The Guardian Weekly - 05 August 2022

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Eyewitness (cid:3) Eyes of the tiger
India Schoolchildren wearing tiger costumes participate in the Save Our Tiger awareness
campaign on International Tiger Day in Bengaluru, India . World Tiger Day is
observed on 29 July, and this year in neighbouring Nepal it was announced that the
PHOTOGRAPH:
country’s tiger population has nearly tripled in 12 years, from 121 in 2010 to 355 .
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A week in the life of the world Inside
5 August 2022
Moscow in denial,
women make history
and fi shing for bikes
Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine began at the tail 4-14 GLOBAL REPORT
end of winter with the Kremlin expecting a quick victory. Headlines from the last
But with summer at its height and the war dragging seven days
on, our Moscow correspondent Andrew Roth took the 10 Russia-Ukraine Life goes
temperature on the streets of the Russian capital. The on as normal in Moscow
majority of Muscovites he talked to were enjoying the
good weather and doing their best to turn a blind eye 15-33 SPOTLIGHT
to the mounting casualties, dodge intergenerational In-depth reporting
arguments over the invasion and f ocus on having fun in and analysis
the new normal of life without western products. 15 UK What England’s Euros
The big story Page 10 (cid:2) win means for football
19 (cid:3)Sri Lanka Justice for
Women’s football has fi rmly staked its place as an equal victims of war crimes
on the pitch in the UK, with the England team doing what 24 Environment The legacy
their male counterparts have dreamed of for 56 long years of James Lovelock
and triumphing in a major international tournament. 26 Afghanistan Hope in hemp
It is sobering to remember that only half a century ago, 27 Thailand Meet the
the FA’s ban on women and girls playing still stood. In pensioners of Instagram
the exhilaration of Sunday’s win against Germany , our 28 Europe Weaning a
football reporters look ahead to what the team and the continent off the car
women’s game can achieve. Fans of the women’s game 30 Health Rugby must act
hope for change from grassroots up and parity with men. now to tackle dementia
Spotlight Page 15 (cid:2)
34-44 FEATURES
We’ve all seen bicycle skeletons poking up from muddy Long reads, interviews
stretches of water; it’s a depressing sight and it got the and essays
writer of our main feature, Jody Rosen, thinking. H is 34 What’s behind a mass
investigation of the fatal attraction between canals and drowning of bicycles?
bikes takes readers to watery cycle graveyards in Paris, By Jody Rosen
Amsterdam and China to fi nd out what’s behind this 40 ‘I am trans because the
mass drowning. world made me so ’
Lifecycle Page 3 4 (cid:2) By Travis Alabanza
45-50 OPINION
45 David Adler
Chile’s new constitution
47 Vava Tampa
Macron’s Colonisation 2.0
48 Will Hutton
The Tories’ reality gap
51-59 CULTURE
TV, fi lm, music, theatre,
art, architecture & more
51 Screen
Neil Gaiman on Sandman
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Life in Moscow goes on as normal as Russians 55 Visual arts
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What Vladimir Putin and his closest associates, under Russian occupation
quartered in the Kremlin, which borders the 57 Books
landmark, are thinking about the progress of the Amaryllis Gacioppo traces
war in Ukraine is not something that troubles her ancestral footsteps
ordinary Muscovites.
Photograph: Elena Aleksandrovna Ermakova 60-61 LIFESTYLE
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A brother’s lethargic limbo
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Global 2 UNITED STATES 4 MONKEYPOX
Two deaths in Spain as
report
WHO declares emergency
Spain reported its second
monkeypox-related death last
Saturday, in what is thought
to be Europe’s second death
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from the disease in the current
last seven days outbreak. Spain had reported
its fi rst death a day earlier,
shortly after Brazil reported the
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Al-Qaida leader killed in US
As fl ash fl oods in Kentucky the disease.
drone attack on Kabul
claimed lives and continued to The World Health
Joe Biden described the death leave behind a trail of devastation, Organization  (WHO) has declared
of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was residents and offi cials in the state the rapidly spreading outbreak
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reserved the terrorist network behind the crisis. Last week, the state saw 20 to a WHO report from 22 July,
September 11 2001 attacks. to 25cm of rainfall in a 24- hour fi ve deaths had been reported,
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delivered and this terrorist leader dozens more are reported injured. hospitalised, and two had died .
is no more. P eople around the Kentucky’s governor, Andy Offi cials in New York City
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Registered as a proof of the US’s ability to conduct state that had been badly aff ected “the epicent re” of the outbreak.
newspaper at the “over-the-horizon” operations by the fl oods. He told NBC it was New York had recorded 1,345 cases
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7 BRAZIL
Outrage as Jair Bolsonaro
avoids fi ve Covid charges
Senators are calling for an
investigation into one of the
country’s top prosecutors after 6
she shelved several charges
against the president, Jair 3 4
2
Bolsonaro, over his mishandling of
the coronavirus pandemic.
