Indholdsfortegnelse for 31 May 2024 i Guardian Weekly

Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol210 | Issue№ 22 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 the common good, and to build hope. Our values, as laid out by editor CP Scott in 1921, are honesty, integrity, courage, fairness, and a sense of duty to the reader and the community. The Guardian is wholly…

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The provisional measures issued by the international court of justice (ICJ) ordering an immediate halt to Israel’s military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah represent the starkest warning yet to Israel that its offensive risks creating conditions that could be framed as potentially genocidal. The ruling, agreed by a majority of 13-2 judges, almost exclusively cited UN agencies and senior officials – including the UN’s secretary general – to paint a picture of the disastrous situation facing Palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children. Israeli officials had vowed to defy any new order, but the ICJ measures – the country’s third major setback on the global stage within a week – underline the stark and deepening risk for Israel and its leaders. After the application to the…

Change. The word was emblazoned on the lectern as Keir Starmer responded to Rishi Sunak’s rain-soaked speech last Wednesday and, lest there were any doubts about Labour’s key campaign message, he said it eight times in his brief address. A one-word slogan has the merit of being simple and clear – and Labour believes that “Change” will chime with the public’s widespread sense of exasperation at the state of the country. In a recent YouGov poll, when asked about the prospect of a general election, 58% of respondents – including more than a third of those who voted Tory in 2019 – said it was “time for a change”. Starmer clearly hopes to mirror that back at the electorate. Pared-down political slogans also allow voters to project on to them…

Under the late spring sun on a recent Saturday afternoon, these were some of the sounds to be heard in Kharkiv’s Shevchenko Park: birds chirruping; young couples laughing over iced coffees; tinny pop music playing from speakers mounted on lampposts; pensioners gossiping on the benches; and, at 11 minutes to three, a prolonged explosion that reverberated in the chest like a rumble of thunder. A few kilometres away, in a quiet residential suburb, a glide bomb launched from a Russian fighter jet had smashed into a courtyard. As the resulting boom reached the park, people stopped in their tracks for a split second, then continued on, as if nothing had happened. The explosion destroyed several houses and wounded six people. The following day, hits on a park and a recreation…

Every year about 130 million households across Europe burn almost 40% of the continent’s total gas consumption to heat their homes. Those boilers contribute more than a fifth of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions in the process. Many have warned that the dominance of the humble gas boiler threatens to derail global climate targets, while keeping Europe reliant on gas imports and shackled to higher energy costs. For most European homes, the answer is likely to be an electric air source heat pump, as governments try to clean up carbon emissions. But not all households are convinced. In the UK, the plans to replace millions of gas boilers across the country with the little-known devices has fed into culture wars. There are those who believe heat pumps could play a vital…

IT WAS 30 DECEMBER AND THE GIRLS WERE ALL IN KILIFI. Bottles on the table, music piping through a speaker, the beach and the Indian Ocean less than 200 metres away from the villa. Some of the girls had partied together in New York and Miami and Ibiza, and now they were on the Kenyan coast. Like thousands of other young people across Africa who belong to a very specific social class, they had attended top universities in the UK and the US. After graduation, some had gone back to their countries and walked into fancy jobs in finance or consulting. Others had stayed abroad and lived in London, New York, Paris and the world’s other financial centres. Every December, they would go back home to visit. A few weeks…

The 77th Cannes film festival reached its climax on Saturday when all eyes were on the Croisette, as the winners of the prestigious Palme d’Or were announced. This year, I found myself walking on the red carpet, hand in hand with some of the most courageous women in the business. Behind the facade of movie-star glamour and fashionable edge, there are burning issues that have been agitating the grande famille du cinéma in France for years. The Cannes festival, as a symbol of the French film establishment, can no longer shy away from them. Actor-director Judith Godrèche has emerged as one of the most outspoken voices of the French #MeToo movement. She invited me to walk alongside her and the crew of her new short film Moi Aussi (Me Too),…

