UK An outrageous peerage list shows Boris Johnson's contempt for those he claims to represent Cronies, controversialists, cricketers – and of course, his brother – join a second chamber that is now more than eight times the size of the US Senate. By Martin Fletcher
Europe Why time is running out for TikTok in the United States National security concerns blur with political self-interest in the Trump administration's threat to ban the Chinese-owned app. By Emily Tamkin
Economy Britain's governments have less time than they think to make a decision on schools If you want to be able to reopen schools safely in September, you need to be reopening more cautiously in August – probably even closing a few things again. By Stephen Bush
Food & Drink The last days of Brick Lane How Covid-19 is hastening the death of the British curry. By Anoosh Chakelian
UK Chris Whitty offers a quietly different public health message to Boris Johnson The Prime Minister's press conference saw the germ of a parallel message from the Chief Medical Officer. By Ailbhe Rea
Film Why Children of Men haunts the present moment How Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece became the cultural exemplum of apocalypse, and a cardinal citation in the time of coronavirus. By Gavin Jacobson
Culture How we live now Deborah Levy, Ben Okri, Ahdaf Soueif and more explore how their lives have changed since the beginning of the pandemic. By New Statesman
Scotland Britain’s most powerful woman The First Minister, who turned 50 this month, has had a good crisis and the SNP is surging in the polls. Is she destined to end Scotland’s union with England? By Alan Taylor
Education The great university funding crisis, sub-prime degrees and Boris Johnson’s “new normal” A former government target to send 50 per cent of the population to university has led to “elite overproduction”, with graduates educated to expect jobs that simply don’t exist. By Jason Cowley
Politics Podcast: Shock Waves The New Statesman Podcast with Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea. By NS Podcasts
Devolution Jackson Carlaw's exit as Scottish Conservative leader won't fix the party's real problems The biggest problem is that the approach that once looked so successful now looks to have big structural problems. By Stephen Bush
Wales There's something missing from the government's anti-obesity strategy The levers pulled by the British government are similar to those being eyed by the devolved governments – but what has been left out? By Stephen Bush
UK Is Boris Johnson’s government a Conservative success story or not? Electoral success has not been accompanied by further advances in conservative policy. By Stephen Bush
UK Where next for the Liberal Democrats? As party members begin voting on their next leader, a new report outlines the challenge ahead for the Liberal Democrats. By Ailbhe Rea
Scotland Douglas Ross: the referee MP who could be tasked with saving the Union The frontrunner to become the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives will have to contend with a bouyant SNP and a country increasingly in favour of independence. By Chris Deerin
Games How I fell in love with a fake football team – and learned to love myself My lockdown habit of watching virtual Arsenal fixtures on Football Manager is insane. But so is watching Arsenal in real life. By Stephen Bush
Music & Theatre The many Beethoven myths That the composer, whose 250th anniversary is being celebrated this year, overcame deafness to write the greatest music of all time is a familiar story. But what does it leave out? By Emily Bootle
Film Why Children of Men haunts the present moment How Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece became the cultural exemplum of apocalypse, and a cardinal citation in the time of coronavirus. By Gavin Jacobson
Q&A Ali Smith Q&A: “Heroism is a daily and communal matter” The author talks Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Amelia Gentleman’s The Windrush Betrayal, and incompetent governance. By New Statesman
Music & Theatre Folklore reveals a more introspective side to Taylor Swift Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album is her least radio-friendly work and her least autobiographical. But it is arguably her most intimate, too. By Anna Leszkiewicz
Coronavirus Why England was hit harder by Covid-19 than any other country in Europe The findings of the ONS show how a wider spread of infection, and less severe or timely measures to respond to it, are factors in the deaths of many thousands of people. By Michael Goodier
Social Media Is TikTok really as much of a security threat as Huawei? The social media app is the latest target of parliament's China hawks, but are their concerns backed up by evidence? By Oscar Williams
Books Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: when technology seeks to replace biology Midway through Jenny Kleeman’s entertaining survey of the latest advances in life sciences, I began to worry. By Johanna Thomas-Corr
Social Media How anti-vaxxers capitalised on coronavirus conspiracy theories Global susceptibility to misinformation and a pandemic-induced fear of the unknown have given anti-vaccination activists a new lease of life. By Sarah Manavis
Europe The State of European Politics: Special Series As coronavirus shakes Europe, the fates of leaders across the continent hang in the balance. By New Statesman
North America "Tough on China": how Trump and Biden differ over Beijing The US president's past relationship with his Chinese counterpart could come back to bite him. By Emily Tamkin
North America US election swing states: Virginia is for… Democrats? The story of how the former Confederacy capital turned blue is one of demographic shifts, a Democratic political machine and Donald Trump. By Emily Tamkin
Donald Trump’s degradation of US intelligence is another victory in his war against facts It should worry not just Americans but also their international allies that the president’s relationship with intelligence agencies is bad and getting worse. By Emily Tamkin
An Italian journey Our writer travels from Berlin to Naples by train and discovers that the pandemic has brought out the best and the worst of the beautiful country. By Jeremy Cliffe
Art & Design Erasing histories: why Turkey’s Hagia Sophia should remain a museum President Erdogan’s decision to reconvert the building into a mosque is a further move against religious pluralism. By Elif Shafak
Cricket’s bright strangers 31 May 1963: What is the point of cricket, if not to entertain? By JPW Mallalieu
De Gaulle becomes awkward 1 December 1951: How Charles de Gaulle read the mood of France and dug in his heels. By Alexander Werth
Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms reviewed 30 November 1929: The two principal characters of A Farewell to Arms simply emerge from the war, as they might come up out of the water after swimming. By ES
Famine in Bengal 2 October 1943: The terrible reality of starvation and death witnessed first-hand in British India. By An anonymous British Army officer
Nelson Mandela at large 19 January 1990: On the release of Nelson Mandela, awaited like a second coming. By Ivor Powell
JK Rowling in the US 1 November 1999: Theories and misconceptions were already beginning to surround the Harry Potter author. By Andrew Stephen
