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The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 209 | Issue№ 3 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 laid out by editor CP Scott in 1921, are honesty, integrity, courage, fairness, and a sense of duty to the reader and the…

‘It’s only going to get worse’ Actors’ union hears the cue to join the picket line Page 13 → ‘I suggest you think again’ Studio offer regarding AI criticised for short-changing workers Page 14 → There will be no fresh helpings of The White Lotus, The Last of Us or even Emily in Paris beaming into front rooms come September. Nor will a screen version of the musical Wicked, starring Ariana Grande, be showing in your local cinema early next year. And all shooting on Gladiator 2 in Morocco is likely to be indefinitely paused. After the first weekend of the American screen actors’ strike, the level of frustration registered by film and TV drama fans around the world has dwarfed reactions to the writers’ strike, which started in May. After negotiations…

A Crimean Tatar-led underground movement is active behind Russian lines and hundreds of young Tatar men are ready to take up arms to liberate the occupied peninsula, a veteran community leader has said. Mustafa Dzhemilev, widely seen as the godfather of the Crimean Tatar rights movement, pointed to operations by the Atesh guerrilla group, comprising Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians and Russians, in Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian regions. Atesh, which means “fire” in Crimean Tatar, was created in September last year, primarily to carry out sabotage from within the Russian army. It claims more than 4,000 Russian soldiers have enrolled in an online course on how to “survive the war” by wrecking their own equipment. “Atesh is very deep underground,” Dzhemilev, 79, told the Guardian in an interview in Kyiv. “There…

Teresa de Jesús Cen Requena is washing burgundy okra and a rainbow of freshly dug carrots at Mestiza de Indias, a regenerative agricultural project hidden down a dirt track in the jungle near the Maya village of Espita. “You used to be able to live from your milpa,” the farm worker said, referring to the traditional smallholding. “But now many people from the village go to Cancún because they want modern luxuries. “You can’t buy a mobile phone with a bag of beans but I don’t care – I am connected to this land.” At first glance, life appears largely unchanged in this village on Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. Women wearing huipiles (embroidered tunics) steam tamales (stuffed maize dough) over open fires in houses thatched with palm; men melt into the…

When Lordstown Motors, an electric vehicles (EV) manufacturer in Ohio’s Mahoning valley, declared bankruptcy last month, it was the latest blow to a region that has seen decades of extravagant promises fail to deliver. The 5,000 jobs executives vowed to create in 2020 generated fresh hope for the shuttered General Motors Lordstown plant, which was an economic engine for the area and a critical piece of the American industrial heartland. Local leaders rebranded Mahoning valley “Voltage valley”, claiming the EV revolution would revive the region. Donald Trump, then president, trumpeted a major victory. “The area was devastated when General Motors moved out,” he said. “It’s incredible what’s happened in the area. It’s booming now. It’s absolutely booming.” But Lordstown Motors’ failure and its decision to sue its major investor, the…

‘I’m a 16-year-old orphan from an African country escaping a war and religious persecution and I have a sibling living legally in the UK. What is a safe and legal route for me to come to the UK?” The British home secretary, Suella Braverman, could not answer this question from Conservative MP Tim Loughton last November. One of the many problems with the illegal migration bill ricocheting its way through parliament is that it offers no answers to this question. Last week was a long one for those of us in the Lords scrutinising the bill – not the first to be acclaimed as providing the answers to small boat crossings (the nationality and borders bill promised the same and failed to deliver). “Ping pong”, as it is known, describes…

In his last novel, 2021’s Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead introduced us to Ray Carney, a vibrant creation of fierce contradictions. A family man and respectable businessman, he’s constantly drawn back into the nefarious legacy of his own father’s villainy. As a furniture salesman and occasional receiver of stolen goods, his dual occupations reflect these polarities. His legitimate enterprise is one of modish interiors and the promise of comfort; his crooked side hustle plays out in the harsh exterior and threat of the street. And he’s not just holding it together in his own being – he’s somehow making sense of the chaotic environment of 1960s New York. “He was a wall between the criminal world and the straight world,” it is stated early on, “necessary, bearing the load.” This juxtaposition…

