Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Eyewitness Japan

Trump in court, the Guardian’s smoking gun and art by the sea

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

United Kingdom

Eyewitness

All rise • The former president has lit his path to a Manhattan criminal court with invective and dire warnings. However it plays out, Donald Trump is hogging the political spotlight and firing up his support base

STORMY DANIELS • Will the adult film star be the one who finally brings down Trump?

UNITED STATES • ‘Imperfect vessel’ Evangelical rank and file turn a blind eye to Trump’s failings

UKRAINE • ‘Rebuilding is resistance’ How Bucha is springing back to life

UKRAINE • Australia helps keep schooling on course

ANALYSIS INTERNATIONAL TRADE • Added benefit? UK joining Indo-Pacific bloc is a boon for Washington

FINLAND • Marin loses as far right square up in coalition showdown

Eyewitness Syria

BRAZIL • Bolsonaro ends his exile Far-right radical plots comeback

BRAZIL • Grief drives minister’s quest for justice

Turf wars The green, green hell of artif icial home grass • Plastic lawns are booming in popularity – but they are an environmental disaster, both for wildlife and the climate

BELGIUM • Last orders Trappist beers at risk as vocations drop away

THE NETHERLANDS • Amsterdam has sober message to drunk Brits: ‘Stay away’

TUNISIA • Migrants in wait between violence and the deadly sea

On the evening tide A town that wants its tourists back • A ferry wreck scuppered efforts to bring holidaymakers to Tarfaya’s beaches – but not the enterprising vision

Drugs in space • The absence of gravity makes it easier to cultivate the proteins needed to study diseases. And although the associated costs are high, big pharma is stepping in

ECONOMICS • Could of f ice blocks be the next big f inancial casualty?

COTTON CAPITAL • Further examining the Guardian’s history in the context of Britain’s historical links with enslavement

Connections unwound • The Guardian commissioned an academic review of its founders and their connections to the slave trade. This is what it found

Taylor & associates Links to transatlantic slavery • From sugar and cotton imports and manufacturing to ‘ownership’ of enslaved people, most of the Guardian f unders had ties to the slave trade

A tale of two cities • Manchester likes to project an image of the city as a place of protest, rebellion and progressive thought, but this obscures its links to slavery. Now there is a push to acknowledge the Black radicalism in its past

ISRAEL • Peace is possible. Just look what the Good Friday agreement did

ANIMAL WELFARE • All animals need to be kept safe from suffering, not just the smart ones

UNITED KINGDOM • Spending money to halt the flow of refugees is a classic false economy

Binding rules governing water are fundamental to effective climate action

WRITE TO US

A WEEK IN VENN DIAGRAMS Edith Pritchett

The school where art meets life • Facing her mortality prompted Tracey Emin to create a lasting legacy, helping her to find fulf ilment nurturing younger artists

Brexit tale warms the cockles in Germany • Jens Meurer’s quirky portrayal of a Norfolk seaside town is a surprise hit with viewers struggling to understand Britain’s departure from the...