Indholdsfortegnelse for 28 March 2025 i Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol212 | Issue№ 13 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…

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CULTURE The hit to America’s creative sector, from budget freezes and threats to the federal bodies and national schemes that fund museums, galleries, theatres and libraries, is set to take a toll on its income from tourism – and send visitors to Britain and Europe instead. Prior to the pandemic, the US Travel Association valued the total spending of the near-80 million tourists who came into the US at about $2tn. Art tourism was a big part of this, with art fans who travelled to North America in 2023 accounting for more than a quarter of the global total. Cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago boast celebrated museums and galleries, and the rise of immersive art and public installations has broadened this appeal. But Donald Trump has…

South Africa has a tight regime for scientists wanting to “overwinter” in Antarctica. The 13-month assignment to an isolated research base on the top of a cliff edge is, as the environment ministry drily put it, “testing”. Average annual temperatures are -16C but drop much lower during the winter darkness. All applicants are subjected to psychometric analysis “to ensure they are able to cope with the isolation, and can work and live with others in the confined space of the bases”, said the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. “Only candidates who do not have any negative outcomes from all the background evaluations will be considered.” But can humans ever fully prepare for long-duration remote scientific experiments? The crisis currently facing the overwintering crew at the Sanae IV station,…

Since the big bang, a cosmic battle has been under way between matter (both dark matter and ordinary) and dark energy. The gravitational force that draws massive objects such as galaxies towards each other works against the expansion of the universe. But astronomical observations show that the universe’s expansion has, oddly, been speeding up. This led scientists to conclude that dark energy, a mysterious force acting as a sort of anti-gravity, permeates the entirety of space. And dark energy appeared to be at a significant advantage in the cosmic tug of war. As space expands, matter becomes more spread out, so its influence weakens. By contrast, dark energy is thought to be a property of space itself. So as space expands, it is constantly filled up with more dark energy,…

In grocery stores across the US, egg shelves sitting empty and desolate have become a sign of the times. A surging bird flu outbreak affected nearly 19m birds in January alone, wiping out supply and sending prices soaring. Officials forecast a 41% increase in egg prices this year in what some are calling “eggflation”. Where eggs are available, consumers are often limited in the number they can purchase at a time. Breakfast chains from Waffle House to Denny’s have added a surcharge of $0.50 per egg on their dishes. The egg-straordinary situation is driving some people to new places to source their eggs: over the southern border. US Customs and Border Protection has intercepted an increasing number of eggs from Mexico, where a carton of a dozen costs around $2.…

As wealthy but lightly defended countries have often learned, being close to a much more powerful state – geographically or diplomatically – can be a precarious existence. All it takes is an aggressive new government in the stronger state and a relatively equal relationship of economic and military cooperation can suddenly turn exploitative, even threatening. Since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, this realisation has been dawning across the west, but nowhere more disconcertingly than in Canada. Its border with the US is the longest in the world: 8,900km of often empty and hard to defend land, lakes and rivers. Canada’s two biggest cities, Toronto and Montreal, are only a few hours to the north, were you to approach them in a US army tank. Earlier this month, I spent a week…

Five years ago a $250m remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney’s first full-length animated feature film, must have seemed like a fine idea to corporate executives, who were going all out on remaking the studio’s dated classics into contemporary live-action movies. But the film – its title trimmed to Disney’s Snow White – has turned into a massive headache for the studio. The press have barely been let near the remake’s stars, Rachel Zegler, who is of Colombian-Polish descent and plays Snow White, and Israeli actor Gal Gadot, playing the Evil Queen. And there are no dwarves. There has been no traditional Leicester Square red carpet for its UK opening and advance ticket sales projections were lacklustre. But why should a film based on an archetypal…

A storyteller of understated brilliance, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel prize in literature. Born in Zanzibar, Gurnah, now 76, moved to Britain in 1968 as a refugee of the Zanzibar revolution. His books often feature people who leave what they know and arrive “in strange places, carrying little bits of jumbled luggage and suppressing secret and garbled ambitions”, to use the words of a character from his 2001 novel By the Sea. Theft, Gurnah’s first book since his Nobel win, is in part a continued inquiry into familiar themes of exile and memory, home, longing and loneliness. It is also a poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal, set against Tanzania’s tourism boom during the 1990s. The novel follows Karim, Fauzia and Badar, chronicling their uneasy passage into…

