Innehållsförteckning för 18 November 2022 från Guardian Weekly

Ordinarily a football World Cup would be a moment for celebration, a time to savour sport’s power to unite nations and a glorious distraction from the problems of the day. Not this time: the 2022 tournament has been mired in controversy since it was awarded to Qatar 12 years ago. The small but ultra-wealthy Middle Eastern state thought that hosting the world’s most-watched sporting event would showcase it as a major player on the global stage. But instead Qatar has come in for severe criticism on a number of fronts, in particular for its treatment of migrant workers, anti LGBTQ+ laws, and restrictions on freedom of speech. In a special report, Patrick Wintour asks whether Qatar has lost at geopolitical football before the action has even begun. The cartoonist David Squires…

Vicky Phelan Terminally ill campaigner who exposed a cervical cancer screening scandal in Ireland. She died on 14 November, aged 48. Leslie Phillips Actor known for his roles in the Carry On films, the Doctor series and voicing the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter. He died on 7 November, aged 98. Keith Levene Founding member of the Clash who co-founded Public Image Ltd. He died on 11 November, aged 65. Gal Costa Brazilian singer who was a central figure the Tropicália movement. She died on 9 November, aged 77. Bao Tong Former top aide who was jailed over Tiananmen democracy movement and became one of the Communist party’s most vociferous critics. He died on 9 November, aged 90.…

Cheerfully gnashing their magnificent fangs as they stand side by side, the two bronze leopards look back on a journey that was as adventurous as it was cruelly absurd. Looted by British soldiers on a punitive expedition to the west African kingdom of Benin in 1897, the ekpen, or leopard figures, were shipped to the UK, where they spent some time guarding the fireplace of army captain George William Neville’s Weybridge home. They were later put in display at Moma in New York and bought by a French art collector – who eventually sold them back to the colonial administration in Lagos in 1952 with a considerable mark-up. Digital Benin, the result of a two-year €1.5m ($1. 5m) research project funded by the Ernst von Siemens art foundation, is the…

Sitting at the head table in a white and gold ballroom, beneath glistening chandeliers and an ornately corniced ceiling, Donald Trump looked sullen as midterm election results flashed up on a giant TV screen. Across Florida, 300km from his opulent Mar-a-Lago estate, the mood was quite different. In Tampa, Governor Ron DeSantis was celebrating his landslide re-election by repurposing lines from Winston Churchill. “We fight the woke in the legislature,” DeSantis declared as his young family looked on against a stars and stripes backdrop. “We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations. We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die.” As the jubilant crowd chanted “two more years!”, suggesting that DeSantis, not Trump, should run for…

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Psalms for the End of the World By Cole Haddon There’s a hint of Philip K Dick in the opening as Robert Jones sits in a suburban California living room in 1962, listening to the news and thinking that none of this is real. Soon, he’s on the run from men claiming to be FBI agents, after him for crimes he knows he did not commit. The question of reality simmers beneath the surface as the narrative detours into other lives in 18th-century France, medieval Japan, late Maya civilisation and the near future, exploring connections between a teen terrorist in Australia, a Maya princess in 1532, a 21st-century screenwriter and a Japanese astronaut. Powerful emotional hooks and vividly detailed scene setting are compelling. The Violence By Delilah S Dawson It’s…

Soak Overnight Prep 20 min Cook 1-2 hr Serves 4-6 • GLUTEN FREE Ingredients 4 5g butter2 white onions, peeled and sliced1 tsp chipotles in adobo2 bay leaves2 tsp cider vinegar180g chard, stems and leaves separated, both chopped Oil10 x 12 cm corn tortillas150g feta, crumbled250g mozzarella, torn1 small bunch of coriander, leaves picked and roughly chopped3-4 radishes, very thinly sliced For the beans 6 large garlic cloves, peeled, 2 bashed with the flat of a knife,4 finely chopped300g dried black turtle beans, soaked overnight (or 2 x 400g tinned black beans, drained, and added after you’ve fried the onions)½ star anise (or 1 tsp dried hoja santa) Salt and black pepper For the pico de gallo 1 small white onion, peeled3 medium tomatoes1 red chilli Juice of 1 lime…

