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.

A calamitous week for Truss, Putin’s reality check and why streaming makes us lazy listeners

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Eyewitness

Britannia unhinged • The week Liz Truss managed to sink sterling

A screeching U-turn But political timebombs are still ticking away

A dizzying decline Rebel MPs now have the upper hand over Truss and Kwarteng

While Putin declares an ‘annexation’, reality bites in Lyman

Moscow no longer has full control over ‘new’ regions

Fervour pitch Rambling and angry Putin channelled his inner taxi driver

Conscription chaos leaves Kremlin in crisis mode • Amid protests over the army call-up, Putin’s supporters have been desperately trying to divert blame on to others

Coup raises fears of rise in Russian mercenaries in Sahel

Lula on hold Shock as Bolsonaro’s vote defies expectations

Hump day

Glen lights Scottish tree factory that’s growing a revolution

A wing and a prayer • How farming puts pressure on bird populations

The blighted village that’s poised to be destroyed a third time

Power games Does Giorgia Meloni have a problem with women?

‘This is our land’: a Palestinian community’s survival fight • Homes demolished and scores of families living in fear following the Israeli supreme court’s decision to expel them

Galvanised How women rose together over one death

Foul play Chess’s cheating dilemma • Accusations of malpractice have swirled around the game’s top players. Could digital analysis uncover definitive proof?

Wiped out Hurricane Ian will hit poor people the hardest

Who is Fox host Carlson actually ‘rooting for’ in Ukraine?

The Blackstone rebellion • The world’s biggest commercial landlord was used to getting its own way when buying up properties. But one country fought back

Party like it’s 1789 • Some on the US right think laws should follow the exact words of the founding fathers. Is it really possible to live strictly constitutionally?

Those desiring regime change in Moscow should pause for thought Rajan Menon and Daniel R DePetris

It’s a kick in the teeth that football clubs have such a stake in betting Annie Ashton

Brexit’s folly paved the way for Liz Truss’s crazy libertarian zeal Will Hutton

The ‘very curious’ Rosetta Stone celebrates humanity’s passion for cryptography • Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust

Letters

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS

Streams of consciousness • Services such as Spotify and Apple Music of fer vast song catalogues, but they often direct us back to the same music. How can we recover our passion for discovery?

Relight your fire Six ways to unearth great new music

Professor brainstorm • Malawian academic and artist Samson Kambalu talks about hat-banning colonialists and the ideas behind his new sculpture in London’s Trafalgar Square

Fifa 23 • EA Sports/EA

Amsterdam • Dir: David O Russell

Wheel of fortune • A canter through the history of economic thought sheds light on current policies and throws up some surprising conclusions

Maine lines • Set during the Covid pandemic, this is a wondrous fourth outing for Elizabeth Strout’s much-loved heroine Lucy Barton

Animal magic • Vignettes of how lizard drool and giraffe skin have inspired scientific innovation are told...