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.

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

United Kingdom

Reader’s eyewitness

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

The week the world tipped into freefall • Iran regime’s willingness to escalate this war to cling on to power seems to know no bounds, including sacrificing the economies of other Gulf states. The war is not going to end any time soon – what are the options?

‘Decapitate’ state US and Israel’s strategy to kill regime’s top figures may prove futile

High stakes War’s impact on global economy • Trump’s ‘little excursion’ is likely to have long-term effects on oil prices, inflation and growth if the war is prolonged

Under fire Israel accused of deliberately targeting medics

Early analysis shows heavy impact for environment

The propaganda war Netanyahu balances national security with political survival

Spiralling out of control When Trump decides to try to end the war, will anyone listen?

The X factor What is at stake when voters go to the polls this spring?

May’s local polls could be ‘anyone but’ elections • While is Labour braced for a rout that could see off Starmer, a rising drive to keep out Farage is complicating expectations

Radical rethink Centr ists get lift as voters shy away from far left and right

Pro-Putin loyalist turns on president in rare rebuke

The families growing bananas to protect an urban forest

‘Dirty war’ TikTok harks back to 1970s secret police

Why trove of history is being buried under a mountain

All relative Replicas of the dead help the grieving

Sweet dreams Gadget could bring relief for snorers – and their partners • ‘Reverse vacuum cleaner’ machines were once used only for severe sleep apnoea but now are increasingly being prescribed for milder cases

Ottawa lays plan to bring its Arctic region in from cold

Is the truth out there? Alien sites registered for UFO files

WHAT WAS DOGE? HOW ELON MUSK TRIED TO GAMIFY GOVERNMENT • Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Elon Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

Fight the power • A battle is raging in the heart of a rural English county. In one corner, clean energy champion Ed Miliband. In the other, residents and Reform politicians outraged at plans for more large-scale solar farms there than anywhere else in the British countryside. Tom Wall enters the fray

Jonathan Freedland • Attacks on synagogues and shops only do harm to ordinary Jews

Nuala McGovern • At a time when we need the right words, some are unable to find them

Nesrine Malik • Trump’s war is all about the boom, the score and the f ist pump

The GuardianView • UK’s meningitis outbreak highlights the importance of public health systems

Opinion Letters

BECKY BARNICOAT ON MILLENNIAL LIFE

Times like these • On the couch with Dave Grohl as he talks grief, marital inf idelity and the punk-rock return of Foo Fighters

In the frame • An exhibition celebrating female artists of the baroque period is in part a rediscovery of more than 40 mostly forgotten women from the Low Countries

Reviews

Does time really exist? • How focusing on ‘lived time’ might release us from the relentless march of the second hand

Intelligence test •  The life of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis, from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner

Life after life •  The newly...