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 United Kingdom

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

‘Gen Z gave us victory’ • Madagascar is just the latest country where young people, frustrated by a lack of opportunities and sensing their demographic advantage over an older elite, have taken to the streets to topple governments and oust leaders. From Nepal to Peru, the Philippines to Morocco, a new global wave of unrest is unfolding with protesters learning from each other how to make their demands heard

‘We are defiant’ Youth protests resume despite police crackdown • Hundreds detained as demonstrators take to the streets to campaign against corruption, the underfunding of healthcare and education

THE FAR RIGHT • ’An international movement’ Intelligence agencies eye neo-Nazi fight clubs

Influencers • Main parties allowing far right to set the agenda

Hopes and ruins Shock as Gaza City residents return • Families who have made their way back from refugee camps in the south can barely recognise where their homes once stood

Priority shifts • Ceasefire plan has pushed regional rivals to collaborate

Eyewitness Kenya

Why William may still face the ‘Andrew problem’ on taking crown

Centre fold • How Macron fell from favour with French voters

How Benin bronzes were replaced by clay replicas • The new Museum of West African Art was supposed to house a public display of looted colonial artefacts. What went wrong?

The floodprone town that’s being abandoned by insurers • One more deluge could bankrupt Tenbury Wells, yet its application for defence funding has been rejected

Blue planet • Cultures mapped through swear words

Digital ID – a dream for some, a nightmare for others

‘Lab to fab’ Are promises of a graphene revolution coming true? • It was hailed as a wonder material that would change the world – but developing a substance that is just one atom thick has proved slow work

Marjorie Taylor Greene tests Trump’s limits

Washington strikes ship in row with Colombia over drugs

‘AN APEX PREDATOR WAS CLOSING IN’

Welcome the golden age of stupidity • IQ scores are shrinking, brain rot is setting in and with every technological advance we are finding it harder to work, remember, think and function. Is digital convenience costing us dearly?

Simon Tisdall • Trump trying to go toe to toe with Xi is an embarrassing mismatch

Brigid Delaney • A return to stoic virtues helps us face a future of disruption with calm

Nesrine Malik • It is easier to blame ‘outsiders’ than build social integration

The GuardianView • UK state weakness is to blame for collapse of the alleged China spying case

Opinion Letters

Role of honour • As David Harewood returns as Othello, he and other Black actors discuss how best to tackle Shakespeare’s formidable tragedy

Fender’s gritty truths earn him the Mercury • They could have given the award to an album not already a huge hit – but this blend of kitchensink drama and stadium choruses is expertly done

Get Cartier! • Upending the very notion of art galleries, French architect Jean Nouvel has turned an old Paris department store into a museum to rival the Louvre

Reviews

Can eco-crimes be called murder? • Why we should look at damage to the environment as seriously as we take...