The Guardian Weekly - 01 July 2022

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Eyewitness (cid:3) Power shower
Yemen People run for cover during a sudden downpour in the capital, Sana’a. The UN World
Food Programme said it has reduced rations in Yemen due to funding gaps, infl ation
and the eff ects of the Ukraine confl ict. The country of 30 million people imports
PHOTOGRAPH:
most of its food, and its economy has been wrecked by seven years of war.
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A week in the life of the world Inside
1 July 2022
A critical juncture,
supreme court fallout
and the music returns
Leaders from the European Council, G7 and Nato met this 4-14 GLOBAL REPORT
week, at a critical juncture for the war in Ukraine. Amid Headlines from the last
fears that Russia is gaining the upper hand on several seven days
fronts, it seemed clear that the west needs a strategic 10 Ukraine Is the west losing
rethink over how to tighten economic and military the war against Putin?
pressure on Vladimir Putin, without leading to a backlash
among western consumers and starvation in the global 15-33 SPOTLIGHT
south as a result of grain blockades. In-depth reporting
At a pivotal moment , diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour and analysis
sets the scene. Energy correspondent Alex Lawson asks 15 US Abortion, the supreme
what will happen if Russia shuts off gas supplies to Europe court and democracy
this winter, and Lorenzo Tondo reports from Kyiv, where 22 UK Boris Johnson: still
missile strikes have returned for the fi rst time in weeks. Britain’s prime minister
The big story Page 10 (cid:2) 24 (cid:3)Environment Urban
parklets are popping up
Having been leaked in May, the news was not entirely 26 Sport T he ascent of
unexpected – but the US supreme court decision to women’s football
reverse women’s abortion rights still sent shockwaves 30 Science Could Jurassic
around America and the world. With many now fearing Park become a reality?
what a court dominated by religious conservatives will do 33 US January 6 and Trump
next, David Smith examines the political fallout and how,
if at all, it could be countered. Then on the Opinion pages, 34-44 FEATURES
Sonia Sodha argues that liberals’ faith in the courts to Long reads, interviews
preserve abortion rights was misguided from the start. and essays
Spotlight Page 15 (cid:2); Opinion Page 48 (cid:2) 34 Hong Kong’s lost street
prophet returns
As Glastonbury returned after a long, pandemic-enforced By Louisa Lim
absence, we bring you a wrap-up from the world’s biggest 40 Lessons in Black
greenfi eld festival. And there’s a candid interview with and White
Phoebe Bridgers, one of the festival’s headline acts, who By Ibram X Kendi
could be on the brink of global superstardom.
Whole in one Page 51 (cid:2); Culture Page 55 (cid:2) 45-50 OPINION
45 Rebecca Solnit
Our times would shock
George Orwell
47 George Monbiot
Cancel debt for the climate
48 Sonia Sodha
Women must be allowed to
defend abortion
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art, architecture & more
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economy and g eostrategic alliances. As Patrick 56 Architecture
Wintour argues, the west needs a strategic reset – London’s Africa Centre,
or t he big trends m ay keep going P utin’s way. reborn
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International outrage at
report
attack on shopping centre
Leaders around the world
denounced Russia’s deadly
strike on a shopping centre in the
industrial city of Kremenchuk as
Headlines from the
“abominable” and a war crime,
last seven days amid international outrage .
Rescue efforts were under way
after the missile strike on a busy
Dozens found dead in truck
1 UNITED STATES
shopping centre in central Ukraine
trailer on Texas backroad
that had more than 1,000 people
Protests swell against
Forty-six people were found in it at the time, according to
supreme court ruling
dead and 16 others were taken to President Volod ymyr Zelenskiy.