On Friday 9 September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had one last wish. He needed a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre to complete his film, Scénarios, but the book was missing from the shelf in his Swiss home. Time was pressing. The film’s final scene was to be shot on Monday. On Tuesday, the director would die by assisted suicide. Fabrice Aragno takes up the story. As Godard’s longtime collaborator, Aragno was his eyes and ears, his trusted technical adviser. Surely he would be able to find the book from somewhere. “So on Friday 5.30pm, I drive very fast to Lausanne, 20 miles [around 30km] away,” he recalls. “I park the car and I’m sweating. I run to the library but the library is closed. I run to a secondhand bookshop but they…

1 EUROPEAN UNION Le Pen invites Meloni to join far-right ‘supergroup’ The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen suggested the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, join forces with her in a new alliance, as the EU’s resurgent but divided nationalist parties geared up for European parliamentary elections being held on 6-9 June. “Now is the time to unite, it would be really helpful,” Le Pen told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. “If we succeed we can be the second group in the European parliament.” Le Pen’s invitation came after her party, National Rally, said it would no longer sit with Alternative für Deutschland in the parliament, and her pan-European far-right group, Identity and Democracy, expelled the German party as too toxic. That left Europe’s national-conservative and far-right parties – who agree…

Since its inception, the international criminal court (ICC) has charged 50 people, 47 of whom were African. Its investigations have also been overwhelmingly focused on war crimes and crimes against humanity in African nations. What has long been understood but never stated is that the court and its processes, to put it bluntly, target a certain type of political leadership that is easier to go after. “The court is built for Africans and thugs like Putin,” is what one appalled elected senior leader reportedly told the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, when his team made a recent application for arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, its defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and three Hamas leaders. Blunt, but not revelatory. How can that not be the takeaway when, in the years…

The young are more anti-immigration than older generations in some parts of Europe, Guardian analysis has found, as attitudes to migration harden in mainland Europe ahead of EU elections in June. Analysis of pan-EU polling reveals that in some countries, typically those in eastern Europe, negative attitudes to immigration are now more commonly held by gen Z or millennials than gen X or baby boomers. The findings come ahead of an expected surge in support for far-right parties in European parliament elections being held between 6-9 June, and follows recent national elections – in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, France – that saw young people vote in unprecedented numbers for nationalist and Eurosceptic parties. Across all of Europe baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) are still the generation most…

It was a scene once common in homes across Ireland: a body in an open coffin surrounded by family, friends and acquaintances who shared stories, sang songs, ate sandwiches, and sipped tea or perhaps something stronger. Over three days they bade farewell to the dead in humanity’s oldest rite. The Irish wake is part of a tradition practised in some form by every culture dating back thousands of years, a ritual to comfort the bereaved and acknowledge loss. But in Ireland the ritual itself risks dying out – replaced by a professional death industry of mortuaries, funeral homes and closed coffins. So this month, artists, singers, writers and scholars gathered in County Mayo to breathe new life into the old way of dying. The world’s first arts festival dedicated to…

Once heard, never forgotten, the voice is familiar to admirers of The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, The Irishman and many others. “Trump wants revenge,” says Robert De Niro, “and he’ll stop at nothing to get it.” This was an ad released last Friday by Joe Biden’s campaign to remind voters of Donald Trump’s dark and divisive presidency and warn that his return to power could be even worse. The use of De Niro – a fierce Trump critic – as narrator was no accident but a reminder of the power of celebrities at the ballot box in America. Every four years candidates are eager to recruit big names who might wield influence over the electorate, not least young first-time voters. This time, with both Biden and Trump suffering low…

Elections are a choice about the future, they say. We should look forward, not back, they say. And most of the time, that’s true. But every now and then we should make an exception – and this is one of those times. Because the coming general election must also be about the past. It must be about holding the Conservatives to account for the colossal damage they have done to this country over the past 14 years. It must be a punishment election. The Tories need to face the consequences of what they have done, starting with the cold fact that they have made people poorer. People are worse off now than they were at the last general election, a feat with little or no precedent. Thousands of Britons pay…

