The Israeli satirist on a one-man mission to stop the far right ‘brainwashing’ teenagers Comedian Lior Schleien is touring Israel’s schools to challenge pupils in thrall to the Netanyahu government’s ‘disastrous’ extremism ✍️ @msrmichaelson bit.ly/4sh634U

Carrick’s days are numbered – so whose turn is it next? Conte? Howe? Two wins all season, Cesc Fàbregas telling his players to go easy on Manchester United, and it’s all being captured by a documentary team ✍️ @RorySmith bit.ly/4z9VNya

How Messi vs Ronaldo turned Ballon d’Or into global spectacle The ceremony has come a long way since Michael Owen accepted his award in a stationery cupboard ✍️ @RorySmith bit.ly/3TSrGvV

The Cop31 climate blockers have honed their sabotage tactics As delegates from almost 200 countries prepare to gather in Turkey next month, insiders reveal the tactics used by powerful nations to paralyse 30 years of UN negotiations ✍️ @jeevanvasagar bit.ly/4BoJe3v

Trump has a macho man fixation. Is it time to Make America Gay Again? The president says studying the male form is ‘not my thing’, but can’t seem to stop commenting on every chiselled ab or toned bottom he sees ✍️ Evan Moffitt bit.ly/4z50mcR

‘Free Israel’ liberals fear boycotts will only strengthen Netanyahu Israeli comedian Lior Schleien has a message for the international community: millions of us want to live in peace in the Middle East, and global isolation isn’t helping ✍️ @msrmichaelson bit.ly/4skLy7n

‘Throwing spaghetti at the wall’: Panicking Republicans launch barrage of personal attacks Facing potential defeat in the US midterms, billionaire donors fund huge campaigns accusing Democrats of lying, crossdressing and extremism ✍️ @cmcdonaldgibson bit.ly/4BmU22a

Ilford Boy – coming out in a blaze of glorious one-liners Danny Lee Wynter’s play about a queer mixed-race teenager in 1990s east London is witty and whistlingly quick ✍️ @susannahclapp bit.ly/4Bs3OA8

Those rumours of the death of programmers? Greatly exaggerated AI agents may be solving the tricky puzzles software engineers used to love, but human understanding of coding is still essential ✍️ @jjn1 bit.ly/3TPjrAM

Nobody Wants This – over the hot rabbi? Fall in love with the hot sister instead Justine Lupe excels in season three of the LA-set sitcom, which is as watchable as ever despite its sugary excesses. Plus, HBO Max’s The Audacity ✍️ @babsellen bit.ly/3VRaHe3

Poetry books of the month: bullets and blooms Ian McMillan’s winningly absurdist Red River Valley goes to war with Wordsworth’s daffodils, while Jason B Crawford tackles violence and injustice in his urgent second collection YEET! ✍️ @JadeCuttle bit.ly/4BjMOMg

Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Wildwood, Clayface, Possible Love and more A stop-motion fantasy epic from the creators of Coraline is an extraordinary achievement. Plus, can watch-through-your-fingers body horror Clayface revive the ailing comic book genre? ✍️ @wendyide bit.ly/4i4cMvG

We may have passed peak manosphere. But what’s next for men? The decline of the hyper-masculine and misogynistic movement led by Andrew Tate frees the male character to reinvent itself ✍️ Geoff Dyer bit.ly/4BnHNlK

From father to son: what our dads taught us Eight writers share the life lessons they learned from the men who raised them ✍️ Luke Kennard, Colin Grant, Michael Rosen, Raymond Antrobus, Andrew Anthony, Will Harris, Mark Haddon, Frank Cottrell-Boyce bit.ly/4zo495z

How Robert Ryman became the master of white The Barbican’s exhilarating retrospective explodes the myth that the American artist painted only plain canvases – and reveals the many multitudes contained in whiteness ✍️ @LauraCummingArt bit.ly/4za7EfC

Jon Fosse welcomes you to the Vaim Hotel The second instalment in the Norwegian author’s Vaim trilogy is a Kafkaesque farce about a hotel guest perplexed by his very presence in a strange fishing village ✍️ @chris_power bit.ly/4dTbeCe

The big picture: making a scene in Abuja Photographer Paul Abbah has his subject ‘exaggerate everything’ in the harmattan dust of Nigeria’s capital ✍️ @killianfox0 bit.ly/3TRK5ZN

Bohemian rhapsody: reasons to love the new Boho aesthetic Boho is back, updated for the modern era with a touch of toughness and enduring appeal ✍️ @helenseamons bit.ly/3Wq4e9X

Nigel Slater’s recipe for baked apple ice-cream A delightful ice-cream made with sharp cooking apples, perfect for autumn celebrations ✍️ @NigelSlater bit.ly/4khVqwG

Why has Portuguese red wine become so sweet? The incredible success of Porta 6 has inspired a wave of copycats. Fortunately, drier alternatives are available ✍️ @Daveydaibach bit.ly/4jvZ85I