Protests over a supreme court hospital after being found inside The Ukrainian defence ministry
decision that overturned abortion a tractor-trailer rig on Monday on said the strike was deliberately
Copyright © 2022 rights spread across the country a remote road in south-west San timed to coincide with the mall’s
GNM Ltd. All rights last weekend. In New York, Antonio, Texas officials said. busiest hours and cause the
reserved thousands marched to voice their The discovery may prove to maximum number of victims.
anger at the ruling . The court’s be the deadliest tragedy among As of Tuesday morning, 18
Published weekly by decision is a rare reversal of long- thousands who have died people were known to have been
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settled law that will fracture attempting to cross the US border killed, according to Ukraine’s
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the foundations of modern from Mexico in recent decades. emergency services , with 59
Kings Place,
reproductive rights in the US. Sixteen were taken to hospital , injured. Dozens of missing
90 York Way,
“Not your uterus, not your of which 12 were adults and four persons reports had been filed.
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choice,” many shouted a t rallies were children, said fire chief The attack came in a week
in Washington DC, New York City, Charles Hood. The patients were that saw European Council, G7
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Registered as a published last Sunday, most Three people were taken into civilians were a “war crime”. Last
newspaper at the disapprove of overturning the custody, McManus said. Governor week Ukraine was granted EU
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UK headlines p9(cid:4)
8 FRANCE/BELGIUM
Taste for frogs’ legs puts
species at risk of extinction
A voracious appetite for frogs’ legs
6 NORWAY
among the French and Belgians
is driving species in Indonesia,
Terror alert raised after two
Turkey and Albania to the brink of
killed in mass shootings 6
extinction, according to a report.
The security service raised its Europe imports up to 200
terror alert to the highest level, million mostly wild frogs a year,
saying it believes the suspect contributing to a serious depletion
arrested after two people were of native species abroad. 4
killed in shootings last Friday night Scientists estimate the
in Oslo is a radicalised Islamist with Anatolian water frog could be
a history of mental illness. The extinct in Turkey by 2032, while
PST intelligence service said the 1 other species such as the Albanian
42-year-old Norwegian national of water frog are threatened. Export
Iranian origin had been known to quotas for Indonesia’s Javan frog 10 AUSTRIA
security services since 2015. have also been withdrawn .
The shootings in three locations 2 Amphibians are the most
in central Oslo, including a gay threatened group among
bar, came hours before the start vertebrates, according to the
of Norway’s Pride celebrations, International Union for the
which were called off – though Conservation of Nature.
several thousand people walked
the route in solidarity.
Vienna reclaims title of the
3 world’s most liveable city
Vienna has made a comeback as
the world’s most liveable city,
according to an annual survey.
7 ARGENTINA
The Austrian capital snatched the
top spot from Auckland in New
Zealand , which tumbled down
5 to 34th place due to coronavirus
pandemic restrictions, according
to the report by the Economist
intelligence unit published last
Thursday.
Vienna was followed by the
9 ECUADOR
Danish capital, Copenhagen, and
Zurich in Switzerland. Canada
Cost of living protests bring
Eight to face Maradona also did well ; Calgary came in
country to a standstill
homicide charges joint third position, followed
The country was brought to a by Vancouver in fifth place and
7
Eight people who took care of the near standstill after two weeks of Toronto in eighth.
football superstar Diego Maradona p rotests over a spike in fuel and
will be tried for homicide, food prices as global inflation
according to a ruling released inflames discontent over widening
following an investigation into his inequality across Latin America.
death from cardiac arrest. At least five people have died
The ruling said eight people after demonstrators blocked
including doctors, nurses and roads, torched vehicles and hurled
a psychologist who cared for stones, while police responded
Maradona at the time of his death with teargas during the clashes.
in 2020 are accused of “simple The health ministry said two
homicide ”, a serious charge that people died in ambulances delayed
means taking a life with intent. by road blockades. Twelve police
A medical board appointed to officers are reported injured.
investigate Maradona’s death The powerful Indigenous
concluded in 2021 that his medical federation Conaie began the
team acted in an “inappropriate, protests l ast month, setting out 10
deficient and reckless manner”. demands amid the spiralling cost
of living, including a freeze on fuel
prices and a debt moratorium .