A damning congressional
inquiry had recommended that
Bolsonaro be charged with nine
off ences, including crimes against
humanity and charlatanism,
8 KOSOVO
for promoting false treatments
10 ITALY/SWITZERLAND
such as hydroxychloroquine .
Tensions rise among Serbs
But  Lindôra Araujo, shelved
in licence plate confl ict
fi ve of these charges, leading
lawmakers to request her conduct A measure oblig ing Serbs in the
be examined. north of the country to apply for
car licen ce plates issued by the
authorities in the capital, Pristina,
was put on hold am id escalating
tensions between police and local
communities. Fourteen years after
6 ITALY Kosovo declared independence
from Serbia, 50,000 Serbs living Melting glacier throws
in the north use licenc e plates and
border into question
documents issued by the Serbian
authorities, refusing to recognise A melting glacier in the Alps
institutions in Pristina. has shifted the border between
Switzerland and Italy, putting the
location of an Italian mountain
hut in dispute. The borderline
runs along a drainage divide – the
point at which meltwater will run
down either side of the mountain .
Killing of Nigerian street
The Theodul glacier’s retreat
seller sparks outrage
means it has crept towards the
Video footage of a Nigerian Rifugio Guide del Cervino, near the
9 GERMANY
street seller being attacked and Testa Grigia peak . When the refuge
killed in broad daylight in Italy was built in 1984, it was entirely
Coal power plant goes back
has sparked a row over far-right in Italian territory. But now two-
into action after supply cut
parties’ xenophobic tactics in the thirds of the lodge is technically in
country’s election campaign. A coal-fi red power plant that had southern Switzerland.
Alika Ogorchukwu , 39, was been mothballed was put back
killed last Friday in the centre of on to the network in Germany, as
Civitanova Marche, a beach resort debate rages over how Europe’s
on the Adriatic Sea. A 32-year- largest economy will cope without
old man from Salerno , in the Russian gas. The facility in Lower
Campania region, was arrested on Saxony received emergency
suspicion of murder. Hundreds permission to run until April
of people from the Nigerian in an attempt to boost energy
community and Italians protested production. The news came as the
in the town. Some compared the daily gas production of Russia’s
killing to that of George Floyd in state-owned Gazprom dropped in
the US. July to its lowest level since 2008.
Eyewitness Page 20 (cid:4)
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14 LEBANON
Silos damaged in 2020
explosion partly collapse
A section of the huge grain silos at
Beirut’s port, shredded in the 2020
explosion, collapsed after a weeks-
long fi re triggered by grains that
had fermented and ignited in the
summer heat. The northern block
of the silos fell in a huge cloud of
dust after what sounded like an
17 18 explosion. It was not immediately
clear if anyone was injured.
The 50-year-old silos, which
once had a capacity of more than
100,000 tonnes and stand 48
metres high, withstood the force
11 TUNISIA 15
of the explosion two years ago .
Vote ‘approves expansion
of president’s powers’
President Kais Saied celebrated
the almost certain victory of the
yes vote in a referendum on a
16
new constitution that hands him
wide-ranging powers and risks the 19
return of authoritarian rule in the
birthplace of the Arab spring.
The electoral commission –
12 IRAQ
controlled by Saied – said 95%
voted yes, although the poll was
Shia cleric’s supporters
boycotted by opposition groups. A
storm parliament again
full tally is expected this month.
