Brexit The UK’s Brexit stance is doing serious damage to its relationship with the US A new Atlantic Charter can’t make up for the lack of seriousness with which the British government has approached foreign affairs. By Garvan Walshe
Sport Gareth Southgate has shown political leadership once again The England manager understands the need for a patriotism that is generous and enhances national cohesion. By Jason Cowley
Poetry Dante in the dock: Why Florence wants to clear the poet’s name Seven hundred years after the poet’s death, many believe he should be exonerated of the crimes for which he was exiled from Florence. Was he the victim of a conspiracy? By Alexander Lee
Books Everyone and no one belongs to New York Two new books capture the resilient spirit of New York City – and the people who call it home. By Erica Wagner
UK Why Substack is an ideal home for Dominic Cummings A paid-for newsletter where he can write 6,000-word rants while ignoring the requests of MPs suits Cummings down to the ground. By James Ball
Books The Bench by Meghan Markle: It is mind-boggling how bad this book is Many parents wonder how hard it is to write a children's book. But this collection of platitudes about paternal love is barely readable. By Sophie McBain
Economy The beast of inflation is stalking the land again This is a dangerous moment, not just for central bankers but for the wider economy. By Andy Haldane
Asia China’s Covid cover-up? The theory that coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab is now considered credible. If true, it has grave implications for the world. By John Gray
Books Jeanette Winterson’s book burning was over the top. But I’m glad she did it Explaining her actions on Twitter, Winterson said she “absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers... So I set them on fire.” By Megan Nolan
Music & Theatre Return of the long player How we rediscovered the pleasures of the album in the digital age. By Tom Gatti
UK Fifteen years on from my first Pride march, it is bittersweet to see how much has changed It’s odd to see a side to your identity, which once seemed so excruciatingly counter-cultural, be subsumed by the mainstream. By Rachel Cunliffe
Devolution Boris Johnson’s “muscular unionism” will only drive Scotland towards independence By Chris Deerin
Education How Labour's addiction to policy announcements harms it Under Keir Starmer, the party continues to have far too many policy announcements without a theme. By Stephen Bush
UK Will a third wave of Covid-19 delay the UK’s unlocking? If the vaccine rollout has gone so well, why is the Delta variant a problem? By Harry Lambert
Elections Conservatives and Lib Dems set to gain from English boundary changes Our exclusive analysis reveals that the Tories are likely to gain seven seats from the boundary changes while Labour loses just one. By Ben Walker
Education Conservative MP Robert Halfon: “The government can’t say there’s no money for education” The chair of the Education Select Committee discusses how to solve the schools crisis. By Rachel Cunliffe
Economy Why increasing corporation tax is less progressive than you think If the question is how do we extract more from the richest, corporation tax is not what you would prioritise. By David Gauke
8519, 8520, 8303, 8496 How social media companies help authoritarian governments censor the internet Increasingly, the price of access to a global digital market is assisting the policing of online speech.
8519, 8268, 8328, 8415, 8493, 8494 Andy Haldane is right to warn that the UK’s recovery might not be sustainable – or fair If inflation is not controlled early, it will be those on lower incomes who are less able to cope.
8519, 8521 In digital trade, the UK is becoming more like the US than the EU The UK is looking to move away from the EU's vision of digital trade and align itself more closely with America's. Is it a risk worth taking?
8527, 8519, 8520, 8268, 8328, 8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8472 Amazon’s profits have soared – but its tax bill hasn’t Despite generating almost $45bn in profits between 2018 and 2020, Amazon paid just $1.9bn in US federal income tax.
8527, 8268, 8328, 8415, 8416, 8472 UK forecast to suffer the worst economic scarring of any G7 country
Music & Theatre Return of the long player How we rediscovered the pleasures of the album in the digital age. By Tom Gatti
TV & Radio The Underground Railroad, “trauma porn” and the black gaze Barry Jenkins’s exploration of slavery in The Underground Railroad is undeniably traumatic to watch. But does that make it “trauma porn”? By Micha Frazer-Carroll
Books The Bench by Meghan Markle: It is mind-boggling how bad this book is Many parents wonder how hard it is to write a children's book. But this collection of platitudes about paternal love is barely readable. By Sophie McBain
Books The revolt of the English How politicised grievance in England and a surging Scottish nationalism are fraying the liberal fibres of the Union. By Colin Kidd
Music & Theatre Sunshine and seduction: Lorde’s “Solar Power” is playfully intoxicating Released during the solar eclipse, Lorde’s first song in four years is an uplifting ode to the summer. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Books The paradoxes and platitudes of Salman Rushdie In a new collection of essays, the author reveals the difficulty of reconciling his belief in multiplicity and ambiguity with a kind of rational absolutism. By Leo Robson
South America Are new Covid variants more harmful to children? The evidence suggests that the Delta and Gamma variants are more dangerous for everyone, including young people. By Stuart Ritchie
Social Media The trouble with Instagram infographics as political discourse Infographics are often shallow explorations of issues that need careful critical attention. By Sarah Manavis
Health How the UK lost control of Covid-19 three times The number of people in England hospitalised with coronavirus was at a higher level before each lockdown. By Ben van der Merwe
Internet Internet outage: what caused gov.uk, Amazon and many other websites to go offline? The cloud service provider Fastly suffered a technical problem that took down the websites of the UK government, the BBC and Reddit. By Oscar Williams
UK How the far right used lockdown to radicalise children online Evidence shows young people are becoming increasingly exposed to extremist right-wing ideologies. By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
G7 The problem with the G7’s plan to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative A Western attempt to match China’s landmark infrastructure scheme lacks the funding and ambition of the original By James Crabtree
G7 How the G7’s economic power has diminished As the group's dominance of the global economy shrinks, is it time to reinvent its membership? By Nicu Calcea
G7 As the Arctic heats up, can its peace be preserved? The US, China and Russia are engaged in a struggle over the character of a melting international order. By Kristina Spohr
G7 Europe and America are diverging, but that does not mean the end of the transatlantic alliance Despite strains and snipes around vaccines and tariffs, it would serve both sides to be more openly transactional and equal. By Jeremy Cliffe
G7 “It’s not fair”: Rwanda’s health minister on vaccinating children in G7 nations Daniel Ngamije discusses his country’s human rights record, the Covax scheme and why the G7 should back vaccine patent waivers. By Ido Vock
Environment New Statesman emissions tracker: the G7's decarbonisation deficit How net zero commitments risk obscuring continued financial support for fossil fuels. By Nick Ferris
Mr Nice Guy 10 May 1991: Norman Tebbit on Europe, the poll tax and why he could have succeeded Margaret Thatcher. By Sarah Baxter
A Streetcar Named Desire 22 October 1949: The play has undertones of poetry, but does not quite come off. By RD Smith
The reign of anti-Semitism 23 July 1932: These incidents afford an ominous foreboding of developments that may yet occur in the future unless the governments concerned resolve to put their houses in order. By Israel Cohen
North Korea 17 January 1948: Every Korean I met passionately desires an all-Korean unity. By Anna Louise Strong
BBC condones distorted history 29 August 1980: Should we trust the intelligence of average people by giving them the truth? By Gitta Sereny