1 July 2022 The Guardian Weekly
13 CHINA
Alarm in Beijing over
‘fi ve-year’ zero-Covid policy
Authorities in Beijing sparked
a larm after announcing the strict
zero-Covid policy could be in
place for the next five years,
15 18
including mass mandatory testing
and travel restrictions.
The notice, published on
Monday , was attributed to Cai
Qi, the Beijing secretary of the
11 TURKEY
Chinese Communist party. 16
Saudi crown prince visits The notice was first posted by
Ankara as relations thaw Beijing Daily and republished
by other state media outlets. It
The Saudi Arabian crown prince, spread across social media, but
Mohammed bin Salman, made a soon the reference to “five years”
state visit to the Turkish capital, was removed from most online
Ankara, ending years of animosity publications .
between the two countries that
17
peaked with the murder of the
journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the
20
Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
The crown prince was greeted
with a grand procession on
horseback and a state band. He
14 SRI LANKA
stood alongside the Turkish
president Recep Tayyip Fuel sales suspended as
Erdoğan before the two leaders
reserves hit rock bottom
disappeared behind the gold doors
of the presidential palace to begin The cash-strapped country has
12 SOUTH AFRICA
one-on-one talks. announced a two-week halt to fuel
“God willing, we will have the Twenty-two young people sales except for essential services
opportunity to assess to what and called for a partial shutdown
found dead in nightclub
much higher level we can take as its unprecedented economic
Turkey-Saudi Arabia relations,” Police forensic teams were crisis deepened.
Erdoğan said, announcing the investigating the deaths of 22 Sri Lanka is facing its worst 19
sudden visit last month. young people at a nightclub and economic meltdown since gaining
bar in the southern coastal town of independence from Britain in
East London. 1948, and has been unable to
As of Monday, specialists had finance even the imports of
yet to establish the cause of the essentials since late last year.
tragedy, which occurred during As fuel reserves hit rock bottom
end of school year celebrations by with supplies barely enough
teenagers. Local residents raised for another day, government
the alarm , officials said. spokesperson Bandula
The exact circumstances of the Gunawardana said the ban was
tragedy remain unclear. A regional to save fuel for emergencies.
newspaper, DispatchLive, said its “ We want to conserve the little
reporters had seen bodies “lying reserves we have,” he s aid.
bizarrely, as if they collapsed to
the floor suddenly” .
Toxicology tests will
established if the casualties were
poisoned, officials said.
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Global report 7
15 SPAIN/MOROCCO 17 SOMALIA 19 NEW ZEALAND DEATHS
Urgent appeal for aid funds Māori new year is legally
as threat of famine looms recognised for fi rst time
Only a “massive” and immediate People gathered in pre-dawn
scaling-up of funds and mornings and icy nights to honour
humanitarian relief can save Matariki, the Māori new year , the James Rado
Somalia from famine, a UN fi rst time the celebration has been Award-winning
spokesperson has warned, formally and legally recognised, co-creator of
amid rapidly escalating levels making it the country’s fi rst Broadway hit Hair.
of malnutrition. Indigenous public holiday. He died on 21
In a message to G7 leaders , Matariki is the Māori name for a June, aged 90.
Calls for inquiry into deaths
Michael Dunford, the World Food cluster of stars known elsewhere
in border-crossing incident
Programme’s (WFP) regional as the Pleiades. The constellation Patrick Adams
Human rights campaigners in director for east Africa, said is visible from New Zealand for 1 1 “Disco King” who
Spain and Morocco have called for governments had to donate months of the year, but disappears produced records
investigations to be launched in urgently and generously if there from the skies for a month in for the likes of
both countries after a mass attempt was to be any hope of avoiding winter, reappearing in mid -June, Sister Sledge,
to scale the border fence between catastrophe in the country. around the time of the winter Eddie Kendricks,
Morocco and the Spanish enclave of T he Horn of Africa has suffered solstice. Its rising is recognised by Gladys Knight and
Melilla left at least 23 people dead. four consecutive failed rainy many iwi [tribes] as the beginning Salt-N-Pepa. He
Spanish officials said about seasons and is experiencing its of a new year. died on 22 June,
2,000 Africans made their way to worst drought in four decades, Speaking at a dawn ceremony aged 72.
