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Pride and prejudice Hungary Pride participants cross the Elisabeth Bridge last Sunday in Budapest, where tens of thousands of people heeded a call by the city’s progressive mayor, Gergely Karácsony, to “come calmly and boldly to stand together for freedom, dignity and equal rights” despite a government ban on the march. The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol213 | Issue№ 1 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia, and the Guardian newspaper in the UK. 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…

Floats my boat ‘Newton Bridge over the Grand Union canal in Leicestershire – a delightful section of our undervalued canal system. My partner and I live on a boat, the Toucan, as constant cruisers. The winters are just as good as the summer.’ Do you have a recently taken picture you’d like to share with Guardian Weekly? Scan the QR code or visit theguardian.com/pictures-guardian-weekly and we’ll print your best submissions…

The genteel west Norfolk village of Marham does not seem to be at the forefront of Britain’s military might. On a visit by the Guardian last month, a dance class was about to start in the village hall, a game of crown green bowls was under way and swallows swooped around the medieval church tower as wood pigeons cooed. “It’s a lovely, quiet little village,” said Nona Bourne as she watched another end of bowls in a match between Marham and nearby Massingham. Like many, Bourne is troubled by the news that last week thrust Marham to the frontline of UK’s nuclear arsenal, in the biggest expansion of the programme for a generation. Without consultation, RAF Marham is to be equipped with new F-35A jets capable of carrying warheads with…

The first indication that something was wrong came when the clock on the flight deck began to change time. The aircraft was cruising thousands of metres above Israel and as the crew noticed the error, they checked their GPS signal. The plane’s internal instruments showed it was flying at just 500 metres, well below the cruising altitude of 11,500 metres they should have been at. Seconds later, alarms began to sound and lights flashed throughout the cockpit. “Our terrain avoidance system sprang into action, warning us that we were heading for a collision with the mountainous terrain,” the plane’s pilot said. Over years of flying, it had been drilled into the crew to pull back on the controls when such an alarm sounded, but on this occasion the pilot took…

Until recently, the drive up the mountainous road to Landour was a highlight of a visit to the hilltop town, as drivers enjoyed glorious Himalayan views and breathed in the cool forest air. Today, the journey is something to be endured with up to 1,000 cars a day clogging the narrow, winding road – slowing to navigate hairpin bends. A journey that once took five to six hours from Delhi can now take up to 10 hours, especially at weekends in May and June. Sitting in the foothills of the Himalayas at an altitude of more than 2,100 metres, Landour, a town of fewer than 4,000 people, was built by the British Indian army in the early 1820s as a convalescence station, thanks to its cooler temperatures. Although it is…

‘Daddy’s home.” So said a White House social media post, accompanied by a video featuring the song Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home) by Usher and images of Donald Trump at the Nato summit in The Hague. The US president’s fundraising allies were quick to market $35 T-shirts with his image and the word after Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general, referred to Trump’s criticism of Israel and Iran over violations of a ceasefire by quipping: “And then Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get [them to] stop.” Yet even as Trump seeks to project an image of global patriarch, there are signs of trouble on the home front. His polling numbers are down. His party is struggling to pass his signature legislation. Millions of people have marched in protest…

IT WAS, ALMOST, A PROUD FEMINIST MOMENT. On inauguration day in January, the unthinkable happened. President Trump, the biggest ego on the planet, was upstaged by a woman in a white trouser suit – the proud uniform of Washington feminists, worn by Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in solidarity with the traditional colour of the suffragettes. In the event, the white trouser suit barely got a mention. The show was stolen by what was underneath: Lauren Sá nchez’s cleavage, cantilevered under a wisp of white lace. The breasts of the soon-to-be Mrs Jeff Bezos were the ceremony’s breakout stars. The only talking point that came close was Mark Zuckerberg’s inability to keep his eyes off them. Call it a curtain raiser for a year in which breasts have…