Across 1 Mr ____, blue bandaged figure (4) 3 Those on a sightseeing tour (8) 8 A pop (4) 9 Press one (anag) (8)  11 No longer in its original language (10)  14 To whom a journalist reports (6) 15 Search and ____ (6) 17 They were Good in a 1966 song (10)  20 Ace intro (anag) (8)  21 Locks (4) 22 Bob and colleagues (8) 23 ‘Pre-loved’ (4) Down 1 Inspired – and exhaled (8) 2 Repairperson or technician (8)  4 Divas’ domains (6) 5 Stands for – shows again? (10) 6 Kitchen ____ (4) 7 Give the impression of being (4) 10 Costas aide (anag) – connected (10) 12 Lithe leapers (8) 13 Deliberate – restrained (8) 16 Protective plates (6) 18 Spring, League or numeral (4) 19…

1 UKRAINE Limited ceasefire talks bring hope of lasting peace US and Russian officials held talks in Saudi Arabia this week as Donald Trump pushed to broker a limited ceasefire that Washington hopes will mark the first step toward lasting peace. On Tuesday Russia said it was considering the results of the talks and that the details would remain private. According to Agence France-Presse, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said delegates had reported back to Moscow and the results were “being analysed”, adding that contact with Washington would continue but there was no “specific” date on the next meeting. “The content of these talks will definitely not be made public,” Peskov said. Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle to a one-month halt on strikes on energy infrastructure earlier this month, but…

If Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Trump administration officials over a strike against the Houthis in Yemen was another sign that it has a target on its back. The officials gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic a front-row seat to the planning for the strike against the Houthis – a stunning intelligence leak that has caused anger against Republicans who called for criminal investigations against Hillary Clinton and others for playing fast and loose with sensitive information. On the face of it, the strike against the Houthis had far more to do with the administration’s policies on protecting maritime trade and containing Iran than its concerns about Europe freeloading on US defence spending and military prowess. But Vance appears…

Early on Tuesday 18 March, within minutes of the wave of Israeli airstrikes that broke the fragile two-month cease-fire that had brought some respite to Gaza, the emergency room of al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah was full. “At no point were there less than 65 people in ER, all with open wounds, mainly women and children … the floor was awash with blood,” said Mark Perlmutter, a volunteer orthopaedic surgeon. Just a few kilometres away, there were similar scenes at Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis. “There was just wave after wave,” said Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care doctor. “As soon as patients had died or been sent elsewhere and we cleared some space, more would come in. It was chaos.…

As Britain’s biggest airport, Europe’s main gateway to the Americas, and the apple of Rachel Reeves’s eye for growth, Heathrow’s shutdown last Friday gave a supersized significance to a substation fire. Some were quick to question the creaking state of national infrastructure. Where were the backup systems – or indeed the further failsafes when the backups went up in smoke? Should Heathrow be better prepared, given the critical importance of the hub airport – not least to the 250,000 or so international travellers who were expecting to fly in or out that day? It was two days before the airport returned to normal. More than 1,000 flights were cancelled last Friday, and flights restarted on Saturday. The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, ordered the National Energy System Operator to investigate the…

Warrant officer Jim Davison had spent a full day travelling the sea ice off the coast of Baffin Island when his group decided to set up camp for the night. The Canadian soldier ran through a mental checklist of what was needed: shelter in the forest, wood for a fire and a source of fresh water. “I look around and I’m a kilometre offshore. The only trees are more than one thousand kilometres away,” he said. “I realise at that moment: I don’t know what to do.” But the combat veteran was travelling with the Canadian Rangers, a group of reservists largely drawn from Indigenous communities who serve as scouts and guides for Canada’s military in the north. During that trip in 2023, they explained to Davison how to find…

