Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol210 | Issue№ 24 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in the

President Emmanuel Macron announced snap legislative elections following a drubbing at the hands of the far-right National Rally (RN) in last Sunday’s European parliamentary elections. The RN won about 32% of the vote, more than double the 15% or so

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A defiant Rishi Sunak vowed to fight on until the last day of the election campaign after a torrid week in which the prime minister was criticised for missing part of the D-day commemorations. On Monday, the prime minister said he could still win bac

‘Everyone is in total shock,” said Baptiste Lopata, a radiologist, sitting in his trade union office in the small northern French town of Soissons. “Now we’ve all got to mobilise against the far right.” When Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration, far-righ

So in the end, with a couple of alarming wobbles, the centre held in Europe. As polls predicted, the mainstream pro-EU alliance of centre-right, centre-left, liberal and Green parties in the European parliament hung on, comfortably, to its majority.

Ursula von der Leyen this week began trying to craft a majority for a second term as European Commission president, after major gains for the far right that are likely to mean a less stable European parliament. Von der Leyen, a German Christian Democ

Maddalena Chiarenza never knows what state the children will be in when they arrive at her door. She has seen black eyes, missing teeth, a broken jaw. “They suffer such regular violence,” said Chiarenza, whose Brussels-based NGO, SOS Jeune, cares for

A sign on the doorway said “For rent” and the house’s lights were out. But the assault team were convinced a group of armed gang members lurked inside. As darkness enveloped Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, six truckloads of military and police tro

It was widely described as the week India’s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in last Tuesday, all predictions and polls were defied as Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in

Eight months after the horrors of 7 October, last Saturday was a rare, joyful day in Israel after four hostages were rescued safely from Gaza. Street parties were held across the country, and the weekly demonstration in Tel Aviv demanding that the go

The market in Nuseirat was busy last Saturday morning. Among the crowds were Asia El-Nemer, looking for a pharmacy that still had stock of her sister’s medication, and Ansam Haroun, hoping to find new clothes to lift her daughters’ spirits on the for

Partly in preparation for the worst, but also as a way of finding hope for the longer term, a book that has previously attracted little attention in the UK has suddenly become popular bedtime reading among British Conservative politicians. Full Circl

Alessandra Sampaio fell to her knees and wept as she clambered on to the boat’s deck and came face to face with the remote riverside clearing where her husband’s life was extinguished and hers turned upside down. The sound of Sampaio’s lament mixed w

The unusually prolonged and extensive flooding that has devastated southern Brazil was made at least twice as likely by human burning of fossil fuels and trees, a study has shown. The record disaster has led to 169 deaths, ruined homes and wrecked ha

Almost three years ago, at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, the Euro 2024 logo was officially launched, featuring the colours of all 55 Uefa member nations in a symbolic display of continental solidarity. “It shows that in Europe we are united, we are f

In a suburb of Catania on Sicily’s east coast, smoke billows from street stands selling grilled horse meat, and youngsters gather around kiosks selling the region’s unique handmade drink, seltz limonee sale (seltzer with lemon and sea salt). It is he

With one last heave, Mayumi Okada launches a sopping-wet rope into the Pacific Ocean. As a fresh afternoon wind forms frothy crests on the waves, her husband, Kuniaki, leaves his cabin, peers over the edge of their boat and confirms the batch of oyst

We may be living in a doughnut. It sounds like Homer Simpson’s fever dream, but that could be the shape of the entire universe – to be exact, a hyperdimensional doughnut that mathematicians call a 3-torus. This is just one of the many possibilities f

Every year, waves of people from around the world make their way to southern California to start a new life and find safe harbour. Along remote, isolated sections of the border between California and Mexico, many asylum seekers cross illegally, often

Twenty-two British D-day veterans, the youngest nearly 100, crossed the Channel last Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the landings in Normandy, representing a thinning thread to the heroics of two or three generations ago when about 150,000 al

The society I grew up in was one of the most bizarre and institutionally racist environments ever to exist. Every aspect of life was stratified along racial lines, puritanical and repressive. Our Durban suburb was all white, save for domestic workers

A Europe that just celebrated on the beaches of Normandy the 80-year-old D-day beginning of its liberation from war, nationalism and fascism now again faces fascism, nationalism and war. Please don’t be reassured by European Commission president Ursu

It’s January 2022 and my seven-year-old son is standing on his skateboard at the top of a concrete ramp that’s known in these parts as a “funbox”. Right now, it doesn’t seem so fun. I can feel the fear vibrating from him. I’m urging him to give it a

Everything hangs on them but little changes. For weeks or months, elections dominate national life. Media reports and public conversations are monopolised by furious jostling and frantic speculation. All else – policymaking, problem-solving, reason i

TAKE A STROLL through the classic English countryside of West Sussex, and you’ll notice things becoming strange just beyond the village of Dial Post. Here, a patchwork of tidy fields bordered by neat hedgerows becomes a bamboozling maze of flowery gl

For anyone with a love of early-2000s R&B and hip-hop, the line-up poster for this year’s Lovers & Friends festival in Las Vegas is a dreamland. Janet Jackson, Usher, Alicia Keys, Gwen Stefani and Lil Wayne are among the big-name acts at the top of t

Even before he co-founded Blondie – who swiftly transcended their roots in the New York punk scene to become one of the biggest bands in the world, selling around 40m records in the process – Chris Stein had lived quite a life. His father died of a s

What sauces can you make in the time it takes to boil noodles? “You can bash together a decent yakisoba sauce from soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, a little mirin and oyster sauce,” says noodle connoisseur Tim Anderson, author of Microwave Meals. “Bu

Prep 20 min Cook 25 min Chill 2hr Serves 8 200g ginger nut biscuits80g unsalted butter, melted1 tbsp caster sugar 4 large egg yolks100ml passion fruit juice, strained from10-12 passion fruit, seeds reservedZest and juice of 2 limes¼ tsp salt397g tin

It’s been a week of clear skies and luminous evenings – a stretch of calm, still weather that has been felt as a physical release, even an act of mercy, after a seemingly unending winter. Now the days have stretched and warped into their long summer

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1 Salacious (4) 3 Intimidate (5,3) 8 List of options (4) 9 Cheap (3-5) 11 Extremely close (of a race) (3,3,4) 14 Expel (6) 15 Fascinate (6) 17 Miner’s daughter in a US folk ballad (10) 20 Farewell (2,6) 21 Prejudice (4) 22 Surreptitious (8) 23 Overly