Why Virginia Giuffre is our Person of the Year
The pain she suffered at the hands of powerful men was ultimately too much to bear, but 2025 will be remembered as the year of her vengeance
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Why Virginia Giuffre is our Person of the Year
The pain she suffered at the hands of powerful men was ultimately too much to bear, but 2025 will be remembered as the year of her vengeance
Our politicians should be more like Peter Malinauskas
On political funding and social media, Malinauskas has shown real leadership. Our government should take note
Why Facebook is suddenly full of nostalgia for the recent past
Millennials used to mock their parents’ sepia-tinted Facebook posts. Now they’re the ones yearning for a simpler time – before student debt and existential angst
How the Tories will put Farage in No 10
Reform needs a pact to reach Downing Street – and the Conservatives are desperate enough to hand it to them
Britain’s most dangerous radicals are… middle-aged men
Middle-aged men are being radicalised – and they’re fuelling the spread of extremism, conspiracy theories and political violence
2,000 years of punk rock
The movement may have exploded 50 years ago with the Sex Pistols, but the fuse was lit by rebels way back in history
Arts & Culture
2,000 years of punk rock
The movement may have exploded 50 years ago with the Sex Pistols, but the fuse was lit by rebels way back in history
Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto: Good book, terrible poetry, worse decisions
Train Dreams is the year’s most beautiful film
The last good cheap meal in Paris
Is it time for Adam Sandler’s Oscar?
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In defence of a new Europe – with Paul Mason
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy document released this week is an astonishing affront to what many of us believe to be the liberal world order. The Matts are joined by New World contributing editor and columnist Paul Mason to understand just how far reaching its consequences are – and how Europe must find new […]
Our politicians should be more like Peter Malinauskas
On political funding and social media, Malinauskas has shown real leadership. Our government should take note
Schopenhauer’s one redeeming feature
He was a master of misery who sometimes argued it was better never to have been born. But his love of the flute suggests the philosopher wasn’t all gloom
Is Richard Tice as nasty as he seems?
Today on The Two Matts podcast, Matt Kelly and Matt d’Ancona again respond to your queries. They discuss whether Richard Tice is as nasty as he appears to be, and if there is a world where Labour and the Conservatives form a German-style grand coalition to keep Reform from forming the next government. They also […]
Hillsborough justice delayed is no justice at all
The Matts examine the conclusion of the Independent Office for Police Conduct 14 YEAR (!) investigation into the Hillsborough disaster and reflect on the ghastly sequence of events that has consumed so many lives, literally and otherwise. And to add insult to the closure of a process that has taken 36 years to produce zero […]
Journalism’s race to the bottom
The Matts discuss the central role journalism has played in fostering racism in Britain over the decades, and which now looks like it is entering a new, more dangerous phase. The chat is based on an article Matt Kelly wrote for The New World – the link is below. But before that – why did […]
Where is Reform’s money coming from?
Real journalists would want to know whether any of the party’s finances came in rouble form
CS Lewis and the truth about grief
When we lose someone it distorts everything – even the world around us
The Two Matts Q&A: Should Farage’s schoolboy racism count against him?
Today on The Two Matts podcast, Matthew d’Ancona and Matt Kelly again respond to your queries. They discuss whether Nigel Farage’s schoolboy racism should count against him 45 years later and, after The New World’s Kent council cover story, how the media can continue to hold the Reform party to account. They also talk about […]
Has the Budget sealed Starmer’s fate?
Did Rachel Reeves turn a corner this week with her Budget … and drive this Labour government straight off a cliff? The Matts reflect on her performance yesterday and how she fared in the media round this morning. It’s not great news for those of us clinging to the hope that Starmer can reinvigorate his […]
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My picks of the week: Trump’s war on Europe, punk rock and why Virginia Giuffre is our Person of the Year
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Reform’s Kent crack-up is getting even worse
2,000 years of punk rock
Bridget Riley vs the North Sea
Donald Trump takes on history – and loses
Podcasts
The Two Matts
In defence of a new Europe – with Paul Mason
The Two Matts
Is Richard Tice as nasty as he seems?
The Two Matts
Hillsborough justice delayed is no justice at all
The Two Matts
Journalism’s race to the bottom
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Should Farage’s schoolboy racism count against him?
The Two Matts
Has the Budget sealed Starmer’s fate?
Brexit
An anti-Brexit majority of eight million
The British electorate are now overwhelmingly pro-remain. And yet the europhobes still argue the votes of the dead count for more than the views of the young
The Telegraph suddenly told the truth about Brexit and its readers lost their minds
Subscribers are queuing up to criticise an article that called leaving the EU “an unmitigated economic failure”
How Brexit is making Britain un-SAFE
The government should have agreed to join a key European defence scheme – there can only be one explanation for why it did not
Daniel Hannan, the man with no shame
Why does a man responsible for delivering one of the most shattering economic blows in Britain’s history still regard himself as an economic authority?
How Labour will make Brexit a key battleground at the next election
Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for EU negotiations, points the way to a showdown that would make Farage squirm
Michael Gove is still wrong about Brexit experts
The frontman for Vote Leave’s lies derides a new study on leaving the EU – but no-one is listening
Ukraine
Andriy Yermak’s Black Friday
Zelensky’s chief of staff has resigned amid the biggest corruption scandal Ukraine has seen. The president must act fast to restore trust – while not forgetting about the frontline
Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian playing the US from within
Putin’s friend and emissary has manipulated Steve Witkoff to the point where the US special ambassador is known as “Dim Philby”. And Ukraine is paying the price
Trump’s Ukraine peace deal: 28 points of disagreement
The offer being pushed on Kyiv forces huge compromises and restrictions on Ukraine, but nothing on Russia. For that reason alone it is bound to fail
Nathan Gill, the tip of a much bigger iceberg?
When it comes to Russian interference, Bill Browder, the US investor and prominent anti-Putin activist, believes the media has barely scratched the surface
The prayers under fire in Ukraine
In frozen trenches and shattered towns, chaplains pray with the dying, bless the living and try to keep hope alive
Putin thinks he can’t lose
The Russian president rejected Donald Trump’s peace proposals because he thinks he has the advantage in Ukraine. He’s wrong
The big picture
Taylor Wessing’s portraits of human connection
The latest edition of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait prize exhibition features subjects looking for a connection
Leatherface and me: the Chainsaw that won’t stop
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most terrifying film ever made. So why did I watch it when I was 11, and why does it still have a hold on me?
Great Lives
Dinah Washington, the Queen of the Blues
Sócrates, the beautiful game’s great romantic
Shane MacGowan, the poet laureate of chaos and loss
Christophe Dominici, the titan on the rugby field
Doris Lessing, the writer who filled her own world with stories just to survive
Leonard Cohen, the poet laureate of gloom
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My electric dream in Kathmandu
