UK Jeremy Hunt appeals for calm as Iran seizes two British oil tankers The next prime minister could face a test of their foreign policy judgement - and a clash with Donald Trump - much earlier than expected. By Patrick Maguire
UK Jo Swinson: “We can’t pretend we didn’t get things wrong” The Liberal Democrats’ leadership frontrunner considers the party’s time in coalition government. By Stephen Bush
UK For Boris Johnson, all roads likely lead to a general election Should he become prime minister, Johnson will find himself in the position that Theresa May pretended to be in when she called the 2017 election. By Patrick Maguire
Books How Joseph Roth saw Europe’s future The Austrian novelist had a feel for the mood of the streets – and spotted the warning signs of the Second World War. By Paul Scraton
Film The Lion King: a David Attenborough doc with show-tunes Disney's photorealistic remake leaves the new cast with nothing to play with, no meat on the bone. By Ryan Gilbey
UK How Sadiq Khan is turning away from Johnsonian vanity projects By cancelling The Tulip, Khan has turned the corner on a decade-long binge of novelty infrastructure instigated by his predecessor. By Douglas Murphy
Film The dark side of the moon The 1969 moon landing has inspired countless films, books and TV shows – but on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the mission’s cultural legacy is shadowed with a darker hue. By Erica Wagner
Environment My manifesto for a post-carbon future It was once widely believed that time was on the side of progress. But now it is clear that time is something we do not have. By Paul Mason
Culture At 29, I look back on my teenage relationships with older men with even more confusion By Megan Nolan
Politics Personal Story: The last millennial dreamers Here it was, loud and grandiose, the year 2000: Y2K, the new frontier. By Ian Maleney
Economy To escape the next recession, we need to move beyond boom and bust Low unemployment and high spending on public services give workers more confidence to argue for the pay they deserve. By Grace Blakeley
The Staggers MPs hand chastening defeat to Boris Johnson, but the chances of no deal are still high It's not clear if the divided coalition that defeated the government today can cohere around a practical alternative to a no-deal Brexit. By Stephen Bush
The Staggers Labour's peers are in a stand-off with Jeremy Corbyn – and Labour MPs are worried The party’s MPs are concerned that the row will spill over into their trigger ballots. By Stephen Bush
Economy The UK’s forgotten workers without sick pay – and why new rules won’t help them A government proposal could change eligibility criteria to give two million more people statutory sick pay. But many will have to continue without it. By Anoosh Chakelian
The Staggers By treating all Londoners as the “cosmopolitan elite”, we erase both race and class Why aren’t those living in cities, or who die in preventable fires also “left behind”? By Omar Khan
UK Exclusive — Nick Clegg: Brexit likely means “the end of the United Kingdom” In his first print interview since joining Facebook, the former Liberal Democrat leader discusses Boris Johnson, working with Mark Zuckerberg and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. By New Statesman
Film The rise of the lesbian period drama From Colette to The Favourite, Vita and Virginia to Gentleman Jack: why are filmmakers turning to the past to explore relationships between women? By Annie Lord
Books Johny Pitts’s Afropean is a radical and wide-ranging tour of Europe’s black communities Pitts searches for a common identity among black people of African descent in Europe, visiting as many of their most significant communities as he can. By Musa Okwonga
Books Modern poetry’s sentimentality problem Two new but stale collections offer joyless caricatures of passion. By Paul Batchelor
TV & Radio When did tennis commentary become so insipid? “They’re both so, so good,” was the observations made of Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer on BBC 5 Live. By Antonia Quirke
Books How Joseph Roth saw Europe’s future The Austrian novelist had a feel for the mood of the streets – and spotted the warning signs of the Second World War. By Paul Scraton
Film The Lion King: a David Attenborough doc with show-tunes Disney's photorealistic remake leaves the new cast with nothing to play with, no meat on the bone. By Ryan Gilbey
Books How to survive in a world run by machines Artificial intelligence may represent a threat to our humanity – but it might also offer opportunities to enhance it. By Tim Rogan
TV & Radio When did tennis commentary become so insipid? “They’re both so, so good,” was the observations made of Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer on BBC 5 Live. By Antonia Quirke
Culture BBC Two's Inside the Social Network is an anxiety-inducing look at Facebook's... Watching Horizon’s access-all-areas doc, I wonder: is any aspect of our lives off limits for Facebook now? By Rachel Cooke
Technology Revealed: how citizen-scoring algorithms are being used by local government in the UK After nearly a decade of austerity, councils are turning to algorithms to predict the health, income and behaviour of their constituents. By Hettie O'Brien
Social Media Why young people are turning to online live-action roleplay Digital larping has become an increasingly popular form of escapism for millennials and Generation Z. By Sarah Manavis
Technology How Alan Turing foresaw the era of artificial intelligence Sixty five years after Turing's death, his scientific gift to the world is still being unwrapped. By Michael Brooks
Observations Why the German urban middle class is going Green In the European Parliament elections, the Greens won all of Germany’s major cities, secured a third of first-time voters and scooped up the young vote. By Ben Knight
Asia People vs police: a short history of Hong Kong's uneasy relationship Hong Kong’s police are frequently depicted as enemies of the people – so why is the force seen as a desirable career path? By Karen Cheung
Europe The German European: how Ursula von der Leyen rose to become EU president After the struggles of leading the German defence ministry, von der Leyen has returned to her original home. By Noah Gordon
Europe How a new expenses scandal has destroyed Emmanuel Macron's promise of clean politics Environment minister François de Rugy's lavish taxpayer-funded lifestyle exemplifies the gap between the elite and the French people. By Pauline Bock
North America The rise and fall of Breitbart Steve Bannon’s far-right media outlet has lost 75 per cent of its audience since Trump took office and 90 per cent of its advertisers. By Nicky Woolf
Europe When my Polish grandmother was exiled to Siberia in WW2, India gave her a home My babcia had many stories to tell, but the treatment that she and other Poles received in India teaches us a lesson that’s needed now more than ever. By Amelia Tait