This summer’s “ rebuild, rebuild, rebuild” campaign by the government feels less like a policy programme than a seance. Promising renewal, Keir Starmer instead channels the ghosts of governments past. As Karl Marx put it, people make history but not in circumstances of their own choosing; they do so haunted by dead ideas, dressing the future in secondhand costume. Labour wears what was fashionable in 1997 and 2010: Gordon Brown’s technocratic reverence for central bank independence and George Osborne’s devotion to fiscal rectitude. The global order that sustained Britain’s post-1979 model is cracking. International trade peaked in 2008. The promise of seamless globalisation – of frictionless finance and footloose production – has faded. As the US embraces a form of economic nationalism, Britain – which is dependent on capital inflows,…

I’m an avid consumer of pickles. When I’ve finished a jar, how can I use the brine in my cooking? Last year, Dua Lipa poured Diet Coke into an ice-filled glass, topped it up with the brine from a tub of pickles (plus a few rogue pickles) and a tub of jalapeños, swirled it around, then drank it. While someone under the viral TikTok video asked, “Dua, is everything OK?”, the pop star is right about one thing: it’s time we start thinking of pickle brine as an ingredient, rather than a byproduct. “The brine retains all of that delicious pickle flavour,” says Moon Lee, head chef of no-waste restaurant Silo in London, “ and a mixture of sweet and savoury undertones.” Also, because it’s fermented, “it has an almost…

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1 UNITED STATES Memo reveals crimes could lead to revoked citizenship A justice department memo has codified the Trump administration’s efforts to prioritise denaturalisation for naturalised citizens who commit certain crimes. The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s citizenship if they “illegally procured” naturalisation or procured naturalisation by “concealment of a material fact or by wilful misrepresentation”. At the centre of the move are the estimated 25 million US citizens who were born abroad, according to data from 2023, and it lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalisation. The memo claims such efforts will focus on those who are involved “in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses … [and] naturalised criminals,…

When her husband left to help defend Ukraine against Russia’s invasion in 2022, Yulia stayed at home with their toddler. She describes being overcome by a feeling of “numbness”. Amid a multitude of strains on life in Ukraine after three long years of war, Yulia’s family have managed to survive the pressures, helped by a group that offers war-damaged families supportive counselling. Others have not been so lucky. While there are no official figures, anecdotal evidence points to a growing number of relationship stresses and families that have broken up. From absence when wives and children have fled abroad, to the enforced separation when service at the front means men might only get home for a short period of leave once a year, there are a variety of factors driving…

‘These women have got a huge history and totally understand how high the stakes are’ In August 1981, 36 people, mainly women, walked from Wales to RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire to protest against the storing of US cruise missiles in the UK. They were alarmed about the imminent threat the weapons posed for themselves and for their children, they later said. In the wake of the UK government’s announcement last week that it plans to significantly expand its nuclear arsenal by buying a squadron of American fighter jets capable of carrying US tactical warheads, key figures at Greenham hope a new generation of campaigners will take up the baton. Ann Pettitt, now 78, devised the original idea for a march that led to the formation of the camp. At…

After 19 years of commuting to Denmark from Sweden, Helen Sjögren is so used to crossing the bridge, she identifies as Scandinavian rather than Swedish. The researcher at a Danish pharmaceutical company lives in the Swedish university town of Lund with her three children but has become accustomed to Danish working practices, and the idea of working in Sweden is now difficult to imagine. “Because I’m Swedish, colleagues would expect me to behave like a Swede. So I would be seen as rude – too direct to fit in Sweden,” she said. Danes, she has found, are much more direct, while Swedes seek consensus. “I really like the Danish mentality and way of being. ” At work, she and her colleagues speak slightly adapted versions of Swedish and Danish so…

Nairobi national park in Kenya is the only large wildlife conservation area to fall within a capital city. It is hemmed in on three sides by human development, and unfenced only on its southern boundary – this gap provides a crucial wildlife passageway, linking the park’s animals to other populations of wildlife and wider gene pools. The gap, however, is also home to a small Maasai community, where farmers face an agonising choice between protecting livestock from predators and making space for them. The pastoralists leave tracts of land open, despite the dangers, allowing the flow of wild animals to avoid what scientists call an “ecological extinction” via a shrinking gene pool. “Our forefathers found the wild animals here,” said 55-year-old Isaac ole Kishoyian, a resident of Empakasi, a small…

