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The Guardian Weekly

I love when my enemies hate, me

Every day, Hasan Piker broadcasts a marathon Twitch stream, airing his views to 3 million followers. It has led to him becoming one of the biggest voices on the US left. But Piker's online fame has drawn vitriol towards him in real life

10 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Baseinstinct Why did Trump order airstrikes on Nigeria?

Claims that Christians face religious persecution overseas have become a major motivating force for Trump's base.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Florence's outcasts A vivid and absorbing history of one of the first orphanages in Europe

Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante scholar whose books argue for the relevance of the Italian art and literature of the late middle ages and Renaissance to our own times.

1 min  |

January 02, 2026
The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

Need cheering up after a terrible year? I have just the story for you

Perhaps you are searching for reasons to be cheerful at the end of a particularly dispiriting year and the start of a new one that may well offer more of the same? In that case, read on.

4 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

N347 Vegetable udon curry

You could also serve this with rice, but if you do, use only half the quantity of dashi, because this curry is made slightly soupier to go with the noodles.

1 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Warbling free The app that can tell birds by their songs

When Natasha Walter first became curious about the birds around her, she recorded their songs on her phone and arduously tried to match each song with online recordings.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

A soundtrack to all of humanity

The Nazis adopted Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of greed. And Putin has turned Shostakovich's Leningrad symphony into a call to arms. Is this the fate of musical utopias?

4 min  |

January 02, 2026
The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

Brigitte Bardot 1934 -2025

France's most sensational cultural export, who on screen epitomised youth, sex and modernity until politics and her campaigns for animal rights took over

3 min  |

January 02, 2026
The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

Who owns space? As the race starts to exploit the cosmos for commercial gains, we must act to preserve it for all humanity

If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Food for thought A personally inflected history of psychiatric ideas with flashes of anarchic humour

In 1973, US psychologist David Rosenhan published the results of an experiment.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Silver service Concerns about ageing society 'ignore huge opportunities'

While pundits and pressure groups have raised concerns over falling fertility rates, highlighting the challenges for economies and healthcare systems, others are more upbeat, arguing the rise of the \"silver economy\" brings new opportunities for growth.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

City limits The mayors facing rise of far right

From Budapest to Barcelona, mayors are being thrust on to the political frontlines to battle the biggest challenges

5 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

One family's epic fight to hold on to their West Bank farm

In 1916, Daher Nassar, a Christian Palestinian farmer living south of Bethlehem, bought a 42-hectare stretch of farmland on the slopes and valleys of Wadi Salem, and formally registered the purchase with the Ottoman authorities, who then ruled the region.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026
The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

Smash hit True story that inspired acclaimed boxing film

Tobias Mupfuti was eight years old when he found himself homeless and living on the streets of Victoria Falls after his father had rejected him and his mother was too poor to be able to feed or clothe him or send him to school.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

I used to report regularly from the West Bank.

Twenty years after my last visit. I was shocked by how much worse it is today

10+ min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

THE BRIT BOOM

UK culture is having a moment. Can it be protected from global conglomerates?

7 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Hated by millions of us, faux Cyrillic needs to be left out in the cold

One of the worst bugbears to possess is one that is shared by hardly anyone else.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Pots of gold

Europe's voters know their state pension schemes don't add up, but reject attempts to reform them. What can governments do next?

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece

For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was an unforgettable moment.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

The writing appears to be on the wall for lovers of the art of sending letters

Predictions of the demise of letter writing are not new.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

My daughter is going to uni. How can I cope with the loss?

I am a single mum to an 18-year-old daughter.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026
The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

Waste not, want not ... one little takeaway box at a time

I've always loved catching up with friends and family over a meal out.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Peace talks Is Trump's '95% done' claim just an empty boast?

A deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine was \"95% done\", Donald Trump claimed after his meeting last weekend with Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

COUNTRY DIARY

The way to Neath Abbey Quarry is a perfect stranger to me this morning.

1 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Colonial critique A Canadian debut rebuilds the link between humans and the natural world

Noopiming, the first of Canadian writer-musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's books to be published in the UK, means \"in the bush\" in the language of the Ojibwe people.

2 min  |

January 02, 2026
The Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly

How Epstein files reveal financier's routine abuse of girls

By the mid-2000s, Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of teen girls was routine.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Casting vote It’s China that holds sway in these 'sham' elections

Myanmar’s military has regained momentum in its battle against a determined patchwork of opposition groups, retaking some territory, and pushing ahead with a widely condemned election that began last Sunday.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Republicans brace themselves for a midterm tsunami

The latest opinion polls show that Americans are deserting Trump and his ailing party in waves and returning to the Democratic fold

6 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

Inside the Korean film crisis - and why K-pop isn't immune

South Korea's entertainment dominance appears unshakeable.

3 min  |

January 02, 2026

The Guardian Weekly

A wildlife corridor stretching to the tip of the Americas

Protection of remote Patagonian coastline and forest with unrivalled biodiversity will connect 2,800km of national parkland

3 min  |

January 02, 2026