How to beat Farage
Reform haven’t peaked – and their march to No 10 can only be stopped if we face up to why they’re winning
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Why one-nation Tories can’t vote for compassionless Kemi Badenoch
She comes across as nasty and rejects compromise – that’s no recipe for a leader
How to beat Farage
Reform haven’t peaked – and their march to No 10 can only be stopped if we face up to why they’re winning
Gaza: the killing continues and the world looks away
It has been six months since Trump announced a ceasefire in the Gaza war. But the killing continues, food and water are scarce, and children are being attacked by rats. Where is the international response?
These elections have killed First Past the Post. What comes next?
A future of chaotic elections lies ahead unless we start planning for change
Tone-deaf Jeff: how the world soured on billionaire Bezos
He started off as a nerdy bookseller with a love of spreadsheets. Now he’s ended up as a stony-faced, muscle-bound plutocrat, posing on the red carpet with the Kardashians.
Miles Davis is 100 – and this is why he still matters
A fearless, restless pioneer, the jazz legend was an imperfect man, but a musician of unique genius
Arts & Culture
Miles Davis is 100 – and this is why he still matters
A fearless, restless pioneer, the jazz legend was an imperfect man, but a musician of unique genius
Kokuho, the dazzling, savage Japanese epic you must not miss
Soderbergh’s The Christophers underlines Hollywood’s genius problem
What Believe Me gets horribly right about the John Worboys fiasco
Why did the Venice Biennale go soft on Russia?
Audio
The Two Matts Q&A: Starmer timetable, a Telegraph smear and love for David Attenborough
The Matts answer listeners’ questions, including the optimal timetable for a Starmer handover and whether Andy Burnham is trustworthy enough to be PM
Election Special: Who will save Britain from Reform now?
The Matts reflect on a terrible day for both Labour and the Tories and ask what it is going to take to keep Nigel Farage from Downing Street
The Two Matts
Special: Exploring the Ghosts of Iron Mountain with Phil Tinline
The Matts sit down with Phil Tinline to discuss his book The Ghosts of Iron Mountain – genuinely one of the most fascinating and consequential stories of our age
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
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
Wittgenstein’s intellectual experiment that went wrong
Wittgenstein designed a house thinking it would be something of deep significance. It turns out that it wasn’t
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
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Letter of the week: The case for a healthy party of the right
Can Reform really call themselves Christians?
Why one-nation Tories can’t vote for compassionless Kemi Badenoch
This is Putin’s most transparent move so far
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Cheap drones have made modern wars unwinnable
Gaza: the killing continues and the world looks away
The nation where 1.7% of the population is now behind bars
Writers
Alastair Campbell
It’s too soon for a leadership challenge to Starmer
Marie Le Conte
Britain needs a prime minister in the real world. That’s not Keir Starmer
Matthew d’Ancona
How to beat Farage
Patience Wheatcroft
Why one-nation Tories can’t vote for compassionless Kemi Badenoch
Tanit Koch
This is Putin’s most transparent move so far
Paul Mason
It’s not about a new leader. It’s about a new story
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Podcasts
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Starmer timetable, a Telegraph smear and love for David Attenborough
The Two Matts
Election Special: Who will save Britain from Reform now?
The Two Matts
Special: Exploring the Ghosts of Iron Mountain with Phil Tinline
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
Brexit
Farage wants to dodge the blame for Brexit. We can’t let him
Labour are letting Reform’s leader get away with it – the upcoming 10th anniversary is time to change that
Why Starmer should, can and has no option but to move towards Europe
After the elections, a serious pivot to the EU is necessary, possible and the only card the beleaguered prime minister has left to play
Nick Clegg: the old world has gone – it’s time to build a new one
Brexit has been a disaster and the old, post-war order is never coming back. In the decade ahead, Britain – and Ukraine – must become part of the EU to help build a new, independent Europe
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
Ukraine
This is Putin’s most transparent move so far
Donald Trump sends friends and family round the world to negotiate on his behalf – is it any surprise that Putin should do the same?
Cheap drones have made modern wars unwinnable
As Trump has discovered with Iran and Putin in Ukraine, a new, cheap method of warfare has come along to make those ultra-high-tech, ultra-expensive, weapons redundant
How Moscow became the loneliest big city in the world
A capital built and rebuilt by dreamers, schemers and evildoers has gone from squalor to a hollowed-out paradise
Why did the Venice Biennale go soft on Russia?
Protests have rocked the so-called ‘Art Olympics’ over its decision to let Putin exercise soft power
Nick Clegg: the old world has gone – it’s time to build a new one
Brexit has been a disaster and the old, post-war order is never coming back. In the decade ahead, Britain – and Ukraine – must become part of the EU to help build a new, independent Europe
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 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
Was Andy Kaufman the most creative comedian of all time?
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
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