Innehållsförteckning för 29 July 2022 från Guardian Weekly

Saddled up A rider rears up on his horse surrounded by a cheering crowd during the jaleo in Fornells, Menorca. During the summer months, towns and villages across the Balaeric island hold festivals with fairground rides, races, competitions, firework displays and concerts as part of patron saints’ celebrations. The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 207 | Issue № 5 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…

Millions of Americans spent last Thursday evening stunned, appalled and amused by the season finale of the congressional hearings into the storming of the Capitol in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, and his part in the deadly insurrection. The slickly planned primetime hearing showed Trump refusing to call off the insurgents for more than three hours as he watched Fox News coverage from the White House dining room on 6 January 2021. The House committee heard how secret service officers protecting the vice-president, Mike Pence, were telling their families they might not make it home alive. Committee members said the evidence showed Trump lied, betrayed his oath of office and summoned a mob to Washington to try to overturn the presidential election. It was, said Republican congressman Adam…

Local media have called it “Farmgate”. Astonishing details have leaked over months, embroiling Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s affable president, in a plot that might be lifted directly from a gritty TV crime series. The story begins with a complaint lodged by a disaffected former head of South Africa’s intelligence service at a Johannesburg police station detailing the theft two years ago of $4m in cash from a farm owned by Ramaphosa in Limpopo province, two hours’ drive north of his ranch in Pretoria, the administrative capital. This was only the beginning. For reasons no one can explain, the cash was hidden in sofas. Instead of reporting the theft to the police, officers from the presidential protection force were allegedly dispatched to track down the missing money. Having followed the trail…

Ajmal Haikalzada, 44, first became a refugee when his artist father left Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s. In 2001, as a musician, he returned, singing and performing across the country of his birth after the US toppled the Taliban. Two decades later, he fled once again as the Taliban took over Kabul. Now in Peshawar, Haikalzada said that, after the Taliban returned, musicians and artists were confined to their homes. Musical institutions were closed and musicians hid their instruments for fear of the Taliban destroying them, as stories said had happened in Kabul. But Pakistan has not provided the safety Haikalzada had hoped. Last month, he was arrested in a crackdown on Afghan refugees. “ I sold all my musical instruments to save my life. I thought…

Severe new restrictions upend reproductive care across the US. Patients report delays for procedures, as doctors fear vague new laws with criminal penalties. A 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel out of state to terminate a pregnancy. And activists promise more restrictions to come. In the month since the supreme court bombshell that ended the right to abortion, as states across the south and midwest embrace their new ability to ban abortion, the consequences have been both chaotic and predictable. “We’re looking at probably about 15 million women living in a state with an abortion ban right now,” said Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research organisation. “We could see as much as half of the country without abortion access very soon.” Doctors and lawyers said…

After a week when Russia threatened to annex more territory in Ukraine, gas shortages loomed, and inflation and Covid surged across Europe, it seems almost unkind to remind EU and UK leaders of another crisis that is unfolding, largely unremarked, right under their noses. As Claudius laments in Hamlet: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.” As if defeating Russian aggression was not enough of a challenge, Europe now also faces rapidly rising new “waves” of undocumented asylum seekers. Given the socio political upheavals that ensued after 1 million refugees, mostly Syrians, arrived on Europe’s shores in 2015, the EU and UK might be expected to be better prepared this time. Yet plainly they’re not. Figures published by Frontex, the EU border agency, show “irregular…

On 18 March 1985, Australian viewers were introduced to a suburban cul-de-sac. Over the course of an unremarkable pilot, a noisy stag do disrupts the sleep of Ramsay Street residents and one of them decides to take matters into his own hands. Four months later, the show was cancelled and its network, Seven, destroyed all the sets to make sure it couldn’t be replicated. But by 1986, Neighbours had been revived and rebuilt by rival studio Network Ten and had become a surprise hit in the UK. A daytime staple for students, the sun-kissed scandals of Ramsay Street lent an exotic glamour to the murky TV schedules of Coronation Street and EastEnders. Despite a declining viewership since its late-80s heyday, Neighbours became Australia’s longest-running soap, launching the careers of the…

