Innholdsfortegnelse for 13 June 2025 i Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol212 | Issue№ 24 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 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. The Guardian is…

Three years after the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira were murdered in the Amazon, two major new projects will celebrate their lives and work – and the Indigenous communities and rainforests both men sought to protect. Friends of Phillips have completed the book he was writing at the time of his death – How to Save the Amazon – which was published in the UK, the US and Brazil last month. The book aims to highlight solutions for preserving the world’s largest tropical rainforest, focusing on the experiences of its Indigenous peoples and other inhabitants. Phillips had completed less than half of it at the time of his death. “Finishing it was important to show that Dom and Bruno’s voices were not silenced,” said Phillips’…

Outside the federal courthouse complex in downtown Los Angeles on Monday morning, two cleaners carrying bins on wheels looked uncertainly at the daunting task in front of them – long walls in several directions covered in spray-painted graffiti after a weekend of vigorous street protest. The black marble plinth bearing the name “Edward R Roybal Center and Federal Building” had been defaced by graffiti reading “Fuck Ice” and another saying “Dead Cops”. The City of Angels was in recovery mode after a fraught day of protest last Sunday against Donald Trump’s immigration roundups and his decision to activate the California national guard against the will of the state’s leaders. The 101 freeway, which had been occupied by protesters, was open to traffic again, but most of the downtown exits were…

Hours before the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered her budget last year, government officials were still in tense negotiations with BBC bosses over how much the World Service would be given. The amount they were haggling over was relatively small – just £5.5m ($7.5m) out of a total budget of £400m. But BBC chiefs warned the government that if the cuts were imposed on them, they would have to close several language stations in parts of the world where the Russians already hold influence. The BBC got the extra cash it was asking for. But ahead of this week’s spending review, executives at the corporation feared their appeal to Britain’s soft power might not prove so effective, especially after recent cuts to the aid budget. The Guardian recently revealed the government…

When millions of people across the Iberian peninsula were left without power in April, the political fallout ignited debate over Europe’s renewable energy agenda, and fuelled the rising interest in nuclear power. Europe’s largest power blackout in decades, still largely unexplained, has raised questions about whether renewable energy can be relied on to provide a stable source of clean energy. It has also fuelled a renewed interest in the global nuclear power renaissance. Despite long-held environmental concerns about nuclear power generation, political leaders are looking to lift restrictions on nuclear reactors or invest billions in new projects to keep pace with the fast-rising demand for low-carbon energy, which is expected to accelerate as AI datacentres grow. In Spain, the blackout has intensified an ongoing debate over the government’s plans to…

Joachim Streit has never set foot in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped the German politician from launching a campaign to have the North American country join the EU. “We have to strengthen the European Union,” said Streit, who last year was elected to the European parliament. “And I think Canada – as its prime minister says – is the most European country outside of Europe.” After Donald Trump returned to power, launching much of the world into a trade war and turning his back on traditional US allies, Streit began to see Canada in a new light. What he saw was a relationship that could prove mutually beneficial as the world grapples with rapidly reshaping global dynamics. “Canadians have seen their trust in the US undermined, just as we have…

The scriptwriters of Trump: the Soap Opera are slipping. The latest plot development – the epic falling-out between the title character and his best buddy, Elon Musk – was so predictable, and indeed predicted, that it counts as the opposite of a twist. Still, surprise can be overrated. Watching the two men – one the richest in the world, the other the most powerful – turn on each other in a series of ever-more venomous posts on their respective social media platforms has been entertainment of the highest order. X v Truth: it could be a Marvel blockbuster. But this is more than mere popcorn fodder. Even if they eventually patch things up, the rift between the president and Musk has exposed a divide inside the contemporary right, in the…

Just across the bay there’s a decommissioned North Sea oil platform, sawn off at the knees and propped up in the scrapyard of Able Seaton Port to decay in the sun and salt air. It looks like a mirage, a crash-landed spaceship. This is Teesmouth. Between me and the platform, a work party of oystercatchers is busily processing the broad, dark sands of the bay. A dozen or so seals lie torpid in the hazy sunshine. In the north of England, we’re used to wildlife thriving in post-industrial habitats – flooded gravel pits, old spoil tips, rewilded opencast workings. I drove here slack-jawed, through steaming cities of metal architecture. Seal Sands is the name of both the bay and one of the vast chemical manufacturing clusters on the north bank…

