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.

Editor’s Notes

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Highways to hell • Since the 1950s the car has been king in America. Trains and buses account for just 1.5% of total trips taken. So how can the US bring public transport up to world-class standard – and cut down on pollution?

Test drive • Can a sprawling city make public transit work? Sydney may be on the right track

Supercharging the suburbs • Our cities are choked by cars – here’s how the experts would fix them

Is Trump’s bromance with Bibi cooling over Iran?

Strait stalemate • Neither US nor Iran can afford to continue costly standoff

Hantavirus Outbreak that turned a dream cruise into tragedy • As the stricken ship was evacuated, questions lingered about how passengers came to be infected with the virus

Stitches in time: history in tapestry

Starmer’s allies called for pause. But MPs weren’t listening • Crushing results for Labour in last week’s local elections left Britain’s PM in an increasingly unsustainable position

Voting patterns • Where Greens and Reform gained ground

Muted victory • The SNP may have won, but Holyrood politics has been upended

Why Welsh voters turned their backs on the Labour party after 100 years

The tourists still trickling past Trump’s oil blockade

Drop zone Nasa keeps track as a city sinks • Powerful radar system is providing new data on urban collapse, with some areas subsiding by 2cm a month

Curve ball • What it’s like to live inside a Gaudí masterwork

Could robot monks turn young Koreans to Buddhism?

Not just a pretty face • Skincare has never been more advanced – or confusing. But could it all be doing us more harm than good? Experts reveal the warning signs and what to do next

Rich pickings? • By trying to reclaim tax cuts, Democrats are courting danger

Nightmarish imagining of Bolsonaro’s coup bears a warning

Surviving the information crisis ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’ • In this age of crisis, technology is pulling us apart. At its best, journalism can bring us together again

Flights of fancy • The aviation industry has been hit hard by the war on Iran. Jet fuel has doubled in price and there are fears of widespread disruption. Is it time we focused our minds on post-fossil-fuel air travel?

Charlotte Higgins • At the world’s most revered art festival, I saw anger and denial

SHORTS

THANK YOU, DAVID AT TENBOROUGH • For 100 incredible years of life on Earth

Samuel Earle • Keir Starmer is caught in a hate loop with no chance of escaping

The Guardian View • Reaching 30,000 grids of noble trickery is a cryptic crossword landmark

Opinion Letters

Hitting the spot • Angine de Poitrine are the year’s buzziest, dottiest band – but are they really ancient aliens inspired by monkeys? The duo tell all

To infinity and beyond • Our writer travels to Naoshima, Japan’s legendary ‘art island’ – and meets Lee Ufan, the great creator of its most spellbinding works

Reviews

A loss that means more than words • Disappear ing languages take with them culture, tradition and ways of understanding

Birth of Iran’s regime • A landmark account of the 1979 revolution provides context for current events

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