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Giovanni Atzeni gallops to victory for the Contrada del Drago district in the famous Palio Di Siena, a horse race dating back to the 13th century that is run around the Tuscan city’s medieval Piazza del Campo twice a year. This year’s palio was the first to be staged since 2019 due to the disruption of the pandemic. The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 207 | Issue No 2 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…

Peter Brook Revered theatre director who took drama out of the auditorium to stages and spaces all over the world. He died on 2 July, aged 97. Appreciation, page 54 Margaret Keane Artist whose husband claimed credit for her hugely successful paintings of sadeyed children. She died on 26 June, aged 94. Deborah James British journalist and campaigner whose podcast You, Me and the Big C broke taboos around cancer. She died on 28 June, aged 40. Sir Colin Blakemore Neuroscientist and advocate for rationality and openness. He died on 27 June, aged 78. Sonny Barger A leader of the Hells Angels who was key to bringing the outlaw motorcycle club to international notoriety and later became the group’s US president. He died on 29 June, aged 83.…

He was the most powerful man in the world, the possessor of the nuclear codes. Yet he behaved like a deranged manchild who threw temper tantrums, and food against the wall. That was the tragicomic story told last Tuesday at a congressional hearing that had even seasoned Donald Trump watchers lifting their jaws off the floor and speculating that his political career might finally be over. In two seismic hours in Was hington, Cassidy Hutchinson, a 25-year-old former White House aide, told the panel investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol that Trump had effectively gone haywire. She said the former president knew a mob of his supporters were carrying rifles, yet he asked for metal detectors to be removed. She also recounted how his desire to lead…

‘Protest is the greatest civic duty of all’ George Monbiot GOVERNMENTS TEND TO define democracy as narrowly as possible. The story they tell goes as follows: you vote; the majority party takes office; you leave it to govern on your behalf for the next four or five years. If you don’t like one of its policies, your representative will put their own ambitions, party loyalty and pressure from powerful interests aside to ensure your voice is heard. We can trust the government to spend our money wisely; to defend minorities against more powerful or larger groups; to resist undemocratic forces such as oligarchs, the media they control and corporate lobby groups. We can trust it to ensure everyone’s needs are met; workers are not exploited; our neighbourhoods and quality of…

The Regency, that narrow slice of history between 1811 and 1820, occupies a vastly disproportionate place in the British, and increasingly the global, imaginarium. Those nine years – when the future George IV reigned as prince regent owing to his father’s incapacity – have recently birthed a second series of the frothily preposterous Netflix series Bridgerton; a second series of Sanditon, based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel; and a new film version of Persuasion, with Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot. The “Regency romance” literary genre, a bottomless well of Austenesque love stories, has produced a summer bestseller this year in Sophie Irwin’s A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting. Another, Suzanne Allain’s Mr Malcolm’s List, has been adapted into a film starring Frei da Pinto, also out this summer You may think…

If I were to choose a moment to release a television series that not only asks for, but requires, sympathy for the third-wealthiest woman in America, I am not sure that I would launch it slap-bang in the middle of a rampant cost of living crisis. Still, Loot has an ace up its sleeve in the form of Maya Rudolph, who plays Molly Novak. Molly is married to a tech baron, John Novak (Adam Scott), and lives an airy, removed life of ultra-privilege and opulence. When she realises John has been having an affair with a much younger woman, she drives away from the marriage in one of their many colour-coordinated supercars, and gains $87bn in the divorce. After the scene-setting of the first episode, in which Molly and John’s…

I have been with my wife for 10 years. After fertility treatment, I became pregnant with twins, who are now 18 months old. We were overjoyed, but I feel our marriage has suffered. We love our children dearly. But time and finances are seriously affecting our marriage – to the extent that divorce has come up. The childcare costs are so high, and we’ve both made huge sacrifices. I’ve cut a day a week from my work – I’m an academic and have given up my one research day to take care of the twins. I went into this career mainly to do research, not correct endless essays and then spend the rest of the time with the kids. I feel robbed, like I did a PhD for nothing. I…

Prep 5 min Cook 30 min Serves 2 Ingredients For the potato 50g butter, plus 30g extra for the livers300g potatoes, peeledSalt and black pepper For the chicken livers 250g chicken livers175g red onion, peeled and dicedVegetable oil1½ tbsp balsamic vinegar For the yoghurt dip The juice of 1 lemon150g natural yoghurt2 tbsp finely chopped dill To serve 75g cucumber, finely diced1½ tbsp capers After a recent trip to Paris, where a challenge to myself to try more offal led to some exquisite and memorable meals, I resolved to use more of the less-loved bits of animals in my cooking. And I thought I’d start with something relatively simple: chicken livers. They are easy to cook, very cheaply available and incredibly flavour ful. If you’re squeamish about chicken livers, use…

