad" in the 1970s, a nickname still occasionally used by the editors for self-mockery. In an Ipsos MORI research poll in September 2018 designed to interrogate the public's trust of specific titles online, The Guardian scored highest for digital-content news, with 84% of readers agreeing that they "trust what [they] see in it". A December 2018 report of a poll by the Publishers Audience Measurement Company stated that the paper's print edition was found to be the most trusted in the UK in the period from October 2017 to September 2018. It was also reported to be the most-read of the UK's "quality newsbrands", including digital editions; other "quality" brands included The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, and the i. While The Guardian's print circulation is in decline, the report indicated that news from The Guardian, including that reported online, reaches more than 23 million UK adults each month. Chief among the notable "scoops" obtained by the paper was the 2011 News International phone-hacking scandal—and in particular the hacking of the murdered English teenager Milly Dowler's phone. The investigation led to the closure of the News of the World, the UK's best-selling Sunday newspaper and one of the highest-circulation newspapers in history. In June 2013, The Guardian broke news of the secret collection by the Obama administration of Verizon telephone records, and subsequently revealed the existence of the surveillance program PRISM after knowledge of it was leaked to the paper by the whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. In 2016, The Guardian led an investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing then–Prime Minister David Cameron's links to offshore bank accounts. It has been named "newspaper of the year" four times at the annual British Press Awards: most recently in 2014, for its reporting on government surveillance. History 1821 to 1972 Early years The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle, a group of non-conformist businessmen. They launched the paper, on 5 May 1821 (by chance the very day of Napoleon's death) after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo Massacre protesters. Taylor had been hostile to the radical reformers, writing: "They have appealed not to the reason but the passions and the suffering of their abused and credulous fellow-countrymen, from whose ill-requited industry they extort for themselves the means of a plentiful and comfortable existence. They do not toil, neither do they spin, but they live better than those that do." When the government closed down the Manchester Observer, the mill-owners' champions had the upper hand. The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, and all of the Little Circle wrote articles for the new paper. The prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would "zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty ... warmly advocate the cause of Reform ... endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and ... support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, all serviceable measures". In 1825, the paper merged with the British Volunteer and was known as The Manchester Guardian and British Volunteer until 1828. The working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser called The Manchester Guardian "the foul prostitute and dirty parasite of the worst portion of the mill-owners". The Manchester Guardian was generally hostile to labour's claims. Of the 1832 Ten Hours Bill, the paper doubted whether in view of the foreign competition "the passing of a law positively enacting a gradual destruction of the cotton manufacture in this kingdom would be a much less rational procedure." The Manchester Guardian dismissed strikes as the work of outside agitators, stating that "if an accommodation can be effected, the occupation of the agents of the Union is gone. They live on strife ... ." In March 2023, an academic review commissioned by the Scott Trust determined that John Edward Taylor and nine of his eleven backers had links to the Atlantic slave trade through their interests in Manchester's textile industry. Slavery and the American Civil War The newspaper opposed slavery and supported free trade. An 1823 leading article on the continuing "cruelty and injustice" to slaves in the West Indies long after the abolition of the slave trade with the Slave Trade Act 1807 wanted fairness to the interests and claims both of the planters and of their oppressed slaves. It welcomed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 and accepted the "increased compensation" to the planters as the "guilt of slavery attaches far more to the nation" rather than individuals. Success of the Act would encourage emancipation in other slave-owning nations to avoid "imminent risk of a violent and bloody termination." However, the newspaper argued against restricting trade with countries that had not yet abolished slavery. Complex tensions developed in the United States. When the abolitionist George Thompson toured, the newspaper said that "[s]lavery is a monstrous evil, but civil war is not a less one; and we would no.... Discover the The Guardian popular books. Find the top 100 most popular The Guardian books.
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The Guardian
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Stone Guardian
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Stars of Fortune
Nora RobertsFIRST IN THE GUARDIANS TRILOGY From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about three couples who join together to create their own family and so...
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Keeper vs. Reaper
Jennifer Malone WrightThis novel is intended for an 18+ audienceWhen her father died, Lucy Mae Estmond inherited the family business. She has known all of her life that she would be in line to watch ove...
