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Terry Hall Lead singer of the Specials who became one of pop’s defining voices at the end of the 70s, chronicling British decline and disenfranchised youth with the 2 Tone band. He died on 18 December, aged 63. Mirosław Hermaszewski Pilot who circled Earth in the Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978 as Poland’s only cosmonaut. He died on 12 December, aged 81. Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Dancer and DJ on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. He died on 13 December, aged 40. Martin Duffy British musician who played keyboards with Primal Scream and the Charlatans. He died on 19 December, aged 55. Herbert Deutsch Composer and co-inventor of the Moog synthesiser. He died on 9 December, aged 90.…

A once-in-a-decade deal to halt the destruction of the Earth’s eco-systems was signed early on Monday by governments at the Cop15 summit in Montreal after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) dropped its opposition. Ève Bazaiba, the DRC environment minister, had initially threatened to throw the integrity of the historic UN biodiversity agreement into doubt when China’s summit president appeared to ignore her country’s objections to the text. Speaking to the Guardian on Monday morning, Bazaiba said she did not support the deal because of the incident, throwing into doubt action on targets to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030, reform $500bn of environmentally damaging subsidies, and take urgent action on extinction. A once-in-a-decade deal Indigenous rights and digital buy-in, page 12 → The DRC is…

Whodunnit? He did it. Donald Trump – businessman, celebrity president, golfer and digital trading card star – is also a likely criminal, the congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol concluded on Monday. The committee’s referral of Trump to the justice department on multiple potential charges could not be described as a surprise after 18 months of work spanning 10 public hearings, more than a thousand interviews, millions of documents and some leaks to the media. Yet take a step back and consider how it will look to future historians. A former president stands accused by Congress of obstructing an official proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to make a false statement and inciting, assisting or aiding or comforting an insurrection. “We understand the…

AI reveals new antibiotics Over the course of the past few years, AI has transformed the field of molecular biology. The revolution started with the AlphaFold algorithm, which rapidly predicts the complex three-dimensional structures of proteins, thus aiding the understanding of protein functions and the identification of drug targets. This year, AI has achieved another breakthrough, this time at the other end of the drug discovery pipeline: several groups in 2022 have reported the first successful applications of AI to identify novel antibiotic drugs. Antimicrobial resistance is a major global threat. This year, the global research on antimicrobial resistance report published in the Lancet indicated that, worldwide, 4.95m deaths were associated with drug-resistant bacteria in 2019, making untreatable infections one of the leading causes of death. Developing new drugs that…

21 APRIL 1926 • 8 SEPTEMBER 2022 It happened almost by accident. I was supposed to be shooting with the Princess Royal at Windsor. (We had become friends in the 70s when we both won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.) The princess was called away to another engagement and it turned out that the Queen would be hosting instead. At the shoot, we talked about my grandfather being a gamekeeper. I was friends with one of the head keepers at Sandringham, Bill Meldrum, who looked after and trained the Queen’s dogs, and Her Majesty saw Bill as someone very special. After that, she often invited me to shoot, both at Sandringham House and at Wood Farm [a farm-house on the Sandringham estate]. Wood Farm was a more…

The time has come to ask whether, objectively speaking, Vladimir Putin is an agent of American imperialism. For no American has ever done half as much damage to what Putin calls the “Russian world” as the Russian leader himself has. This thought came to me recently when I was in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, talking to Ukrainians made refugees in their own country by Putin’s war. “I was a Russian speaker until 24 February, ” said Adeline, an art student from the now Russian-occupied town of Nova Kakhovka, referencing the date of Russia’s full-scale invasion earlier this year. Russia has failed to take over Ukrainian culture, she said, so now it has set out to kill it. Tetiana, a refugee from the ruthlessly bombed and destroyed city of Mariupol,…

Courts in Turkey generally bow to the wishes of the country’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This is not surprising, given his purges of judges and prosecutors during his two decades in power. So last week’s court verdict sentencing Istanbul’s popular opposition mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, to more than two years in jail and banning him from public life followed a familiar pattern. That this decision was politically motivated goes without saying. Little of importance happens in Mr Erdoğan’s Turkey without his direction or consent. In short, a working-class populist who began life as a reformer fighting for social justice has developed into a cantankerous bully. For Mr Erdoğan, politics is personal – and Mr İmamoğlu represents possibly the biggest threat to his re-election hopes in next year’s presidential poll. Mr…