WHILE DONALD TRUMP TALKS of the “big beautiful ocean” separating the US from the war in Ukraine, 1,600km of rail track links London St Pancras to the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. The 19-hour trip takes in Brussels, the German economic powerhouse of Frankfurt, and Vienna, the Austrian capital, before the train rattles into Kraków in south-east Poland and Przemyśl, the Polish border town where the slimmer railway gauges of western Europe meet the wider tracks of Ukraine and Russia to the east. At each stop, Europeans are grappling in different ways with new and unsettling realities after the US president appeared in recent weeks to herald the end of Pax Americana. In London, rightly or wrongly, and perhaps out of sheer necessity, the idea of the special relationship…

In Washington, Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center – the US’s imposing national centre for the performing arts – presents a bizarre, unnerving and, at times, bleakly comical spectacle. Last month, he announced himself its new chair, replaced 13 board members and inserted a new interim president, foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell. Last Monday, the president’s motorcade disgorged him at the building. By this point, his and Melania Trump’s portraits, alongside those of vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha, had been screwed to the wall beside the concert hall stage door. Trump and his new trustees – who include Usha Vance and Fox presenter Laura Ingraham – then discussed changes to the Kennedy Center Honors, founded in the 1970s to recognise the greatest figures in American cultural life.…

Do you know your ant’s head from your shell mouth? Or your cogged lap from your scarfed gooseneck? These are just some of the mind-boggling array of timber jointing techniques on display in a new exhibition spotlighting the meticulous craft of Japanese carpentry. The basement gallery of London’s Japan House has been transformed into a woody wonder world of chisels and saws, mortises and tenons, and brackets of infinite intricacy, alongside traditional clay plastering, shoji paper screen making and tatami mat weaving. It is a dazzling display of the phenomenal skills behind centuries of timber architecture and joinery, celebrating elite master carpenters with the spiritual reverence of a high priesthood. “In Japan we have a deep respect for our forests,” says curator Nishiyama Marcelo, who heads up the team at…

The sun is warm on my back. Above the hedge, a flash of yellow draws my gaze to a brimstone butterfly, resplendent in the morning light. For me, this little insect is the herald of spring proper, and I savour the joy of this sighting among the season’s first warm embrace. The butterfly and I have come to this picturesque spot for the same reason: food. I turn my attention to the wild bounty around me – dandelion, common sorrel, lady’s smock and stinging nettle. Already the goosegrass is scaling the hawthorn hedge and, down in a ditch, emerald shoots of reedmace are erupting from the blackened ooze. Foraging can be a laborious business at times, but in spring, it’s more convenient than a trip to the supermarket – although…

CIVIL SERVICE Government demands £2bn annual spending cuts The civil service was told to slash more than £2bn ($2. 6bn) a year from its budget by the end of the decade as part of the government’s spending review, with unions warning of significant job losses. The Cabinet Office will tell departments to cut their administrative budgets by 15%, which is expected to save £2.2bn a year by 2029-30. They will first be asked to reduce budgets by 10% by 2028-29 in a bid to save £1.5bn a year, which the head of the FDA union said equates to nearly 10% of the salary bill for the civil service. Administrative budgets include HR, policy advice and office management rather than frontline services. Departments were expected to receive instructions in a letter…

A friend had gone missing. Nothing unusual in Sudan’s ruinous war, but Hitham Mohund knew it was vital to act quickly. However, in an abandoned home near the Nile River he stopped searching after making a grisly discovery: wedged inside a bathroom were three bodies. Hands tied, eyes staring upwards. “They were shot in the chest,” said the 28-year-old, as he walked towards Maigoma Street, a dusty thoroughfare in north Khartoum, Sudan’s capital. It had been less than 24 hours since Mohund had found the bodies and his friend’s whereabouts were still unknown. Around him, shoppers were chatting, some were even dancing, as the street staged its first Friday market for nearly two years, since the civil war erupted between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Three…

The face of protest Police officers use pepper spray on a demonstrator wearing dervish clothes during a protest in Istanbul last Sunday against the arrest of the city’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on corruption charges. On Monday, Turkish authorities had arrested more than 1,100 people including journalists, while bombarding the social media platform X with requests to block hundreds of accounts after tens of thousands took to the streets. One journalist was detained while covering demonstrations that took place outside Istanbul city hall, while nine others were detained in dawn raids. İmamoğlu was arrested and sent to a high-security prison, on the same day he was named as the opposition’s candidate for president. Mass demonstrations triggered by İmamoğlu’s detention amount to the largest in Turkey in more than a decade. The…