Across 7 Redesigned green bin for starter (8) 9 Scottish chieftain going after English — that’s a gas! (6) 10 Quit strike force (4) 11 Leave additional guidance for those obsessed (3,3,4) 12 By means of gravity, artist creates something arousing (6) 14 Find out about dead becoming bloated (8) 15 Transport used by some in metropolitan demography (6) 17 One showing a desire for essentially deadly sadism acts (6) 20 Illumination needed for blatant hold-up? (8) 22 Little Christopher at school that’s in poor taste (6) 23 Amazon and Google, perhaps, stir up bad manners (5,5) 24 Extremely banal operatic group (4) 25 You must be broke being on such drugs (6) 26 Realises old wives are appealing inside (8) Down 1 Artist beset by duke, one demanding women’s…

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When the result of the Hollywood actors’ strike ballot was announced last Thursday, the big-name stars of Oppenheimer left the film’s London premiere. This show of solidarity by Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh was a demonstration of the far-reaching effects of creatives taking to the picket lines. For our big story, arts reporter Vanessa Thorpe looks at what the historic joint walkout by writers and actors means for movie-goers and TV viewers, the stars, lesser-known actors and technicians struggling to make a living. And we look at what lies behind the dispute with our film editors and Los Angeles reporter Lois Beckett. The big story Page 10 → As southern Europe, countries in Asia and the southern US swelter in truly frightening temperatures, the awful reality of climate change…

Councils are joining paediatricians in calling for a ban on disposable vapes owing to the environmental damage they cause and the soaring number of young people using them. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, said urgent action was needed to save taxpayers’ money – single-use e-cigarettes are costly to recycle – protect the planet and keep children safe. With the EU proposing a ban from 2026 and France due to introduce one this December, there are concerns that more vapes could flood into the UK. Single-use vapes, from brands such as Elf Bar and Lost Mary, have soared in popularity in recent years, and since 2021 the proportion of 11-to 18-year-olds vaping (7.6%) has been greater than that of smoking (3.6%). The latest survey…

The Dojima branch of Yoshinoya in Osaka is doing a roaring lunch trade. As one diner vacates their seat at the counter, another takes their place, while staff take just seconds to assemble the next order of the restaurant’s trademark dish: gyūdon. I joined the rush, ordering a set lunch of seasoned beef and onion on rice, and side dishes of pickled cabbage and miso soup – all for an extremely affordable ¥632 ($4.50). A bowl of gyūdon is the lunch of choice for time-poor office workers on a budget, even after the chain – which has about 1,200 outlets – raised the dish’s price in 2021 for the first time in seven years. But the enthusiasm with which they demolish bowl after bowl of the salty, satisfying dish masks…

‘This is going to be the biggest and best ever Women’s World Cup.” There is no need to attribute the quote because it has come out of the mouth of almost every Fifa official, coach, player and pundit as the clock has ticked down and tournament fever has ramped up. What’s more: it is true. This Women’s World Cup, which kicked off on Thursday and is being cohosted by New Zealand and Australia, is the biggest in history with the competition expanded from 24 to 32 teams. Eight countries are making their World Cup debuts. And, with Fifa targeting a global audience of two billion, it is likely to be the biggest in that respect too. That it will be the best is somewhat inevitable as well, the consequence of…

Who is responsible for the United States’ opioid epidemic? According to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, the culprits are “transnational criminal enterprises” who need to be tackled via international law enforcement operations. But according to Chinese state media, “the fentanyl crisis in the United States is demand-driven”, primarily by “the users themselves”. Blinken was speaking at the launch of a US-led coalition to address synthetic drug threats, which gathered virtually this month. China, which many US lawmakers blame for the crisis, declined to participate. As a string of US officials visit China this summer, the Americans are hoping that Beijing will do more to crack down on businesses and individuals that sell fentanyl precursors to international drugs cartels. Precursors are the chemicals that can be mixed into the…

ALF DUBS Cruelty is no solution for refugee crisis Page 48 → According to Google’s news search, the media has run more than 10,000 stories this year about Phillip Schofield, the British television presenter who resigned over an affair with a younger colleague. Google also records a global total of five news stories about a scientific paper published this month, showing that the chances of simultaneous crop losses in major growing regions, caused by climate breakdown, appear to have been dangerously underestimated. In mediaworld, celebrity gossip is thousands of times more important than existential risk. The new paper explores effects on crop production when meanders in the jet stream become stuck. Stuck patterns cause extreme weather. To put it crudely, if you live in the northern hemisphere and a kink…

