We need to talk about Zack Polanski
The charismatic Green leader is close to a breakthrough – yet must answer legitimate questions about his past and his social media likes
The hated cannot cure the hate. That, dear reader, is down to you and I
What would happen if Farage got into No 10? It’s even worse than you think
Trump’s Germany troop tantrum is a self-destructive mess
What two musician brothers from Carlisle can teach JD Vance about Ukraine
It’s official: AI hates women
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The hated cannot cure the hate. That, dear reader, is down to you and I
Antisemitism has become uniquely exempt from the moral clarity that progressive Britain applies to every other form of racism
We need to talk about Zack Polanski
The charismatic Green leader is close to a breakthrough – yet must answer legitimate questions about his past and his social media likes
What two musician brothers from Carlisle can teach JD Vance about Ukraine
If the VP ever becomes president, there is truly no hope for America
The Daily Mail’s dangerous obsession with Meghan
The paper’s malice towards the Duchess of Sussex is boundless, and its stories about her are entirely in bad faith. Why does it do it? The answer’s depressingly simple
The case for a British post-populist right
Péter Magyar managed it in Hungary. Can his counterpart be found here to avoid the catastrophe of Nigel Farage?
The city that made Mark Rothko
A 1950 visit to Florence inspired the artist’s greatest work. Now he’s back in the places that changed him
Arts & Culture
The city that made Mark Rothko
A 1950 visit to Florence inspired the artist’s greatest work. Now he’s back in the places that changed him
Widow’s Bay, the best horror-comedy since An American Werewolf in London
Secret Service is today’s spy thriller wrapped in yesterday’s politics
The night before Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola took over Hollywood
The hate she gets: Angie Thomas and the book the radical right want to ban
Audio
The Two Matts Q&A: Kings good, zoos bad
The Matts answer listeners’ questions, including whether or not the UK should use the King more and whether we bash Starmer too much
The Starmer Conundrum… with special guest Tom Baldwin
A special episode of the podcast today with real depth of thinking on where Keir Starmer has gone wrong… and why right now is NOT the right time to replace him
“A KNIFE THROUGH MY SOUL”… pod special on Morgan McSweeney
Hot from the two-and-a-half hours of select committee evidence, the Matts digest the evidence of Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and his role in the Peter Mandelson affair
I went head-to-head with Aleksandar Vučić – and we still don’t agree
The Serbian president still blames Nato and New Labour over Kosovo
Living with the ghost of Paul Auster
A beautiful new memoir by novelist Siri Hustvedt, the writer’s widow, is full of philosophical insights
The Two Matts Q&A: How to pay for the NHS and will robots rule?
The Matts answer listeners’ questions including when Starmer should go; why we don’t vet our politicians and how to fund the NHS
Should he stay or should he go now?
Indecision’s bugging the Two Matts… should Keir Starmer stay or should he go? If he stays there will be trouble. But if he goes it will be double
The Two Matts
Is a brave new world possible? With John Kampfner
Journalist and author John Kampfner joins the Matts to discuss his stunning new book Braver New World – a global travelogue of bold solutions to some of the world’s thorniest problems
The bizarre truth about my own vetting for No 10
Hours after being grilled by an ex-military man, I ran into him again – in very strange circumstances
This man tried never lying for a year – it went about as well as expected
Philosopher Immanuel Kant said you should always tell the truth no matter the consequences. It’s too much to expect that from politicians
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Immigration is falling sharply – why haven’t politicians noticed?
The left has no concept of radical evil
The 40 worst Reform candidates on May 7
The hated cannot cure the hate. That, dear reader, is down to you and I
We need to talk about Zack Polanski
Britain isn’t the country you think it is
I went head-to-head with Aleksandar Vučić – and we still don’t agree
13 questions Farage must answer over his £5m ‘gift’ from a crypto billionaire
The Daily Mail’s dangerous obsession with Meghan
The truth about Trump’s Iran downfall? The worst is yet to come
Puzzles
Sudoku Hard
Sudoku Medium
Sudoku Easy
Number Fit
Jigsaw
Cryptic Crossword
Crossword
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Politics
What two musician brothers from Carlisle can teach JD Vance about Ukraine
21 things you can’t be sure didn’t happen in the local election campaign*
British politics will only get worse
The case for a British post-populist right
Theydon Bois and the fight against the young
Orbán left a poisonous legacy. Can Magyar fix Hungary?
