James O’Brien says the press have gone mad – and it’s worse than you think
The LBC host on how Brexit logic is making papers defend Trump on Iran – because ‘they’d rather look ridiculous than admit they’re wrong’
The Magazine
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
James O’Brien says the press have gone mad – and it’s worse than you think
The LBC host on how Brexit logic is making papers defend Trump on Iran – because ‘they’d rather look ridiculous than admit they’re wrong’
My late friend’s final message: Never work for the Daily Mail
After saying goodbye to old mates, I’ve got a new philosophy: Stay young, no matter how old you are
Iran has killed off Reeves’s fiscal rules. Here’s how to radically rewrite them
Bring back quantitative easing, reboot the OBR and – for a while – let inflation shrink the debt mountain
How I fell in love with K-Pop
Sometimes daft and sometimes otherworldly, the all-consuming world of BTS, Blackpink and K-Pop Demon Hunters stands apart from the rest of popular culture
The risks Labour must take to beat Farage
Liam Byrne has written another note – this time on how the government can find its own story and stop Reform. Will No 10 listen?
Arts & Culture
How I fell in love with K-Pop
Sometimes daft and sometimes otherworldly, the all-consuming world of BTS, Blackpink and K-Pop Demon Hunters stands apart from the rest of popular culture
The chaotic magic of Rebecca Lucy Taylor
Alan Bennett is not going quietly
Robyn’s Sexistential is the mother of all albums
The UK Saturday Night Live is an unexpected hit – and this is why
Audio
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?
Trump’s Iran war could not be going more wrong
This Matts ad hoc pod episode takes stock of the first days of Operation Epic Fury and wonders if this is the war when it’s going well (as Donald Trump insists) what does it look like when it’s going badly?
Trump’s dark legacy: The world now sees America as worse than China
MAGA has made the land of the free more of a global danger than a repressive surveillance state that spies, steals and kills
The moral minefield of water cremation
For thousands of years, philosophers have disagreed over what to do with mortal remains. Some wanted a solemn burial, others to be eaten by dogs, while others jumped into a volcano. What would they have made of a modern, water-based method?
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Politics
The evidence is growing: Trump’s team are using his chaos to get richer on the stock market
France can breathe a sigh of relief – for now
The risks Labour must take to beat Farage
Meningitis and the dark lessons of Covid
The TV star fighting deepfake porn – and her husband
Farage and Polanski – don’t fall for these extremists
If you thought Rodrigo Duterte was bad, wait til you meet his daughter
Iranian protesters: we don’t want the shah, the mullahs or the war
Writers
Alastair Campbell
My late friend’s final message: Never work for the Daily Mail
Marie Le Conte
France can breathe a sigh of relief – for now
Matthew d’Ancona
To Trump, Iran isn’t war – it’s showbiz
Patience Wheatcroft
Farage and Polanski – don’t fall for these extremists
Tanit Koch
The TV star fighting deepfake porn – and her husband
Paul Mason
Iran has killed off Reeves’s fiscal rules. Here’s how to radically rewrite them
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The evidence is growing: Trump’s team are using his chaos to get richer on the stock market
France can breathe a sigh of relief – for now
Farage’s Florida flight doubles cost in just two days
George Orwell wasn’t a prophet – he was a warning
A blue world hangs in the balance
Letter of the week: Should Ofcom be disbanded?
Podcasts
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
The Two Matts
The increasingly complex calculus in being the British Prime Minister
The Two Matts
Trump’s Iran war could not be going more wrong
Brexit
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
Labour’s war on Brexit is overdue – just ask Sadiq Khan
In a challenge to Starmer, the London mayor says the party must campaign for a reunion with the EU
How Europe can win the war after the war
Reshaping our place in the post-Trump, post-Brexit, post-Iran world is about strength, not virtue
The Brexiteers all in a pickle over Monster Munch
A new deal with the EU has roused the ERG from its slumber to defend the nation against a vicious attack on our Pot Noodles and Bacon Fries
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 blue world hangs in the balance
The photography exhibition of undersea beauty that’s also an urgent warning about protecting our oceans
The shots and the shadows
The Netherlands’ massive new photographic museum showcases art and celebs – but it’s the images of occupation and hunger that won’t let you look away
Great Lives
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
Charles M Schulz, the cartoonist of melancholy
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