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Guardian Weekly

Sep 09 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.

Truss triumphs, Europe plans for winter, mega-rich go underground and world falls for Korean culture

Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

Truss takes reins as clock ticks on tackling bills crisis

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Mission impossible? • Liz Truss has risen spectacularly to become Britain’s new prime minister, but enormous problems lie ahead – not least the cost of living crisis and divisions in her own party

Bills, Russia and resentful MPs Key challenges facing the new prime minister

Storm clouds Any sense of jubilation may prove to be very short-lived

The race to keep the lights on as winter looms • Soaring energy bills are threatening much of the continent. What are governments doing to help cushion the blow?

Moscow halts gas supply ‘until sanctions lifted’

‘No quick wins’ Push to retake Kherson shows Kyiv’s cautious confidence

‘His was the slow way to freedom’: a farewell to Gorbachev

Calls for rich nations to pay up as flood death toll rises

Under cover of digital darkness • Authoritarian governments around the world are embracing web shutdowns as a method of control. It’s a trend that looks set to continue

FLICKING THE KILLS WITCH • Methods governments use to shut off the internet

Xi’s iron grip holds firm as Communist party caucus approaches

‘It’s a plague’ On the night trail with the wallaby hunters

‘I’m glowing’ How an app is helping us measure the joy of trees • A new research project aims to discover how the age, size and shape of woodlands can benefit people’s wellbeing

Landowners hail scheme to restore biodiversity

Altopían sky El Alto gets a hybrid future makeover

Indigenous candidates aim to build ‘headdress caucus’ • With attacks on native people escalating under Bolsonaro, a record 181 are standing in next month’s elections

A family fights for justice in the case of the missing 43

Nation in mourning after 10 die in ‘horrific’ mass attack

Biden’s burden What if Trump is the symptom, not the cause, of America’s ills?

Why Meghan and Harry may struggle to carve post-royal niche

The cost of trust

Bunker mentality • When Douglas Rushkoff was flown to the desert to give a speech about the future of technology, it soon became clear that his wealthy audience had other ideas – a means to insulate themselves from the apocalypse and leave the rest of us behind …

Johnson’s dreams of a comeback will be a nightmare for Liz Truss

Eating meat is not a crime against the planet – if it’s done right

Mikhail Gorbachev’s peaceful legacy is being betrayed by this war

UN’s delayed report puts an official stamp on China’s shameful abuse of Uyghurs

Letters

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS

Special K • From music to movies, technology to television, Korea has refashioned its national identity in a way that is palpable on the ground in Seoul and in a new exhibition at London’s V&A

South Korea

Who was the real Richard Harris? • The Irish screen star’s many achievements were eclipsed by his image as a hell-raiser. As a new film looks for answers, his son Jared looks back

Reviews

Exception and rule • A survey of more than 1,000 years of history shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales Russia tells about itself

Fever dream This satirical portrait of Republican plots in the wake of Obama’s election is a novel caught between two...


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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.

Truss triumphs, Europe plans for winter, mega-rich go underground and world falls for Korean culture

Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

Truss takes reins as clock ticks on tackling bills crisis

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Mission impossible? • Liz Truss has risen spectacularly to become Britain’s new prime minister, but enormous problems lie ahead – not least the cost of living crisis and divisions in her own party

Bills, Russia and resentful MPs Key challenges facing the new prime minister

Storm clouds Any sense of jubilation may prove to be very short-lived

The race to keep the lights on as winter looms • Soaring energy bills are threatening much of the continent. What are governments doing to help cushion the blow?

Moscow halts gas supply ‘until sanctions lifted’

‘No quick wins’ Push to retake Kherson shows Kyiv’s cautious confidence

‘His was the slow way to freedom’: a farewell to Gorbachev

Calls for rich nations to pay up as flood death toll rises

Under cover of digital darkness • Authoritarian governments around the world are embracing web shutdowns as a method of control. It’s a trend that looks set to continue

FLICKING THE KILLS WITCH • Methods governments use to shut off the internet

Xi’s iron grip holds firm as Communist party caucus approaches

‘It’s a plague’ On the night trail with the wallaby hunters

‘I’m glowing’ How an app is helping us measure the joy of trees • A new research project aims to discover how the age, size and shape of woodlands can benefit people’s wellbeing

Landowners hail scheme to restore biodiversity

Altopían sky El Alto gets a hybrid future makeover

Indigenous candidates aim to build ‘headdress caucus’ • With attacks on native people escalating under Bolsonaro, a record 181 are standing in next month’s elections

A family fights for justice in the case of the missing 43

Nation in mourning after 10 die in ‘horrific’ mass attack

Biden’s burden What if Trump is the symptom, not the cause, of America’s ills?

Why Meghan and Harry may struggle to carve post-royal niche

The cost of trust

Bunker mentality • When Douglas Rushkoff was flown to the desert to give a speech about the future of technology, it soon became clear that his wealthy audience had other ideas – a means to insulate themselves from the apocalypse and leave the rest of us behind …

Johnson’s dreams of a comeback will be a nightmare for Liz Truss

Eating meat is not a crime against the planet – if it’s done right

Mikhail Gorbachev’s peaceful legacy is being betrayed by this war

UN’s delayed report puts an official stamp on China’s shameful abuse of Uyghurs

Letters

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS

Special K • From music to movies, technology to television, Korea has refashioned its national identity in a way that is palpable on the ground in Seoul and in a new exhibition at London’s V&A

South Korea

Who was the real Richard Harris? • The Irish screen star’s many achievements were eclipsed by his image as a hell-raiser. As a new film looks for answers, his son Jared looks back

Reviews

Exception and rule • A survey of more than 1,000 years of history shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales Russia tells about itself

Fever dream This satirical portrait of Republican plots in the wake of Obama’s election is a novel caught between two...


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