Appease or oppose? It’s a quandary these days.
From territorial disputes in the East China Sea, to fears for a Rohingya community facing relocation in Bangladesh, from upset as Argentina seeks to block its borders, to disenchantment within Europe over the policies of US President Donald Trump, there is much turmoil in the world these days.
We take the week head on (no appeasement here!), putting events into context, considering their consequences and rounding out news and analysis with the Guardian’s world-class commentators to provide truly comprehensive coverage.
Even with so much angst about, this edition finds cause for hope.
In Africa, leaders agree a health push to tackle global threats such as Ebola and to ensure immunisations. In Europe, a crackdown on illegal fishing in African coastal waters will give a much-needed lift to local fishermen. And in the South Pacific, a group of islands is banning junk food in favour of an all-local, organic diet. No biscuits in Vanuatu’s Torba province, then? Farc fighters in Colombia, meanwhile, continue their trek towards a life to be lived in peace.
We find space to praise the cave squeaker, a rare frog that has been sighted for the first time in fifty-odd years. And as our colleagues fall, one by one, to seasonal lurgies here in London, we ask if the super-immune individual really exists.
This edition may take readers outside their comfort zone.
The Finance page introduces image-based social media network Snapchat (it’s all the rage among today’s teens), which plans an initial public offering. And our Review opener delves deeply into the world of banking and the rigging of the highly influential Libor rate. This is a fantastic piece of writing from the Guardian’s outstanding long read section.
Culture reports how art, dancers and audience vie for nudity honours in a Sydney exhibition space. Probably just as well this event took place in summer, really.
This edition provides comfort, too, with a super batch of book reviews, diversions to delight and the ever-intriguing Oliver Burkeman and his quest for inner calm. In such turbulent times a few answers to anxiety can’t be a bad thing.
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