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Guardian Weekly

May 20 2022
Magazine

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.

Taking Scotus to task

Carbon bombs, grief in the US, fakes and Coogan’s nemesis

Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Top of the tups

What lies beneath • Revealed The vast fossil-fuel projects that could wreck international efforts to limit global heating

Our exclusive findings

Auto pilots How drones are changing the dynamics of combat

Historic move as Nordic nations seek to join Nato

IN BRIEF

Black Sea blockade risks famine for millions, warns G7

Stifled dragon No one should take delight in Beijing’s economic woes

Glimmers of hope

Killing of journalist leaves West Bank in turmoil • World condemns shooting of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh as dispute over chain of events escalates

How ‘Spider-Man’ became a symbol of resistance

Starmer’s armour Labour leader is closer to power - and facing his hardest test yet

Visa delays force overseas acts to pull out of gigs

Age is no barrier as flying Dutchman sets record

Portraitist of Weimar Berlin gets his own museum

As the west turns away, women fall into shadows

‘Even the Taliban know they need us’ • Female medics continue to run hospitals and save lives, but have to rely on the Red Cross to pay their salaries

Cold comfort • The ‘little ice age’ of the 14th to the 19th centuries brought cold winters to Europe and unusual weather conditions globally. Could studying how humankind adapted prove valuable today?

THE BIG FREEZE • Why did the climate cool and stay that way for centuries?

Community responds to mass killing with grief and strength

Boom to bust? War and life after pandemic are leading to a tech turn-off

The imitation game • Selling cheap fakes of a successful product makes business sense. But is there any way of stopping it?

A matter of choice • Why the future of power can’t be nuclear

How white replacement theory keeps inspiring mass murder Jason Stanley

RIP iPod. You allowed me to hold my musical life in my palm Dorian Lynskey

Johnson is using the Ukraine crisis to launch a comeback in Europe Simon Tisdall

Governments must say no to the carbon bombs that could destroy our world

Letters

Knowing me, knowing you • Steve Coogan claims there are no skeletons in his closet. So the Guardian sent the only man who could unearth them: broadcaster turned interviewer Alan Partridge

Clash of Cannes • At the French film festival, which marks its 75th edition this year, there has always been a battle between radicalism and elitism – but that’s what makes it ‘cinema’s ultimate cathedral’

Reviews

Sticks and stones • A journey through 13 creative but failed building designs that led to catastrophe for their designers

Poetic licence • A remarkable portrait of Hardy’s remorse and grief in the wake of his failed marriage, which led to his great sequence of elegies

Puppy love • A zoologist and TV presenter’s study of centuries of human-canine relations uncovers the symbiotic history of our evolution

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • The best recent science fiction and fantasy

My husband let me down with our babies. How do I forgive him?

Cutting remarks: can one kitchen knife do the job of a complete set?

Mackerel with barley salad and cucumber ketchup

CRONKLEY FELL

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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.

Taking Scotus to task

Carbon bombs, grief in the US, fakes and Coogan’s nemesis

Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Top of the tups

What lies beneath • Revealed The vast fossil-fuel projects that could wreck international efforts to limit global heating

Our exclusive findings

Auto pilots How drones are changing the dynamics of combat

Historic move as Nordic nations seek to join Nato

IN BRIEF

Black Sea blockade risks famine for millions, warns G7

Stifled dragon No one should take delight in Beijing’s economic woes

Glimmers of hope

Killing of journalist leaves West Bank in turmoil • World condemns shooting of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqleh as dispute over chain of events escalates

How ‘Spider-Man’ became a symbol of resistance

Starmer’s armour Labour leader is closer to power - and facing his hardest test yet

Visa delays force overseas acts to pull out of gigs

Age is no barrier as flying Dutchman sets record

Portraitist of Weimar Berlin gets his own museum

As the west turns away, women fall into shadows

‘Even the Taliban know they need us’ • Female medics continue to run hospitals and save lives, but have to rely on the Red Cross to pay their salaries

Cold comfort • The ‘little ice age’ of the 14th to the 19th centuries brought cold winters to Europe and unusual weather conditions globally. Could studying how humankind adapted prove valuable today?

THE BIG FREEZE • Why did the climate cool and stay that way for centuries?

Community responds to mass killing with grief and strength

Boom to bust? War and life after pandemic are leading to a tech turn-off

The imitation game • Selling cheap fakes of a successful product makes business sense. But is there any way of stopping it?

A matter of choice • Why the future of power can’t be nuclear

How white replacement theory keeps inspiring mass murder Jason Stanley

RIP iPod. You allowed me to hold my musical life in my palm Dorian Lynskey

Johnson is using the Ukraine crisis to launch a comeback in Europe Simon Tisdall

Governments must say no to the carbon bombs that could destroy our world

Letters

Knowing me, knowing you • Steve Coogan claims there are no skeletons in his closet. So the Guardian sent the only man who could unearth them: broadcaster turned interviewer Alan Partridge

Clash of Cannes • At the French film festival, which marks its 75th edition this year, there has always been a battle between radicalism and elitism – but that’s what makes it ‘cinema’s ultimate cathedral’

Reviews

Sticks and stones • A journey through 13 creative but failed building designs that led to catastrophe for their designers

Poetic licence • A remarkable portrait of Hardy’s remorse and grief in the wake of his failed marriage, which led to his great sequence of elegies

Puppy love • A zoologist and TV presenter’s study of centuries of human-canine relations uncovers the symbiotic history of our evolution

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • The best recent science fiction and fantasy

My husband let me down with our babies. How do I forgive him?

Cutting remarks: can one kitchen knife do the job of a complete set?

Mackerel with barley salad and cucumber ketchup

CRONKLEY FELL

Diversions

Find clarity...


Expand title description text