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 Portugal

Johnson’s failings, Russian sabre rattling and future vaccines

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

UNITED KINGDOM • He was the Tory saviour of Brexit – but sleaze, ‘partygate’ and Omicron have beset Britain’s PM. Now, many of his own MPs want him gone

On the brink

Fast and loose? • The British PM has once again been accused of lying. Here are some controversial examples of his alleged dishonesty

‘He’s clueless’ In a Tory stronghold, PM’s stock plummets • After a torrid week, doubts about Johnson’s abilities were heard even in the Brexitsupporting heartlands of Kent

Will Putin strike? A game of nerves on Ukraine’s frontline

For Moscow, a high stakes manoeuvre that could lead to war

Boosters What makes them more effective than the first two jabs?

How vaccine makers are adapting to mutations • A focus on the exciting potential of T-cell immunity is spurring the sector on to create a new generation of jabs

Tornado toll

Crude insult Recovery is slow from a Gulf War act of vandalism • Oilwells set alight by Iraqi forces in 1991 were put out within months, but insidious pollution still mars the desert

Can’t find a PS5 console? Just head to Gaza City

Well oiled How plankton helped build mountains

‘Bizarre’ fish songs on a reef reborn • Vibrancy and diversity of soundscape is taken as proof that damage wrought by blast fishing is not permanent

‘Give me my baby’ Adopted without consent

Back to the beginning The rebirth of Māori names

Fear stalks the streets as jihadists edge closer to Abuja • Nigeria’s Niger state has long been racked by banditry. Now rival Islamist terror groups are gaining a bloody foothold

Artists fear ‘honeymoon’ over as army takes control

Inside the minds of cats • They have lived among humans for thousands of years. But what our feline friends really think about us remains a curiosity

Trump still looms large over Pence’s White House ambitions

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On the run • My 24-hour journey to get out of Afghanistan

The other side of the Street • In 1970, David Attie was sent to photograph the early days of Sesame Street as part of a cold war propaganda drive by the United States. But these newly found images are just one part of the show’s radical history, writes Steve Rose

Opinion • From Saxony to China, Berlin’s toughest challenges lie to the east

Will the son of a Nazi drag us back to the dark days of Pinochet?

Omicron could be fatal for us – or fatal for our faith in authorities

If Biden is serious about a free press, he must end the pursuit of Julian Assange

Letters

WONDERS OF THE WORD

FICTION • Dazzling debuts, along with bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more

CRIME • Final novels from John le Carré and Andrea Camilleri meet with dark psychological debut Girl A

GRAPHIC NOVELS • Alison Bechdel on exercise obsession and a cold war epic from Barry Windsor-Smith are among the best

FOOD • From Stanley Tucci’s Italian feasts and Yotam Ottolenghi’s plums to German bakes – the most mouth-watering...