Only around a third of Thousands of followers of the
9.3 million registered voters cast infl uential Shia cleric Muqtada
13 AFGHANISTAN
ballots, Tunisia’s ISIE electoral al-Sadr stormed into Iraq’s
commission said, showing parliament for the second time
Taliban policies ‘amount to
widespread apathy with the last week, protesting against
university ban for women’
political process. eff orts to form a government led
by his rivals, an alliance of Iran- The Taliban’s ban on girls studying
backed groups. at high schools will become a de
The alliance showed signs facto ba r on university degrees
of internal division, with some for women if it stays in place,
calling for counter-protests – a a Taliban spokesperson and
development that would raise university offi cials said.
the spectre of civil strife – while “Automatically, if we do not
others later called for dialogue. have high school graduates, we
Parliament speaker Mohammed won’t have new female university
al-Halbousi suspended future students any more,” said Maulawi
sessions until further notice. Ahmed Taqi , from the Taliban’s
Spotlight Page 23 (cid:2) ministry of higher education. “But
I am hopeful that the ministry
of education will come up with
a policy and soon reopen the
schools. Because we have realised
that it is important, and the ban on
girls’ education is temporary.”
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Global report 7
15 BANGLADESH 17 CHINA 19 MALDIVES DEATHS
Asia’s richest woman hit by World’s best job? Desert
slump in property market island bookseller wanted
The wealthiest woman in Asia has Applications have opened for
lost more than half her fortune what might just be the best job in
as the crisis engulfi ng China’s the world: running a bookshop on Nichelle Nichols
real estate sector worsens, a luxury desert island . Actor who broke
a billionaires’ index showed . Passionate lovers of books ground for black
Yang Huiyan , a majority – who are also adventurous, women as
shareholder in China’s biggest outgoing, creative and don’t mind Lt Nyota Uhura
property developer, Country spending all day barefoot – are in the original
Dhaka seeks IMF bailout
Garden, saw her net worth plunge sought for the year-long contract, TV hit Star Trek .
amid global slowdown
by more than 52% to $11.3bn from which starts in October and She died on 30
The government is to hold talks $23.7bn a year ago, according to involves moving to live on the July, aged 89.
with the International Monetary the Bloomberg Billionaires Index . remote island of Kunfunadhoo .
Fund after applying for a bailout In a sign that the crisis “The ethos of the island is: Bernard Cribbins
to s top the country running out of is spreading to developers no shoes, no news, ” said Alex Character actor
cash. Bangladesh – which follows previously thought to be rock McQueen, from Ultimate Library, especially
Pakistan and Sri Lanka in seeking solid, Yang’s fortune took a major which runs the bookshop with the loved by young
a rescue package from the IMF – is hit when Country Garden’s Hong Soneva Fushi resort . audiences for film
understood to want $4.5bn after Kong-listed shares fell 15% after The basic salary is $750 a month and TV including
it was hit hard by high import the company announced that but it is expected the bookseller Jackanory, The
prices, especially for gas, and a fall it planned to raise more than will be able to earn extra “service Wombles and The
in exports as the global economy $343m through a share sale, partly fees” on top by, for example, Railway Children.
slowed down. to pay debts. off ering book-related workshops He died on 2 7
The IMF said Dhaka was also China’s banking regulator or classes to guests. July, aged 93.
interested in its new resilience has urged lenders to support
and sustainability facility, which the property sector and meet James Lovelock
is aimed at helping countries face the “reasonable fi nancing Scientist,
climate emergency challenges. needs” of companies as environmentalist,
Bangladesh’s $416bn economy analysts and policymakers fear inventor and
has been one of the world’s fi nancial contagion. exponent of the
fastest-growing and is based Property is estimated to Gaia theory of the
mainly on a garment industry that account for 18-30% of China’s GDP Earth as a self-
supplies retailers in Europe, the and is a driver of growth in the regulating system.
US and South America. second-largest economy. He died on 26
July, aged 103.
Appreciation,
page 24
16 SRI LANKA 18 CHINA 20 WILDLIFE
Paul Sorvino
Two arrests as police clamp Nasa criticise Beijing as Decline of hippo population
American actor
down after mass protests rocket debris hits Earth spurs call for ban on trade
whose roles
Two activists who helped lead Debris suspected to be from a Hippos could be added to the list ranged from mafia
protests that toppled President Chinese booster rocket that made of the world’s most endangered boss Paulie Cicero
Gotabaya Rajapaksa have been an uncontrolled return to Earth animals because of dwindling in Goodfellas to a
arrested, police said, as parliament last Saturday has reportedly been populations caused by the climate police sergeant in
extended tough emergency laws found near villages in Malaysia crisis, poaching and the ivory Law & Order. He
imposed to restore order. and Indonesia. A charred ring of trade. Ten west African countries, died on 25 July,
Police said they had arrested metal fi ve metres in diameter was including Togo, Gabon and Mali, aged 83.
