Politics The rise of the technopopulists From Macron’s En Marche! to the Conservatives’ “Get Brexit Done”: how populists embraced the language of science and expertise. By Chris Bickerton
Books Tom Bower’s Boris Johnson biography is thin, imprecise and poorly written The Gambler brings to mind that old cliché: it is both good and original, but what is good is not original, and what is original is not good. By Stephen Bush
North America What record levels of voter turnout could mean for the US 2020 election More ballots have already been cast in Texas than were cast in that state for Donald Trump alone in 2016. By Emily Tamkin
Environment Can smartphones ever be “sustainable”? Dutch company Fairphone hopes to develop “ethical” smartphones with a reduced environmental impact. But, with complex supply chains and minerals that often have brutal origins, it’s no easy task. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Sport Marcus Rashford and the new political football We are witnessing something entirely new: the rise of the activist super-player. By Jason Cowley
Devolution Why Labour needs to get serious about radical devolution Keir Starmer’s party must abandon its centralising instincts and redistribute power and wealth across England. By James Meadway
Ten lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic Around the world, coronavirus has revealed profound flaws in our politics. Will we do any better in the next crisis? By Philip Ball
Books Why we need Hilary Mantel’s critical snark In her new collection Mantel Pieces, Hilary Mantel’s critical voice is superior, unkind – and deeply enjoyable. By Helen Lewis
Books Hermione Lee on how to write a life Lee is known for her landmark biographies of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Now, she has taken on her first living subject: Tom Stoppard. By Anna Leszkiewicz
UK What Westminster gets wrong about “the north” “The north-west” or “the north-east” is nobody’s principal unit of identity. We live closer to home than that. By Philip Collins
Social Media Why I finally deleted my Facebook account after watching Netflix’s The Social Dilemma The only industries that refer to their customers as “users”, viewers of the documentary are reminded, are tech and illegal drugs. By Pippa Bailey
UK Why Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings don’t care about charges of hypocrisy It has become increasingly clear that the Conservatives don’t believe that the rules should apply to them. By Jonn Elledge
UK As the UK heads for no-deal, the Brexiteers’ delusions have been exposed Should Britain leave without an EU trade agreement, Boris Johnson will only have himself to blame. By Martin Fletcher
UK Commons Confidential: Arron Banks and his “Bad Boys of Brexit” fail to take New Zealand Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster. By Kevin Maguire
Books The radical legacy of Shulamith Firestone Why Firestone’s groundbreaking manifesto The Dialectic of Sex, first published in 1970, still feels radical today. By Erin Maglaque
TV & Radio Revisiting the life of Princess Diana The podcast You're Wrong About re-examines the long-established narratives surrounding the Princess of Wales with renewed empathy. By Anna Leszkiewicz
Art & Design How Akseli Gallen-Kallela captured Finland In his painting of one of the country’s many lakes, Gallen-Kallela saw a nation rippling into life. By Michael Prodger
Books Why we need Hilary Mantel’s critical snark In her new collection Mantel Pieces, Hilary Mantel’s critical voice is superior, unkind – and deeply enjoyable. By Helen Lewis
TV & Radio The blood and guts of BBC One’s Roadkill Everyone in it is paying the price for some bit of bad behaviour, their innards, metaphorically speaking, trailing behind them like bloody ropes. By Rachel Cooke
Film Borat Subsequent Moviefilm brings outrage back to comedy Fourteen years after the first film, but mere months in the making, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat returns in this biting satirical sequel. By Ryan Gilbey
Coronavirus How England’s Covid-19 test and trace system is collapsing The latest data suggests the system is being overwhelmed by the rising number of cases. By Michael Goodier
Coronavirus Why it's so difficult to protect older people from Covid-19 Data analysis shows that segmenting the population does not stop cases from rising across the population as a whole. By Katharine Swindells
Social Media How the Cambridge Analytica scandal unravelled The notion that the contentious British firm played a pivotal role in the Trump and Brexit votes has become ever harder to maintain. By Laurie Clarke
Social Media Why I finally deleted my Facebook account after watching Netflix’s The Social Dilemma The only industries that refer to their customers as “users”, viewers of the documentary are reminded, are tech and illegal drugs. By Pippa Bailey
How Joe Biden’s foreign policy would not be a total departure from that of Donald Trump If he triumphs in the election on 3 November, Biden’s approach could come as a rude awakening for some Europeans. By Jeremy Cliffe
World The UN’s Mark Lowcock: vaccine nationalism is a “complete delusion” The humanitarian chief warns no nation will be able to protect itself from Covid-19 without helping poorer countries, too. By Ido Vock
Feminism Sanna Marin: Finland’s fearless prime minister is challenging sexism in politics Marin, who was the world’s youngest head of government when she entered office in December 2019 at the age of 34, wants to change expectations of politicians. By Sophie McBain
North America US-China economic integration shaped today’s world, but now it is going into reverse A New Statesman Media Group special on the decoupling of America and China. By Jeremy Cliffe
Europe Prague's Pirate Party mayor on his war with illiberal politics Zdenek Hrib is part of a new wave of progressive mayors in central Europe campaigning for direct EU funding to fight cronyism and the climate crisis. By Ido Vock
1916 and 1918: a military parallel 5 January 1918: With the Allied forces weakened, history threatens to repeat itself. By New Statesman
From the NS archive: Why I'm no longer a nationalist 16 August 1999: For the best and brightest, Britain is too small a stage on which to waste their talent. This is why we will become pro-Europeans. By Peregrine Worsthorne
The new trade unionism 10 September 1927: If the working-class standard of life is to be improved, employers and trade unionists will have to cooperate. By Anonymous
The battle for the mythical middle 21 March 1980: Carter versus Kennedy for the Democratic leadership. By Claudia Wright
Looking-glass world 28 October 1977: Tom Stoppard on the trial of Havel, Lederer, Pavlicek and Ornest, for dissent against the republic. By Tom Stoppard
