Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Eyewitness United Kingdom

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

‘Still in this fight’ • Bruised by a Trump victory even more alarming than in 2016, the president-elect’s opponents are determined to pick their battles – and be tactically smarter this time

Family values • Is Biden’s pardon an act of love or just hypocrisy?

Flawed framework • Democrats need to accept big tech isn’t an ally against Trump

Spotlight • Return to ruins and uncertainty, despite ceasef ire

Tough talk • Ceasef ire with Lebanon makes peace in Gaza less likely

Rebel strikes • Why did civil war reignite and what comes next?

Gisèle Pelicot is not my adversary, says defence lawyer

Notre Dame reopening of fers ‘shock of hope’, says Macron

Ordinary voices The power behind assisted dying vote • Many influential people spoke for and against Kim Leadbeater’s bill, but it was the opinions of constituents that had greatest sway over MPs

Blueprint outlines plans to reform end-of-life care

An urban plot with a sustainable ending • Oosterwold residents must grow food on at least half their property, leading to creative solutions

Trees of life • Saplings from Sycamore Gap to spread hope

The former sailor fighting to keep cruise ships at bay • After spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is leading the battle to protect Marseille from vast liners

Ship operator ‘emitted more CO2 in 2023 than a city’

Protests roil women’s university over plan to admit men

Lost taxes and pollution • The high cost of illegal gold mining boom

Against the grain The hidden killer on your plate • Most of us consume far too much salt, which can lead to high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. But you can retrain your palate

Taxing times • Trump’s tariff threats send ripples around the world

Record drug haul seized as smugglers’ new route is found

THE CALL OF NATURE • Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being abandoned to be reclaimed by nature. To see what happens to the natural world when people disappear, look to Bulgaria

The day I caught my catfish • Andrew Lloyd describes the surreal experience of tracking down the man who stole his identity and whose Facebook profile was like a shrine devoted to his face. He was surprised to find that neither Meta nor the Metropolitan police seemed interested in taking action against the perpetrator

Opinion Nesrine Malik • From Beirut to Khartoum, the Arab world is in familiar trouble

Alexander Hurst • It’s high time to tax cannabis and fix French finances

Simon Tisdall • Europe’s latest radical populist typifies a swing on the continent

The GuardianView • ‘ Words of the year’ provide us with lexical snapshots of a moment in time

Opinion Letters

Culture The show must go wrong • How did a farce about a gaffe-filled amateur dramatic whodunnit become one of Britain’s greatest ever exports, the toast of dozens of countries?

Robopop Teen star who does not exist • Miku is a ‘Vocaloid’ – a holographic avatar that represents a digital bank of vocal samples – performing sellout tours for thousands of very real mega-fans

Double vision • Is the pay really that good? Do you get bored? We ask ‘David Brent’, ‘Nessa’ and ‘Ali G’...