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.

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The big story United Kingdom • With the vaunted benefits of leaving the European Union still hard to discern, polls now suggest that about one in five leave voters have changed their minds. But could Britain ever go back, ask Michael Savage and Toby Helm The great Brexit deficit

OPINION • Broken Britain Fissures ran deep in the country long before Brexit delivered its blow

UKRAINE • Behind enemy lines Saboteurs take the fight into Russia

EUROPEAN UNION • Putin’s plans to blackmail Europe over gas supply fail to ignite

Protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police • Human rights organisations report an escalation in the brutal treatment of detainees at the hands of security forces

IRAN • Supreme leader to pardon some detainees

Buildings reduced to rubble as cities sleep

PAKISTAN • Peshawar at the heart of a deadly Taliban resurgence

MYANMAR • Two years on from coup, junta’s airstrikes intensify

UNITED STATES • Back to life Could gene editing revive the dodo?

ARGENTINA • With just 3,000 of the pig-like animals still roaming the Gran Chaco region, a community conservation effort is fighting for its future

THE NETHERLANDS • Vermeers gathered for blockbuster ‘party’ – but is it the last?

BELGIUM • EU tube Immersive show aims to demystify Eurozone

PERU • City limits ‘I fear something very violent will happen’

HAITI • Police revolt as gang warfare goes unchecked

Is TikTok spying for China? • Western fears that the video platform harvests user data and promotes Beijing’s worldview could lead to an overhaul of global privacy laws

ANALYSIS UNITED STATES • All blown up What was the Chinese ‘spy balloon’ actually for?

UNITED STATES • Bolsonaro ‘clears head’ in Florida as anger grows in Brazil

‘All we wanted was justice’ • In 2021, a security guard in Spain stormed into his workplace and shot four people. He was caught and badly injured after a standoff with police, and a trial was set – but his victims would never get to see him punished. Should a mass shooter have been allowed the right to die by euthanasia?

Everything in its place • It’s the age of decanting – never before have household perfectionists removed so many things from packages, only to put them in other packages. Extreme tidiness is a modern obsession. But is it healthy?

ISRAEL • Netanyahu can be resisted – but only with Palestinian support

CLIMATE CRISIS • Europe needs to copy Biden’s green deal – not resort to its old ways

GERMANY • I went viral for a meme, but Scholz’s hesitancy over Ukraine is no joke

History is not just stories of battles and coups, but how people feel about life

WRITE TO US

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS

Next level • The Japanese games maker Nintendo has spent 40 years at the top. What’s its secret?

Famous blue leotard • Leonard Cohen gave his blessing to a dance show set to his songs, but did not live to see it. On tour, its performers recall feeling his presence on stage

Sea change • BBC radio’s shipping forecast holds a special place in British culture. Mark Power tried to capture its mystery in his 1996 book,...