Tucker Carlson, podcaster president?
The enormous span of the right wing pundit’s ambition is becoming increasingly clear
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Welcome to the even nastier party
Another batch of Tory defectors means Nigel Farage’s Reform is becoming a blend of the worst of Trussonomics and the worst of racist nativism
Tucker Carlson, podcaster president?
The enormous span of the right wing pundit’s ambition is becoming increasingly clear
Student loan repayments are crushing an entire generation
If voting was compulsory, the interests of the young would get a lot more political attention. As it is, they are ignored, in favour of the old
Ralph Steadman and the death of fun
The Welsh illustrator is staring down the barrel of 90, but still raging about an ‘unimaginably awful’ president – and laughing about the Gonzo genius of his own partnership with Hunter S Thompson
Trump’s lies are trashing the dollar
Economic facts are catching up with the political untruths of the Trump administration
Why I hate the French film classic everyone else loves
Godard’s A Bout De Souffle is needlessly repetitive and unbearably sexist
Arts & Culture
Ralph Steadman and the death of fun
The Welsh illustrator is staring down the barrel of 90, but still raging about an ‘unimaginably awful’ president – and laughing about the Gonzo genius of his own partnership with Hunter S Thompson
The expensive boredom of Melania
Jordan Bardella, the extremist with a smiling face
The enchanting power of Richard Linklater
Why I hate the French film classic everyone else loves
Audio
Podcast: The Mandelson affair destroys our delusions about power
Peter Mandelson’s disgrace, writ large in the latest dump of Jeffrey Epstein files, is the gravest challenge to the credibility of the British establishment in decades.
Trump’s lies are trashing the dollar
Economic facts are catching up with the political untruths of the Trump administration
Karma is the world’s worst policeman
Sorry, but leaving the universe to right itself is just misguided wishful thinking
The Two Matts Q&A: The Shamima Begum row – Round 2
The Matts respond to listeners’ reaction to their debate on the future of Shamima Begum – and, if anything, their respective positions have hardened. Get set for some fireworks. Also – was Keir Starmer weak in blocking Andy Burnham, is the UK falling apart, did the Tories cross a line in slurring Suella Braverman… and […]
What does Trump’s Minnesota retreat add up to?
The situation in Minnesota has brought extraordinary political turmoil to the Oval Office. As Donald Trump continues his manic month of January – from Venezuela to Davos, Greenland to Iran – what does this domestic crisis mean for his personal position as president and the MAGA movement in general? The Matts analyse what is an […]
The Two Matts Q&A: Was Blair right to join Trump’s Board of Peace… and should Shamima Begum be allowed back to the UK?
The Matts answer your questions, including on Trump and Greenland, Blair and the Board of Peace, whether the Home Office is right to keep Shamima Begun out of the UK and, of course, the really big question of the week: who is Team Brooklyn and who is Team Posh and Becks? All of human life […]
Can philosophy be funny?
It Wittgenstein had written a Tractatus Logico Humurous, would we have learned anything from it?
The Two Matts
Special edition with Paul Mason: Decoding Trump’s madness
The last 72 hours have been extraordinary and historic. And we still don’t have a clue what it all adds up to. But there are things we now know. Trump is on a collision course with European nations over the future of Greenland and Keir Starmer is stuck in the middle of an angry EU […]
A lesson for Robert Jenrick: How to plot a proper defection
My secret plan once wrecked a Tory conference, but this turncoat has only wrecked himself
How do ordinary people become evil?
Dehumanisation, obedience and lack of empathy: what drives people to commit the worst acts imaginable
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Politics
The Epstein scandal shakes Slovakia
Emily Maitlis exclusive: Fear and loathing in Minnesota
A visit to the Tory wet room
Trump’s lies are trashing the dollar
The slow death of American science
Jordan Bardella, the extremist with a smiling face
Karma is the world’s worst policeman
When Gen Z goes to war
Writers
Alastair Campbell
Trump’s lies are trashing the dollar
Marie Le Conte
Why I hate the French film classic everyone else loves
Matthew d’Ancona
Tucker Carlson, podcaster president?
Patience Wheatcroft
A visit to the Tory wet room
Tanit Koch
This EU act of self-sabotage makes no sense
Paul Mason
Techno-financial fascism is at the depraved heart of the Epstein files
Latest
Holly Valance kissed off with GB News
Lib Dem peers not happy with their newbies
Sharon! Tories seek some celebrity stardust in Brum
Is Matt Goodwin’s by-election bid a poisoned chalice?
Will Morgan McSweeney be the fall guy for Mandelson?
My picks of the week: Student loans, Tucker Carlson and the nastier party
Podcasts
The Two Matts
Podcast: The Mandelson affair destroys our delusions about power
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: The Shamima Begum row – Round 2
The Two Matts
What does Trump’s Minnesota retreat add up to?
The Two Matts
Andy Burnham revisited
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Was Blair right to join Trump’s Board of Peace… and should Shamima Begum be allowed back to the UK?
The Two Matts
Trump Complacency Disorder abounds. Not here.
Brexit
A visit to the Tory wet room
A new group of centrist Conservative politicians launched their fightback against Badenoch in a cellar near Charing Cross station. They don’t stand a chance
I agree with Nick Clegg (and that’s the real Brexit problem)
A tainted messenger delivers the truth that Starmer still can’t bring himself to say
Is the Daily Telegraph secretly pro-Rejoin?
The ardently Brexit-backing paper used a map of Europe showing the UK back in the EU
Trump has made the case for rejoining the EU impossible to ignore
The threats facing Britain cannot be met alone. They demand European cooperation at the deepest level
Nigel Farage v the elites, one champagne reception at a time
Reform’s leader made a fool of himself at Davos while Brexit critic Mark Carney showed Keir Starmer that closer EU ties are the only way forward
Why bankers hate the reset
The Brexit project was dreamed up, funded and led by City boys. No wonder they fear Starmer moving closer to the EU
Ukraine
We need other countries to get close to, instead of a bully
In Uzbekistan, life is lived in the shadow of Russia. Since the invasion of Ukraine, that shadow has become much darker and more threatening
In blackout Kyiv, Putin’s new weapon is the cold
A massive Russian attack on power infrastructure has left 6,000 buildings in the capital without electricity and heat, leaving Kyivians freezing in temperatures that can drop to minus 24
Maia Sandu, the leader who stood up to Putin
The president of Moldova saw off a vicious campaign from Russia by educating the public about the threat and mobilising them against it. Would we do the same here?
A look back at 2025: the year in ten articles
2025 has been a wild ride, and in these ten articles, writers here at The New World confronted some of the most important questions of the year
Putin is out to destroy the UK and Europe. If we don’t accept that, we’re doomed
The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this
2026 will be the year of Trump, war and chaos
As America retreats from the world into its own sphere of influence, the resulting vacuum will bring more confrontation, uncertainty and disorder. And in almost all cases, Trump won’t care
The big picture
Locked up and written off: The prison photos of Jane Evelyn Atwood
A landmark series of images comes to London, showing the humiliation, rage and moments of hope found in women’s jails
Turner and Constable, forces of nature
A joint exhibition at Tate Britain reveals the story of two geniuses who did some of their best work in the worst weather
Great Lives
Asma Jahangir, the woman who would not be silenced
Coretta Scott King, the architect of a legacy
Victoria Ocampo, the woman who made Argentina a literary power
Ham, the chimp that launched the space age
Miep Gies, the ambassador for Anne Frank’s diary
Ágnes Keleti, the gymnast who resembled the Spirit of Ecstasy
The FTSE gets a bit less pink
The Challenger tragedy and the death of safe space