The world of cryptofinance can be difficult to penetrate – and not without good reason. In the decade since bit-coin first became a tradeable asset, these complex and largely unregulated digital currency markets have boomed – fuelled latterly by a surge of activity from amateur home traders during the pandemic. But now, against a backdrop of more conventional global economic strife including the Ukraine war, rising inflation and higher borrowing costs, the digital finance sector is crashing. Could a bursting crypto bubble trigger serious problems elsewhere in the financial markets or the world economy? Alex Hern and Dan Milmo go behind the crypto crash, and ask how concerned we should all be. The big story Page 10 → New testimony about Donald Trump’s alleged behaviour in the final moments before the January…

GENETICS Dogs can be traced back to two populations of wolves Pet dogs descended from not one population of wild ancestors, but two, research suggests. Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, an event thought to have happened between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago. Writing in the journal Nature, Dr Anders Bergström and colleagues at London’s Francis Crick Institute, report how they analysed 72 genomes from ancient wolves that lived in Europe, Siberia and North America up to 100,000 years ago. The results reveal that, while the ancestry of some early dogs appeared to be rooted solely in wolves from Asia, others were found to have an additional genetic contribution from a population of western grey wolves. “The largest amount of this second source of ancestry is…

Cryptocurrency A decentralised digital asset built on top of a blockchain. The first, and still the largest, cryptocurrency is bitcoin. But other cryptocurrencies exist too. Ethereum is the second biggest, and is used as a platform for building other decentralised projects, such as stablecoins and NFTs. Blockchain The decentralised ledger tracking ownership of a cryptocurrency or other digital asset. New transactions are added to the end of the blockchain, and using cryptography contain a record of every previous transaction. There is no one “official” blockchain, but the network as a whole is kept consistent through a consensus algorithm. Ethereum The most important successor to bitcoin, described by its backers as a “world computer”: as well as simple transactions, users can create “smart contracts”, small programs that operate on the network.…

As an hour-long exercise class in Cromer’s parish hall culminates in a triumphant ribbon routine, instructor Annamarie Sterne addresses the group. “Has anyone got a knot?” One or two raise their hands, before another baffled attendee discovers she’s managed to swirl two knots into her ribbon. “How did that happen?!” she laughs. The 40-strong class overwhelmingly made up of women over 65 – the oldest, Anne, 84, completed the entire routine – is a picture of health in older age. A few opt to exercise from a chair during the floor work, but everyone has put their all into the hour. “Their attitude is amazing,” says Sterne, who calls her class the “crème de la crème” of the north Norfolk coastal town’s older population. There should be little surprise at…

Toru Ishii remembers when the shredded car tyres, batteries and runoff the colour and consistency of treacle blighted the landscape on Teshima, his island home in Japan’s inland sea. Those sights are now confined to a museum, as a reminder of how environmental destruction can unfold in plain sight, and how ordinary people can fight back. For several years, almost a million tonnes of industrial waste were dumped illegally on Teshima’s western tip, in the worst case of its kind in the country’s history. The ever-expanding mountain of rubbish earned Teshima the nickname “garbage island”. Its residents wore masks when the waste was burned, sending plumes of acrid smoke into the air. Many complained of sore eyes, and some displayed symptoms associated with asthma. Fishing and agriculture suffered, as consumers…

As it happened, I was in Edinburgh the day Roe v Wade was overturned, and the next day I caught a train back to London and did what I usually do when I get anywhere near King’s Cross station. I took the short walk to the old St Pancras churchyard to visit the tombstone of the great feminist ancestor Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. To be there was to remember that feminism did not start recently – Wollstonecraft died in 1797 – and it did not stop on 24 June. Women in the US gained this right less than half a century ago – a short time when the view is from Wollstonecraft’s memorial. I have regularly heard the opinions that feminism achieved nothing…

It’s a strange kind of democracy that views umbrellas as subversive. It’s an odd form of people’s government that beats and incarcerates hundreds of people without trial. Bizarre, too, that journalists are prosecuted for challenging the authorities – and “unpatriotic” people are punished for reading what they write. These are but a few aspects of the Beijing-style “democracy” brashly celebrated by Xi Jinping, China’s popularly unelected president, when he travelled to Hong Kong last week for the 25th anniversary of the handover from Britain. Xi said his version of democracy was flourishing. Hong Kong’s job now was to assist the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”, not stir up trouble. “After much turmoil, people have learned a painful lesson that Hong Kong cannot be disorderly, it cannot afford to be,”…

