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.

Editor’s Notes

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

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...