Indholdsfortegnelse for 22 July 2022 i Guardian Weekly

Farmers parade bicycles laden with pineapples at a market in the town of Madhupur, north-west of Dhaka. The use of bicycles reduces transportation costs for the farmers, who can carry up to 100 pineapples on each bike. The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol207 | Issue№ 4 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 the UK, US and Australia. The weekly magazine has an international focus and three editions: global, Australia and North America. The Guardian was founded in 1821, and Guardian Weekly in 1919. We exist to hold power to account in the name of the public interest, to uphold liberal and progressive values, to fight for…

A member of the Queen’s Guard is given water outside Buckingham Palace as temperatures hit 37C in London on Monday. Airport runways closed, trains were cancelled and emergency calls surged as much of Britain endured some of its most extreme weather on record. On Tuesday the country looked likely to surpass its hottest day ever, with the high mark of 38.7C under threat. Experts blamed climate change and predicted more frequent extreme conditions to come.…

Wildfires and heatwaves wreaking havoc across the globe show humanity facing “collective suicide”, the UN secretary general has warned, as governments scramble to protect people from extreme heat. António Guterres told ministers from 40 countries meeting to discuss the climate crisis on Monday: “Half of humanity is in the danger zone, from floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires. No nation is immune. Yet we continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction.” He added: “We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” Wildfires raged last weekend across Europe and North America. In South America, the Macchu Picchu archaeological site was threatened by fire. Extreme heat has broken records as heatwaves have struck India and south Asia, droughts have devastated parts of Africa, and unprecedented heatwaves…

It was a distinctly un-Parisian revolution although it began on an inner city street. No barricades were assembled to block the nearby boulevards and no radical students hurled cobblestones ripped from the pavement. Not a single monarch had their head chopped off. Instead, a 215-metre-long banquet table, lined with 648 chairs and laden with home cooked produce, was set up along the Rue de l’Aude and those in attendance were urged to openly utter the most subversive of words: bonjour. For some, that greeting led to the first meaningful exchange between neighbours. “I’d never seen anything like it before,” said Benjamin Zhong, who runs a cafe in the area. “It felt like the street belonged to me, to all of us.” The revolutionaries pledged their allegiance that September day in…

On the night of 13 March 1781, William Herschel was peering through his telescope in his back garden in New King Street, Bath, when he noticed an unusual faint object near the star Zeta Tauri. He observed it for several nights and noted that it was moving slowly against background stars. The astronomer first thought he had found a comet but later identified it, correctly, as a distant planet. Subsequently named Uranus, it was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity. The achievement earned Herschel membership of the Royal Society, a knighthood and enduring astronomical fame. Studies have since shown Uranus to be an odd world. While the rest of the planets within our solar system spin like tops, Uranus lies on its side. And, although it is not…

He entered to rapturous applause, flattered his hosts shamelessly, told them about his political vision and sold them merchandise bearing his name. Tucker Carlson’s appearance in Iowa last week looked like a presidential run, walked like a presidential run and quacked like a presidential run. The Fox News host was the keynote speaker at the Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of more than 1,800 religious conservatives in Des Moines, Iowa, which every four years is the first state to have a say in picking the Republican presidential nominee. It was at the same forum in the same state seven years ago that businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump spoke to an audience. Carlson, 53, another political neophyte and media celebrity, has been touted as a potential Trump heir who…

Last week, the UN’s global population project announced a major shift in the way the world looks. Next year, India, not China, will be the world’s most populous country. Right now, China has 1.43 billion people to India’s 1.41 billion, but by mid-century there will be more than 1.6 billion Indians to around 1.3 billion Chinese. At one level, this development ought to delight Beijing, which compelled its population into a “one child” policy for 40 years. Yet the idea of China being the most populous society in the world has long been linked to the country’s rise. Officially, China dismisses any idea that being at the top of global rankings matters: in January this year, vice foreign minister Le Yucheng declared that China had no interest in becoming the…

‘Are you Norma, Typical Woman?” With that headline, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, an Ohio newspaper, launched a contest in 1945 to discover the woman whose body matched an alabaster statue, “Norma”, sculpted by Abram Belskie and American obstetrician Robert L Dickinson. Their “Norma” and “Normman” statues were based on measurements taken from 15,000 young women and men, almost exclusively white and ablebodied. Nearly 4,000 women submitted their height, weight, bust, hip, waist, thigh, calf and foot sizes to the newspaper’s competition. Not one of them matched Norma’s contours exactly. As Sarah Chaney notes in her captivating book, Norma was a fiction derived from a biased sample. In fact, much of what we believe is “normal” about human bodies, health and behaviour is based on data from a sub-section of the…

For more than three months, Eshan Dias has spent every night living in a makeshift tarpaulin tent in the centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital. Through boiling heat, monsoon rains and shortages of food and water, he and hundreds of others refused to move from this site on Galle Face Green, which became the defiant heart of the anti-government movement demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Late last Thursday night, a crowd came roaring into his tent. They had succeeded; Rajapaksa, who had already fled the country in the dead of night the previous day, was stepping down. Ranil Wickremesinghe Still the fox after 45 years, page 13 Years in the making A long-threatened crisis, page 14 “It was so emotional, I just screamed and cried,” said Dias. “For more…

