Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly  Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 212 | Issue № 2 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in t

People with Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain long before the Anglo-Saxons or the Vikings turned up in the fifth century, researchers have concluded, after studying the genetics of an ancient Roman buried in York. They found 25% of the ancestry o

For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today’s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: “We need dramatic social and technolog

Founded 1821 Independently owned by the Scott Trust Just over a year ago, Xi Jinping told China’s national women’s congress that the Communist party must “actively foster a new type of marriage and childbearing culture”. For the past two years, there

Jimmy Carter exemplified the qualities Trump lacks No doubt a great many of your readers will, like me, write to you expressing their sadness at the passing of President Jimmy Carter (Spotlight, 3 January). It will not have escaped your readers that

Dir: RaMell Ross RaMell Ross’s transcendentally moving and frightening film is adapted from the 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead. Elwood (Ethan Herisse) is an African American teenager in Tallahassee, Florida, in the Jim Crow 60s, being brought up by h

In 2017 an eight-year-old student named Dante de Kort set up a camera trap outside his home in Prescott, Arizona, as part of a science fair project. He directed the camera towards a dead female peccary, a small boar-like creature found throughout the

By Carol Rumens Rumens, who turned 80 in December, has long been adept at the cross-border exchanges of translation, especially from eastern European poetry. “Night. Figurehead. Sewage breath. Slimed ledge …”: Rumens/Celan’s Pont Mirabeau is a far cr

My daughter is eight years old. She’s sensible, fun and compassionate. Her father and I have been divorced since she was two and we co-parent fairly amicably. Shortly after we broke up he had a fling that resulted in a child. He has no relationship w

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1 What is the world’s largest capacity hydroelectric dam?  2 Action 2000 was a campaign to warn about what issue?  3 Who did Byron describe as “Britannia’s god of war”? 4 Why will Piano Day be celebrated on 29 March? 5 Caitlin Clark is a US star of w

1 Wordpool Find the correct definition: BALAS  a) sort of ruby b) Armenian quince c) Antarctic shale d) golden-beaked hoopoe 2 Jumblies Rearrange COORDINATES to make another word. 3 Current Difficulties Identify the two words in which the asterisks

Name the films and the composer who connects them. Taxi Driver, Citizen Kane and North By Northwest were all scored by Bernard Herrmann.■

Magnus Carlsen completed a remarkable few days at the World Rapid and Blitz Championships on Wall Street, New York, when the Norwegian, 34, who first withdrew then returned after Fide rescinded its ban on jeans, controversially agreed to share the Bl