The heads of the 53 Commonwealth nations are meeting in London this week – the first time they’ve gathered in the UK for 20 years. The timing is no coincidence, says Peg Murray-Evans, since Brexit Britain is on the hunt for new trading partners. But while Global Britain seeks opportunity, departure from the single market could cause some unexpected problems for the smaller Commonwealth nations, she reveals. Meanwhile​, Theresa May has met a group of Caribbean leaders on the sidelines of CHOGM to apologise for the treatment of the Windrush generation who came to the UK as children but have recently been threatened with deportation by the Home Office. Tendayi Bloom says they are just the latest group to be targeted by Britain’s immigration policies.

The Swedish Academy, which awards the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, is in crisis after seven of its 18 members have resigned. The situation has prompted an intervention from King Carl XVI Gustaf, who has signalled he might need to reform the 230-year-old organisation to enable it to continue. The row, which involves allegations of sexual harassment among Sweden’s cultural elite, has set the country’s literati at odds. Thomas Kaiserfeld reports.

Before the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke, propaganda expert Emma Briant found herself with the rare opportunity to interview some of the key people associated with the allegations. Here she explains how she gained access and why she felt it was her duty to hand over evidence to the British parliament.

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