Kusal Sandaruwan and Weranga found on Sunday in Kalimantan, have proposed that hippos be
Pushpika on unlawful assembly Indonesia, according to a given the highest protection Sir Christopher
charges. Police also released Malaysian news outlet. under Cites – the Convention on Meyer
photographs of 14 suspects Earlier in the week, China said International Trade in Endangered Former UK
wanted in connection with an it would closely track the debris Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ambassador to
arson attack on President Ranil and that it posed little risk. But – by listing them under appendix Washington and
Wickremesinghe’s home on the Nasa administrator Bill Nelson I of Cites. If approved, it would press secretary
same day the president’s offi ce criticised Beijing , saying the mean a total international ban on to Prime Minister
and residence were overrun by failure to share the details of the the trade in hippo body parts and John Major. He
demonstrators. rocket’s descent was irresponsible ivory to help avert the decline of died on 27 July,
Spotlight Page 19 (cid:2) and risky. the species. aged 78.
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8 Global report
United Kingdom
SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
CONSERVATIVES
Sunak promises tax cuts in
last-gasp pitch to members
people. Experts believe this is due to
the eff ect of pollutants entering the Rishi Sunak pledged to slash taxes
circulatory system, aff ecting blood (cid:4) Psychropotes by 20% by the end of the decade in
fl ow to the brain. verrucicaudatus, a last-gasp pitch to Conservative
a species members with the fi rst ballots
discovered using arriving in the leadership race.
CORONAVIRUS
robot technology. In one of his strongest attacks
The findings yet on the frontrunner, Liz Truss,
Step made towards vaccine
have implications Sunak warned party members
for Covid and common cold
for deep-sea against an “act of self-sabotage”
Scientists have made a “promising” mining, which that could cost the party the
advance towards a universal has the potential election and to be wary of major
coronavirus vaccine to tackle to disturb spending pledges and tax cuts
Covid-19 and the common cold. many creatures which he has previously dismissed
Researchers at the Francis Crick as fantasy economics.
DEEPCCZ EXPEDITION/
Institute in London said developing GORDON & BETTY MOORE “I would urge them to treat with
FOUNDATION/NOAA
such a vaccine was a huge challenge caution any vision that doesn’t
MARINE LIFE
because this family of viruses ha d involve any diffi cult trade-off s
many key diff erences, frequently and remember that if something
Robot probe fi nds dozens of
mutated and generally induced sounds too good to be true – then
unknown deep-sea species
incomplete protection against it probably is,” he said.
Scientists have found more than reinfection. That is why people can The former chancellor made
30 potentially new species living at repeatedly catch common colds, the pledge having faced internal
the bottom of the sea. and why it is possible to be infected criticism from backers for his
Researchers from the UK’s Natural multiple times with diff erent narrative of restraint versus
History Museum used a remotely variants of Sars-CoV-2. The fi ndings Truss’s tax-cutting ambitions.
operated vehicle to collect are published in the journal Science Truss – whose campaign has
specimens from the abyssal plains of Translational Medicine. gained the support of Sunak’s
the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the replacement as chancellor,
central Pacifi c. The study, published Nadhim Zahawi, as well as
FOOD
in the journal Z oo Keys , found there former leadership hopeful Penny
was a high species diversity of larger Mordaunt – has said she will cut
Rare prize of white truffl es
organisms in the abyss. Of the 55 taxes “on day one” of becoming
cultivated in laboratory
specimens recovered, 48 were prime minister. She also vowed
of diff erent species and included The puzzle o f how to cultivate the to cut civil service salaries and
segmented worms, invertebrates elusive white truffl e – so rare that it reduce expenditure to recoup
from the same family as centipedes, can fetch up to $11,000 a kilogram £11bn ($ 13.4bn) a year in a “war
animals from the same family as – on a commercial scale, appears to on Whitehall waste” . However,
jellyfi sh, and diff erent types of coral. have been solved. experts questioned these savings .
T hirty-six specimens were found at Scientists from France’s National Alex Thomas, programme director
more than 4,800 metres deep . Research Institute for Agriculture, at the Institute for Government,
Food and the Environment (Inrae), called the plan “ludicrous” and
r evealed that, at a secret location said the annu al civil service pay
HEALTH
in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, western bill was only around £9bn.
