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 Slovenia

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

Global report • United Kingdom

Eyewitness Peak progress

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

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?

Ageing populations • How Europe’s social contract became a ticking timebomb

Silver service • Concerns about ageing society ‘ignore huge opportunities’

Kyiv looks to other fronts as Russian army inches forward

Peace talks • Is Trump’s ‘95% done’ claim just an empty boast?

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

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

Eyewitness Australia

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

Warbling free • The app that can tell birds by their songs

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

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

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

Smash hit • True story that inspired acclaimed boxing film

Power hungry How great a threat is AI to the climate? • The datacentres behind the new technology are polluting the natural world – and some experts fear the exponential rise in demand could derail the shift to a clean economy

Base instinct • Why did Trump order airstrikes on Nigeria?

How Epstein files reveal financier’s routine abuse of girls

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

‘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

Simon Tisdall • Trump’s legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece

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

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

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

Opinion Letters

THE BRIT BOOM • UK culture is having a moment. Can it be protected from global conglomerates?

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

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?

Reviews

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

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