The Staggers Sorry Amber Rudd, we’re headed for a no-deal Brexit whether or not parliament wants one Article 50 states that all that there will be a no-deal exit if the EU and the UK to fail to reach an agreement. By Stephen Bush
Media Anne Hegerty on I’m a Celebrity: Should reality TV producers take autism into account? Currently struggling in the jungle, The Chase quiz star was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2003. By Anoosh Chakelian
The Staggers PMQs Review: Corbyn joins the DUP as Tory MPs cut May adrift The Labour leader and Tory backbenchers again exposed the impossibility of the Prime Minister passing a deal. By Patrick Maguire
The Staggers What a conversation I had on the Newcastle Metro means for my vote on the Brexit deal The next few weeks will be difficult for the country, for Parliament and the Labour party. By Chi Onwurah
North America When it comes to Ivanka Trump’s personal emails, hypocrisy is not the biggest problem The First Daughter, like the rest of the Trump family, believes the law should not apply to her. By Sophie McBain
Film “I’ve been burnt so many times”: Natalie Dormer on sex, lies and being misquoted “I’ve turned down roles involving sex because I’m terrified of perpetuating that clickbait image.” By Suchandrika Chakrabarti
UK Forget the Tory psychodrama, the real crisis is the threat of a No Deal Brexit Theresa May’s deal cannot pass parliament, and no Conservative leader can secure a better one. By Stephen Bush
UK A country in a critical condition The Brexit negotiations were a battle over how much control Britain would have to cede to the EU and Theresa May lost it. By Paul Mason
Books “How come you talk like a white girl?”: Michelle Obama’s deeply moving memoir Becoming In her autobiography, Michelle Obama shows she is adept at weaving together the personal and political. By Helen Lewis
Europe The return of the repressed: the bitter legacy of the Algerian War France remains traumatised by the war in Algeria, which lives on in the festering resentments of the banlieues and prisons. Can President Macron begin to heal the wounds? By Andrew Hussey
Q&A Ayobami Adebayo Q&A: “In 3018, I would love to be a therapist for robots” The novelist talks family, time travel, and the late Dora Akunyili. By New Statesman
UK Labour’s position on the Irish backstop is myopic and disingenuous Jeremy Corbyn is opposing the Withdrawal Agreement on the same grounds as the DUP, while his spokesman says a Labour government wouldn’t need a backstop. Why? By Patrick Maguire
The Staggers It’s the DUP that Theresa May should fear, not her own MPs There is no eventuality in which Conservative MPs will vote for an early election that could let Corbyn in. The same can’t be said of the DUP. By Stephen Bush
The Staggers If the DUP backs the government in a confidence vote, it won’t be for fear of Corbyn The received wisdom in Westminster ignores that Labour has ruled out an early referendum on Irish unification. But the DUP has other reasons for keeping the Tories in office. By Patrick Maguire
UK Labour MPs who back Theresa May’s Brexit deal are betraying the national interest Support for the Tories’ agreement would harm the UK economically, geopolitically and democratically. By Paul Mason
UK The list that proves Theresa May cannot pass a Brexit deal The number of Tories who have resigned from the government payroll alone – to say nothing of backbenchers – is far bigger than the number of potential Labour rebels. By Patrick Maguire
The Staggers From Trident to Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn could work well together While the Tories tore each other apart, Scotland’s First Minister flew into London for a chat with the Labour leader. By James Millar
Film “I’ve been burnt so many times”: Natalie Dormer on sex, lies and being misquoted “I’ve turned down roles involving sex because I’m terrified of perpetuating that clickbait image.” By Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Books The best books of 2018 Hilary Mantel, Andrew Marr, Francis Fukuyama, Michael Sandel, Nicola Sturgeon, Clive James and many others choose their books of the year. By New Statesman
Books Why we chose Robin Robertson’s The Long Take as the winner of the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize By Adam Mars-Jones
TV & Radio Looking back on four years of BBC Radio Remembrance broadcasts After four dogged and varied years of programming BBC Radio’s First World War commemorative contributions came to an end this week. By Antonia Quirke
Watching the mudskipper is like looking back to when life first emerged from the water These strangely beguiling amphibious fish are fascinating for reasons that are hard to spell out. By John Burnside
Books Dark-hearted dreamer: the double life of Kenneth Grahame Kenneth Grahame charmed readers with The Wind in the Willows – but his personal life left tragedy in its wake. By Lyndall Gordon
UK What the rise of Piers Morgan tells us about modern Britain As a precocious tabloid editor, bullish presenter, friend of Trump and Twitter provocateur, Morgan has found the fame he dreamed of. But is there anything beneath the oily exterior? By Tanya Gold
UK Why conspiracy theories are not just a harmless joke Conspiracy and modern anti-Semitism are deeply irrational world-views that developed in tandem and are almost impossible to disentangle. By Daniel Allington and David Toube
Social Media Is Facebook’s leadership incompetent, or malicious? It is increasingly difficult to say with a straight face that Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are fit to run a company with as much global power as Facebook. By James Ball
TV & Radio Former John Lewis Christmas advert stars review 2018’s Elton John travesty Where are the unruly critters this year? By Anoosh Chakelian
Social Media No Nut November: the insidious internet challenge encouraging men not to masturbate What may appear to be just another weird and bizarre internet challenge is underpinned by extreme misogyny and threats of violence. By Sarah Manavis
Media What makes a Christmas advert political? You can romanticise war, but you can’t warn against climate change. By Anoosh Chakelian
South America In Brazil, Bolsonaro’s fight is not against Marxism, but against Enlightenment values A country that understood dictatorship would never have elected him. By Julia Blunck
Economy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal shows the radical choice facing the Democrats The party’s new left has put forward the most transformative economic proposal since the Roosevelt era. By Grace Blakeley
Middle East Feminism in the wake of Isis A new documentary profiles women’s rights advocates in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria By Sophie McBain
North America Emmanuel Macron got his moment of unity – but, with Trump around, it was short-lived “They [the French] were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!” By Pauline Bock
Feminism The rape survivor facing 20 years in jail lays bare El Salvador’s war on women Women accused of abortions are charged with homicide while femicides, rapes, and other gender violence often goes unpunished in the Central American country. By Heather Gies
Observations Inspired by Scotland, Catalonia and Brexit, some in California want to go it alone Membership of independence group “Yes California” increased by 400 per cent in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. By Nicky Woolf
