Hello, and welcome to the new First Edition newsletter from the Guardian. I’m Archie Bland, the editor, and I’ll be writing to you at 7am on weekdays along with assistant editor Nimo Omer. We want this email to help make sense of the world you wake up to – with a wrap of the headlines, a pick of fantastic reads, and a deep dive on one essential subject.
We’ll have lots more to say as we introduce you to the newsletter, and we’d love to hear what you think – just reply to this email. But today we’d better get on with it, because we’re starting with a big story: Emmanuel Macron has defeated the radical right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen to win a second term as president of France.