Most visitors to Texada Island, a 50km sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 900-metre air strip that welcomes the occasional chartered plane. But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly 5km across the Malaspina Strait. The exhausted young bear, named “Tex” by locals, hauled himself ashore on 25 May, unleashing a fierce dispute between residents, conservation officers and First Nations over his future. Before his odyssey, the bear was known to conservation officers on the mainland, who had twice been forced to relocate him to avoid conflicts with human residents. On both occasions, he returned to…

Let’s attempt something delicate: talking about age without slipping into ageism. Never before in modern history have those with the fate of the world in their hands been so old. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are both 72. Narendra Modi is 74, Benjamin Netanyahu 75, Donald Trump 79, and Ali Khamenei is 86. Thanks to advances in medical science, people are able to lead longer, more active lives – but we are now also witnessing a frightening number of political leaders tightening their grip on power as they get older, often at the expense of their younger colleagues. Last week, at their annual summit, the leaders of Nato – including Emmanuel Macron and Mette Frederiksen (both 47), Giorgia Meloni (48) and Pedro Sánchez (53) – were forced to swallow Trump’s…

Disney, Pixar … Ghibli. For its legions of admirers, the Japanese studio hasn’t just held its own against the American powerhouses, it has surpassed them with the impossible beauty of its hand-drawn animation and its commentary on the ambivalence of the human condition. Although he would refuse to acknowledge it, much of Studio Ghibli’s success is down to one man: Hayao Miyazaki, a master animator whose presence towers over the studio’s output. Now, as the studio marks its 40th anniversary, it faces an uncertain future. Roland Kelts, a visiting professor at the school of culture, media and society at Waseda University, says Ghibli had failed to anticipate a time when Miyazaki, who is 84, would no longer be at the helm, even after the succession question grew more urgent following…

Two years ago, Alisa Perales sued California and the US government because they wouldn’t let her vote. The academically gifted Perales, who was eight years old at the time, argued that the rule excluding under-18s from democracy, which is enshrined in the US constitution, amounted to age discrimination. Her case was thrown out, but it wasn’t the first time the voting age was challenged and it won’t be the last. The issue of whether the limit should be removed entirely has been raised periodically since at least the 19th century, and the ageless voting movement has been gaining momentum since political philosopher John Wall wrote a manifesto for it in 2021. More recently, children’s author and education researcher Clémentine Beauvais published a short tract in her native France making the…

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LABOUR Starmer says foreign affairs distracted him from revolt Keir Starmer said he did not get a grip on a Labour rebellion over disability benefits earlier because he was focused on foreign affairs. The prime minister acknowledged he had not got it right, and said he would have wanted to make the concessions earlier. “I’d have liked to get to a better position with colleagues sooner than we did,” Starmer said in an interview with the Sunday Times. “I’m putting this as context rather than an excuse.” He insisted there had been “a lot of outreach” over the bill to backbench MPs but acknowledged more should have been done. “Would I rather have been able to get to a constructive package with colleagues earlier? Yeah, I would. [But] I believe…

The Friday night before election day, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist running for mayor of New York City, walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill Park at its northern tip to the Battery – about 20km. Along the way, he was greeted by a stream of New Yorkers enjoying the sticky summer night – men rose from their folding chairs to shake his hand, drivers honked in support and diners leapt up to snap a selfie with the would-be leader of their city. A feelgood video of his trek, produced by Mamdani’s campaign, captures the “ only in New York” quality of his ascendance, from little-known assembly member to the all-but-official Democratic nominee for mayor of America’s largest city. His stunning political upset, triumphing over the better-financed, establishment-backed…

The scene is wearily familiar. It is dusk at a ramshackle military outpost, surrounded by miles of scrubby desert or on the outskirts of a major town. Suddenly, there is automatic rifle fire, and hundreds of men arrive on motorbikes, then explosions, screams, fire, smoke. The defenders flee or are killed. The attackers shout triumphant cries of “God is greatest”. A few days later in an edited video of the successful attack, Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin, or JNIM, claimed responsibility. The Islamist extremist group controls a swathe of the Sahel, a region that stretches across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and marks the borderlands between the Sahara and less arid zones. The series of bombings, hijackings, attacks on military bases and raids into major towns in…

