The Daily Mail’s dangerous obsession with Meghan
The paper’s malice towards the Duchess of Sussex is boundless, and its stories about her are entirely in bad faith. Why does it do it? The answer’s depressingly simple
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What does the global economic downturn mean for sex work?
A special kind of agony… Keir Starmer’s biographer on what comes next for the stricken PM
Why is Queen Elizabeth II still beyond criticism?
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A special kind of agony… Keir Starmer’s biographer on what comes next for the stricken PM
A proud, stubborn prime minister wants to fight on – but knows his mistakes over Mandelson mean plenty in the cabinet and beyond have given up him
The 40 worst Reform candidates on May 7
Dozens of far right extremists, racists, Islamophobes, conspiracists and homophobes have somehow passed Reform’s rigorous vetting and now stand on the brink of victory
Arch villains: 13 reasons why the Arc de Trump reminds us of dictators’ monuments to themselves
Donald Trump wants to build a 250-foot monstrosity in Washington DC. Where could he have got that idea?
I went head-to-head with Aleksandar Vučić – and we’re still at war
The Serbian president still blames Nato and New Labour over Kosovo
The day David Attenborough changed my life
A signed book as a schoolboy started my nature obsession. I’ve been learning from him ever since
Why is Queen Elizabeth II still beyond criticism?
The BBC’s documentary to mark what would have been her 100th birthday was always going to be respectful – but it feels too reverent
Arts & Culture
The day David Attenborough changed my life
A signed book as a schoolboy started my nature obsession. I’ve been learning from him ever since
Richard Gadd’s Half Man is brutal, thrilling and unforgettable
The state should subsidise creatives – it works in Ireland, and kept me going in lockdown
Why is Queen Elizabeth II still beyond criticism?
What Malcolm in the Middle understands perfectly about Trump’s America
Audio
“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
The Two Matts Q&A: How to pay for the NHS and will robots rule?
The Matts answer listeners’ questions including when Starmer should go; why we don’t vet our politicians and how to fund the NHS
Should he stay or should he go now?
Indecision’s bugging the Two Matts… should Keir Starmer stay or should he go? If he stays there will be trouble. But if he goes it will be double
The Two Matts
Is a brave new world possible? With John Kampfner
Journalist and author John Kampfner joins the Matts to discuss his stunning new book Braver New World – a global travelogue of bold solutions to some of the world’s thorniest problems
The bizarre truth about my own vetting for No 10
Hours after being grilled by an ex-military man, I ran into him again – in very strange circumstances
This man tried never lying for a year – it went about as well as expected
Philosopher Immanuel Kant said you should always tell the truth no matter the consequences. It’s too much to expect that from politicians
The Two Matts Q&A: The fall of Orbán, Corbyn and Kanye West
The Matts tackle listeners’ questions, including how positive should we be about the fall of Orbán and why is Corbyn polling zero percent?
A New Hope from Hungary
The Matts assess Péter Magyar’s spectacular ousting of Victor Orbán in Hungary and what it means for the fight against right-wing populism worldwide
The Two Matts Q&A: Royal visit to the US, Roger Daltrey’s opinions and Italy’s football team
The Matts answer listeners’ Easter Sunday questions, including on whether or not the King should be visiting the States and whether the debate around joining the EU will be as divisive as 2016
DARK SIDE OF THE MATTS: A spectacular row erupts over NASA’s moonshot
The Matts fall out spectacularly and unexpectedly over NASA’s moon shot, Artemis 2
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The Russell Brand media tour has proved one thing beyond doubt
Letter of the week: Will Trump’s war on religion be his downfall?
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A book the Vatican should ban
Don’t worry – the robots aren’t coming for your job
Britain isn’t the country you think it is
Writers
Alastair Campbell
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Matthew d’Ancona
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When war comes home: how should a government rule in times of conflict?
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The Russell Brand media tour has proved one thing beyond doubt
Secret Service is today’s spy thriller wrapped in yesterday’s politics
Why I’m walking round with a lentil in my eye
The race that made Ayrton Senna
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Podcasts
The Two Matts
“A KNIFE THROUGH MY SOUL”… pod special on Morgan McSweeney
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: How to pay for the NHS and will robots rule?
The Two Matts
Should he stay or should he go now?
The Two Matts
Is a brave new world possible? With John Kampfner
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: The fall of Orbán, Corbyn and Kanye West
The Two Matts
A New Hope from Hungary
Brexit
Brexit Unleashed, a festival of the most consistently wrong people in Britain
A gathering of the most hopeless Brexit soothsayers is set to take place in London
Starmer has to step up and tell the truth about the Brexit disaster
If he did he’d have public opinion firmly on his side. Nowadays, even a majority of Daily Mail readers can see that leaving the EU was a catastrophe
The Tories and Mail go loopy over Erasmus+
Kemi Badenoch’s party and the right wing paper are convinced the student exchange scheme is aimed at brainwashing four-year-olds
Bill Cash is back. Have I gone back in time?
The veteran Brexiteer is in the Daily Telegraph railing against the government kowtowing to the European Union. Is it 1993?
Boris Johnson: ‘I love Brexit. I love Brexit’
The former PM is still cheering his project on, while the man who negotiated his hopeless deal thinks everything is going just fine
Crispin Odey drops his libel case against the Pink ‘Un
The disgraced financier had been seeking £79 million in damages over reports alleging that he had sexually assaulted several women
Ukraine
From Orbán fan to Orbán foe: will Péter Magyar change Hungary?
Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule is over, but Magyar once had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. When the celebrations are over and reality returns, what kind of government will Hungary have?
Here’s what Zelensky really thinks of JD Vance
After the madness of MAGA in Iran, meeting Ukraine’s president is a lesson in empathy and emotion
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
The big picture
The artist and the blind prophet on Europe’s frontier
Emilijia Skarnulyte’s work finds the beauty in painful history and the modern in myth
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
Great Lives
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
Billy Wilder, the outsider who understood the American soul
Nawal El Saadawi, the rebel doctor who wrote the truth on prison toilet roll
Don’t worry – the robots aren’t coming for your job
Britain’s new class-based divide is here – and it starts with the children
