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Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 212 | Issue № 15 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 four editions: global, Europe, 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 community.…

What is Trump’s master plan? The US president wants to revive the manufacturing sector with a mix of protectionist policies, tax cuts and deregulation. Higher tariffs on foreign imports are supposed to encourage investment by US companies and overseas businesses that want to avoid the tariffs. The cash generated by the tariffs will be the source of funds for tax cuts, unlike Trump’s first administration when tax cuts were funded by extra borrowing. Rightwing groups that bankrolled Trump in 2024 want him to bring down debts, insisting the president work harder to balance the books. That’s also the rationale behind cutting government staff numbers. Are more tariffs on the way? There is much more to Trump’s tariff scheme. He has yet to apply tariffs to pharmaceuticals and rare-earth minerals. He…

On the morning of Valentine’s Day 2022, Hannah Hunt stood at the gates of Downing Street to announce the start of a new kind of climate campaign, one that would eschew mere protest and instead move further, into “civil resistance”. Last month, three years and thousands of arrests later, in a neat tie-up exemplary of Just Stop Oil’s love of media-savvy stunt, Hunt went to the same spot again – this time to announce they would be “hanging up the hi-vis”. In the history of UK climate activism, there has been perhaps no more polarising a campaign. Derided as “eco-zealots” in the Daily Mail and condemned as “selfish” by the Sun, which even sent a reporter to testify against them in court, Just Stop Oil (JSO) are as likely to…

Standing amid the ruins of Success, a former sugar plantation in Hanover, rural Jamaica, there is a muted silence, interrupted by the occasional rumble of a vehicle passing, overripe cocoa pods falling to the ground and green iguanas scuttling across dying leaves. Hidden from the lively community just outside its boundaries, the over grown site today is a stark contrast to what would have existed there in the 19th century. One of more than 800 sugar plantations across the island, Success was once co-owned by Sir George Philips, one of the 11 men who financed the launch of the Manchester Guardian in 1821. The evidence of the plantation’s existence is slowly fading. And with it, memory of the horrors experienced by the enslaved Africans held there, toiling under the threat…

On a summer day in Somers, Wisconsin, Dave Giordano heard an unexpected buzzing in his backyard. What he found shocked him – a rusty patched bumblebee nest. The discovery was so rare it made the local news. Once widespread across the mid-west and eastern US, the rusty patched bumblebee has seen its population plunge by nearly 90%, prompting its listing in 2017 as the first federally endangered bumblebee in the US. Each spring, a solitary rusty patched bumblebee queen emerges from hibernation and starts a colony – often in an abandoned rodent burrow. She raises workers through the summer, then shifts to producing males and new queens, or “gynes”. After mating, the gynes burrow into the soil to over-winter, while the rest of the colony dies off. Since the species…

Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust When Donald Trump stood before union auto workers in the Rose Garden, he declared “liberation day”, promising to stand up for Main Street. Whether that pledge will be fulfilled is moot. He will declare victory either way. What the US president offered was not just an economic programme, but an imperial one. Mr Trump’s logic, if it exists, lies in the 397-page report on “foreign trade barriers” he brandished last week. Its message is brutally simple: you may sell your goods to Walmart shoppers, but only if you let US cloud services hoover up your data, US media flood your screens and US tech monopolies operate on their terms – not yours. Mr Trump’s tariffs and economic nationalism are not about correcting trade…

On 11 June 1988, I was 12 and sitting with my family watching the Free Nelson Mandela concert on TV. As a clan, we were old hands at trying to free Mandela, having done our fair share of marching and boycotting over the years, and this concert felt like the culmination of all that. There was a lot of excitement in the room: we squeezed on to the sofa and opened the windows wide. (If the wind’s blowing in the right direction, you can hear a Wembley audience roar from Willesden.) Many world-famous musicians played that day. Most of them I don’t remember, but one I will never forget: Tracy Chapman. I think a lot of people feel that way, though when you rewatch the footage you realise what she…

A tall hedge – a privet – marked the boundary between our front garden and our neighbour Marianne’s. The hedge afforded both a measure of privacy and an illustrative contrast in maintenance regimes: Marianne’s side is always neat and straight; ours shaggy and bulging into the walkway. A couple of years ago the hedge started to die. At first it was easy to ignore. But it got worse, not better. The time came for a difficult conversation with Marianne. “It’s not bouncing back, is it?” she said from her side, through the hole in the hedge. “Whatever it is, it’s spreading that way,” my wife said, pointing toward the road. “Privet can die of many things,” I said, having looked briefly online. “But the advice seems to be to get…

