Yahoo Movies The reality of Brexit - inside the 29 January edition of the Guardian Weekly
It’s been a month since the UK formally left the European Union and, for many consumers and small companies, the realisation of what Brexit actually means is hitting home. In this week’s cover story, Toby Helm meets the business owners who have realised that, in order for trade with customers in EU countries to remain viable, they will have to set up shop in the bloc at the expense of investing in the UK. As the complicated realities of post-Brexit life sink in for the public, will they also sink in for the politicians that pushed Britain’s departure?
We reported last year on the disaster in Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, where nearly 100 people a day were dying of Covid. Sadly, the city is facing a second coronavirus disaster, with hospitals running out of oxygen and a new strain of the virus, which has already spread beyond the city. This week, Tom Phillips reports on the “massacre” in a city that has already suffered more than most. We also look at how a lockdown in Chad has become tangled with the politics of a presidential election, before Nick Evershed crunches the numbers on what the South African and UK Covid strains mean for the spread of the virus.
Donald Trump left the Oval Office last week and Joe Biden is the 46th US president. Suddenly things feel much … calmer, at least until Trump’s impeachment trial begins on 8 February. Richard Wolffe reports on the work Biden is doing in his first few weeks and who the key advisers surrounding him are. We also look at what the US rejoining the Paris climate accord means for the planet and Liesl Schillinger salutes the poetry of Amanda Gorman, who stole the show at Biden’s inauguration with her recital of The Hill We Climb.
Away from the news, Tom Lamont asks an important question: has video assistance for referees ruined elite football? Since the introduction of VAR, discussions about the failings (or benefits) of the technology have dominated the discourse around the game as much as fans previously talked about real referees. Has a little bit of magic been torn from the heart of the beautiful game?
We also feature a great piece of reporting by Rolling Stone writer John Colapinto who injured his voice in a tragic, er, singing accident and – in trying to repair his vocal cords – went on a quest discover how vital our ability to speak is to our understanding of what it is to be human.