Svitlana and her son Danylo had been in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro for less then a day when a terrible realisation struck her: without money, the offer of work or a permanent place to stay they would have to return to their apartment in Sloviansk, where the frontline of the war was drawing closer and the sounds of Russian bombardment growing ever louder. Early that morning they had packed their belongings and left the room they rented in a communal apartment in Sloviansk. Volunteers drove them to the only functioning regional station, in Pokrovsk, where they boarded the daily evacuation train. It was the second time they had run from war. In 2014 they had left their home in Horlivka after Russian forces occupied the town. Svitlana’s husband…

On the face of it, Brighton comes across as an environmentally friendly place. As well as having a Green-led council and Britain’s only Green MP, signs of waste consciousness are everywhere. A coffee stand at the station promotes its “compostable” takeaway cups, and the steep streets nearby are dotted with big communal recycling bins. A repurposed milk float called Bianca glides from house to house, processing carefully sorted recycling boxes on behalf of the cooperative Magpie Recycling. Under the bunting of Brighton Open Market, Green Centre volunteers hover over residents sorting their trickier-torecycle waste: rubber gloves, sweet wrappers, coffee packaging and corks. “ We are addicted to recycling,” said Melanie Rees, who runs the Green Centre. “I started this 17 years ago and it hasn’t shifted. The fascination, the addiction…

It’s early morning in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, but the summer sun is already hot. Shopkeeper Salih Farah is getting ready for the day, sweeping up the spent bullet cases littering the entrance to the slum-like refugee camp on the city’s western edge. The night before, a fighter belonging to the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad was arrested during an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid on the camp; one person was killed during the operation. Close by, on the spot where Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed in May, beneath the murals painted in her memory, there are still pools of dried blood. “It’s the same every single night now. You can’t go outside at night without getting shot, but it’s not going to…

Last March, the whole world saw one of the largest cargo ships in existence – 400 metres long, weighing 265,000 tonnes, loaded with 20,000 shipping containers – get stuck in the Suez canal. For six days, tiny tugs tried to nudge the Ever Given off a sandbar. Waiting at both ends of the canal were more than 300 cargo ships and tankers, carrying petrol, semiconductors, microchips, scrunchie hair bands, sneakers, hand-held travel steamers, ice-cream-makers, novelty socks and electric milk-frothers. As the global supply chain ground to a halt, we became aware that 90% of everything in our homes – clothes, appliances, food – has, at some point, been transported by sea. Cargo ships burn some of the dirtiest oil going, known as bunker. Made from the sludgy leftovers of petrol…

henever a master of one artistic medium chooses to work in another, it raises the question of what the new discipline might offer, and what the previous one denied. The Twilight World isn’t Werner Herzog’s first book (nor his last – a memoir is awaiting translation), but it is his first attempt at what might loosely be called a novel. What does that medium have to offer a man who, 60 years and 70 films deep into his career, can surely film whatever he wants? Herzog’s preliminary disclaimer offers a clue. “Most details are factually correct,” he tells us, “some are not. What was important to the author was something other than accuracy, some essence he thought he glimpsed when he encountered the protagonist of this story.” It’s this essence,…

Astranger in the horse paddocks takes me back to my childhood. I’m 10 and Dad has just returned from a business trip to India. He shows me a photograph he’s taken of the most implausible bird. It has a breast the colour of pale sand, wings that look like they belong to a flying zebra and a flamboyant crest that’s tipped with black. I am awestruck by the beauty of this fantastical beast. More than 35 years later, in a village just a few miles from home, Dad and I follow the footpath from Hinxworth churchyard in pursuit of a long-held dream. Just ahead we spy the grub-grabber, the prospector of the paddocks – Upupa epops – the Eurasian hoopoe. It has presumably overshot the continent and found itself in…

1 UNITED STATES ‘Systemic failures’ in Uvalde shooting response There were “systemic failures and egregious poor decision-making” involved in the deadly school shooting at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, a committee of state lawmakers found. The 77-page report from the Texas legislature details glaring failures in the years leading up to and during the 24 May shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead, along with 17 others wounded. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers from myriad agencies went to the school after the killings started, but they were stymied by a lack of coordination, according to the report. Officers told investigators they assumed Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo was in charge at the scene, but Arredondo has said publicly he did not believe himself to be in…

CONSERVATIVES Johnson defends his record as government wins vote Boris Johnson defended his three years in power as his government survived a no-confidence vote, during a combative speech that hinted at a “deep state” plot to drag the UK back into the EU when he leaves office. The prime minister’s pugnacious speech in the House of Commons on Monday evening opened the debate on a vote of no-confidence that his government won by 349 to 238, a majority of 111. In a highly unusual move, No 10 called the vote of confidence in itself after it rejected a Labour motion that singled out Johnson. Standing beside the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, a day after she and other Tory leadership contenders had failed to say whether they would have him in…