If you don’t have a kamado-style barbecue, what interesting things can you make on a simple grill? “If I could have only one barbecue, it would be a kettle,” says Genevieve Taylor, live fire cook and author of Scorched. “They don’t take up a lot of space, don’t cost a fortune and are easy to move.” Plus, you can do pretty much anything on a kettle that you can on a kamado. Sure, you’ll need to pay attention to fuel management, and work out where to put food in relation to the fire, but otherwise the barbecue world is your oyster: “Big pots of stew, slow-roast pork, bakes, yorkshire puddings.” The key is to not get too carried away. “There is no other meal where you’d be expected to eat…

✱ All solutions published next week Across 1 Two foreign articles, container and urn, shortly in a tent? (5,6) 9 Set conundrums full of holes? (7) 10 Small fib about a rare, independent music maker? (7) 11 Brief statement from unspecified Tibetan, say, in hearing (9) 12 Early signs of dew in very old trodden piece of turf (5) 13 Armoured vehicle gets to fail completely (4) 14 Notice AA employee at work in tall structure? (5,5) 16 Cheat in part sadly lacking in quiet grey matter? (10) 19 It’s projected as thing for wrapping food (4) 21 Allegation, one that’s harboured by reticent type (5) 22 Very feeble writer backed by American agents and Irish priest (9) 24 Bob left cyclists first off to find some fast food (7)…

POST OFFICE Hundreds of Horizon victims to be exonerated Hundreds of post office operators convicted on charges including false accounting, theft and fraud are to be exonerated by an unprecedented act of parliament. Over two decades, branch operators were hounded for money, jailed and even pushed to suicide by the actions of the Post Office. The act overturns convictions of theft, fraud, false accounting, money laundering and linked offences related to the Horizon IT scandal. The bill covers prosecutions brought by the Post Office and the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales for offences committed between 23 September 1996 and 31 December 2018. Similar legislation has been tabled in Scotland but there is no timetable yet for it to be passed. There have been more than 900 convictions linked…

In what appears to be a burnt-out building in Gaza, with Hebrew graffiti on the walls reading “Kach” and “Kahane”, references to an infamous Jewish supremacist and his outlawed political party, a masked soldier addresses Israel’s defence minister. “Yoav Gallant, you can’t win the war. Quit. You can’t command us,” the man says in a long clip posted to social media last Saturday, in which he pledges loyalty to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Another 100,000 reservists would mutiny, he warned, if wavering elements of the government such as Gallant scuppered Netanyahu’s goal of “complete victory” over Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has opened a criminal investigation into the video, which was shared by the prime minister’s outspoken son Yair. The reservist’s behaviour was a “serious violation of IDF…

Soaring church spires, the 1,000-year-old town centre unblemished by second world war bombing or graffiti, snowcapped Alps in the middle distance – Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, can count many blessings. Unemployment is in the low single digits, the Luftwaffe backed away from moving away its training school for Eurofighter and Tornado jet technicians and crime is at a historic low. However, as voters prepare to elect a new European parliament in the coming days, deep-seated fears have gripped a significant share of the electorate in one of the most affluent pockets of Europe’s top economy and delivered it to the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The bond between the party and its voters appears unshaken even by a cascade of recent scandals. The AfD’s lead candidate, Maximilian Krah, was forced by…

Can a single insect reshape history? A queen hornet from the Vespa velutina species, which is believed to have stowed away in Chinese pottery, could make that claim. She was shipped to the port of Bordeaux in 2004. Having already mated with multiple males, she flew off into the sunshine of southwest France and built a nest. From that single nest, up to 500 new queens could have emerged. For a few years, her offspring quietly prospered. By the time the authorities paid attention to this predatory yellow-legged carnivore, known as the Asian hornet, it was too late. Twenty years on, France is home to an estimated 500,000 nests, while the hornet has cruised into Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. The horror stories about…

The Ahu Tahai moai, on the east side of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is an impressive 4.5 metres high. Carved from a soft volcanic rock, the statue looks out solemnly over the island, with its back to the bay. The Tahai (“where the sun sets”) and the island’s other thousand or so moai were erected roughly between the years 1100 and 1700 as a representation of Rapa Nui’s ancestors. The stoic monoliths have watched over battling Polynesian clans, endured the plundering of colonisers and survived reckless treatment by the British – who allegedly shot at the moai for target practice while renting the island for sheep farming in the 1900s. Yet the statues’ latest adversary could be their most significant: the climate crisis. Ahu Tahai’s face has…

