Innehållsförteckning för 29 April 2022 från Guardian Weekly

Members of the Area 10 Scout brass band play on Lumley beach in Freetown. Brass bands have a long history in the country, with most neighbourhoods, scout groups and schools hav ing a brass marching band. Bands spend hours training, promoting and recruiting players by playing on public holidays and at events. The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 206 | Issue No 18 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…

Harrison Birtwistle cclaimed British composer known for 1972 work The Triumph of Time. He died on 18 April, aged 87. Rosario Ibarra de Piedra Advocate for justice for Mexico’s missing and the country’s first female presidential candidate. She died on 16 April, aged 95. Orrin Hatch Longest-serving Republican senator in history, a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades. He died on 23 April, aged 88. Robert Morse Star of Mad Men and Tony award-winning Broadway actor. He died on 20 April, aged 90. Art Rupe American music executive who helped launch the careers of Little Richard and Sam Cooke. He died on 15 April, aged 104. DJ Kay Slay Pioneering American hip-hop artist. He died of complications from Covid-19 on 17 April, aged 55.…

US pledges extra $713m for war effort after officials visit Kyiv Russia should be “weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine”, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said after he and the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, visited Kyiv and pledged a further $713m to help Ukraine in its war eff ort The comment was followed by Russia making an official diplomatic complaint about US arms supplies. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Washington has supplied more than $3.7bn-worth of arms to Kyiv. Nato has said repeatedly it does not intend to fight directly in the conflict, but Austin’s comments also make clear that the US has become increasingly drawn into a proxy war Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said on Monday that deliveries of…

DASHA SMIRKS AT THE CAMERA AND SAYS IN A BABY VOICE: “HI, I MISSED YOU ALL.” It is 11 March, a couple of weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, and the blond 19-year-old Moscow-based influencer with 126,000 Instagram followers is posting to her stories. “I wasn’t on social media for over a week and I want to talk about my news and the news of the world,” she says. After taking a weekend trip to a friend’s dacha in the countryside, Dasha posts videos of her friends laughing, making pancakes or playing party games. The atmosphere is warm, the alcohol flowing. The next tile shows Dasha looking solemnly at her phone. “I was constantly watching the news to understand what was going on in the world and one thought wouldn’t escape…

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For a long time, it was an accepted truth that video games just didn’t work on screen. Remember the quasi-cyberpunk 1993 Super Mario movie, starring Dennis Hopper? It was so bad that basically everyone involved with it has disavowed it. And TV? Kids of the 90s will remember the incredibly annoying voice of Sonic the Hedgehog on Saturday morning TV – or the permanent repeats of the Pokémon anime series – but other than that, the entertainment world never took games seriously. Things have changed. In the past few years, Hollywood has managed to produce a few videogame films that are actually watchable, such as Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. And barely a week goes by without an announcement that another game has been picked up for TV…

Tina Brown concludes The Palace Papers, her latest book about the British royal family: “The fascination of monarchy is that its themes repeat themselves because its protagonists are earthly.” This is a very Tina Brown way of saying – after more than 500 exhaustive pages of Windsor arcan a – “Oh well, we’re all human.” In fact, I think the fascination of the monarchy is that no matter how many books are written about them, and no matter how hagiographic they intend to be, there’s always some new information within that proves they’re even more repulsive than you originally thought. This is genuinely impressive – superhuman, even – given that the Windsor s’ shenanigans are about as unexamined as the assassination of JFK. I’m no royalist – after all, I…

Prep 15 min Cook 25 min Serves 2-4 Ingredients 220g short-grain white rice150g cabbagekimchi90g unsalted butter220g cherry tomatoes, any colour450g large prawns, peeled, deveined and cut into 5cm piecesSalt25 g basil leaves, thinly sliced Kimchi and butter complement each other like hot sauce and soured cream. The push-pull of spice, tang and sweet richness is the foundation of this abundantly umami-ish, saucy, bouncy and extremely easy 20-minute dinner. The spicier your kimchi, the hotter the sauce will be – and you can add a few dashes of hot sauce if you want. Method Put the rice in a fine-mesh strainer and rinse under cold running water for about a minute, until it mostly runs clear. Drain, then put the rice and 310 ml water in a small saucepan and set…