One day in 1978, Janine Wiedel found hell a few streets south of Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham. “The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it,” she says. In her native US, she’d photographed Black Panthers and student protests at Berkeley in California, but neither prepared her for this industrial inferno, on which one-time West Midlands resident JRR Tolkien reputedly based Mordor. Inside Smiths’ Drop Forgings were nine 35-hundredweight (around 1,800kg) hammers worked by some of the filthiest men she’d ever seen. The forge had been in operation since 1910 and was typical of the small firms that made the city proudly define itself as the workshop of the world and the city of a thousand trades. This particular forge made couplings for articulated lorries.…

How to deal, psychologically speaking, with Boris Johnson and Donald Trump? For obvious reasons, many of us have spent years telling ourselves that these men are outrageous anomalies, mere boils on the face of the body politic. Of course boils are nasty, but we take comfort in the fact that they may also be treated. The state – I won’t say deep state – will carefully apply its very own brand of topical antibiotics, and the inflammation will eventually disappear, smoothness restored at last. But is this really true? The writer Ferdinand Mount doesn’t believe that Johnson and Trump are exceptional and, in his brilliant new book, he sets out to put them in context, looking for traces of their tactics and effects in Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon Bonaparte,…

Across 1 Sash worn with formal attire (10) 7 Natural and free from synthetic products (7) 8 Panorama (5) 10 Grime (4) 11 Recover (8) 13 Shrub used in hedges (6) 15 Of Cambridge University (abbr) (6) 17 Rocky (8) 18 Indian dress (4) 21 What comes last (5) 22 US state (7) 23 Greek Titan who stole fire from Olympus — the supremo (anag) (10) Down 1 Thick smoke? (5) 2 Vamp (4) 3 Be more than (6) 4 From Munich, say (8) 5 In its early stages (7) 6 Stendhal or Molière, for example (3,2,5) 9 Pre-1991 Asian soviet on the Caspian Sea (10) 12 Cable (8) 14 Someone having private information (7) 16 Floating freely (6) 19 Pile up (5) 20 Border (4) Solution No 16,586…

1 RUSSIA Kerch Bridge struck again as hopes of grain deal end Twin explosions damaged the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia in the early hours of Monday morning, killing two people. But by late evening, one lane of the road was partially re-opened to traffic. The heavily guarded road and rail link is among the Kremlin’s most important and high-prestige infrastructure projects, and the only overland link directly from Russia to occupied Crimea. The apparent attack is the second time that the bridge has been targeted since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia said its decision not to extend the Black Sea grain deal was final and that no more talks were planned. The statement followed comments from the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to the effect that…

PUBLIC SECTOR Sunak offers at least 6% pay rise to public sector workers Millions of public sector workers will be given a pay rise of at least 6%, but government departments have been told to fund the rise from within existing budgets. Police officers, junior doctors and teachers in England are among those who would benefit after Rishi Sunak accepted all the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies. The highest pay rise, 7%, will go to police officers, funded partly by the Home Office increasing the cost of work and study visas. While millions will be offered at least 6%, others will not. A reduction in hiring civil servants in the Ministry of Defence until 2025 will be used to meet a 5% pay boost for armed forces personnel.…

Who is on strike? The strike was called last Thursday morning by US actors’ union Sag-Aftra (which was formed in 2012 after a merger between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), after the breakdown in negotiations with the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), which represents the studio bosses. Sag-Aftra has about 160,000 members: actors in film and TV shows, video game performers, radio presenters, models and YouTube influencers. Technically the union only covers the US, but its Global Rule One demands members pull out of any production anywhere in the world. What does Sag-Aftra want? And why can’t they get it? One of the union’s main roles is to negotiate terms with the studios: the last major agreement was signed…

Why is Spain holding a snap general election this weekend? Spain was due to go to the polls in November, four years after the last general election. But its socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, surprised everyone in May by calling an election for 23 July, after his party’s poor showing in local and regional polls. Faced with a resurgent opposition conservative People’s party (PP), Sánchez brought forward the election to avoid months of wear and tear to his coalition minority government. How has Sánchez’s administration fared over the past four years? When the Spanish Socialist Workers party (PSOE) reached agreement with the far-left Unidas Podemos alliance in January 2020, Spain got its first coalition government in 80 years. The coalition would hail its achievements as the relatively good state of…