Party braced as leadership race enters brutal last stage The Tories are braced for a “blue on blue dogfight” as former chancellor Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss entered a six-week battle to become Conservative party leader and the UK’s next prime minister. In a whirlwind week of voting, Conservative MPs whittled down a crowded field of leadership candidates to the final two, after Boris Johnson’s resignation earlier in the month. In the final round of voting before parliament went into summer recess, Sunak retained his lead among Tory MPs, with 137 votes. Truss eventually finished second, narrowly ahead of Penny Mordaunt. But despite that, Truss is the clear favourite among Conservative party members, according to polling About 160,000 fee-paying members – half aged over 60, 97% white and…

Hutchinson’s bombshells Some said that in Cassidy Hutchinson the committee had found its John Dean, the White House counsel who turned on Richard Nixon during Watergate. Hutchinson, a former aide to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, delivered her dramatic testimony with notable calm. She described how Trump knew some in the crowd who heard him speak on 6 January were armed – and told them to march on the Capitol anyway. Many observers said such testimony could be crucial to establishing criminal intent, and therefore central to any criminal charges against Trump. Van Tatenhove’s warning Jason van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson for the far-right group the Oath Keepers, testified about links between Trump and the far right. Van Tatenhove said the president attempted to mount “armed revolution”. He also…

The agreement to move Ukraine’s grain has been signed, but the challenge of moving millions of tonnes from blockaded Black Sea ports is only just beginning. Last Friday, Ukraine and Russia signed a UN-backed deal to allow Ukraine’s wheat, maize and oilseeds to be shipped amid fears of a global food crisis. But finding vessels and crew to transport these cargoes is no overnight job. Shipping companies, as well as grain traders, have welcomed the deal as a positive step but warned that obstacles remain, including ensuring the safety of seafarers and vessels, along with securing adequate and affordable insurance. Ukraine’s coastal waters will need to be de-mined, or at the very least a corridor of several kilometres will need to be cleared. There have been mixed reports from Kyiv…

California burning Firefighters made progress against a ferocious wildfire in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada that forced thousands of residents from their homes at the gateway to Yosemite national park. The Oak fire started last Friday near the town of Midpines, California, and exploded in size over the weekend. Burning through dense and dry vegetation on the region’s steep and rugged hillsides, the blaze was fanned by gusty winds and temperatures around 38C. The extreme nature of the fire meant it turned tall trees into matchsticks and sent billowing black smoke curling over the quaint historic downtown of Mariposa. But weather conditions improved and, by Monday morning, a heavily resourced firefighting effort achieved 10% containment. Between last Friday and Monday, the blaze consumed more than 16,700 acres. More than…

The enclosures stretch the length of an Olympic-size swimming pool, but from above they appear as floating dots scattered across the ocean. Inside, fish mill about as the submerged pens sway to the sea currents Known as off shore fish farms, these structures have appeared around the world in recent years. Their proliferation in open waters, often sitting several miles off coastlines, has sparked heated debate: some see them as the next frontier for the sustainable production of fish such as Atlantic salmon, sea bass and cobia ; others describe them as “factory farming of the sea”. What almost everyone can agree on is that these deep-sea farms are poised to surge in the coming years. Between 1961 and 2017, global demand for fish grew an average of 3.1% a…

Every few seconds a handful of reddish clay is scraped out of a bucket, rolled briskly into a ball, coated in charcoal dust and left in the sun to dry. For three years, Nzigire Ntavuna has been making these balls on the outskirts of Kahuzi-Biega national park, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to burn as fuel. The little briquettes represent a tiny glimmer of hope at the centre of a multi layered threat to the rainforest and the people who live in it. Ntavuna lives about 4km outside the park, in Chibuga village. Batwa people have lived in the region for millennia. Since the 1970s, they have been caught up in violence in the forests, which are home to the endangered Grauer’s, or eastern lowland,…

For the past year or so, I have been repeatedly listening to a critically acclaimed album, Ignorance, released in 2021 by the Canadian band the Weather Station. Its music is graceful and smooth, but it is also an almost conceptual set of songs about the urgency of the climate crisis and the disorientation of living in a culture that still refuses to acknowledge it. According to its chief creator, the singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, many of its songs evoke what happens when “this veneer of ‘everything will be OK’ disappears”. That moment of revelation is perfectly captured in one song I have played over and over again – which is simply called Loss, and finds Lindeman recalling a conversation: “What was it last night she said? At some point you’d have…

