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

A $1bn push for power • Leaked documents have revealed the vast scope and cost of the Kremlin’s vote-rigging machinery. With Putin certain to win another six-year term this weekend, why do elections matter so much to the Russian president?

Putin’s puppets • How stage-managed polls string along the voters

Deportation and coercion • How Russia stamps rule on occupied Ukraine

Spotlight • ‘Like choosing between a hedgehog or a porcupine’ The presidential election rematch no one wants

Blame game • Distracted Democrats risk forgetting the greater goal

‘We used to adorn our street, now all is bleak’ • As the holy month of Ramadan begins, food shortages and the fear of attack continue to afflict Rafah’s displaced families

Shore point • A US-built floating aid port for Gaza – what could go wrong?

Eyewitness Indonesia

A big no, no • How a vote on updating the constitution ended in fiasco

‘We’re stuffed’ • Have the Tories given up on winning the next election?

‘No closure’ • Ten years on, the mystery of MH370 is still unsolved

Xi silent at congress, but it’s clear who is in charge

Cruises and booze • Why cities are fed up with tourists

RESTRICTED VIEWS • How authorities are cracking down on overtourism

Map mines the rich history of caves below city’s homes

The ancient astrolabe where Jewish and Islamic science mix

The Frozen Zoo • How scientists are putting disappearing species on ice

‘Barbecue’ • Feared gang boss leading an assault on government

New Yorkers bemoan lost views of Empire State Building

How Covid changed politics • Four years on from the start of the pandemic, the drama may have subsided but the lingering effects on the entire planet go on. Are we suffering from political long Covid?

THE DEBUTANTE-TURNED-TERRORIST • How Rose Dugdale, a privileged English girl, became an IRA bomber is a confounding tale – a new film tells her dramatic story

Opinion Simon Tisdall • Germany’s renown as a leader is in tatters when Europe needs it most

Marina Hyde • Who cares if the races are dull? F1 drama has never been better

Andy Beckett • MPs must know protests are inevitable if they fail to represent the people

The GuardianView • Raise a glass to the female Wikipedia contributors who are changing history

Opinion Letters

Homer’s odyssey • The people who brought The Simpsons to life explain how the show owes its global success to a combination of punk zine attitude and TV professionalism

Oscars with a British accent – and no upsets • So many Brits – and a supremely talented Irishman – took home awards, while Oppenheimer’s relevance can hardly be doubted

The song and dancefloor man • Murder on the Dancefloor writer Gregg Alexander on its Saltburn-induced return to the charts and how the Obamas and Joni Mitchell became superfans

Reviews

And so to the bed • A vivid deep dive into our planet’s oceans that highlights their desperate fight for survival due to our greed and ignorance

Body count • An attempt to quantify the value of human life raises challenging questions and yields unpleasant answers

BOOKS OF THE MONTH • The best recent...