First the soldiers came for those with mohawks. Then they came for the hairdressers themselves. “They were good kids,” quips the narrator in one of the latest tales by Michelle Recinos, “although I’d never trusted them with my hair.” The roundup unfolds in Barberos en huelga (Barbers on Strike), a short story by the Salvadoran author in which she chronicles a nation’s descent into repression and paranoia. The disturbing satire is set in a fictional place called San Carlos. But her real-life inspiration is obvious to anyone who has been following the 17-month crackdown in El Salvador. And the critique appears to have upset the government. Recinos’s collection of short stories was due to feature at a book fair in neighbouring Guatemala celebrating Salvadoran literature. But, according to the author…

1 Alyssa Thompson 18 | USA | Forward A possible replacement for the injured Mallory Swanson, with whom she shares game-changing dribbling ability and accurate shooting. Has just finished high school, shuttling between Angel City training and English class on weekdays. Bryan Armen Graham 2 Mary Fowler 20 | Australia | Midfielder Fowler’s ability has had coaches raving for years. Made her debut for the Matildas as a 15-year-old, though her meteoric rise has hit a speedbump after struggling for gametime at Manchester City. Joey Lynch 3 Chiamaka Nnadozie 22 | Nigeria | Goalkeeper In 2019 against South Korea, Nnadozie made history by becoming the youngest woman to keep a clean sheet at a World Cup finals (aged 18 years and 186 days). She has gone on to establish herself…

When five-year-old Benedict Blythe woke up on the morning of 1 December 2021, he was excited that Christmas was coming. He came downstairs to open the first box in his Advent calendar containing a plastic springy frog and a dairy-free white chocolate (Benedict was allergic to milk, along with many other foods including soy, sesame, eggs and nuts). It was Benedict’s first term at school – Barnack primary in the English town of Stamford in Lincolnshire – and he loved it so much that he had cried when he learned that there were no classes at the weekend. That morning, he went off cheerfully to school with a small packet of dairyfree McVitie’s Gingerbread Men for snack time. He seemed happy and healthy when he arrived but by the afternoon,…

When floods swept Europe in July 2021, killing more than 200 people in Germany, Belgium and neighbouring countries, it was a disaster that came as the climate crisis was moving to the top of Europe’s political agenda. All of a sudden, climate was no longer an abstract threat that could be batted into a distant future; it was already here, causing shocking weather events, destroying lives and leaving people homeless. In 2021, measurable progress towards the goal of net zero emissions by 2050 began to be made. The EU didn’t just limit itself to ambitious targets, enshrined in laws and regulations. It also put its money where its mouth was. Neither the pandemic nor Russia’s invasion of Ukraine distracted its focus. As a result of the pandemic, the EU agreed…

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Recipes often suggest that the meat, fish or vegetable element is best cooked on a barbecue. Can I get close to that result indoors? Justin, Bournemouth, England, UK Well, yes and no. “How grilling works is that the fat drips on to the coals below and it smokes, which permeates the meat. So you can’t really recreate that, for obvious reasons,” says David Carter, chef-founder of Smokestak in London. That said, there are a few tactics Justin can deploy to get close. The first and simplest, says Jack Stein, chef-director at Rick Stein Restaurants, is to use a griddle pan: “It gives you the ability to get those charred bar marks on whatever you’re cooking.” That’s the route Patrick Williams, chef-patron of Kudu Collective in south-east London, would take for…

Pleaching, it’s called – the interweaving of live saplings as foundation for field-hedges. In this part of Wales, the plants most commonly used are hazel, holly, elder, sweet briar and hawthorn. An occasional oak provides shade for livestock on days of summer heat, when tails lash across twitching flanks where biting flies cluster. Elsewhere in Wales, laburnum and blackthorn are in widespread use. The non-native laburnum is an 18th-century import from South America, chiefly found in Carmarthenshire. The toxicity of the plant ensures that cattle will not browse and thus weaken the hedges. Every winter tractors crawl along Welsh lanes, cutting blades attached to their hydraulics to pare back summer growth. The sturdy woven structure of the hedges is laid bare to view. Heifers and ewes probe at gaps, but…