It was not so much yes to Emmanuel Macron as no to Marine Le Pen but, ultimately, the French election delivered the result that political moderates across Europe had desperately hoped for. As France’s president begins a second term, however, the problems facing him are myriad; he must reunite a fractured nation and help bolster the EU as an economic force that can hold its own in the changing global power struggle between China and the US. Angelique Chrisafis and Jon Henley report from Paris, while columnist Timothy Garton Ash outlines Macron’s challenges on the world stage. The big story Page 10 → As the Ukraine war enters a new phase, Isobel Koshiw meets Ukrainian troops on the southern front, who talk of the harsh reality of life there. Analyst Jack Watling…

CLIMATE CRISIS Rising temperatures disrupt presence of bumblebees The climate crisis could lead to more small-bodied bees but fewer bumblebees, according to research warning of potential “cascading” effects on plant pollination and across whole ecosystems. Scientists studied more than 20,000 bees over eight years in the Rocky Mountains to find out how they reacted to climatic changes While environmental conditions had varied from year to year, the sub-alpine region where the samples came from was “particularly vulnerable to climate change”, with generally warming spring temperatures and earlier snow melt. As temperatures increased, populations of larger-bodied bees and comb-building cavity nesters declined significantly, while numbers of smaller soil-nesting bees increased. SPACE Jupiter moon may have water pools ‘where life could exist’ Subterranean pools of salty water may be commonplace on Jupiter’s…

Assured of another five years in the Élysée after beating his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron faces a second term that will be at least as demanding as his first. Here are some of his challenges and priorities: Securing a majority and appointing a government Parliamentary elections in France take place on 12 and 19 June, with Macron’s La République En Marche (LaREM) and its allies needing 289 MPs in the 577-seat lower house. The first round of the presidential poll produced the near-collapse of the parties of government, with the right wing Les Républicains and the Socialists each scoring less than 5%, and the emergence of three similarly sized blocs: the radical left, Macron’s diverse centre, and the far right. Without a majority, a French president’s room…

As the sun rose over Rio, José Leonardo da Silva set off from home dressed as a 1.9-metre-tall box of Viagra. His destination: a party called the Cosmic Trumpets where hundreds of half-clothed revellers had gathered to celebrate their first carnival since Covid. His message: the purchase of tens of thousands of erectile dysfunction tablets by President Jair Bolsonaro’s defence ministry was an intolerable affront. Carnival returned to Brazil last weekend, with millions enjoying the celebrations in cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (right), albeit at an unusual time of the year. The celebrations normally take place at the end of February but were delayed due to an outbreak of the Omicron Covid variant. With an election less than six months away, many saw carnival as a…

‘You can just see the buoys of the seafarm,” Dr Sophie Steinhagen yells over the high whine of the boat as it approaches the small islands of Sweden’s Koster archipelago. The engine drops to a sputter, and Steinhagen heaves up a rope to reveal the harvest hanging beneath: strand after strand of sea lettuce, translucent and emerald green. “This is one individual that we would collect now and keep as a parent, because it’s growing very fast,” she exclaims. In summer, these waters teem with sea kayaks and yachts from neighbouring Norway, but for Steinhagen and the seafarming group at the Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, spring is their peak season. For one thing, it means less animal and plant life on the seaweed. “When you buy a lettuce, you don’t want…

From behind the counter of a bakery in Kasımpaşa, a working-class neighbourhood in Istanbul, Mustafa Kafadar can see the orange, white and blue banners of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party as they blow in the spring breeze. Kafadar has been wrenched out of retirement by Turkey’s economic crisis – his pension is no longer enough to cover his basic expenses. He works shifts at the bakery, where he describes living from payday to payday while he sweeps crumbs off a tray. “Everything’s very expensive. After I buy my essentials and pay my bills, there’s nothing left,” he said. Asked who was responsible, he chuckled. “You know who makes inflation high,” he said cryptically, reluctant to voice his opinion of Erdoğan’s economic policies directly. “Not me, not you, not someone on…

24 February Last week, Rupert [Thomas, Bennett’s partner, then editor in chief of the World of Interiors] and his whole magazine were thrown into confusion when for no apparent reason the management inquired how many of the team could work from home. This was taken to be the prelude to some sort of shedding of staff. Today, it transpires it’s less inimical than this, but rather a precaution. The coronavirus in Italy has meant the Milan office has had to close, the inquiry in case a similar situation should arise in London. This is thought to be unlikely. 1 March Thanks to arthritis I’m now much less mobile than I was. Gone are the days when I could jump on my bike to pop down to the shops, so static…