1 Who was the only English monarch to marry a Habsburg? 2 What media company paid $10bn in music royalties in 2024? 3 Which east African country is bottom of the world press freedom rankings?  4 What metal melts at - 38.8C? 5 Which artist, according to HG Wells, “invented a whole cat world”? 6 What is the tallest fence on the Aintree Grand National course? 7 What was first won by the Crossworders in 2008?  8 Which restaurant dynasty’s surname was a basic sauce? What links: 9 A Bend in the River; A Brief History of Seven Killings; To Sir, With Love; Wide Sargasso Sea?  10 Billiard; calabash; churchwarden; cutty; vest pocket? 11 Domenico di Bartolo; Duccio; Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Simone Martini?  12 Electromagnetism; gravity; strong nuclear; weak…

HEALTH Shingles jab may cut risk of dementia by 20%, study finds Researchers who tracked dementia cases in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine reduces the risk of developing the brain disease. Health records of more than 280,000 older adults revealed those who received Zostavax from 2013 were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next seven years than those who went without. After accounting for the fact that not all those eligible for the vaccine received it, researchers led by Pascal Geldsetzer of Stanford University found vaccination brought a 20% reduction in dementia risk. The research is published in Nature. GLOBAL HEATING Banks predict climate boon for air conditioning firms The world is on track for disastrous global heating –…

From world leaders to the tiniest manufacturers thousands of kilometres from Washington, decision-makers across the global economy are racked with uncertainty as they scramble to come to terms with Donald Trump’s historic tariffs. Experts are all but unanimous that the impact on global growth of tariffs will be negative – but just how bad remains highly uncertain. “In economic terms, it makes no sense at all,” said Jordi Gual, the former chair of CaixaBank, Spain’s largest domestic lender, who is now an economics professor at IESE business school in Barcelona. “It is hugely problematic, because we go back to a level we hadn’t seen since the 1930s.” Trump’s announcement that he would impose tariffs of 10% to almost 50% on the US’s largest trading partners – including a 34% additional…

‘Alexlilly1999* has left you feedback!” pings the Vinted notification. “Quite good.” A gut punch. I sit in shock, scrutinising the words in front of me. “Good” is a bit uninspired but “quite” feels both passive-aggressive and viciously spiteful: quite good. Alexlilly1999 has also given me just four stars. It’s a lukewarm write-up considering the dress I sold them was good quality, a brilliant price and shipped quickly. I glare at the review. And then another notification pops up: do I want to leave feedback for the buyer? Well, yes, actually, I do. It’s likely we’ve all, at some stage, been asked to leave feedback online. Called your electricity provider with a query? Please answer a few quick questions about the service you received. Had something delivered by a courier? Please…

ON A FROSTY BRIGHT-BLUE DAY in February 2024, Jeremy Deller was in Dundee, examining severed heads. “How can anyone not be fascinated by a head?” he said. Deller is an elfin figure, 1.65m on a good day, a low-key, unintimidating presence. The only giveaway to his identity as an artist was his slightly dandyish clothing: a KLF T-shirt, a checked neckerchief, lemon-yellow socks and a purple Missoni sweater, which he hurriedly explained, lest he come across as too fancy, he had bought on sale. When he won the Turner prize in 2004 he looked like a dapper schoolboy. Twenty years on, the only indication he was nearing 60 was the way he kept alternating a pair of reading glasses with his sunglasses, toggling them between nose and forehead. Deller, carrying…

WRITE TO US Letters for publication weekly.letters@theguardian.com Please include a full postal address and a reference to the article. We may edit letters. Submission and publication of all letters is subject to our terms and conditions, see: THEGUARDIAN.COM/LETTERS-TERMS Editorial Editor: Graham Snowdon Guardian Weekly, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, UK To contact the editor directly: editorial.feedback@theguardian.com Corrections Our policy is to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please write to guardian.readers@theguardian.comor the readers’ editor, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU, UK Hypocrisy shown by the reaction to Le Pen verdict Marine Le Pen has just got what she asked for, quite literally (Guilty verdict, Spotlight, 4 April). Not so long ago, she advocated total firmness against convicted elected officials: “When are we going to implement…

FILM A Minecraft Movie Dir. Jared Hess Minecraft, even more than most computer games, is what you make of it, an experience generated by the player. So in a way, the idea of making a film set in the Minecraft world is counterintuitive, as it can never replicate what is good about the game. This comedy-fantasy takes aspects of the Minecraft world and uses them as building blocks in a rollicking adventure, giving Jack Black and Jason Momoa carte blanche to be deeply silly. Black plays Steve, a crafter. Momoa is Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison, a washed-up video game champ. We also have Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks) rounding out the good guys squad, but it’s hard for them to make an impression alongside…