Landscapers (Sky) tells the tale of an English couple who shot their parents and buried them in the garden. Despite the macabre premise it’s a treat from director Will Sharpe, blending fantasy, surrealism and the opaque horrors of British suburbia. Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are remarkable as murderers-indenial Susan and Christopher Edwards. I was also gripped by The Bear (Disney+), a drama about a Chicago sandwich bar inherited by a gourmet chef (excellently played by Jeremy Allen White), and his efforts to transform the family business while processing his brother’s suicide. The kitchen scenes won’t help your blood pressure, but I binged on the series as one might with the store’s Original Beef sandwiches. Graham Snowdon, editor Julia Garner carried the story of Anna Delvey née Sorokin with a…

EVOLUTION Human ancestors may have become bipedal in tree tops The ancestors of humans may have begun moving on two legs to forage for food among the treetops in open habitat, researchers have suggested, contradicting the idea that the behaviour arose as an adaptation to spending more time on the ground. Writing in the journal Science Advances, the researchers from the UK and US report how they spent 15 months studying 13 chimpanzees living in Issa Valley in western Tanzania, an environment similar to that experienced by our ancient ancestors. The results reveal that while bipedal behaviour accounted for less than 1% of recorded postures, only 14% related to chimpanzees on the ground. BIOLOGY Snakes have clitorises, find taboo-busting researchers Female snakes have clitorises, scientists studying the animal’s sex organs…

The Kunming-Montreal pact is a series of agreements ranging from scientific cooperation to humanwildlife conflict. Here are the main points in the once-in-a-decade deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. Agreement to conserve 30% of Earth by the end of the decade Inspired by the Harvard biologist EO Wilson’s vision of protecting half the planet for the long-term survival of humanity, the most high-profile target at Cop15 has inspired and divided in equal measure. The final wording commits governments to conserving nearly a third of Earth for nature by 2030 while respecting Indigenous and traditional territories in the expansion of new protected areas. The language emphasises the importance of effective conservation management to ensure wetlands, rainforests, grasslands and coral reefs are properly protected, not just on paper. Indigenous rights…

Qatar finished hosting its tournament having very recently been declared “a frontrunner in labour rights”. “Today,” the declaration in question continued, “the World Cup in Qatar is proof of how sports diplomacy can achieve a historic transformation of a country.” It feels only mildly unfortunate that the member of the European parliament who uttered these words three weeks ago is currently detained by Belgian police, after the discovery of almost €1m ($1.06m) in banknotes in her marital home and a hotel room used by her father. After all, this has been a successful World Cup. Qatar has won many plaudits. This timing is a freak coincidence. Before we go on, I should, of course, say there has never been any incontrovertible evidence uncovered that links Qatar to corruption in securing…

6 JULY 1952 • 22 SEPTEMBER 2022 Hilary and her husband, Gerald, came into my life nine years ago, yet it feels as though I’ve always known them. It was the autumn of 2013 at the Royal Shakespeare Company rehearsal rooms in London. I had been cast as Thomas Cromwell in the stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, and the company had met for a read-through. I had devoured the novels that year and, somewhat starstruck, I approached Hilary, who was sitting with Gerald close by. I told her that her stories had made me rethink what it meant to be English. She absorbed this with a genial “Oh”, accompanied by a nod, a smile and a look into the middle distance. Gerald did likewise with…

The 2022 Guardian agency photographer of the year 2022 Millions of images pass through our system each year, and it is an overwhelming task to select a shortlist of our favourite photographers from all of those who have enriched our global coverage. Evgeniy Maloletka War came to Evgeniy Maloletka’s native Ukraine early in 2022. He had been covering the development of the conflict from well before the eventual Russian invasion in February. Working consistently for Associated Press throughout the year, most notably he was among the few journalists and photographers who remained in Mariupol covering the siege in March. Evgeniy was based in Kharkiv, 40km from some of the tens of thousands of Russian troops massed at the border with Russia as diplomatic efforts to find a solution ahead of…

Our critics’ selection of the year’s best films and albums PLUS → The Guardian Weekly team’s must-see TV of 2022 10 Decision to Leave Our addiction to Korean cinema intensified this year with this gorgeous movie from Park Chan-wook. It is a sensational black-widow noir, featuring a cop called Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) who is investigating the mysterious death of a man whose body is found at the bottom of a well-known climbing rock. Did he fall? Was he pushed? In pursuing the case, Hae-joon finds himself falling for the man’s widow, delectably played by the Chinese star Tang Wei – feelings that may well be getting more intense the more he suspects that she is guilty. And in every corner ofthis detective’s life, the director finds a variation on a…