1 UNITED STATES Veterans issue warning over LA protest response The Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles to intervene in civilian protests in the face of opposition from the Californian governor is a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military, armed service veterans have warned. Former top military figures said the decision to put up to 4,000 troops under federal control and send them into the streets of LA violates the military’s commitment to keep out of domestic politics in all but the most exceptional circumstances. The last time a US president federalised the national guard against the wishes of a state governor was in 1965, when Lyndon Johnson deployed them to protect civil rights marchers in Alabama. “This is the politicisation of the…

TATACO GRIMACES AND BRACES FOR IMPACT AS HIS CANOE hurtles towards the banks of Brazil’s Jordan River into a blizzard of branches, vines and leaves. In the bow of the boat, his Indigenous comrade, Damë Matis, shields his face with his arms as he is swallowed by the vegetation, twigs gouging his muscular shoulders. “Get down! Get down!” Tataco yelled, battling to control the vessel before its occupants are skewered by the lance-like boughs jutting out from the shore. Ripping thick vines from his neck, the boat’s 51-year-old skipper hauls the outboard motor from the murky waters, takes a deep breath, and prepares to continue the perilous voyage along a serpentine waterway so clogged with fallen trees it is virtually unnavigable. “We’ll get there,” Tataco sa id with his trademark…

Reem Zeidan was terrified of being separated from her children. As they trudged for hours through the ruins of Gaza towards a food distribution centre, she rehearsed over and over with her 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son what they should do and where they should wait if an Israeli attack turned the column of hungry people into a chaotic, panicking mass and the family were torn apart. It was the last conversation she had with them. She was dead before dawn broke last Tuesday, killed by a single bullet through her forehead. Her daughter and son spent nearly three hours beside her body, pinned down by gunfire. “We went there out of desperation. Hunger is what forced my mother to go. She had been going every day for a full…

Orange alert Smoke rises from the PWF044 Bison Lake wildfire burning east of the town of Manning, Alberta. Smoke from wildfires in Canada has been spreading across multiple states in the US, including the eastern seaboard, prompting air-quality alerts. The fires, which have been sparked by both human and natural causes, have prompted thousands of residents in three Canadian provinces to evacuate since fires broke out last month. Last week, a map from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow forecast showed large swathes of moderate to unhealthy air quality across the east, midwest and southern parts of the US, featuring smoke and dust. US states issuing health warnings included New York, New Jersey, Iowa, New Hampshire and Maine.…

At 5.30am last Tuesday, six immigration enforcement officers and journalists gathered in a deserted car park near Sheffield’s railway station, waiting in the rain for a call from London that would trigger simultaneous arrests of suspected people-smugglers in six towns. Forty minutes later, the Home Office staff drove in convoy to a nearby residential block (followed by a BBC TV crew and the Guardian) and made their way up the stairs carrying a red battering ram, ready to smash the suspect’s door down. The equipment wasn’t needed, because the man, barefoot in his checked pyjamas, opened the door and let the team inside. He was given a few moments to get dressed before being taken silently in handcuffs to the van outside, sweat running down his face. Footage of the…

On a clear day at Plymouth marina you can see across the harbour out past Drake’s Island – named after the city’s most famous son, Francis Drake – to the Channel. It’s quite often possible to see an abundance of marine vessels, from navy ships and passenger ferries to small fishing boats and yachts. What you might not spot from this distance is a large yellow buoy bobbing up and down in the water 10km off the coast. This data buoy – L4 – is one of a number belonging to Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), a research centre in Devon dedicated to marine science. On a calm May morning, Prof James Fishwick, PML’s head of marine technology and autonomy, was on top of the buoy checking it for damage. “This…

Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of the most popular entertainers on the planet. His YouTube channel, to which he posts his increasingly elaborate and expensively produced videos, has 400 million subscribers – equivalent to the total number of native English speakers currently alive. It’s close to twice as many subscribers as Elon Musk has X followers, and over 100 million more than Taylor Swift has Instagram followers. And that number, 400 million, does not account for the people who watch MrBeast’s videos in passing, or who are aware of his cultural presence because of their children, or who just sort of know who he is but don’t have any intricate awareness as to why he is famous.…

What’s the trick to great coleslaw?  Chris, Paignton, England, UK “Coleslaw is such an underrated salad,” says the Guardian’s Felicity Cloake. “Familiarity breeds contempt.” (As do those claggy tubs you get in supermarkets.) The whole point of coleslaw is that the veg has to be crisp, which is why Cloake shreds rather than grates the cabbage. “And, if you have the patience, shred the carrot, too.” She tosses them with salt, vinegar and a little sugar, then leaves the mix to sit before draining. Once drained, bring on the mayo: “Don’t go overboard. It should be lightly dressed, not gloopy.” Cloake often adds horseradish or mustard, plus a few finely chopped spring onions or chives. Jessica Prescott, author of Epic Salads, has been working on an essential coleslaw guide and…

DEFENCE AND SECURITY Russia ‘at war’ with Britain, says foreign policy expert Russia is at war with Britain, the US is no longer a reliable ally and the UK has to respond by becoming more cohesive and more resilient, according to one of the three authors of the strategic defence review that was published earlier this month. Fiona Hill, above, was the White House’s chief Russia adviser during Donald Trump’s first term and contributed to the British government’s strategy. She made the remarks in an interview with the Guardian. She described the UK’s geopolitical situation as caught between “the rock” of Vladimir Putin’s Russia and “the hard place” of an increasingly unpredictable US. “Russia has hardened as an adversary in ways that we probably hadn’t fully anticipated,” Hill said, arguing…

• 1 June 2022 Dom Phillips sets off from his home in Salvador, Brazil. • 2 June Phillips and Bruno Pereira leave by boat from Atalaia do Norte in Amazonas state. Their destination is the Lago do Jaburu region, which they reach the following day. • 4 June The pair are threatened when a group of armed men brandish firearms at a patrol by members of the Univaja Indigenous association, according to the association’s president. Days earlier, Pereira had reportedly received a written threat stemming from his opposition to illegal fishing. • 5 June Phillips and Pereira start the return journey. They stop in São Rafael, where Pereira had scheduled a meeting with a local leader. The community leader does not arrive, so the men continue to Atalaia do Norte, about a two-hour trip. They are…

Donald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation as Kid Rock’s American Bad Ass boomed from the sound system. He watched martial artists slug it out behind a chain-link fence. A female champion let the US president try on her gold belt. It was a night of machismo, spectacle and violence. Shortly before he joined an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Newark, New Jersey, last Saturday night, Trump signed an order deploying 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, where protests sparked by immigration raids led to clashes between authorities and demonstrators. The White House said Trump was sending in the guardsmen to “address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester” in California. Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said the move was “purposefully inflammatory and will only…

Ataa Bodin is glad the Dutch government has fallen. “It’s good,” said the 34-year-old Syrian who lives in the Netherlands. “I have a passport, the father of my daughter is Dutch but for other people it’s difficult. They can’t just go back to Syria like counting to three.” Last Tuesday, far-right populist Geert Wilders collapsed his first government after failing to break open the coalition agreement to add 10 new policies on asylum – including deporting Syrians with temporary residency within six months, forcibly if necessary. Eleven months into a four-party coalition described by Dutch media as an “unhappy marriage”, Wilders walked out, resigning all of his ministers with immediate effect. His former coalition partners reacted with fury, saying there was no disagreement about reducing asylum and labelling Wilders a…

Nigel Farage is the closest the UK has to a “tribune for the working class”, the former Bank of England chief economist has said. Andy Haldane said the surge in support for Reform UK in the opinion polls suggested there had been “something of a moral rupture” between the Labour government and many voters, which should spur it to take action with a “radical reset” of its growth plans. He said Labour’s misfiring growth strategy and decisions on winter fuel payments and the two-child benefit limit had opened the door to Farage by fuelling a sense that mainstream politicians promised change but failed to deliver. Asked whether Reform was the new party of the working class, Haldane said: “I do not know. [But] as things stand today, and doing no…

