Burnham’s biggest problem – UK leftists parroting Putin’s lies
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, so the Kremlin is boosting its disinformation campaign. Unfortunately for the next PM, the British left are falling for it
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How Gen Z fell for Andy Burnham
Like Zohran Mamdani, Andy Burnham understands how politics is consumed nowadays. But if he does get into No 10, he’ll need more than just good optics
Andy Burnham v London
The PM-in-waiting will shift power from the capital to the cities to help national cohesion and end the populist right’s grievance culture. It has to work
The American right’s war on Britain
Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, MAGA is working in concert with the British far right to rebuild the UK in a Trumpian image
AI job interviews are good for only one thing
Job applications are written using AI and are scanned by another AI and then, if you get through to the interview stage, you’ll be interviewed by AI too. Surely this can’t be right
Forget about privacy – unless you’re a billionaire
Everywhere you go, in the real world and online, you are under constant surveillance from the government or one of the tech giants. Unless, that is, you happen to be a billionaire
JD Vance’s books are an unholy mess
The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour
Arts & Culture
JD Vance’s books are an unholy mess
The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour
The love stories we should see on the news
Larry David, the surprising standard-bearer for American hope
Paris’s bridge of sighs: When the world’s largest artwork met the weather
Experts in a Dying Field, the indie rock novel that understands why bands fail
Audio
Chargebacks and time blindness
In this week’s episode, James Ball delves into the terrible TikTok advice on how to commit credit card fraud via chargeback, and Lucy Reade unpacks the internet discourse surrounding whether perpetual lateness is a moral failing or a disability.
The Two Matts Q&A: Burnham’s to-do list and the shameless Brexit villains
The Matts answer listener questions including: What should be on Andy Burnham’s to-do list?
Andy Burnham’s first six months
The Matts bring listeners up to speed with all the inside info coming their way on what Team Burnham may have in store for Britain
Starmtroopers over here, Looksmaxxers over there
This week, Lucy Reade tells us about the cult of the Starmtroopers and how they’re coping with the prime minister’s departure, while James Ball discusses why the online Looksmaxxers need some serious lessons in biology
The Two Matts
POD SPECIAL: It’s the end of the Keir show… now what?
The Matts bring you a special edition after Keir Starmer quit as UK prime minister
The Two Matts Q&A: Where is Burnham weak? And is America humiliated?
The Matts answer listener questions in their regular Sunday morning Q&A, including… what will prove to be Andy Burnham’s biggest vulnerability?
Game on… Burnham wins; now get on with it Labour
The Matts are in optimistic mood today with news of Andy Burnham’s resounding win in Makerfield
A history of Brexit in 256 disasters
The Matts celebrate the launch of A History of Brexit in 256 Disasters, a book by Jonty Bloom with a foreword by Alastair Campbell and amazing illustrations by Martin Rowson chronicling the disastrous consequences of the 2016 referendum 10 long years ago!
Should the UK government be banning social media for under-16s?
This week is A Very Special Episode ™️, as Lucy Reade and James Ball discuss the recent UK government announcement that social media will be banned for under-16s.
The Two Matts Q&A: Do you really want your country back?
The Matts answer questions from listener’s including; are we heading for a summer of discontent; do we understand what people mean when they say they want their country back and should pensioners lose the triple lock?
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Politics
An evening with the last of the great Brexit denialists
We are living in the age of climate unreality
Letter of the week: Farage wants to dodge the blame for Brexit. We can’t let him
JD Vance’s books are an unholy mess
Trump ‘humiliates’ Meloni – and her popularity soars
Sorry, but you can’t write Farage off yet
Badenoch is beginning to remind people why they hated the Tories
America’s 250th will be a Trumpian orgy of self-indulgence
Writers
Alastair Campbell
We are living in the age of climate unreality
Marie Le Conte
I didn’t rate Starmer as PM – so why do I feel so sad?
Matthew d’Ancona
Andy Burnham v London
Patience Wheatcroft
Sorry, but you can’t write Farage off yet
Tanit Koch
Germany’s new national obsession: Checking if grandad was a Nazi
Paul Mason
Burnham’s biggest problem – UK leftists parroting Putin’s lies
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Owen Jones makes a boob on the radio
Meet Reform’s Manchester by-election candidate… who thinks non-Reform voters should house criminals
Has Reform’s leader in Wales had enough already?
Megabucks Farage banks £22,500 an hour from gold firm
An evening with the last of the great Brexit denialists
Nic Aubury’s poem: Ten Years On (or ‘A History of Brexit in Thirty Syllables’)
Podcasts
Touching Grass
Chargebacks and time blindness
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Burnham’s to-do list and the shameless Brexit villains
The Two Matts
Andy Burnham’s first six months
Touching Grass
Starmtroopers over here, Looksmaxxers over there
The Two Matts
POD SPECIAL: It’s the end of the Keir show… now what?
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Where is Burnham weak? And is America humiliated?
Brexit
An evening with the last of the great Brexit denialists
A bunch of Brexiteers got together for a Telegraph panel to mark a decade since Brexit. It was a delusional evening, with a surprise ending the following day
We are living in the age of climate unreality
The charlatans who said we had nothing to fear from Brexit now make the same claim about the world getting hotter
Letter of the week: Farage wants to dodge the blame for Brexit. We can’t let him
Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine
The Daily Express is demanding a ‘Proper Brexit’. What’s it talking about?
The newspaper has launched a fresh campaign for Brexit, just a decade after the electorate voted for it and five-and-a-half years after it was delivered
In a world of chancers and charlatans, we need facts at our fingertips
Get a FREE signed copy of A history of Brexit: in 256 disasters when you subscribe to The New World
Meet Roger and Carol, the true victims of Brexit (which they voted for)
The Brexit-backing octogenarians are unable to move back to Spain as a result of the end of freedom of movement. Now they’re voting Reform
Ukraine
Burnham’s biggest problem – UK leftists parroting Putin’s lies
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, so the Kremlin is boosting its disinformation campaign. Unfortunately for the next PM, the British left are falling for it
Inside the empty palaces of the faded Soviet scientific dream
Photographs of iron curtain research labs reveal the depth of communist ambition – and the fatal flaw buried within it
A message to the next PM – to avoid Starmer’s fate, concentrate on defence
This is Labour’s last chance to see off the threat of a 2029 Farage victory. There is one piece of advice that the next PM needs to hear
Ukraine is showing Europe what it needs to become
A country many expected to fall in weeks has turned into a laboratory for the future of defence, digital government and national resilience. Now the EU must follow
Why have we let Putin get away with it for so long?
The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now
Putinism has failed, and a new kind of threat has arrived
More than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in Putin’s war in Ukraine. But he cannot back off. Instead, he will switch tactics. Ukraine – and the west – must be ready
The big picture
Inside the empty palaces of the faded Soviet scientific dream
Photographs of iron curtain research labs reveal the depth of communist ambition – and the fatal flaw buried within it
How David Hockney became an accidental life coach
For all his masterpieces like A Bigger Splash, his greatest work may be teaching us to regard the everyday as a miracle
Great Lives
Why Diogo Jota will always be Liverpool’s number 20
The tragedy of Majed Abu Maraheel, Palestine’s first Olympic hero
The secrets of the Iron Sheik, the man America loved to hate
The childhood trauma that left Maya Angelou mute for five years
How Beyoncé inspired Tina Turner’s last stand
Was Andy Kaufman the most creative comedian of all time?
Will AI kill off the writer?