When anthropology first became established, its practitioners kept a fastidious distance from their subjects. The Victorian grandfathers of the discipline, Sir Edward Tyler at Oxford and Sir James Frazer of Cambridge, based their studies on ethnographic materials sent back by missionaries and colonial administrators from far away lands. To research his influential The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, Frazer never travelled beyond Italy. Asked if he’d ever actually met a “native”, he replied: “Good God, no!” In 1910, when Polish polymath Bronisław Malinowski joined the LSE’s new anthropology department, its reading list contained just four books. In 1913, he wrote his first monograph, The Family Among the Australian Aborigines, entirely based on library research in London. But things were changing. The next year, Malinowski embarked on what became…

What desserts can I make on the barbecue? Sam, Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales You’re essentially looking at fruit here, Sam. But that doesn’t necessarily mean chocolate-stuffed bananas. Stone fruits are very good on the barbecue, because they take on that smoky flavour so well. Helen Graves, author of Live Fire, halves and stones peaches, then pops them in an oven tray with “warming spices” (cardamom, cinnamon, vanilla) and a splash of dessert wine. “They cook down slowly and go lovely and soft and jammy. Have them with cream or clotted cream.” Or, says Kenny Tutt, chef-owner of Bayside Social and Pitch in Worthing and Patty Guy in Brighton, take inspiration from a peach melba. Put halved and stoned peaches on a couple of layers of tinfoil, dress with a little sugar,…

QUIZ Thomas Eaton 1 What was “tugged to her last berth to be broken up”? 2 What is the vocal organ in birds? 3 Which group are the Bulletproof Boy Scouts? 4 After 37 years, what ends on 1 August? 5 The Declaration of Breda paved the way for whose return? 6 What is the UK’s largest national park? 7 In the first world war, who contested 12 battles of the Isonzo? 8 Which Whitechapel-made object hangs in Philadelphia? What links: 9 Under 40; under 1.8 metres; graduate; 1,500 hours’ flying time; test pilot? 10 Christopher Wren; Salvador Dalí; Peggy Guggenheim? 11 776BC and AD393; 1896 and 2022? 12 Woodboring Xestobium rufovillosum; fungus Amanita phalloides; US’s lowest point? 13 Betelgeuse; Rigel; Bellatrix; Alnilam? 14 Steve Blass disease; twisties; yips; dartitis?…

In the summer of 1924, Ireland did something extraordinary: it hosted the biggest sporting event in the world that year – bigger, even, than the Paris Olympics. Thousands of competitors and tens of thousands of spectators packed venues around Dublin for an array of events encompassing not only athletics, swimming, horse racing, archery and other sports but also poetry, painting, dancing and sculpture. The inaugural Tailteann games – named after an ancient version of the games last held seven centuries earlier – were designed to celebrate Irish culture and sporting prowess but with a modern, global twist. Chess was included in the mistaken belief the Irish invented it while sports deemed English, such as football, rugby and cricket, were excluded. Elite foreign athletes were invited, including the US Olympic champion…

Tony Bokanian got a call last Monday from a neighbour who told him police were massed near his used auto parts business on the south-western edge of San Antonio in southern Texas. Bokanian went out to look. That was when he saw the bodies – dozens of lifeless men, women and children heaped behind a lorry on an obscure backroad while swarms of emergency vehicles arrived. It was the deadliest known human smuggling incident in the US. Police found 50 people from Mexico and Central America dead inside a truck trailer, locked and abandoned in the sweltering summer sun. The death toll has now risen to 53. Bokanian barely slept that night. “I really felt it when I saw all the bodies on the ground,” he told the Guardian. “I’m…

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Poukahangatus By Tayi Tibble In Vampires Versus Werewolves, the poet remembers schooldays of “brown boys running round topless during PE”; when white girls take them home, it is “to see if parents would bare their teeth”. The role reversal is typical of the fairytales of youth in the Aotearoan/New Zealand poet’s debut collection. Tibble writes wittily of the hunger games of adolescence. Identities are assumed and discarded (“there is a dark-skinned darkness in me / I wear her like a little black dress”), and form a central focus of the auto-fictional long poem Shame. “Tell me, am I navigating correctly?” Tibble asks in Identity Politics. Her worries are misplaced: however lost their youthful personas, these wise poems know exactly where they are heading. Rookie: Selected Poems By Caroline Bird Bird’s…

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