Apipeline company’s victory in court over Greenpeace, and the huge damages it now faces, will encourage other oil and gas companies to pursue environmental protesters at a time when Donald Trump’s energy agenda is in ascendancy, experts have warned. On 19 March a North Dakota jury ruled that three Greenpeace entities must pay Energy Transfer, which was co-founded by a prominent Trump donor, more than $660m. The jury decided the organisations were liable for defamation and other claims after a five-week trial in Mandan, near where the Dakota Access pipeline protests occurred in 2016 and 2017. “This verdict will embolden other energy companies to take legal action against protesters who physically block their projects,” said Michael Gerrard, the founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law…

In 1999, Ras Paul, a west London DJ born to Jamaican parents, sold part of his vinyl collection to buy a plot of land and build a house in Shashamene, 200km south of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Seven years earlier, he had become a Rastafarian, around the time of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, whom the religion reveres as the Messiah. “As an Ethiopian descendant, I wanted to come home,” he said. “It’s the place I felt I belong.” Paul was not alone. At its peak, more than 2,500 Rastafarians from around the world moved to Shashamene. Recently, though, the Rastafarian community’s relations with the locals have come under strain. Shashamene is in Oromia, Ethiopia’s biggest and most populous region. Since 2018, Oromia has…

In January, Canadian pollsters and political pundits struggled to find fresh ways to describe the bleak prospects of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party, musing whether it would be a wipeout of existential proportions, or merely a catastrophic blowout. But fresh polling shows a stunning reversal of fortunes for the party. New prime minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are projected by some to secure a majority government in the election called for 28 April, a contest expected to focus on the strained relationship with the US amid threats to Canada’s economic and political future. “We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetime because of President [Donald] Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty,” Carney said last weekend, while announcing the election. “He wants to break us, so America…

It’s the story every parent of teenagers I know has been watching horrified through their fingers. The Netflix drama Adolescence starts with armed police breaking down a front door to arrest a 13-year-old boy for murder, in front of his bewildered parents. Though initially it seems there must have been some terrible mistake, Jamie’s Instagram account soon yields clues that all the adults – police, parents and teachers alike – had initially blundered past, oblivious. Though talk of misogynistic “manosphere” influencers such as Andrew Tate hovers over the storyline, this isn’t really a story of radicalisation. What it skewers is the feeling of growing up in a world where sending nudes risks them instantly being shared round the class and everyone films playground fights on their phones, and how that…

What’s the best way to cook frozen seafood, and do you have to treat it differently from fresh? As with most things in life, preparation is key. “It’s all about how you defrost it,” says Emily Scott, author of Home Shores (out in May). “Frozen seafood, for example, should be thawed overnight or in a plastic bag under running water.” Fish destined to be fried, meanwhile, is best removed from its packaging and left on a rack in the fridge overnight, advises Rick Toogood of Prawn on the Lawn in Padstow and London. “You don’t want it sitting in the liquid that comes out of it, because you won’t get a nice bit of colour on a piece of soggy fish.” Patting it with kitchen roll before frying will help,…

* All solutions published next week Across 1 Stripped of crown, old King put back in King’s birthplace (6) 4 Women covering courts to show sports logos (8) 9 Horny beast seen in much of Auld Sod (5) 10 Proposes factions come before Yank’s holiday in report (4,5) 11 Positive on location of closing parenthesis? (5,4) 12 It arrives after November and it’s 13½ inches tall (5) 13 Worry former partner with messy separation (12)  17 Interest expressed by two sailors at sea, shelled fare (5,7)  20 Coolidge escapes catastrophe for peace (5)  21 Penny, a migrant, healed bird (9) 23 Seek treasure perhaps in small island, shady place (5,4) 24 Section of Villanova, home to vaqueros (5) 25 Chewing on something hard: golf ball? (8) 26 Game canine evacuated,…