An archbishop of Canterbury in the 18th century approved payments for the purchase of enslaved people for two sugar plantations in Barbados, documents seen by the Observer have revealed. Thomas Secker agreed to reimburse a payment for £1,093 for the purchase of enslaved people on the Codrington Plantations, as well as hiring enslaved people from a third party. The measures were “calculated for the future lasting advantages of the estates”. The papers are among a cache of documents in the archives of Lambeth Palace Library in London, which detail the direct links between the Church of England and chattel slavery on plantations owned by its missionary arm, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said: “Every new piece of…

The mood in Ukraine is sombre these days. The casualties keep mounting. In the military cemetery in Lviv, I see widows and bereaved mothers sitting silently beside the fresh graves of their loved ones, heads bowed, a life sentence of suffering etched on their faces. Medical experts estimate that at least half the population is suffering from some degree of post-traumatic stress disorder. Vladimir Putin’s forces are grinding forward, using their numerical advantages and exploiting the slowness of the west to supply sufficient air defence and ammunition. They have opened a new front north of Kharkiv, which is closer to the Russian frontier than London is to Oxford. It’s feared that Russian forces will now get within artillery range of the besieged city, which is already being pounded by Russian…

Cate Thurston remembers the moment her team settled on what to call an exhibition about Jewish delis in America. “We kind of just said it as a joke,” the cocurator says. “It was a former colleague who said, ‘You could call it this,’ and we all had a laugh. And then we thought, wait, no, we could call it that!” The title they chose: I’ll Have What She’s Having. Comedy fans will recognise it as the punchline from arguably the most famous deli scene in film history: Meg Ryan faking an orgasm in front of Billy Crystal, provoking wide-eyed stares from patrons and staff. An older woman, played by director Rob Reiner’s mother, remarks to a waitress: “I’ll have what she’s having.” The clip is playing in a loop in…

Before the World Health Organization had coined the term Covid-19, it was the “Wuhan virus”, a mysterious pathogen from a city that few people outside China had visited. On 12 January 2020, China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the virus’s genome on an international database, permitting scientists anywhere in the world to see that it was a coronavirus closely related to Sars – the pathogen that had caused a mini-pandemic in 2002-2004. On 20 January, Dr Zhong Nanshan – the first person in China to have spoken out in 2003 about the threat posed by Sars – broke the news that the Wuhan virus – or Sars-CoV-2 as it was now known – was “certainly transmissible from human to human”. Three days later, China’s president, Xi Jinping,…

With my back to a sessile oak tree, I was lazing on a bed of moss with the hyacinth scent of bluebells drifting around when a more pungent, muskier odour registered on the slight breeze. I stirred and looked along the path leading into the depths of the wood. Movement! A flock of the feral goats (Capra hircus hircus) that have long populated these woods trotted into view, a magnificently horned patriarch to the fore. Behind him, a playful, skipping mayhem of kids were being butted into some semblance of order by two attendant nanny goats. The billy passed close by me, glared at me with strange, fierce eyes. “What are you doing in my domain?” they seemed to query. Then the whole troop scattered into the trees. These were…

Across 1 Lacking direction (6) 4 Compact group of mountains (6) 8 Energy supplier? (5) 9 Hawk – and hound (7) 10 Leaves (a job or a flat) (7) 11 Player (5) 12 Sign of trouble (5,4) 17 Distant (5) 19 ____ Man, 1965 Beatles song (7) 21 Not in a quiet way (7) 22 Experience death by water (5) 23 Quite – cute (6) 24 Aniseed-flavoured herb with feathery leaves (6) Down 1 Nook (6) 2 Du Maurier novel (1938) and Hitchcock film (1940) (7) 3 Battleships (5) 5 Cost of a flight (7) 6 Time spent working (5) 7 Outcry (6) 9 The price of silence? (4,5) 13 Plague (7) 14 Become horizontal (3,4) 15 Daytime doze (6) 16 Heart (6) 18 Relating to sheep (5) 20 Chunk…