‘Anyone can turn up and swim for free … the area is buzzing with energy’Toby Robinson GB Olympic swimmer Swimming in urban waterways should be a right, activists have said, as an international alliance aims to persuade politicians to clean up rivers so they can be used safely. At the world’s first Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam, more than 200 representatives from over 20 countries gathered and plunged into a local swimming spot that was once an industrial port. The Swimmable Cities alliance was formed in response to the Seine cleanup for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The summit aims to build on this work and progress made in other European cities to create a global network of swimmable urban waterways. Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven, once an industrial port on the south bank of…

Climate breakdown can be observed across many continuous, incremental changes such as soaring carbon dioxide levels, rising seas and heating oceans. The numbers creep up year after year, fuelled by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. But scientists have also identified at least 16 “tipping points” – thresholds where a tiny shift could cause fundamental parts of the Earth system to change dramatically, irreversibly and with potentially devastating effects. These shifts can interact with each other and create feedback loops that heat the planet further or disrupt weather patterns, with unknown but potentially catastrophic consequences for life on Earth. It is possible some tipping points may already have been passed. Dr Genevieve Guenther, an American climate communications specialist, is the founding director of End Climate Silence, which studies the representation of global…

IN LATE APRIL, TERRORISTS KILLED 26 CIVILIANS in the Indian town of Pahalgam, located in the mountainous border region of Kashmir. India swiftly blamed Pakistan for the attack, launched missile strikes towards it and announced that it was suspending the Indus waters treaty, effectively threatening to cut off three-quarters of Pakistan’s water supply. Ahmad Irfan Aslam, a seasoned international lawyer who, until last year, was Pakistan’s minister for law and justice, water and natural resources, climate change and investments, watched the news unfold with a creeping sense of horror. India was raising the possibility that it could turn off the tap for 250 million people. This would violate not only the treaty, but also international laws around the equitable use of water resources. Colleagues and friends approached Aslam for guidance.…

How neat that Anna Wintour’s resignation as editor-in-chief of American Vogue should occur bang in the middle of Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos’s wedding extravaganza in Venice. Top takeout? Anna’s revolution is over. She lost. Not personally, of course – she accrued significant riches herself, and her name is hewn into stone at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Just don’t call her Ozymandias! But the things she represented are over, and nothing illustrates it in quite such withering fashion as the gathering on the Grand Canal of Instagram’s apex predators. Don’t worry – this isn’t going to be another article over-egging the fact that someone has unfurled some protest banner or something on a Venetian church. Very little needs refreshing quite as desperately as the eat-the-rich genre,…

Last Wednesday morning, as Glastonbury opened its gates, the Guardian canvassed the opinions of early arrivals as to which act they were most looking forward to seeing. Several suggested singersong-writer Lewis Capaldi, who wasn’t listed on the festival’s bill. His appearance – a re-entry into public life after two years away, dealing with poor mental health and Tourette syndrome – was meant to be a secret, but everyone already seemed to know when and where he was playing. Such is the peculiar conceit of the Glastonbury “secret set”: ostensibly a closely guarded surprise, but this year seemingly a matter of public record, only moderately less discussed than the controversial appearance of Belfast rap trio Kneecap, whose set even the prime minister apparently had an opinion on. So it was that…

The chapel at the top of the valley was packed – perhaps unusual in these modern, secular times, but people had congregated for a historical talk, not a religious service. We were at Rosslyn Chapel, 12km south of Edinburgh, to learn about its history and mystery. Dating from 1446, it is jewelled with stories of pinnacles and pedestals; fallen angels and lovers; camels and peacocks. It also played a role in the Da Vinci Code mystery. The eye was drawn outside to Roslin Glen below, with its canopies of woodland and the meandering River North Esk. JMW Turner and William Wordsworth had been similarly inspired by the landscape. Afterwards, taking the steep path down to the glen felt like journeying even further back in time. The woodland in this vale…