Newspaper
The Guardian Weekly
BOOKS OF THE MONTH
A roundup of the best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Dying words
The Nobel prize winner explores the moment of death and beyond in a probing tale of a fisher living in near solitude
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Origin story
We homo sapiens evolved and succeeded when other hominins didn't-but now our expansionist drive is threatening the planet
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Glad rags to riches
Sarcastic, self-aware and surprisingly sad, the first volume of Cher's extraordinary memoir mixes hard times with the high life
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Sail of the century
Anenigmatic nautical radio bulletin first broadcast 100 years ago, the Shipping Forecast has beguiled and inspired poets, pop stars and listeners worldwide
5 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
How does it feel?
A Complete Unknown retells Bob Dylan's explosive rise, but it als resonates with today's toxic fame and politics. The creative team expl their process-and wha the singer made of it all
7 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Jane Austen's enduring legacy lies in her relevance as a foil for modern mores
For some, it will be enough merely to re-read Persuasion, and thence to cry yet again at Captain Wentworth's declaration of utmost love for Anne Elliot.
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
New year is the ideal time for Keir Starmer to drop his 'bad cop' act
Who is dreading the new year more: Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves? Most people look forward to the turn of the year as a chance that better things might be on the way, but it's hard for the UK's prime minister and chancellor to glance ahead to the next few months and expect 2025 to be any more fun than the latter half of 2024.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
When I go away I don't want to hear what's going on at home
Though my internal age is set to about 28, the time when I feel profoundly 43 is when I get nostalgic for things rendered obsolete by technology.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
McCarthyism's paranoia contains a lesson for Trump's second term Richard Sennett
The rise of Donald Trump aroused in me an old fear of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
4 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Apocalypse then
As the year 2000 rolled in, worldwide computer chaos was predicted to follow. Billions of dollars were spent to prevent it, yet nothing terrible happened. Was the Y2K bug a hoax or did the IT experts get it horribly wrong?
10+ min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
How a legal weed business ruined a Native American tribe
White investors told the Northern Paiute-Shoshone-Bannock people a cannabis farm could bring them money and jobs - but residents began to question the finances, and then the store and petrol station burned down
10+ min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Lucky dip The mayor who turned wasteland into a utopia
Mexico City's mayor has never been afraid to court controversy.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Jimmy Carter 1924 -2024
The 39th president was a Renaissance man whoshould be hailed for his environment policy and his work for peace
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Stop the clock! How to slow down timeby having fun
Time flies when youre... ina boring routine, according to research, which shows that new experiences can alter our perception of time
5 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Paris TV station that's a lifeline for women in Afghanistan
From a tiny television studio in Paris, 7,000km from Kabul, a slate of female hosts and programming geared to women beams 24 hours a day into homes across Afghanistan even as women are being steadily erased from public life in the country.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Fever pitch The pop star named after an English footballer
The house lights were dimmed in one of Rio's top music venues and, as the star of the show prepared to take the stage, thousands of enraptured fans cried out their idol's name in the darkness: \"Liniker! Liniker! Liniker!\" It was not, though, the England striker turned TV football presenter Gary Lineker the sellout crowd was here to see.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Senior service The barista still going strong at 100
Anna Possi answers the phone in the cafe but immediately asks to call her back.
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Raising the bar: Dublin's dry(ish) pub one year on
As young people lose the taste for alcohol, Board's menu of zero per cent drinks and board games finds an eager audience
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Unearthed Rare fungi, ghostly palms and hairy herbs
List of new species discovered in 2024 highlights the natural world's fragility as well as the growing extinction risks
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The fight to restore street that's a medieval marvel
Choir singers have lived in two handsome terraces of silvery-pink-stoned medieval houses beside Wells Cathedral for more than 650 years.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
EU presidency Tusk's revival masks deeper divisions with neighbours
Germany's chancellor appears to be heading for defeat; France's president is mired in crisis.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
WHO anger at attack on last working major hospital
The World Health Organization says it is \"appalled\" by an Israeli raid that it said had shut down and partly destroyed the last major hospital still functioning in northern Gaza.
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
'It was like I was reborn' Ex-inmates adapt to life after Assad
Prisoners in Sednaya prison endured squalid conditions, torture and the noise of fellow inmates being executed
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Muan plane crash Runway disaster tests political unity amid leadership crisis
As 2024 drew to a close, South Koreans must have hoped for respite from the political chaos visited on their country in recent weeks.
3 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Rally calls for suspended president's removal
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans flooded central Seoul last Saturday in the latest wave of protests demanding the removal of the country's suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, a day after parliament voted to impeach his acting replacement.
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
Nato steps up Baltic patrols after possible cable sabotage
Nato is to increase its military presence in the Baltic Sea, the alliance has announced, after the suspected sabotage of an underwater power cable running between Finland and Estonia.
2 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The Kursk front and the secret soldiers of North Korea
At dusk one afternoon last month, two dozen wounded North Korean soldiers were brought to one of the main hospitals in the Russian city of Kursk.
4 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
TRUMP VS THE WORLD
Before Donald Trump has taken a single executive decision, countries around the world are positioning themselves for his impact
10 min |
January 03, 2025
The Guardian Weekly
The Saudi football World Cup is an act of violence and disdain
Well, that's that then. In the event there were only two notes of jeopardy around Fifa's extraordinary virtual congress last week to announce the winning mono-bids, the vote without a vote, for the right to host the 2030 and 2034 football World Cups.
3 min |