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 China

Canada hits gridlock, a Carrie on at No 10 and the rise of Netflix

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

NORTHERN IRELAND

Reign check • A portrait of the Queen rises above tourists in Piccadilly Circus, central London, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne last Sunday. Queen Elizabeth II, 95, became the first British monarch to celebrate seven decades of rule. Using the milestone to issue her royal seal of approval for Camilla to become Queen Consort once Prince Charles is crowned king, the Queen spent her accession day privately on the Sandringham estate.

The Covid culture wars • It began as a protest against vaccine mandates – but does Ottawa’s truck driver blockade signal the birth of a dangerous new political movement?

Ottawa protests How did the rallies begin, what do the demonstrators want … and what’s next?

Anti-vaccine Republicans A monster even Trump can’t control • Most of the former president’s fan base no longer trusts the jab programme that was one of his few successes in office

‘Tanks, tanks’ On the border with Ukraine, citizens sense onset of war

Cold thaw? Xi and Putin attack west in ‘no limits’ unity display

Scholz slated for ‘inaudible’ position on Ukraine

Left in office Costa’s triumph offers hope to ballot-battered social democrats

Carrie Johnson No 10 puppet master or easy target? • Some say the prime minister’s wife is pulling the strings at Downing Street while others dismiss such claims as sexist

PM on the brink as ally calls his exit ‘inevitable’

Coke float The doomed voyage of a narco submarine

Maisa Rojas, the climate scientist who leads Boric’s green agenda

Germanspeaking anti-vaxxers plot a rural ‘paradise’

OK, Kyoto? Ancient city’s mixed feelings over lost tourists

One year on The striking workers still fleeing from the military

THE COUP IN NUMBERS

Eat me! • Micro-organisms have evolved processes that let them digest plastics. Could they remedy one of Earth’s most pressing problems?

The butterfly sanctuary caught in a net of QAnon delusions

Space oddity Are UFOs finally about to be taken seriously?

Red poets’ society • Between 1982 and 1989, a Stasi poetry-writing group met regularly in Berlin. But was it really just an innocent literary club?

Breaking the ice • In 1965, Tété-Michel Kpomassie left his village in Togo for a new life in Greenland. Now, at 80, he’s planning to retire to his ‘spiritual home’

Amnesty calls Israel an apartheid state: many politicians there agree Chris McGreal

After 60 years, it’s time to lift the US embargo and let Cuba finally live David Adler

With his Savile smear, Johnson proves he will do anything for power Jonathan Freedland

The developing world can’t wait for vaccine justice from its rich neighbours

Letters

Stream ticket • In 10 years, Netflix has grown into a global production giant – and crushed the competition. But can it stay on top?

So strong • Labi Siffre is behind some of pop’s catchiest and most enduring melodies. He talks about coming out in the 70s – and the joys of living in a menage à trois

STAGE

TELEVISION

A glass half full • Personal chaos and political recklessness characterise Nigel Farage as the most influential failure in modern British politics

Strained relations • The...