Trump’s Germany troop tantrum is a self-destructive mess
AI, Wittgenstein and Buddhism: finding the limits of what we can know
Writers
Alastair Campbell
What two musician brothers from Carlisle can teach JD Vance about Ukraine
Marie Le Conte
Smartphones have become just too good
Matthew d’Ancona
The case for a British post-populist right
Patience Wheatcroft
British politics will only get worse
Tanit Koch
Trump’s Germany troop tantrum is a self-destructive mess
Paul Mason
The left has no concept of radical evil
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Why did we call her the Queen – not Queen’s – Mother?
Letter of the week: Starmer and the impossible job of being PM
Talking nonsense about Artemis II
What would happen if Farage got into No 10? It’s even worse than you think
The most unwelcoming, expensive World Cup in history
AI, Wittgenstein and Buddhism: finding the limits of what we can know
Podcasts
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Kings good, zoos bad
The Two Matts
The Starmer Conundrum… with special guest Tom Baldwin
The Two Matts
“A KNIFE THROUGH MY SOUL”… pod special on Morgan McSweeney
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: How to pay for the NHS and will robots rule?
The Two Matts
Should he stay or should he go now?
The Two Matts
Is a brave new world possible? With John Kampfner
Brexit
What would happen if Farage got into No 10? It’s even worse than you think
A new book predicts migrant riots, Brexit wars and a dismantled BBC – and none of it feels outlandish
How the Sun’s new chief political correspondent landed the scoop of the century
Martina Bet once discovered that Tony Blair was the prime minister who set up the Supreme Court – and all to stymie Brexit 11 years later
The Reform candidate who says Brexit reduced the UK to a “state of disarray”
Julie MacDougall was a firm opponent of Britain leaving the EU – until she ditched Labour for a safe seat with Nigel Farage’s party
Has Jacob Rees-Mogg really been banned from ‘woke’ theatres?
The former cabinet minster moans theatres won’t stage his one-man show because they’re woke. Might it be because they’d struggle to sell tickets?
Brexit Unleashed, a festival of the most consistently wrong people in Britain
A gathering of the most hopeless Brexit soothsayers is set to take place in London
Starmer has to step up and tell the truth about the Brexit disaster
If he did he’d have public opinion firmly on his side. Nowadays, even a majority of Daily Mail readers can see that leaving the EU was a catastrophe
Ukraine
What two musician brothers from Carlisle can teach JD Vance about Ukraine
If the VP ever becomes president, there is truly no hope for America
From Orbán fan to Orbán foe: will Péter Magyar change Hungary?
Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule is over, but Magyar once had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. When the celebrations are over and reality returns, what kind of government will Hungary have?
Here’s what Zelensky really thinks of JD Vance
After the madness of MAGA in Iran, meeting Ukraine’s president is a lesson in empathy and emotion
The athlete who jumped into history
The Ukrainian high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, has one record left to beat – a Russian one
The Africans dying in Putin’s failing war
The Russian army is luring Kenyans to fight in Ukraine. Processed and sent to the front after minimal training, most of them are dying before their first pay cheque has even cleared
Letter of the week: If Trump wants to liberate the oppressed, will he take on Putin next?
Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine
The big picture
The city that made Mark Rothko
A 1950 visit to Florence inspired the artist’s greatest work. Now he’s back in the places that changed him
Steve McQueen has released a book of flower photos – but it’s so much more than that
The Oscar-winner’s Bounty is a subversively beautiful work about the ugliness of colonialism
Great Lives
Tenzing Norgay and the Everest question that wouldn’t go away
The race that made Ayrton Senna
The woman behind Mary Poppins hated the Disney classic – and this is why
The night that Purple Rain broke Prince
Kazuo Shiraga, the Japanese artist who turned painting into violence
Billy Wilder, the outsider who understood the American soul
Smartphones have become just too good
Don’t worry – the robots aren’t coming for your job