the iron fence at dawn l ast Friday, a climate shock exacerbated by last Friday, the prime minister,
with more than 500 managing to ongoing conflict and price rises Jacinda Ardern, called it “a Sally Greengross
slip into a border control area after caused by the Russian invasion moment in time. A waypoint on a British cross-
cutting an opening with shears. of Ukraine. long and important journey.” bench peer who
Moroccan officials initially said Across the whole of east was director-
five people had died , but state TV Africa, 89 million people are general of charity
later said the toll had reached 23 . now considered “acutely food Age Concern from
Videos shared online by the insecure” by the WFP, a number 1987 to 2000. She
Moroccan Association of Human that has grown by almost 90% in died on 23 June,
Rights appeared to show dozens the past year. aged 86.
of people next to the border fence “Unfortunately, I do not see
– some bleeding and many lying [that rate of growth] slowing Frank Williams
motionless – as Moroccan forces in down. If anything, it seems to be British stage
riot gear watched over them . accelerating,” said Dunford. and screen actor
best known for
playing Timothy
Farthing, the vicar
16 HONG KONG 18 JAPAN 20 TANZANIA
in TV sitcom Dad’s
Army. He died on
Famous fl oating restaurant Record temperatures Maasai pastoralists charged
26 June, aged 90.
may not have sunk after all prompt power cuts warning over police offi cer’s murder
Confusion surrounded reports last The government has warned tens Twenty Maasai pastoralists have Paula Stafford
week that the distinctive Jumbo of millions of people in the Tokyo been charged with the murder of a Fashion designer
Floating Restaurant had sunk. region to save energy or face police officer during protests over credited with
The 80 -metre-long restaurant, power cuts, as the capital battles government plans to use their introducing the
designed like a Chinese imperial record June temperatures . ancestral land for conservation bikini to Australia.
palace, had been towed out of Temperatures reached 35C last and a luxury hunting reserve. She died on 23
Aberdeen harbour, r eportedly weekend, with similarly extreme The officer was allegedly shot June, aged 102.
to be taken to a shipyard in weather expected for the rest by an arrow on 10 June while
Cambodia. Last Monday its owner, of the week, according to the attempting to demarcate land in
Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises Japanese meteorological agency. Loliondo, bordering Serengeti
(ARE), said the vessel encountered “We ask the public to reduce national park.
bad weather at sea and appeared energy consumption during the Lawyers say a group of
to suggest it had sunk. However, early evening hours when the Maasai leaders were arrested on
ARE later said the reports that the reserve ratio falls,” said Yoshihiko 9 June, accused of inciting the
boat had sunk were “inaccurate” Isozaki, the deputy chief cabinet community . They were brought
and that it was still afloat, but secretary . He advised households before a court on 16 June and
that rescue work would be and businesses to turn off lights charged with murder, along with
“extremely difficult”. and limit air conditioner use . 10 other men.
1 July 2022 The Guardian Weekly
8 Global report
United Kingdom
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
CONSERVATIVES
Johnson hails ‘remarkable’
record as he strives for calm
to 39,426 journal articles and 7,675
patents, looking at who received Boris Johnson claimed on Sunday
credit for individual projects and that the record of his government
who did not. The study, published in was “remarkable” and “quite
Nature, found that men were around exceptional” as he continued to
twice as likely to be named on a brush aside internal Tory criticism
(cid:5) The reduction
scientifi c article or patent by their of his leadership.
in the use of
research team as women. However, in a series of
pesticides will
interviews at the G7 summit in
allow more and
Germany, the prime minister
POLLUTION diverse species to
sought to defuse the row triggered
flourish, such as
by his declaration that he wanted
Robo-fi sh created to remove in this w ildflower
to remain in offi ce until the
microplastics from oceans meadow in
2030s by saying he meant he was
Auvergne, France
Scientists have designed a tiny focused on his reform agenda.