With heatwaves around the world likely to become more frequent, some sun-scorched regions are adapting their cities to cope. On a trip to Dubai a few years ago, I was shown a new outdoor shopping street that had apparently been carefully tuned to the desert climate. It was presented as a novel concept for this indoor shopping mall-addicted nation, designed in the manner of a pedestrian precinct familiar to those in less arid climes. A breeze wafted along the pavement, and I wondered what clever environmental design allowed the street to feel so much cooler than the rest of the sweltering city. “Outdoor air conditioning,” came the answer. Sure enough, between each shop unit, rows of jets were busy pumping processed icy air out into the 40C heat. Meanwhile, around…

When the business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, tweeted on the eve of the long jubilee weekend last month that the government was giving the go-ahead to a new oil and gas project in the North Sea, ministers probably hoped the news would slip out without much fuss. But less than 24 hours later hundreds of protesters, furious that the government was planning to expand fossil fuel infrastructure in the midst of a climate crisis, took to the streets across the UK to voice their objections. They blocked the entrance of government offices in Edinburgh, throwing red paint and scrawling messages – including “blood on your hands” – on windows and walls. Activists chanted “we will win” outside Kwarteng’s office in Westminster. The speed and breadth of the response to the announcement…

On the beach in Sheikh Ijlin, a neighbourhood south of Gaza City, no one is paying attention to a nearby Islamic Jihad military drill. Children run in and out of the Mediterranean waves, begging their parents for camel rides and candy floss, ignoring the thuds as rockets belonging to the Palestinian militant group hit the water. Thanks to a sewage cleanup effort, for the first time in years most of the Gaza Strip’s coast is clean enough to swim in. This summer, thousands are rediscovering the besieged territory’s foremost recreational outlet. “We didn’t come for seven years because the water was not safe. Now it looks so much better … The colour is different, more blue,” said Nabila Haniya, 40, who sat at a picnic table with several other women…

For all the careful choreography of Joe Biden’s Middle East tour last week, the White House made a major miscalculation when the president finally came face to face with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for the first time. Before Air Force One left Washington, the administration said Biden would not be shaking hands owing to a rise in Covid cases, a move widely believed to allow him to avoid creating an uncomfortable photo op with the powerful heir to the throne. But the image of the two leaders leaning towards each other with hesitant smiles as they bumped fists, came across as relaxed and familiar. Biden came to office determined to take a firmer line with the strongmen and autocrats beloved by Donald Trump. He had a particular…

‘Getting pregnant was the worst thing that could have happened to me. Abortion was the first thing that came to my mind’ Mexico, left I became pregnant two years after getting married and it was the worst thing that could possibly have happened to me because I was in the middle of separating from my husband. He had tried to hit me and I didn’t want to stick around to see if he would do it again. I never liked children, so I wasn’t keen on the idea of having one. Abortion was the first thing that came to my mind, but the only place nearby it was allowed was Mexico City, and only until 12 weeks. Usually I leave for work at 10 am. My mother helps me run the…

In a just and fair city, according to Plato, it’s the philosophers who rule. These philosopher kings combine politics with philosophy – leading from a more rarefied plane than those beholden to factions, favours and personal enrichment. These idealised rulers were less concerned with raw power than the application of wisdom, justice, temperance, courage and reason. Throughout the history of liberal democracies, a link has persisted between good character and leadership, even if it has often been maintained tenuously or fraudulently (think of Bill Clinton saying: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”). Even amid such hypocrisy, there has at least been the appearance of a common unspoken understanding that character and the highest offices of leadership are intrinsically linked. That link was broken during the strange epoch…

It doesn’t take long to start seeing the Rothkos hidden in Milton Avery’s beach scenes and landscapes. They loom as eerie empty vistas, turning what seem to be figurative compositions into abstract masterpieces. The resemblance is not accidental. Mark Rothko first met Avery in late-1920s New York and hugely admired him. Rothko’s generation would shake modern art and make New York the art capital of the world. Avery never made the same leap into pure abstraction but this brilliant exhibition proves he didn’t need to. This experimental dreamer was anticipating their poetic use of colour years earlier. Avery is sometimes hyped as an American Matisse but he is much stranger, and better, than that. To see this art so closely related to abstract expressionism yet rooted in nature opens a…

What easy snacks can I serve with pre-dinner drinks that won’t fill people up? Ella, Nottingham, England Drinks without snacks is criminal behaviour but so, too, is spoiling your dinner. “Little salty things that can be done in advance are what you want,” says chef Robin Gill, whose latest ventures include Paris-inspired wine bar Bottle & Rye in south London. “The secret is that they’re handheld, fun and not too fussy.” The Basque pintxo gildas – anchovies, big green olives (“quite spicy ones”) and pickled green chilli on cocktail sticks – fit the bill perfectly: “They’re absolutely gorgeous with an Aperol spritz, sherry or beer.” Ixta Belfrage, whose debut book Mezcla was released this month, is also a big fan of tinned fish. “One of my favourite pre-dinner snacks is…

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