2.77
France, they had cultivated 26 white On Monday, Sunak upped his
Air pollution cited as likely
truffl es. While more than 90% of tax-cutting plans, saying he would
contributor to dementia
black Périgord truffl es sold are cut income tax to 16p – costing
Air pollution is likely to increase the cultivated, previous attempts to The amount a bout £6bn a year should the
risk of developing dementia, a UK farm their white cousins have failed. paid, in millions Tories win the 2024 election.
government research group has said. “This signifi cant increase in of dollars, for
The Committee on the Medical production is very promising,” the jacket worn
Eff ects of Air Pollutants has said mycologist and project leader by Buzz Aldrin
published its fi ndings after Dr Claude Murat, of Inrae and the on his fi rst
reviewing almost 70 studies that University of Lorraine, Nancy. mission to the
analysed how exposure to emissions Truffl es, like many other fungi, form moon on Apollo
aff ect the brain over time. The symbiotic relationships with certain 11 in 1969 – the
r eport concludes that air pollution tree species by linking with their most valuable
is likely to increase the risk of roots. They deliver extra water and American space
accelerated “cognitive decline” and minerals to trees in exchange for artefact ever
of “developing dementia” in older carbon-based nutrients. sold at auction
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9
Eyewitness
(cid:3) Games on
A 10-metre raging bull, a giant
aluminium and steel puppet,
was the visual highlight of
the opening ceremony for
the Commonwealth Games
in Birmingham. Crammed
with references to the host
city’s history and culture, the
two-and-a-half-hour opening
ceremony marked the start
of Britain’s biggest multisport
event since the 2012 London
Olympics. Competitors from
the Commonwealth’s 72
nations and territories were
cheered into the refurbished
Alexander Stadium by a
crowd of 30,000 people.
DAVID DAVIES/PA
ECONOMY PARTHENON MARBLES COST OF LIVING CRISIS
Businesses cut investments British Museum calls for One in eight households
due to price rises and Brexit partnership with Greece cannot aff ord higher bills
UK business leaders are slashing The deputy director of the More than one in eight UK
investment plans as soaring British Museum has proposed a households fear they have no
prices, Brexit trading diffi culties “Parthenon partnership” with further way to make cuts to aff ord
and political uncertainty all leave Greece that could see the marbles a sharp increase in annual energy
bosses pessimistic about the returned to Athens after more bills this autumn.
economic outlook. than 200 years. More than a quarter of
As many fi rms are planning The sculptures – 17 fi gures and households earning less than
to cut investment as increase part of a frieze that decorated the £20,000 ($24,500) worry they
it, according to the Institute of 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple will be unable to cope with higher
Directors’ latest poll , the weakest on the Acropolis – were taken bills, with families in Yorkshire,
reading since October 2020 . by Lord Elgin in the early 19th the south-west and Northern
Businesses’ investment century and have been the subject Ireland the least confi dent about
3m
intentions have been falling since of a long-running dispute over covering costs . Almost half of UK
January, as input costs soar and where they should be displayed. households are concerned about
the economy slow s. In an interview with the being able to keep up with rent or
Business leaders are also less Sunday Times Culture magazine, mortgage payments over the next The reported
upbeat about their own prospects, Jonathan Williams said the British 12 months. court costs,
with more than half saying Museum wanted to “change the The latest evidence of pressure in pounds
economic conditions in the UK are temperature of the debate”. on households emerges amid the sterling, faced by
having a negative impact on their prospect of infl ation hitting 12% in Rebekah Vardy
organisation, along with soaring autumn after dearer fuel and food after she lost
energy costs and skills shortages. pushed the offi cial measure of the her libel action
Offi cial data has shown cost of living to a 40-year high of against Coleen
business investment stalled 9.4% in June. Rooney, in what
after the 2016 EU referendum. It The amount that UK consumers was dubbed
then plunged when the Covid-19 borrowed rose by the fastest the ‘Wagatha
pandemic began, and was still rate in three years last month, as Christie’ case.
9.1% below pre-pandemic levels households struggled to cope with Both women
earlier this year. the rising cost of living. are married
to footballers
5 August 2022 The Guardian Weekly
10 The big story ‘Jaded and puff y-faced’ La den voyage
Medvedev’s descent, page 12 (cid:20) Grain leaves Odesa at last, page 14 (cid:20)

(cid:19)
People relax by
the Moskva River
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