1 Britain’s Brexit king Nigel Farage returned from political limbo and suggested another referendum on what? a) Abolishing the House of Lords b) Net-zero targets c) Withdrawing from Nato d) Re joining the EU 2 Boris Johnson caused outrage at the Conservative party’s spring conference when he compared the EU referendum to what? a) The Normandy landings b) The film Sophie’s Choice c) The war in Ukraine d) The persecution of Jesus 3 In one of 2022’s more peculiar Brexit headlines, it was alleged that new trade laws had “squashed” which UK industry? a) Highlighter pens b) Lip fillers c) Edible insects d) Vibrators 4 During a press conference with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, then-UK foreign secretary Liz Truss apparently said the UK would never recognise Russia’s sovereignty over the…

It was once a superstition only among Ukrainian air crew: the word “last”, especially in the context of a last or final meeting, should be avoided as it denotes a premonition of death. In its place air crew would say krajne, which translates very roughly to English as “on the edge”. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, krajne has gained far wider usage, employed by soldiers and some civilians in a country where everyone knows someone serving at the front. The conflict is spawning a new lexicon. Some of the words and phrases that have entered wider usage in Ukrainian society date back to the beginning of the war in 2014, others to military usage in the Soviet era, military slang that has become popularised again, and others are entirely…

30 MARCH 1950 • 14 OCTOBER 2022 It’s a long time since I was in touch with Robbie Coltrane. But I loved him so. He was a complicated man. Robbie had quite a sour, angry look at the world in many ways. I think that’s what gave him a depth in his acting that was quite stupendous. One of the problems about Harry Potter is that it tends to obliterate the other things you do. But Robbie was so much more than Hagrid. He made you laugh on both sides of your face, so to speak; he saw the pain of life as well. And I think his last years were not happy. He retreated from the world a bit. I wasn’t in touch with him, but we didn’t stop…

26 JANUARY 1935 • 8 JUNE 2022 I first met Paula Rego in 1985 – I came over from Portugal as an au pair to help with her husband [the artist Victor Willing] who had multiple sclerosis. Her children were grown up so I didn’t have to look after them. It was a great time. I got on with Paula from the start. I first set eyes on her Ias she was about to head out to the theatre – she was very glamorous. She said “Hello” briefly and added that she was sorry to be leaving and told me she’d see me later that evening or the following day. I went out and, when I got back, Paula was having a glass of champagne with one of her daughters,…

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Painless has the intimacy of late-night voicenotes, with the potential for regret lingering like stale smoke 10 Nilüfer Yanya Painless Nilüfer Yanya has always thrilled by keeping us guessing. After a handful of EPs that set her up as a King Krule type, fiddling around in a jazzy indie haze, the Londoner’s debut album, 2019’s Miss Universe, built a minor alt-pop classic around, loosely, the concept of a dystopian health corporation and a wellness hotline. Her second album, Painless, honed her vision. This one took longer to needle its way under my skin, but when it got there, it hooked on and refused to let go. This is a more muscular version of Yanya’s sound, with more space and fewer adornments. She steps up to the challenge of having nowhere…

QUIZ Thomas Eaton 1 Which polymath scammed the French lottery in 1730? 2 Dutch monarchs are buried in what city’s Nieuwe Kerk? 3 What produces a pyroclastic flow? 4 In US presidential politics, what is a “faithless elector”? 5 Which philosopher won the Booker prize? 6 The world’s population passed what milestone in November? 7 Lasting from 1958 until 1971, what was the UAR? 8 What economic phenomena can be cost push or demand pull? What links: 9 Fellowes; Turpin; Hathaway; Soros; Mallett? 10 Hello; OK; Kerrang; Shoot? 11 Bixby; Cortana; Siri; Alexa? 12 Ap; bar; bin; Fritz; Mac? 13 Alanis Morissette; Whoopi Goldberg; Morgan Freeman; George Burns? 14 First to Seventh; Barons’; Albigensian; Northern? 15 Indian; Javan; Sumatran; white; black? PUZZLES Chris Maslanka 1 Wordpool Find the correct definition:…