Nigel Farage has tried to be too clever – and there’s an obvious problem with that
The man who would be PM will now spend the summer fighting for his political life against a man dressed as a bin
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The unravelling of Nigel Farage
The Reform leader is on the brink thanks to his own personal flaws – most fatally an unwillingness to turn down a quick buck
Gary Stevenson wants a wealth tax. Then what?
The inequality campaigner is certain that he’s right – but that may not be enough
The Odyssey and our summer of myth
Homer’s epic speaks powerfully to any age troubled by anxiety that the notion of home, reciprocity and social stability is in jeopardy
The WWI ‘butcher’ who inspired Putin’s meat-grinder warfare
Douglas Haig’s willingness to trade thousands of lives for a few miles of ground has proved sadly durable
Marylin Monroe never belonged to any one man – and neither do I
There are many ways in which women are ‘kept’, sometimes by men, sometimes by members of their own family. But that has never worked for me.
A Critical National Infrastructure superministry could fix Britain
Burnham could end Treasury stagnation with a single department that centralised water, energy, transport and telecoms
Arts & Culture
The awful truth about the revolting film Elon Musk wants you to watch
Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth
The love stories we should see on the news
Larry David, the surprising standard-bearer for American hope
Marylin Monroe never belonged to any one man – and neither do I
Ed van der Elsken, the man who shot the soul of Amsterdam
Audio
Taylor Swift’s wedding and the latest BookTok drama
This week Lucy Reade and James Ball talk about the highly controversial wedding of global megastar Taylor Swift, as well as the latest BookTok drama.
SPECIAL: Farage fighting for his political life
The Matts react to the simply extraordinary speech Nigel Farage made today
The Two Matts Q&A: Hydration Break sponsored by Powerade!*
he Matts get stuck into listener questions including: should England get a new capital city?
Why place matters so much to Andy Burnham
The Matts discuss the founding principles behind Andy Burnham’s emerging strategy for a “circuit break” in how politics works in the UK
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?
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Politics
Le Pen may have made a mis-step as big as Farage’s
Farage is in trouble — polls show voters think he’s a danger to Britain
Nigel Farage has tried to be too clever – and there’s an obvious problem with that
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusion is about to meet economic reality
There is a moral argument for paying reparations over slavery
If you say the wrong thing about the royal family, you’ll get 15 years in jail
The day the tanks came for my parents
He threatened to ‘disembowel’ his opponents. Now he’s president of Colombia
Writers
Alastair Campbell
The WWI ‘butcher’ who inspired Putin’s meat-grinder warfare
Marie Le Conte
Le Pen may have made a mis-step as big as Farage’s
Matthew d’Ancona
The Odyssey and our summer of myth
Patience Wheatcroft
Andy Burnham’s devolution delusion is about to meet economic reality
Tanit Koch
Germany tried to introduce a sick note revolution – it failed
Paul Mason
A Critical National Infrastructure superministry could fix Britain
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All roll up for the Reform conference – tickets just £6,000
Reform loyalists go out to bat for Farage… with mixed results
Le Pen may have made a mis-step as big as Farage’s
Farage is in trouble — polls show voters think he’s a danger to Britain
Reform’s village clean-up claim is AI in the sky
Nigel Farage has tried to be too clever – and there’s an obvious problem with that
Podcasts
Touching Grass
Taylor Swift’s wedding and the latest BookTok drama
The Two Matts
SPECIAL: Farage fighting for his political life
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Hydration Break sponsored by Powerade!*
The Two Matts
Why place matters so much to Andy Burnham
Touching Grass
Chargebacks and time blindness
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Burnham’s to-do list and the shameless Brexit villains
Brexit
The Brexit advice Andy Burnham should throw in the bin
A letter from a little-known business organisation imploring the incoming prime minister not to dilute Brexit is best ignored
How Burnham can lead a revolt of the people against the populists
The PM-in-waiting is our last hope for a mainstream politician who can capture the anti-Westminster mood for change
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
Ukraine
The WWI ‘butcher’ who inspired Putin’s meat-grinder warfare
Douglas Haig’s willingness to trade thousands of lives for a few miles of ground has proved sadly durable
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
The big picture
Yes you can fly from Istanbul to Tbilisi – but I took the long way round
I hadn’t downloaded any films or podcasts for my journey, but in the end it turned out I didn’t need any. All I needed was the window
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
Great Lives
The night New York discovered Frida Kahlo
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
Germany tried to introduce a sick note revolution – it failed
How Modi became king of India
