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

Grand designs The audacious reimagining of the Middle East • In a US election year, Joe Biden is offering diplomatic incentives to rival states in the region – including the recognition of Palestine

Jarring silence • Are we ignoring Gaza’s women because they are ‘not like us’?

Spotlight • Furious farmers demand EU reforms

Growing pain • Why farmers are so angry – and what the EU is trying to do about it

In Antakya, poor fear worst as towers rise from rubble • A huge rebuild is under way in the earthquake-damaged city – but many feel they will have no place in the new homes

Eyewitness Qatar

Keep calm and carry on? • Health fears could reshape the king’s role

Power sharing • A big moment for Sinn Féin – but Irish unity remains distant

Nottingham’s taxes soar, but local services are in disarray

Council cuts • How years of austerity led to cycles of decline

Mill boon • A co-living community designed for long life

After the coup • Three years on, the junta is struggling to assert control

Gallery f ills creative void for artists amid island’s struggles

Smoke screens Mental health apps under scrutiny • As experts worry over privacy issues, effectiveness and even harm, the UK is looking at how to regulate the plethora of smartphone-based mental health tools

‘A mistake’ • Russian sect f inally gets apology after 70 years

Joe’s burden • Primary win reveals more about the changing face of America

PRECIPICE OF FEAR • Jérémie Heitz has pushed freeriding to breathtaking, beautiful new extremes. But as the risks get bigger, the questions do, too By Simon Akam

Can anything stop the deepfakes? • With Taylor Swift the latest victim of AI-generated porn, pressure is growing on social media companies to start taking it seriously.

Pop star or ‘election psyop’? US conspiracists tout Swift as Pentagon asset

George Monbiot • It’s a plutocrat’s world – and all dissenters are swiftly crushed

John Kampfner • Russia looms large over Nato’s borders – but US help is not as sured

Simon Jenkins • Northern Ireland will leave the union – only devolution can save UK

The GuardianView • The staggering death rate in Gaza does not fully capture the human pain and misery

Opinion Letters

The power of two • With the imminent release of their 15th album, the Pet Shop Boys look back at 40 years of being pop’s most culturally voracious band

Real Journalism Independent thought

Amazon, Joyce and the circus • As part of the centenary of Ulysses, German circus company Rimini Protokoll provocatively enacts the hyper-consumerism and physical exertion that drive the online retail giant

Reviews

Legacy hunter • This ambitious and nuanced sequel to Empireland travels far and wide to examine the global impact of British imperialism

State of af fairs • Cosmopolitan, middle class, middle aged … two lovers seduce each other with words and BDSM in this finespun adultery novel

Power to the people • An insightful overview of democracy in theory and practice through the ages, and how it both thrives and fails

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • The best recent poetry

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