4 July 1919 Vol207 | Issue№ 21 This magazine is printed on paper that has been produced by UPM mills in Scotland and Finland. It has a low carbon footprint, and has been sourced from sustainably managed forests 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…

Earlier this year, after a tectonic decision by the US supreme court to overturn Roe v Wade, eliminating the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion, Joe Biden predicted American women would revolt. Republicans saw a “red wave” brewing, fuelled by economic discontent and the president’s low approval ratings. Last Thursday, after Democrats defied expectations in the first major election of the post-Roe era, Biden effectively declared: “I told ya so.” “Women in America made their voices heard, man,” the president told supporters in Washington. “Y’all showed up and beat the hell out of them.” Abortion proved a decisive issue in this year’s midterm elections, galvanising women and young people and helping to deliver a string of unexpected gains for Democrats and new protections for reproductive rights. Republicans appear on track…

Australia Wilf Dehlson, six, and Archie Dehlson, 10 Wilf and Archie’s mum is Australian, and their English dad’s parents are from New Zealand and Australia. The boys were born in the UK and have UK passports. Archie My favourite Australian players are the ones I know from the Premier League. It’s a tough group, but you never know. We’ ll be wearing our kit and FaceTiming our cousins in Australia! I love football. I’ve been to Australia a few times and can’t wait to go back. Wilf Australia are called the Socceroos – it’s like soccer and a kangaroo mixed up. If Australia gets knocked out, I’ll support England. Brazil Nicholas Goncalves-Newman, 14 Nick’s Brazilian parents moved to the UK in 2005 from a small town called Amambai, and he…

Climate system pushed to the very edge George Monbiot is correct – the geological record shows a series of disastrous extinctions caused by the climate system being pushed beyond tipping points (Opinion, 11 November). Although such tipping points might soon be reached, it’s more persuasive to know exactly where the system is right now. Temperatures in Europe are rising by around 0.5C per decade, equivalent to 5C per century. Compare this rate with the end of the last ice age. Evidence from fossil insects in Britain shows that by a conservative estimate, the average temperature rose by 1.7C to 2.6C per century. The climate system then was adjusting to natural increases in greenhouse gases, but today they are manmade. There seems no room for doubt that we have already pushed…

A diving instructor called Perry Boyer is giving me a crash course in drumming stagecraft. If you’re planning on playing with your sticks on fire, he advises, tie socks around them – they’ll light more easily. Boyer, speaking by Zoom from California, knows what he’s talking about. Forty years ago he was Punky Peru, drummer in Witch, a fixture on the LA glam metal scene that bore Mötley Crüe, Wasp and Poison to stardom. Witch should probably have joined them – they had the songs, the spandex and the theatricality. But it never worked out: the wrong record deals and the fact that, as Boyer puts it, “Me and Tommy Lee from Mötley were partying super hard.” Now Witch’s career has been excavated as part of Bound for Hell: On…

It’s a brave writer who takes on a retelling of Dickens, and of David Copperfield, the most personal of his novels, at that. And yet the American author Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead – which transposes this very English, quasi-autobiographical Bildungsroman to her own home territory of Appalachia – feels in many ways like the book she was born to write. The idealism and concern with social justice that are characteristic of Kingsolver’s worldview find their natural counterpart in Dickens’s impassioned social criticism. While the task of modernising his novel is complicated by the fact that mores have shifted so radically since the mid-19th century – “immorality ”, AKA extra marital sex? Who cares? – the ferocious critique of institutional poverty and its damaging effects on children is as pertinent as…