THEATRE The Hound of the Baskervilles Available onlin e Arthur Conan Doyle ’s sinister tale of a diabolical canine curse that claims the Baskerville clan may not, on the face of it, seem conducive to a comical makeover. But that is exactly what it gets in Steven Canny and John Nicholson ’s adaptation, originally created for the comedy theatre troupe Peepolykus in 2007 Revived by Original Theatre Company and Bolton’s Octagon theatre, and filmed at the Belgrade theatre in Coventry earlier this year, it is as far removed from Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee ’s terror-filled 1959 Hammer movie as could be, and yet its transformation works surprisingly well. There is delightfully playful characterisation and good tweaks to the original plot. There is the added novelty of a cast of…

In the late 1920s, IA Richards set his Cambridge students the task of reading a series of short, anonymous literary extracts. They were asked to pay attention to rhythm, sound, tone, texture and syntax before attempting to date each text. Richards conceived practical criticism, as the methodology came to be called, as a challenge to what had hitherto passed as literary criticism. University professors had been apt to make vague aesthetic judg ments about a book’s “beauty ” or “soul ” before lobbing in a few comments about the author’s mother or the publishing practices of the time. Richards’ students were asked to exclude all such background blather in favour of what they could deduce from the words on the page. In this exhilarating book, Terry Eagleton describes the sea…

QUIZ Thomas Eaton 1 Walt Disney said, “Gee, this’ll make Beethoven” when he saw which film? 2 What was the first human-made object to leave the solar system? 3 What is the only flightless parrot? 4 Lock & Co is the world’s oldest of what type of shop? 5 Which monarch was crowned under the Royal Nine-Tiered Umbrella? 6 Which island is known as Ibiza’s little sister? 7 Interpol HQ is in which city? 8 Maya Lin designed which Washington DC memorial? What links: 9 Liz Fraser; Shara Nelson; Tracey Thorn; Nicolette? 10 Tomato; potato; aubergine; winter cherry? 11 Deane (1); Cantona (100); Newell (1,000); Ferdinand (10,000)? 12 Kara; Kachera; Kirpan; Kesh; Kanga? 13 Bernard Levin; Russell Harty; Chris Rock? 14 Toblerone; Coors; Paramount; North Face? 15 220 and 284; 1184…

He was once known as “The Terminator”, the most feared man in Sri Lankan politics. But today, president Gotabaya Rajapaksa ’s name can hardly be spoken without a loud chorus of derision and calls of “thief”, “madman”, “criminal” or “traitor”. As Sri Lanka endures its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, blame has fallen at the feet of one man. Rajapaksa, known to many simply as Gota, was elected in 2019. But under his watch – and what many are calling “criminal financial mismanagement ” – the economy has gone into freefall. Now many people can barely afford three meals a day. Foreign reserves are so low that the government cannot afford to import even basic items. People are dying in queues waiting for fuel. Politicians have warned that…

By attending the inauguration of a new JCB factory in Gujarat last Thursday, Boris Johnson might have thought he was leaving his troubles behind in Westminster. What harm was there in going in to bat for a successful British business owned by a big Tory donor? Plenty, it transpires. Mr Johnson walked into a major human rights controversy over the use of JCB’s bulldozers in flattening Muslim homes and businesses in Delhi and in states run by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party. Mr Johnson should not have mugged for the cameras with the machinery used to intimidate religious minorities by a regime seemingly bent on creating a theocratic Hindu state. Perhaps he is unaware of the growing sense of vulnerability felt by India’s 200 million Muslims. But…

Small Stem Model (2019) “This is Rodin’s Thinker on the toilet, with its head dropped on to its folded arms. It was a huge evolution for me. In the Venice show, it’s a small graphite model; in San Gimignano, it’s lifesize. This is me trying to materialise the internal space of the body in the language of architecture. ” Grenfell II (2017) “I felt that what happened to Grenfell Tower was such a tragic story of human greed and laziness and wishful thinking. But it was also about the absolute opposite: an extraordinary community, with its artists, social workers, nurses and teachers. When you saw it from the Westway after the fire, it was a black outline, not dissimilar from my charcoal drawing, asking the same questions my sculptures ask:…

The Land of Short Sentences By Stine Pilgaard, translated by Hunter Simpson In this charming and funny novel, a woman tries to settle into a remote Danish community with her boyfriend and baby son. She struggles to make small talk with locals (hence the title) and resents the way parenthood has reduced her vocabulary to “compound words”: “wet wipes, high chair, sippy cup”. Her job as a newspaper advice columnist reveals that others aren’t any better at navigating social interactions. “Everyone you meet is on the way somewhere,” a friend advises. The buzz of people coming and going, and the warmth and wit of the narrator’s voice, make it a pleasure to be in her company. Portrait of an Unknown Lady By María Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead Insincerity, said…

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