How MAGA ate itself
Iran, Israel and insults have torn Trump’s alt right army apart
The Magazine
So you’ve just got Donald Trump on the phone – now what?
The president’s direct phone number is being traded like a Pokémon card among the DC press pack. But what happens when Trump turns the US political media into his own huge mouthpiece?
Matt Goodwin’s road to derision
How a terrifying night in Detroit shaped the controversial right wing author’s thinking
How Jon Stewart told me the brutal truth about Trump and Hegseth
A tour of top podcasts featured savagings of Brexit – and the man baby in the White House
How MAGA ate itself
Iran, Israel and insults have torn Trump’s alt right army apart
The race to save the Beatles
The Fab Four’s leading historian Mark Lewisohn is trying to finish his definitive trilogy – just as AI and algorithms start to rewrite their story
Trump is all your fault
You may not like it, but it’s true. The political centre turned in on itself and ignored hard realities. To get rid of him and all he represents, we need that to change
Arts & Culture
The race to save the Beatles
The Fab Four’s leading historian Mark Lewisohn is trying to finish his definitive trilogy – just as AI and algorithms start to rewrite their story
OnlyFans and the new sexual arms race
The Pitt: One hospital, one hour, one hell of a show
A united Ireland? It’s more tricky than it sounds
The Native American punk band MAGA says don’t exist
Audio
The Two Matts Q&A: Are we journalists or activists?
The Matts answer your questions in their regular Sunday Q&A show, including whether their mission to see Reform fail is blinding them to the full picture and how the war in Iran is going for Donald Trump
How Jon Stewart told me the brutal truth about Trump and Hegseth
A tour of top podcasts featured savagings of Brexit – and the man baby in the White House
Here’s how the UK joins the EU and sooner than you think
The Matts argue it’s not a case of Rejoin – but Join. Joining what, though? That’s the interesting, most challenging question in European politics today
Podcast special: THIS WAR IS NOT REAL
The Matts explore how French philosopher Jean Baudrillard was right about the nature of warfare in the 21st century – especially when applied to the unprecedented chaos unfolding in the Middle East
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: On Trump, GB News, Tony Blair… and playing the drums
The Matts answer listeners’ questions including whether or not Donald Trump has lost control of the war in Iran and why the BBC isn’t covering The New World’s GB News investigation
Inside the GB News scandal – with Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger joins the Matts to discuss The New World’s investigation into GB News’s persistent breaches of Ofcom’s code on impartiality and accuracy
The Two Matts Q&A: Oscars, Oakeshott, China and centrism
The Matts answer listener questions including on Isabel Oakeshott’s hypocrisy, China’s century, the death of centrism, the rule of law, the future of the Telegraph and their tips for tonight’s big Oscar night in Hollywood.
Pedro Sánchez is outclassing Trump with the president’s own tactics
The Spanish prime minister succeeds because he thinks, speaks and acts in bold, primary colours
Jürgen Habermas – brilliant, influential and stupefyingly tedious
He argued for the importance of communication within society, but his works were relentlessly inaccessible. Despite this, he was central to Germany’s post-war moral recovery
The increasingly complex calculus in being the British Prime Minister
The Matts tackle a number of intersecting topics: can the Peter Mandelson affair damage Keir Starmer more than it already has?
Most popular
Puzzles
Sudoku Hard
Sudoku Medium
Sudoku Easy
Number Fit
Jigsaw
Cryptic Crossword
Crossword
Codeword
Politics
The Native American punk band MAGA says don’t exist
A united Ireland? It’s more tricky than it sounds
Do we need more philosophers in public life? It’s complicated – and this is why
Face to face with Trump, what do you do?
Letter of the week: What the road back from Brexit looks like
The dangerous myth of ‘neutral’ technology
The nurse who runs the Church of England
Europe’s escape plan from Trump’s chaos machine
Writers
Alastair Campbell
How Jon Stewart told me the brutal truth about Trump and Hegseth
Marie Le Conte
When famous women die
Matthew d’Ancona
How MAGA ate itself
Patience Wheatcroft
The nurse who runs the Church of England
Tanit Koch
Face to face with Trump, what do you do?
Paul Mason
Europe’s escape plan from Trump’s chaos machine
Latest
Why is Trump so obsessed with Somalia?
How do you farm if you don’t have any land?
What happens when AI starts running ads?
Will Switzerland vote to cap its population?
How Jon Stewart told me the brutal truth about Trump and Hegseth
When famous women die
Podcasts
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Are we journalists or activists?
The Two Matts
Here’s how the UK joins the EU and sooner than you think
The Two Matts
Podcast special: THIS WAR IS NOT REAL
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: On Trump, GB News, Tony Blair… and playing the drums
The Two Matts
Inside the GB News scandal – with Alan Rusbridger
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Oscars, Oakeshott, China and centrism
Brexit
Letter of the week: What the road back from Brexit looks like
Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine
Will Brexit be on the ballot paper in Scotland this year?
For the SNP, promoting EU membership can portray independence not as leaving something, but joining something
A Brexiteer wants to leave but retain all the benefits of remaining… again
Reform defector Andrew Rosindell is demanding to be allowed to keep using the Conservative association HQ, despite ditching his old party
Now it’s official: Brexit was a disaster. Next, we must join a new EU
Starmer and Reeves are talking tougher than before. Now they need to make a positive case for the UK in a bolder Europe
How Brexit screwed the economy – a horror story
We were lab rats in one of the biggest economic experiments of all time. It was a disaster, and it’s getting worse all the time
Sadiq Khan speaks the Brexit truth the nation needs to hear
The Labour mayor of London has made a big intervention on Brexit – and his timing looks very canny indeed
Ukraine
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
I’m in Ukraine, a nation let down by America
Four years after the all out invasion, Ukrainians want more than just warm words. They want real help to end this war. Trump isn’t going to give it – so it’s down to us
How Europe stops Gen Z going to war with Putin
Governments across the continent must borrow to spend on defence. If they do not, then Gen Z will end up going to war
Trump’s Ukraine delusion
After four years of war, Putin isn’t winning. So why does the president insist he is?
The big picture
A night among the Freemasons
An approach in a pub led to a seat at a ceremony of what was once considered Britain’s most secretive organisation
A blue world hangs in the balance
The photography exhibition of undersea beauty that’s also an urgent warning about protecting our oceans
Great Lives
Kazuo Shiraga, the Japanese artist who turned painting into violence
Billy Wilder, the outsider who understood the American soul
Nawal El Saadawi, the rebel doctor who wrote the truth on prison toilet roll
Lucie Aubrac, the pregnant spy who outwitted the Gestapo
Lou Ottens,the inventor who set music free
Shane Warne, the drift, the turn, the legend
The dangerous myth of ‘neutral’ technology
What happens when AI starts running ads?