I am very worried about a friend of mine, who I believe is being emotionally (and perhaps financially) abused by her husband. I have known her for many years. She has always had quite a self-deprecating style of humour, but since moving in with her now-husband, her comments have become very extreme and are no longer said in a humorous context. Lately, if I ask her for any sort of advice or suggestions, she will apologise for how stupid she is and call herself all sorts of awful names. Recently, when I met the couple for dinner, she used the wrong word for something, he corrected her sharply, and she quickly apologised to a disproportionate degree. She is self-employed while her husband has a steady job and a more well-off…

QUIZ Thomas Eaton 1 Six Nobel prizes have involved research into which insects? 2 Where did Changeover Day take place on 14 February 1966? 3 What was carried by Simon from Cyrene? 4 Which writer’s daughter was the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales? 5 Which South American country has Atlantic and Pacific coastlines? 6 Stan Campbell sang which 80s protest song? 7 What claims to be the world’s first fully vegan football club? 8 Where did liberty horses perform? What links: 9 Milos, Greece; Arles, France; Willendorf, Austria? 10 Mercury; Rodgers; Lambert? 11 Margaret of Anjou and Elizabeth Woodville; Lucy Cavendish; Elizabeth Hughes? 12 Roll hoop; halo; Hans device? 13 Founder of Moscow; first Mr Men character; 1976 Kenner action doll? 14 Lusitania; Aquitania; Dacia; Belgica; Britannia? 15 Jennet…

Number crunching Population growth from 2001 to 2011 tended to be higher in the north Source: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Telangana government state portal The growth will place huge pressure on India’s resources, economic stability and society. As a country on the forefront of the climate crisis, already grappling with extreme weather events 80% of the year, diminishing resources such as water could become decisive factors in what India’s future population looks like. Fears of “population explosion” in India have abounded for more than a century. Post independence, India’s population grew at a significant pace; between 1947 and 1997, it went from 350 million to 1 billion. But since the 1980s, various initiatives convinced families of the benefits of…

The Russian decision to withdraw from the city of Kherson to defensive positions on the left bank of the Dnipro River was driven by sound military logic. Control of the city could only be maintained at a steep price in troops and materiel. The withdrawal should help the Russians stabilise their defensive positions over the winter, but it is an unambiguous Russian defeat. When Ukraine launched its counteroffensive against Kherson at the end of August its military knew it lacked the combat power to storm the city. However, strikes on the bridges over the Dnipro limited Russia’s ability to supply its troops with heavy equipment, while the river protected Ukrainian forces from counterattack. This allowed Ukrainian artillery to inflict heavy casualties on Russia’s most motivated and competent units. Having annexed…

When the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of unease. The tool, released by the AI research company OpenAI, showed a marked improvement on 2021’s Dall-E, and was quickly followed by rivals such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Type in any prompt, from Kermit the frog in the style of Edvard Munch, to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings eating watermelon, and these tools will return a startlingly accurate depiction moments later. The internet revelled in the meme-making opportunities, with a Twitter account documenting “weird Dall-E generations” racking up more than a million followers. Cosmopolitan trumpeted the world’s first AI-generated magazine cover, and technology investors fell over themselves to…

In a Colombian reintegration camp for former guerrilla fighters, María Rosalba García de Sepúlveda sits next to her shack, wearing leaf-pattern trousers and eating jam biscuits, she couldn’t be less threatening. But she feels her life is at risk. “You fear for your security at all times,” the 68-year-old said. For 43 years Sepúlveda was part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or Farc – a leftwing guerrilla group founded by farmers that spent five decades fighting the government. After joining at 18 to escape rural poverty, she rose to become one of the few female commanders, known by her war name Eliana. Then, in 2016, a peace deal led her and 13,000 others to demobilise, and she moved to the Pondores reincorporation zone near the Venezuelan border. Down…

