Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Plus Norman Ackroyd at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The Shadow Treasury Minister tells Prospect: "We now see other EU countries threatening to use financial regulation to shut UK firms out of their markets"

What the conservatism of American football and the liberalism of basketball says about America

Plus the wryly comic Japanese film Shoplifters

Plus Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change

Armed only with a microphone and his social media accounts, can Manzoor Pashteen change a dangerous country? Samira Shackle reports

The lengthening nights are a casket of wonders, if one only makes an effort to observe them

The Chair of the Treasury Select Committee answers Prospect's questions about Brexit, China and the future of the banking sector

Contributions from John Rentoul, David Lammy and others