In 1966 a woman sat down at the Destruction in Art Symposium at London’s Africa Centre and invited people to cut off her clothes. It was an era when Yves Klein used naked women as paintbrushes and Allen Jones made sculptures of fetishistically dressed women posed as furniture. But Yoko Ono was in control of her own self-sacrifice. It was the third time she’d performed this paradoxically passive action, and each time it was the audience who exposed themselves as they took scissors to her clothing. This was also the beginning of a sojourn in London for the Japanese-born New York artist that would catapult her to global fame. Her exhibition at the Indica Gallery that same year was visited by John Lennon, who climbed one of her artworks, a…

1 Wordpool Find the nearest definition: BALISTRARIA a) old agora in Bali b) random projectiles c) honey badger d) cruciform arrow-slit 2 Word Centre Identify the word(s) in which each asterisk represents a missing letter: **MESA** 3 E pluribus unum Rearrange MESSY IGLOO to make a single word. 4 Same Difference Identify these words that differ only in the letters shown: © CMM2025 Puzzles 1 Wordpool d). 2 Wordcentre naMESAk e. 3 EPU SEISMOLOGY. 4 Same Difference INC LEMENT, INCREMENT…

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LAST THURSDAY EVENING, towards the end of a long week at a textiles factory on the out-skirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Thi Dieu and her husband were watching the news. More than 14,000km away, US president Donald Trump was announcing sweeping, unprecedented tariffs on every country around the world. Nowhere was safe, even the unin-habited Heard Island and McDonald Islands off the western coast of Australia that, for some unexplained reason, were hit with a 10% tariff. His announcement launched a fierce global trade war and triggered a global market meltdown, including on Trump’s own cherished Wall Street, where hundreds of billions of dollars of stock values evaporated. And for Dieu and her husband, it could mean they lose their jobs. They both work for a Taiwanese company…

Acardboard sign reading “Electrician available” hangs outside a house in the Karachi neighbourhood of Shah Latif Town. The name and phone number of a man, along with his expertise in repairing sewing machines and water pumps, is listed underneath. In reality, the electrician is 30-year-old Nazia Seher. The phone number is her husband, Mohammad Rehan. Seher is among 200 certified female electricians trained by a private electricity firm in Karachi under a programme called Roshni Baji (Light Sisters). Launched in 2021, the initiative provides opportunities in Pakistan’s male-dominated energy sector, where women are just 4% of the workforce. “Of the 40 in my class, 10 got job offers in K-Electric,” Seher said, referring to the city’s utility company. It has about 45 female meter-readers, alongside 426 men. “Getting selected for…

Dante’s Inferno By Lorna Goodison “Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state.” Goodison superimposes her beloved Jamaica on to Dante’s hell, evoking the Caribbean region transformed by colonialism, Christianity and natural disasters. Goodison’s Virgil is fearless Miss Lou, the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett-Coverley, who speaks in vivid Caribbean vernacular. Punchy and mission-driven, she is an ingenious invention gifted with unforgettable lines: “Art is Almighty God grandpickney.” Structurally faithful to the original, this is an expert recasting for a different time, place and people: an epoch-making poem. Wellwater By Karen Solie Solie’s new collection ushers us into a world of corporate herbicides and devastating fires, though beauty can be observed in unlikely places. With forensic attentiveness, her poems document “the chemical…

Ready 1 hr Serves 4-6 • VEGAN Ingredients 450g aubergines3 tbsp olive oil, plus a little more400g onions4 cloves garlic2 level tbsp gochujang chilli paste2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes2 x 400g cans haricot beans1 tbsp thyme leavesA pinch sugar For the crust: 100g white bread2 tbsp thyme leaves1 tbsp grated lemon zest5 tbsp olive oil The amount of gochujang chilli paste you use is up to you – I suggest you taste as you go. I start with 1 level tbsp, then increase it by just a little until the heat seems right. Much will depend on your taste, but it is wise to assume that the darker red the paste, the hotter it will be. At least, that is my experience. The sugar seems to calm the more…

Women’s chess takes centre stage this month. In Shanghai and Chongqing, there is an all-Chinese 12-game match for the women’s world crown between Ju Wenjun, 34, the holder, and Tan Zhongyi, 33, the challenger. The pair are closely matched on ratings (2561 to 2555) and level on head-to-head. The prize money pool is $500,000. Last Thursday’s game one, with Ju playing White in a Sicilian Defence, was a routine draw by threefold repetition in 39 moves. On YouTube, there is live commentary from 7am BST each day from the all-time No 1, Judit Polgar, and England’s Jovanka Houska. Ju and Tan are effectively playing a rematch, as Ju won her first world crown in 2017, qualifying to challenge reigning champion Tan and then defeating her in the title series. Next,…