The Guardian's official website. The Guardian (The Guardian) is a national comprehensive content daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, founded in 1821, because the headquarters in Manchester and called the Manchester Guardian. 1959 changed its name to The Guardian. The Guardian's political views are generally regarded by the public as left-of-center, and the Guardian is valued for its cosmopolitan views, literary reporting and commentary, and foreign correspondence. With the Times, the Daily Telegraph as the three well-known British senior newspapers.