Brexit How People’s Vote destroyed itself The campaign for a second referendum, led by the PR guru Roland Rudd and former Labour and Lib Dem spin doctors, was the great hope for Remainers – until it collapsed in a chaos of clashing egos, smears and boardroom coups. By Martin Fletcher
UK Travels through a sodden land In central London, the usual Friday night concerns prevailed. Elsewhere, on the edge of the same city, people were travelling home by canoe, with dinghies tethered to lamposts where there should have been cars. By Ed Platt
North America Ronan Farrow on pursuing Harvey Weinstein and experiencing a “halo effect of misogyny” The New Yorker writer encountered spies, betrayal and prejudice while reporting the exposé that fuelled the #MeToo movement. By Anoosh Chakelian
UK Labour was meant to surge this week, but it’s the Tories who think that victory is theirs CCHQ think there is little they can say or do that won’t be believed by enough voters to secure a majority on 12 December. By Stephen Bush
Art & Design The optimism of Steve McQueen’s “Year 3” A vast new public art project from McQueen captures 76,000 primary school pupils at a crucial point in childhood. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger
UK Manners maketh monsters Prince Andrew’s BBC interview was a study in power and privilege. By Anna Leszkiewicz
UK A union built on blood The first of a new series on the constitutional moment and the future of the United Kingdom. By David Reynolds
Books A cure of one’s own After years of dismissal, a new wave of literature sees women confronting an epidemic of underdiagnosed chronic pain conditions. By Imogen West-Knights
North America Ronan Farrow on pursuing Harvey Weinstein and experiencing a “halo effect of misogyny” The New Yorker writer encountered spies, betrayal and prejudice while reporting the exposé that fuelled the #MeToo movement. By Anoosh Chakelian
UK Labour was meant to surge this week, but it’s the Tories who think that victory is theirs CCHQ think there is little they can say or do that won’t be believed by enough voters to secure a majority on 12 December. By Stephen Bush
UK Labour was meant to surge this week, but it’s the Tories who think that victory is theirs CCHQ think there is little they can say or do that won’t be believed by enough voters to secure a majority on 12 December. By Stephen Bush
UK Will Labour topple Iain Duncan Smith in the Chingford and Woodford Green Tory heartland? The former Tory leader and ardent Brexiteer has held the seat for 27 years – but younger, more ethnically diverse voters could be about to change that. By Anoosh Chakelian
UK How the ongoing Jennifer Arcuri scandal exposes a difficult paradox for Boris Johnson If the Prime Minister pulls off a large election victory, Conservative MPs may soon regard him as disposable. By Stephen Bush
Feminism Labour is on the right path to eliminating the gender pay gap Though naysayers doubt the usefulness of the concept, Labour plans to eradicate gender pay disparity by 2030. By Ailbhe Rea
UK Why Boris Johnson is U-turning on tax cuts The Prime Minister's decision not to slash corporation tax serves two electoral imperatives. By Patrick Maguire
UK Meet the Labour Leavers voting Tory: “I am upset about what I’ve got to do” In the Vale of Clwyd, the Conservative decision to call a snap election is looking like a good bet. By George Grylls
Film The unconventional storytelling of Mati Diop’s Atlantics Atlantics appears at first to be a straightforward romance, but morphs into something quite different. By Ryan Gilbey
TV & Radio BBC Radio 4 heads behind the curtain during the early days of the National Theatre A new drama stars Robert Glenister as Laurence Olivier. By Antonia Quirke
Film Rewatching American History X shows how far-right ideas have entered the mainstream The rhetoric of the 1998 film’s neo-Nazis is today chillingly echoed by Donald Trump. By George Eaton
TV & Radio Critics love the Crown – but is it just a soap opera in posh clothing? The nation’s TV critics seemingly find themselves utterly unable to resist the series. Time to break ranks, I think. By Rachel Cooke
Feminism In The Cut, Susanna Moore's 1995 thriller, exposes the failures of modern feminism Moore explores a treacherous sexual terrain that still confronts women today. By Nathalie Olah
Books Books of the year Our friends and contributors choose their favourite reading of 2019. By New Statesman
Media Separating fact from falsehood is harder than ever — and it's polluting our politics The Conservative Party's fake fact-checking brand underlines how competing versions of the truth are corroding democracy. By Jasper Jackson
UK The Tories just used a disinformation trick that deserves to get them banned from Twitter By Sarah Manavis
Media How the push notification came to rival the Six O'Clock News The power to reach millions of phones has made deciding when to send a push notification a serious business for news outlets. By Jasper Jackson
Environment We used to see travel as a force for good – but the climate crisis has changed that More free time and less financial hardship would mean that holidays would cease to be the only source of pleasure. By Megan Nolan
Social Media Sex, intestines and money: YouTuber Hannah Witton on making a career out of taboos One of Britain's most prominent voices on sexual health, Hannah Witton is normalising some of life's most awkward topics. By Sarah Manavis
Media The FT's new editor is a sign UK newspapers are changing – but not quickly enough Roula Khalaf joins a growing number of women heading top titles, but her appointment is a reminder of how unrepresentative the media remains. By Jasper Jackson
North America In testimony, EU ambassador Gordon Sondland demolishes Trump’s “no quid pro quo” claim Sondland, a key figure in the Ukraine scandal, confirmed that both a White House meeting and military aid were explicitly used as leverage. By Nicky Woolf
Asia The week Beijing let Hong Kong burn Unrest and violence in the six-month-long protests have peaked. By Antony Dapiran
Middle East Turkey’s dirty war The Turksh bombardment of northern Syria has left casualties suffering from horrific burns injuries, probably from the illegal use of incendiary weapons. By Anthony Loyd
Europe Spain’s weak governments and a rising far right mark a new political era The troubling shifts of recent years have all made Spain more, not less, like the rest of the continent. By Jeremy Cliffe
North America Impeachment hearings begin with a bombshell Trump is right to be rattled – the first day of public impeachment hearings into the Ukraine scandal very much didn’t go his way. By Nicky Woolf
Middle East “We are a conscious collective” – inside Beirut’s revolutionary movement Widespread protests in Lebanon have already led to the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. But, activists say, the revolution is just beginning. By Angela Brussel