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon: these behemoths have shaped our world. Now, however, the world is shaping them. Faced with a global downturn, a US economy that appears headed for recession and interest rates shooting up across the west, big tech is in big trouble. Last week, Meta – which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram – declared it will sack 11,000 employees – more than 13% of its staff. A week earlier, Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, got rid of half the workforce. In August, Snap, the parent firm of Snapchat, reduced staff by 20%. Amazon has announced a hiring freeze, while the payments-processing platform Stripe is also shedding 14% of its workers. A bleak time lies ahead for many of those employees and their families, as well as the firms…

When Maria Ressa jointly won the Nobel peace prize in 2021 with Russian editor Dmitry Muratov, they were the first journalists to be recognised in this way since 1936. Back then, the German reporter Carl von Ossietzky couldn’t accept because he was in a Nazi concentration camp. “The Norwegian Nobel committee got the right sense,” Ressa tells me, over Zoom from her office in Manila. “They gave the awards to journalists last year and this year to civil society.” The 2022 prize went to human rights advocates from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Her point is that, along with journalists, these are the last ramparts against authoritarianism that’s creeping, not at all slowly, across the globe. “It’s like that Martin Niemöller quote. In the Philippines, as a joke, we’ve been saying…

Redcar les adorables étoiles Christine and the Queens, Because Music In 2016, Christine and the Queens appeared on British TV for the first time. It was one of the great music television debuts: exquisitely choreographed, effortlessly executed. When the artist reemerged as Chris on 2018’s album of the same name, the vision remained immaculate. It all seemed the work of a hugely talented artist in complete control. It makes for a striking and slightly troubling contrast with the arrival of Christine and the Queens’ third album, Redcar les adorables étoiles. A certain confusion surrounds the whole enterprise, which involves the introduction of a new persona, Redcar. Redcar is a masculine figure – the artist at the centre of Christine and the Queens, Héloïse Letissier, recently came out as a trans man…

As he unveiled Tesla’s new humanoid robot, Optimus, this September, Elon Musk spoke with characteristic flamboyance about the device’s potential. “ This means a future of abundance,” he declared. “A future where there is no poverty … It really is a fundamental transformation of civilisation as we know it.” Perhaps deliberately, he was echoing the tone of his company’s namesake, Nikola Tesla, who in the 1890s was making similarly bold claims about his own work-in-progress. With his new system of wireless telegraphy, Tesla insisted, battleships would be controlled remotely, meaning that pretty soon “war would be abolished”. How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon argues that this triumphalist view of the future, so much the norm among Tesla’s contemporaries, led directly to the advances that enabled the moon landings,…

Leonard Barden The 2022 online season ends this weekend in San Francisco, where Magnus Carlsen was favourite for another victory in the $150,000 Meltwater Champions Tour final. Two opponents will have concerned Carlsen most. Wesley So came fresh from his $200,000 triumph in the 64-player Chess.com Global Knockout, while Jan-Krzysztof Duda in 2020 ended Carlsen’s record unbeaten run of 125 games. The Pole has since scored other victories against the world No 1. Will Meltwater be the last Champions Tour? The question must be asked following chess.com’s agreed takeover of Play Magnus, which will come into effect shortly and will raise questions over whether the combined operation can and will be streamlined. The popular chess24.com website, which offers move-by-move coverage of many tournaments and lively chat, could be vulnerable. Although…

No 28,909 Across 1 Perhaps tomorrow Rufus sets cryptic (Saturdays excepted) (6) 4 Shakespearean character’s not large drunk male (6) 9 King’s vehicle reversing in the other direction (4) 10 Nato abandoning borders one time with difficulty (2,1,7) 11 Good looking American robber (6) 12 Scientist, one mistakenly called a monster, not honest about ego (8) 13 Fruit stolen for ammunition (9) 15 Magazine to investigate many European leaders (4) 16 Books about sport going over circuit (4) 17 Healthy wife cooks sole in residence (9) 21 Embodying the ultimate in style, an older model car (8) 22 Fancy Borgian clothing enhanced human (6) 24 It gets a raise if it does its job well (6,4) 25 Stone axes have zero rebound (4) 26 Maiden title included in new deal…