1 HEALTH WHO declares global monkeypox emergency The worldwide outbreak of monkeypox has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization – the agency’s strongest warning. It is the seventh time such a declaration has been made since 2009, the most recent being for Covid-19, and it comes after a meeting of a committee of experts last week. “In short, we have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission about which we understand too little and which meets the criteria in the international health regulations,” Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, said. While the risk of monkeypox was “moderate” globally, it was “high” in Europe and there was “a clear risk of further international spread”. According to…

If last Wednesday marked an undignified end for Mario Draghi’s government, one person who enjoyed the spectacle from the sidelines was Giorgia Meloni. The leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neofascist origins, is in pole position to become prime minister after elections this year. As the shenanigans played out in the senate, culminating with three parties in Draghi’s coalition boycotting a confidence vote and him resigning, Meloni took to the stage in Piazza Vittorio, a square in Rome where Brothers of Italy, the only party to stay out of Draghi’s government, have set up a shop for July, to express her satisfaction. “A year ago they told us we were heading for the sewer and were unrealistic,” she told supporters. “We’ve had three different governments, three different majorities…

Travel gridlock hit the Kent roads around Dover and Folkestone again last weekend as British tourists were confronted with the realities of travelling to Europe during a busy period for the first time since Brexit came into force in January 2021. Travellers queued for five to six hours, and were warned the disruption would continue through August. What ’s caus ing the problems? Could they be avoided and is there a fix? What is to blame? In short, the big increase in post-pandemic travel combined with Brexit passport checks. The last weekend in July, when English state schools break for the summer, is the busiest weekend for the port of Dover. But this was the first time since Brexit that new restrictions for EU entry were tested to their limit.…

In Athens, a handful of novice standups are at the mic after taking part in a series of comedy workshops. One of the organisers, Vasileia Vaxevani, compares the experience to the first time you have sex. “It ends quickly. It hurts a little. But you definitely know that you want to do it again.” Migration is the uncharacteristically hilarious topic at the heart of this show, which is produced by Counterpoint Arts and performed by refugees and asylum seekers as part of Refugee Week. It had a theme this year of “healing”. In an audience as diverse as this gig’s, and in a country that has seen communities divide as a result of polarised responses to migration, the versatility of that theme is manifest. The award-winning British comedian Tom Parry,…

Looking back on it now, I have to be careful about reconstructing or selecting memories in the light of all that transpired. In 1970, as part of my work for a research group within the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, I moved to the Arctic and began learning the Inuit language, Inuktitut. My girlfriend, Christine, and I ended up living in a settlement named Sanikiluaq, on the Belcher Islands, some 150km from the Hudson Bay coast of Arctic Quebec. The Canadian government had established this settlement in the 1960s, the result of a post war policy to incorporate all of the country, even its remotest edges, with a new conviction that the far north had vast economic potential. Although life in Sanikiluaq was now based on the new…

The Duke of Wellington, surveying his troops, said he didn’t know what effect the spectacle would have on the enemy, “but, by God, they frighten me”. What’s left of the serious elements of the Conservative party are frightened as they view the battlefield ahead – and they don’t expect to win a Waterloo. “If the Tories lose the next election, they may well be out of power for a generation,” warns the Spectator’s political editor, James Forsyth. The progressive forces of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens would bring in electoral reform and voting at 16. Even under a single transferable vote system, according to Forsyth, the Tories would only have won twice since the second world war, and not even Margaret Thatcher could have governed on her own.…

How can I rev up a scoop of vanilla ice-cream? Joe, Salford, England Accessorising ice-cream is often most successful when there’s an element of contrast, whether that’s a tart fruit puree (blackcurrant, say) for old-school ripple vibes, a handful of something crunchy (toasted sesame seeds, nuts, crumbled cookies) or a shattered magic chocolate shell (where you mix equal parts melted chocolate and coconut oil, pour it over your ice-cream, and watch it solidify). And, happily for you, Joe, this is very much vanilla-specific. “M y No 1 dessert in the world is vanilla ice-cream and chocolate sauce,” says Jacob Kenedy, chefpatron of Gelupo in London. The chocolate sauce, however, must be made the way his grandfather did it: “Roughly half-and-half melted bitter chocolate and water, plus a tiny bit of…

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