Books Lost boy: the meanings and motivations of Michael Jackson Jackson wanted his career to be “the greatest show on earth”, but he paid for it with his childhood. By Tom Gatti
Europe What can Britain learn from Ireland's abortion referendum? Together For Yes ran an inspirational, effective campaign: feminists and progressives everywhere can learn from it. By Helen Lewis
Sport The manager as messiah: Jürgen Klopp’s mission for Liverpool Communication skills are central to Klopp’s method and, like Shankly, he is not afraid to use them to discuss politics, speaking out against Brexit and on humanitarian issues. By Jonathan Wilson
Europe Germany reclaimed: Berlin’s Jewish revival For Jews, the city was once the heart of darkness. Now, it is full of young Israelis and Arabs. Could this be a recipe for peace, not war? By Matthew Engel
UK Crumbling Britain: Lancashire's lost world of deep-sea fishing Fleetwood was once the third biggest fishing port in Britain but the industry has all but disappeared – and the museum keeping its memory alive is open only because of volunteers. By Patrick Maguire
Feminism My double heartbreak: how I was forced to leave Ireland to end a doomed pregnancy Staying in Ireland would have meant six months of people asking if we were excited, and having to tell them that our baby was never coming home. By Amy Callahan
Books Lost boy: the meanings and motivations of Michael Jackson Jackson wanted his career to be “the greatest show on earth”, but he paid for it with his childhood. By Tom Gatti
Religion How fitness became a pseudo-religion The Flywheel website details its “Fly-osophy”, warning customers to “get ready to build your limitless body – in and out of the studio”. By Sophie McBain
UK Commons Confidential: Peter Mandelson’s double trouble Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster. By Kevin Maguire
Middle East Until the Palestine issue is settled, there’ll always be a crack in Israel’s foundations History shows that Israel’s military occupations cannot be sustained indefinitely. By Jeremy Bowen
UK Why the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry must not drag on too long This is the 68th public inquiry set up by ministers since 1990 – the average time from inquiry announcement to final report is two and a half years. By Peter Wilby
Scotland’s unionists attack the SNP’s Growth Commission report at their peril Andrew Wilson’s economic plan is a step towards piecing Scotland back together. By Chris Deerin
The Staggers Jewish leaders are right to worry about Labour's internal processes The incentives on political parties to go soft on their own supporters are always too high. By Stephen Bush
UK Labour’s anti-Corbyn MPs need to put up or shut up Ian Austin’s broadside against party leadership betrays the lack of both strategy and coherent reasoning for staying in Labour among Corbynsceptics. By Patrick Maguire
The Staggers Labour is looking to the future in Northern Ireland – but can they escape Corbyn’s past? The party’s message on Brexit and devolution will strike a chord during Corbyn’s visit, but will always be tainted by the messenger’s past. By Patrick Maguire
Politics Right-wing populism is rising – is it too late to save democracy? The populist upheavals in the West are a response to political failure of historic proportions, but its most conspicuous casualties have been liberal and centre-left parties. By Michael Sandel
The Staggers PMQs review: Corbyn returns to safe ground to grill the PM on the NHS But Corbyn's historical line of questioning left important topics unasked and unanswered. By Dulcie Lee
Q&A Colm Tóibín Q&A: “I’m not sure I think at all – it doesn’t get me anywhere” The novelist talks Mary Tudor, Jesus and America’s foolishness. By New Statesman
Books The two faces of Philip Roth Throughout several encounters with the late great novelist, I saw him switch between scabrous provocateur and professorial literary grandee. By Mark Lawson
UK Loreena McKennitt has sold 15 million records – but she’d rather talk about air-sea rescue The Canadian queen of Celtic music is honorary colonel of the Royal Canadian Airforce. By Kate Mossman
TV & Radio Hugh Grant has the role of his life as Jeremy Thorpe in A Very English Scandal The BBC One drama is purest catnip to me. I want to roll around in it, like some randy stable boy in hay. By Rachel Cooke
TV & Radio Only Artists: the Radio 4 discussion show that cuts out the middle man The show is strikingly and joyously like something from an earlier time, when less offence was taken and given. By Antonia Quirke
Sport If Arsenal’s Wenger Out extremists want Unai Emery to succeed, they need to quiet down When Wenger came to Arsenal, he delivered near-instant success. What if Emery fails to deliver something similar? By Rohan Banerjee
Games Yes, Battlefield V gamers, there were female soldiers in World War II Fans complaining of historical inaccuracy should remember women like my grandmother. By Tracy King
Social Media Instagram is the latest social media platform to gently ignore what users really want Instagram’s mute button joins Twitter’s character count on the list of things people never really craved. By Sarah Manavis
Media Elon Musk’s attack on the media shows the attitudes of the new Silicon Valley aristocracy To any elite, the grubby attention of nosey hacks is unwelcome. By Mic Wright
Science & Tech Jordan Peterson says lobsters help to explain why human hierarchies exist – do they? Peterson argues that, like humans, lobsters exist in hierarchies. By Leonor Gonçalves
Internet We shouldn’t let Spotify make moral decisions for us The music streaming service has a new policy on “hate content and hateful conduct”, but who gets to decide what to censor? By Amelia Tait
Social Media Mark Zuckerberg 3 – global legislators nil The Facebook CEO’s testimony before the European Parliament was, if anything, even less edifying than his US congressional appearances. By Nicky Woolf
Books John McCain’s last stand At 81, and fighting a battle with stage four brain cancer, McCain says his own party is on the “wrong side” of history. By Tim Shipman
Elections What the new coalition means for Italy – and why it matters for the left in Britain The new government’s programme is the first coherent example in Europe of what I’ve called “neoliberalism in one country”. By Paul Mason
Africa No, Katie Hopkins, there is no white genocide in South Africa Every murder in the country is a tragedy. But most don’t happen on white farms, or even in white areas. By Joe Walsh
Politics We are entering the post-democratic age – and it’s up to all of us to stop the strongmen The number of countries that can plausibly be described as democracies is shrinking. By Amol Rajan
Social Media Mark Zuckerberg 3 – global legislators nil The Facebook CEO’s testimony before the European Parliament was, if anything, even less edifying than his US congressional appearances. By Nicky Woolf
Books Vladimir Putin’s politics of victimhood Putin paints Russia as the underdog to keep his citizens, like those of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four, in a permanent sense of crisis. By Peter Conradi