MICHAEL DAVID
robot-fi sh programmed to remove Coming after two byelection
MURPHY/ALAMY
microplastics from seas and oceans defeats revived talk in the Tory
CONSERVATION
by swimming around and absorbing party of Johnson being forced out
them on its body. Microplastics of offi ce within weeks or months,
EU plans to halve pesticide
are the tiny plastic particles that the PM’s comment about planning
use in ‘milestone’ legislation
fragment from bigger objects such a third term prompted claims he
For the fi rst time in 30 years, as water bottles, car tyres and was delusional.
legislation has been put forward to synthetic clothing. As he was leaving the
address catastrophic wildlife loss in They are one of the 21st century’s Commonwealth summit in
the EU. Legally binding targets for biggest environmental problems Rwanda last Saturday, Johnson
all member states to restore wildlife because once dispersed , they are was asked if he intended to serve
on land, rivers and the sea were very hard to get rid of, making their a second full term in offi ce upon
announced last week, alongside a way into drinking water and food, winning a general election, taking
crackdown on chemical pesticides. harming the environment and him to 2028 or 2029.
Targets released by the European animal and human health. “It is of He replied: “At the moment I am
Commission include reversing the great signifi cance to develop a robot thinking actively about the third
decline of pollinator populations to accurately collect and sample term and you know, what could
and restoring 20% of land and detrimental microplastic pollutants happen then. But I will review that
sea by 2030, with all ecosystems from the aquatic environment,” when I get to it.”
to be under restoration by 2050. said Yuyan Wang, a researcher at Asked what he meant by
The commission also proposed a the Polymer Research Institute of leaving after a third term, Johnson
target to halve the use of chemical Sichuan University and one of the said that would mean staying in
pesticides by 2030 . lead authors on the study. Her team’s offi ce until “the mid-2030s”. No
invention is described in a research 10 initially suggested h e might
paper in the journal Nano Letters. have been joking, but on Sunday
RESEARCH
the PM said he was making a point
about focusing on the long-term
Female scientists less likely RECYCLING
challenges facing the country.
to be credited for their work
“What I’m saying is this is a
Brewer to trial fi bre bottles
Female scientists are less likely to government that is getting on
for its beer in Europe
receive authorship credit or to be with delivering for the people of
98
named on patents related to the Carlsberg is to conduct its biggest this country and we’ve got a huge
work they do compared with their trial of recyclable fi bre beer bottles amount to do,” he said.
male counterparts , data suggests. across Europe. The bottles are Spotlight Page 22 (cid:2)
This gender gap may help to explain made of a wood-based fi bre shell The weight
well-documented disparities in the and a plant-based polyethylene in kilograms
apparent contributions of male and furanoate polymer lining. Eight of a Burmese
female scientists. thousand bottles will be tested i n python recently
Prof Julia Lane at New York eight markets across the continent . captured
University and her colleagues Carlsberg says the bottles retain in Florida.
analysed administrative data on the same “taste and fi zziness” as The snake
research projects conducted at 52 US glass ones and could keep beer was nearly
colleges and universities between colder for longer. The re are plans 5.5  metres long
2013 and 2016. They matched for an alternative fi bre-based cap, and had 122
information about 128,859 scientists expected to be delivered in 2023. developing egg s
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9
Eyewitness
(cid:3) A brush with danger
The Ethiopian refugee
and long-distance runner
Eskander Turki kneels next
to an artwork that depicts
his journey to the UK from
Ethiopia. The immersive
piece is one of three on
London’s South Bank created
by the street artists 3D Joe
and Max. Turki left Ethiopia
in 2011 after being imprisoned
for taking part in a student
protest. After his release, he
fl ed to Sudan, eventually
seeking refuge in the UK. He
ended up in Belfast, where
he now runs for the Northern
Ireland athletics team.
