Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 206 | Issue №19 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in th

Joe Biden’s $33bn request to Congress for more aid for Ukraine is likely to receive swift approval from lawmakers, a senior Republican said last weekend, as the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, made a surprise visit to the warriven country. The president

The government’s policy towards care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic has been ruled illegal, in a significant blow to ministers’ claim to have thrown a “protective ring” around the vulnerable residents. The high court said the pol

Here’s a juxtaposition many American observers may have missed in the hubbub over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter: just last month the EU provisionally agreed to the most far-reaching internet regulation in a generation. The Digital Services Act will

CONTAINED WITHIN 95 PAGES OF DENSE LEGAL JARGON, the warning from Twitter to Elon Musk was clear: don’t use your considerable power on the social media platform to attack the company. The world’s richest man and owner-in-waiting of Twitter signed an

When a string of mysterious explosions hit government buildings in Transnistria, the Moscow-backed separatist region of Moldova, there was no immediate claim of responsibility. But for Pasha, a 24-year-old journalist from the breakaway region’s capit

Ukrainian authorities’ plans to evacuate more civilians from Mariupol on Monday ran into delays after dozens were finally brought to safety following weeks trapped under heavy fire in the strategic port city’s Azovstal steel complex. Russian forces w

Where is Transnistria and what is its status? The mainly Russian-speaking region wedged between the Dniester River and the Ukraine border seceded from Moldova after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992, separatists fought a war with Moldova’s pr

Across the world people are taking international holidays, returning to the office, and going to festivals. Faced with the seemingly unstoppable Omicron variant, they’ve decided to live as close to normality as they can in the presence of Covid-19, l

Writers in Tokyo in search of an antidote to procrastination and unproductive work practices can choose to toil in the company of the similarly afflicted, united in their determination to confront the tyranny of the looming deadline. They can be foun

The US supreme court has provisionally voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that legalised abortion nationwide in America, according to a draft opinion reported on by Politico. In what appeared to be a stunning and unprecedented leak, Po

In 2019, Ikea announced it had developed curtains that it claimed could “break down common indoor air pollutants”. The secret, it said, was the fabric’s special coating. “What if we could use textiles to clean the air?” asked Ikea’s product developer

Once a vibrant and noisy place, the market at Waheen was Somaliland’s largest. The covered market and surrounding streets in the capital, Hargeisa, housed about 2,000 shops and stalls, selling fresh fruit and meat alongside tailors’ premises and tech

Survivors of South Africa’s devastating floods have described “sheet upon sheet of relentless rain” that washed away entire houses, bridges and roads, killing about 450 people and making thousands homeless. The storm, which delivered close to an enti

The writer Sonia Purnell was sitting in a TV studio, just about to go on air, when the Conservative politician beside her leaned in close. And then, she says, he whispered in her ear a shockingly graphic slur about her sex life. It was meant, she bel

He came on horseback and wore a scowl as he spoke, telling thousands of yellow-clad believers they faced a momentous battle of good against evil. “Good has always triumphed – and this time it will be no different. Good will prevail!” he bellowed as h

On a Friday afternoon in April 1979, John Mainstone, a physics professor at the University of Queensland, rang his wife at home. He wouldn’t be back that evening, he told her. For the previous 18 years, Mainstone had looked after the pitch drop exper

When police in Washington DC burst into an apartment building on 22 April in search of a man who allegedly had shot four people at random, they found Raymond Spencer, 23, dead by his own hand, a cache of guns, and a poster with an ironic white suprem

B ACK IN THE 1970S, when Moshe Ben Avraham was growing up in Port Harcourt, in southern Nigeria, the town was small and fringed by bush villages, and there were no Jews in sight. Ben Avraham wasn’t yet Jewish himself; he wasn’t even “Ben Avraham”, fo

ONE MONDAY MORNING EARLY THIS YEAR, bleary-eyed and getting ready for work, I am interrupted by a notification on my phone: an Apple Screen Time alert, informing me my usage last week was up by 60%: to 19 hours 24 minutes a day. I stare at the number

The definition of a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. So ruled the veteran Washington journalist Michael Kinsley, who would surely take delight in the textbook example of the form served up last week by Jacob Rees-Mogg, the sat

Some 10 years ago, the world was momentarily transfixed by a 30-minute film soundtracked by a heady mix of Nine Inch Nails and EDM, featuring shots of Adolf Hitler, crying children and bodies lying in the road. It was called Kony 2012 – and it was me

Civil wars don’t always begin with gunfire. Sometimes they begin with learned arguments. In April 1861, Confederate forces shot on Fort Sumter, but at the time even Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, had doubts about whether the event matter

MID-MORNING IN NEW ORLEANS, and outside an Uptown coffee shop, Win Butler is talking of life in his adopted city – the basketball, brass bands and the poisonous caterpillars of the buck moth that, in late spring, fall from the city’s trees on to unsu

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan’s 2010 Pulitzer-winning rock’n’roll novel, felt like the beginning of something. It was a tale as gimmicky and restless as the smartphone era threatened to be. One chapter was written entirely in PowerPoint

At a “slave auction” at the Oxford Union in 1987 – an “opportunity to buy your favourite union person for the evening” – there was, according to the university newspaper, frenzied bidding for the services of the kilt-wearing 19-year-old Michael Gove.

What are the best recipes using tinned fruit? Georgie, Hastings, England, UK There’s more to tinned fruit than a heavy dose of nostalgia: it’s cheap, available all year round and a friend to many bakes. Case in point: tinned pears work a treat nestle

Prep 15 min Cook 45 min Serves 8-10 Ingredients 325g block of prerolled puff pastryPlain flour, for dusting1 pineapple (about 600g)200g caster sugar60g unsalted butter1 tsp vanilla extract1 cinnamon stick2 star aniseA pinch of saltZest of 1 lime, to

OTLEY West Yorkshire, England The arboreal corridor around the River Wharfe is bright with the sharp, tangy colours of April: the fresh lemon-and-lime fuzz of hawthorn budburst, the icy white of wood anemones, the acidic yellow of willow catkins. Muc