It is dusk, a short walk from the big Ikea in Croydon, south London, and a barn owl is emerging from its nest. In the fading light, the male owl sits on a fence post to survey the rough grass below. He has a busy evening ahead: he is responsible for feeding a roosting female for the next few weeks. The owl hops to another fence post. Suddenly, he dives into the grass below, emerging a minute later with an unlucky rodent, and flies back into the nest. “I still get really excited,” said Tomos Brangwyn, a local enthusiast who monitors the site, lowering his binoculars. “He’ll do that most of the night. It’s a great sign that there’s a female in there that we haven’t seen for a while,…

When Essi Farida Geraldo, a Lomé-based architect, heard about partial restrictions on travel to the US from Togo as part of the travel bans announced by Donald Trump last Thursday, she lamented losing access to what many young Togolese consider to be a land of better opportunities. “The United States was the Togolese’s El Dorado,” Geraldo said. “Many people go to work in the US to save money and support their families or projects in Africa.” Trump’s order, which came into effect this week, prohibits people from seven African countries – Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia and Sudan – from entering the US, making Africa the worst-affected continent. People from another three African countries – Burundi, Sierra Leone and Togo – will be subject…

‘I think what Trumpism is about is an understanding that the system in America is not working for working-class people,” says Bernie Sanders. “In a phoney, hypocritical way, Trump has tapped into that. His quote-unquote ‘solutions’ will only make a bad situation worse.” Democrats don’t have much of a message for working people, other than to say Trump is dangerous In person, Sanders’ 83 years read differently than in photograph, perhaps because of how conversational he is. His voice is magnetic – a Brooklyn accent that feels both warm and tough. “But what I have been aware of, and I’ve talked about it for years, is that in America, the very richest people are doing phenomenally well, while 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck.” Later, he will say the…

For much of the past century, life expectancy continually increased. In most countries in the world, children could hope to live, on average, longer, healthier lives than their parents. This expectation is still true of the megawealthy. In fact, tech billionaires and multimillionaires have recently been fixated on finding the secret to longer life, convinced that with enough money, technology and cutting-edge science, they can stave off the inevitable for a few more decades to reach 120 or even 150 years old. But their efforts aren’t trickling down to the rest of us. The world’s health crises are getting worse, with life expectancy going backwards in several high-income countries, such as the UK and US. In Britain, stagnation started before the Covid pandemic and has decreased by six months, and…

Deborah Baker’s new book, Charlottesville, is about her home town in Virginia, where in summer 2017 white supremacists marched, violence erupted and a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was murdered. In dizzying detail, Baker charts and reports the chaos. In interludes, she examines the dark history of a city long linked to racist oppression, from the days of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E Lee and slavery to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and resistance to civil rights reform. Putting it all together was a new challenge for a writer whose books include In Extremis, a biography of the 20th-century poet Laura Riding, and A Blue Hand: The Beats in India. “As a literary biographer, a narrative nonfiction writer, I mostly work out of archives and libraries and letters and diaries and…

Across 1 Parisian love triangle (6,1,5)  9 Figurative turn of phrase (5) 10 Every cloud has a silver lining, say (7) 11 Stage (4)  12 Miner’s workplace (8) 14 Grated spice (6)  15 One may be attached to a vehicle (6)  18 Unclear situation (4,4)  20 One’s manipulated (4) 22 Not so quiet (7)  23 Scarlett in Gone with the Wind (5) 24 Oaf lost teeth (anag) – sportsperson’s affliction? (8,4) Down 2 For the few, not the many (7) 3 Sally or Dad’s? (4)  4 Put to work (6) 5 Old-fashioned farewell (6-2) 6 Rock, soap or comic (5) 7 Like hell (some say) – suntan bearer (anag) (12) 8 Ulterior motive – nigh a dead end (anag) (6,6)  13 No answer? (8) 16 Show of courage (7)  17…