MIGRANT HELP/PA
MONARCHY COST OF LIVING CORONAVIRUS
Charities under scrutiny Almost half of adults cut New Omicron variants fuel
over Qatari cash claims back on food spending rise in cases across the UK
Prince Charles faced controversy Almost half the adults in Great Covid-19 levels are continuing to
over the funding of his charities , Britain are cutting back on the rise in all four countries of the UK,
with calls for the government and amount of food they buy as the with the increase fuelled by the
charity watchdog to investigate cost of living crisis forces them Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5,
claims he accepted €3m ($3.18m) to trim their weekly supermarket experts have said.
in cash from a Qatari sheikh. shop, official figures have shown. Figures from the Office for
Claims in the Sunday Times In stark evidence on the effect National Statistics , based on
that Charles accepted three of rising inflation on spending , the swabs collected from randomly 20
donations between 2011 and 2015 Office for National Statistics said selected households, reveal that
50
from former Qatari prime minister 44% of adults surveyed in May in the week ending 18 June an
20
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin said they were buying less food estimated one in 40 people in
50
Jaber al-Thani were described – up from 18% at the start of the the community in England are
as “shocking” by critics. A €1m year. The ONS said the decrease thought to have had Covid – about 50
£14
donation was reportedly handed in food shopping was having a 1.36 million people – up from one
bn
over in a suitcase . marked impact on the UK’s shops in 50, or 1.13 million people, the
The cash was paid to the Prince and online sellers – with smaller week before.
of Wales’s charitable fund, which grocery bills the main factor The estimated number of The estimated
aims to “transform lives and build behind a 0.5% drop in retail sales people testing positive also rose in worth ($17.2bn) of
sustainable communities” . The in May. Scotland and Northern Ireland and Bank of England
fund told the Sunday Times that to a lesser extent in Wales, with paper £20 and
its trustees concluded the donor levels highest in Scotland where £50 notes still in
was legitimate and its auditors around one in 20 people, or 4.76% circulation, that
signed off on the donation. of the population, are thought to will no longer be
Although there is no suggestion have had Covid in the week ending legal tender after
of any illegality, or that Charles 17 June. 30 September.
offered anything in return for the According to the ONS data, Since last year,
donations, critics said it raised infection levels have risen across all new Bo E
serious concerns about the future all regions of England, except the banknotes have
king’s personal judgment . north-east and the south-east . been made from
polymer plastic
1 July 2022 The Guardian Weekly
The big story War in Ukraine
RUSSIA/UKRAINE
As Russia’s war with
Ukraine drags on,
western leaders are
feeling the heat. In
a week of summits,
can a new strategic
direction be found
to turn the confl ict
away from Putin?
By Patrick Wintour
THE LON
S
peaking at a private din- in the villages of eastern Ukraine. That
What if Putin At a critical ner in London recently, anxiety is shared by Volodymyr Zelen-
switches off juncture, war a senior serving British skiy, the Ukrainian president, who in a
Europe’s gas? returns to Kyiv military officer argued speech to marketing professionals in
Alex Lawson, Lorenzo Tondo, the west had no choice Cannes last week pleaded with them
page 13 (cid:21) page 14 (cid:21) but to see Ukraine as just to use their creative ingenuity to keep
one phase in a decade-long battle with the world focused on his country’s
Russia. “If Ukraine wins, Russia will struggle: “Don’t let the world switch
never accept that. If Russia wins, it will to something else,” he said.
go further,” he warned. The succession of recent summits
Yet in Whitehall they fear the – European Council, the G7 and Nato
(cid:20)
“F  word” – fatigue – and worry that the – have come at a pivotal moment in
Homes lie in ruins
west does not have the resolve for the the four-month war, not just on the
in Irpin, Kyiv
years-long sacrifi ce required to defeat battle fi eld, but in the important par-
METIN AKTAS/ANADOLU/
GETTY Russia, or even stem the military tide allel contests to maintain domestic