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.
Editor’s Notes
Global report • Headlines from the last seven days
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Reader’s eyewitness
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
Priced out • From Amsterdam to Milan, a lack of affordable housing is now a major political issue – and one that could push many younger voters towards extremist parties in upcoming EU elections
‘Suffering double punishment’ • Racial prejudice pervades the rental market
Home truths • Higher costs and cramped conditions have political impact
Spotlight • Campus protests Can Biden avoid 1968 parallel?
History rhymes • Crackdown on moral outrage will only favour the political right
Gen Z step up to oppose the push for ‘Russian law’
‘I can’t kill’ Kyiv has trouble with recruitment • As the war stretches on, some men are evading conscription and the armed forces are short of soldiers
Eyewitness Ethiopia
Heritage lost as Britain’s crafts ‘face extinction level event’ • From rush weaving to kilt making, numbers of artisans are dwindling, but one charity has a plan to save the sector
Dig for disaster • Calls to move to centre or right won’t help Sunak out of this hole
Is great ape tourism to blame for killing off chimps? • Viruses that only cause common colds in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas
Rio reporters risking all to shine light on the city’s underworld • A brutal killing in 2018 has inspired journalists to probe the links between police, politicians and mafia
Press freedom • How political attacks are rising globally
First steps for Nutbush • Quest goes on for origin of line dance
Museum of Yoruba life is custommade for Lagos
A bitter pill Inside the anti-doping movement’s civil war • Furore over Chinese swimmers has sparked an ugly dispute between organisations that target athletes who use banned substances
Taking stock • Will Buffett fans flock to Omaha when he’s gone?
From a small step for man to a giant gold rush for mankind
The world according to Jason • Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: George Monbiot asked a believer from his home town
Ice in his veins • At 19, Ilia Malinin is the only figure skater to land a quad axel in competition, and he thinks he can go further. Can the ‘quad god’ revive a tarnished sport?
Opinion Timothy Garton Ash • Ours is an age of confusion. How should we navigate it?
Simon Hattenstone • A nation desperate for integrity in public life has found it in snooker
Jonn Elledge • Channel tunnel at 30: a tale of two countries inextricably linked
The GuardianView • Money talks as the world realises there’s a price to pay for going cashless
Opinion Letters
Culture Enter the dragon • The stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s beloved animation Spirited Away sold out in Japan in four minutes. As it comes to the UK, we meet the team bringing it to life
Take a trip to London’s acid house haunts • George Georgiou gave rave culture its smiley face. Now the designer is putting up yellow plaques to mark the venues where clubbers once danced till dawn
‘Disability can be your power’ • Arthur Hughes was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As his new Tudor TV drama Shardlake begins, he recalls the...