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Her Guardian
Cassia LeoHe pays her pastdue rent the day they meet. Now he wants more. He wants to know her… touch her… protect her. But who will protect her from him? When I see the yellow eviction notic...
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The Reckoning
John Grisham#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham's most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet “A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga.” USA Today...
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Guardian Angels Box Set
Alisa WoodsLIMITED TIME BOX SET of the first TWO books from the Fallen Angels SeriesTAJAELI am an angeling of the light, Protector class, assigned to Guardian Duty… and I am Tempted.A war bre...
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Her Guardian Angel
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The Guardian
Cindi MyersMemories of rescuing her fueled his dreams. Seeing her again fueled his desire. Far from the mountains of Afghanistan, Abby Stewart found solace in the wild country of wester...
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Mark HarrisCommander Tom Pettygrew is recalled from moonbase to try and prevent an old friend from theatening the earth. What he finds in earth orbit is an old 'Guardian' robotics project, po...
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The Girl and the Guardian
Peter HarrisVolume I of the 2000plus page epic fantasy Apples of Aeden, twelve years in the making. Newly edited in October 2012, with many new coloured maps and graphics throughout.This epic ...
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Island of Glass
Nora RobertsThe final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune.As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Irel...
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Joshua HoodFrom the “master of action” (Publishers Weekly) and USA Today bestselling author of Robert Ludlum’s Treadstone series comes a new thriller as intense and fast paced as The Bourne I...
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W.J. MayWhat you are looking for is not out there, it's in you...Stass had told her the story a thousand times.She was ten years old when he found her, lost and alone in the harsh wilderne...
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Guardian Wolf
J.K. Harper<b>From USA TODAY bestselling author J.K. Harper comes a sexy wolf shifter series with intoxicating romance, pulsepounding suspense, and fated mates finding their happily eve...
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Sooley
John Grisham#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel. Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon is a raw, young talent with big hoop dre...
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Crescendo
Becca FitzpatrickThe second book in the breathtaking New York Times bestselling Hush, Hush saga, soon to be a major motion picture!Nora should have known her life wouldn’t stay perfect for long. De...
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Watership Down
Richard Adams & Madeline MillerNow with a new introduction by Madeline Miller, the New York Times bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe.The 50th anniversary edition of Richard Adam’s timeless clas...
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The Enemy Inside
Steve MartiniDefending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power in this electrifying t...
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Joan WolfGentle Reader: My husband is dead and my fouryearold son is the new Earl of Weston. Perhaps even more catastrophic, however, is the news that my husband named his brother, Stephen,...
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Bay of Sighs
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The Whistler
John Grisham#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A highstakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as “the best thriller writer alive” by Ken Follett ...
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Bill EidsonNineyearold Janine Stearns and her parents stop at a convenience store to buy ice cream. Moments later, a masked gunman walks in and robs the store, shooting the clerk and kidnappi...
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Guardian of Lies
Steve Martini“The sort of compulsive pageturner that keeps readers up at night….Both timely and scary….Guardian of Lies more than satisfies.”Washington Times Defense attorney Paul Madriani is c...
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The Guardians
John Grisham#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A classic legal thrillerwith a twist. "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty an...
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Guardian
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Camino Winds
John Grisham#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “The perfect crime scene ... in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.”Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads ...
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The Faerie Guardian
Rachel MorganShe's fae. He's human. He should never have followed her into the magic world … Bingeread the complete series now! Seventeenyearold Violet has one job: protect humans from dan...
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Guardian Angel
Julie Garwood#1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood takes breathless sensuality to thrilling heights in this unforgettable adventure of passion and intrigue.The Emerald flew across ...
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Silence
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Dark Guardian
Christine Feehan“The queen of paranormal romance!”J.R. Ward, New York Times bestselling authorThe ninth book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan's paranorm...
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Marked
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The Guardian
Jack WhyteJack Whyte is a master of the sweeping historical epic and The Guardian is another evocative chronicle of the formation of his beloved Scotland. Some men strive for greatness. And ...