Kemi Badenoch’s party just got slightly less terrible
It’s our moral duty to root for the reshuffled Tories – and we need them to take on Farage’s Reform
Politics
Feargal Sharkey is right. The water shake-up is a drop in the ocean
Nationalisation is the way out of this crisis – but politicians aren’t brave enough to do it
Stephen Colbert and a series of unfortunate coincidences
The CBS presenter’s departure comes days after he mocked a payout to Trump over a baseless libel claim
How to beat Putin
Europe could save Ukraine and defeat a dictator by shutting down Russia’s shadow fleet and scaling up its own defence production. But will wary voters accept rising tension as the price of peace?
What a big scandal says about small Britain
The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour
It was the best time in history to be Polish
And then along came a new, hard-right conservative president – a man with no answers to the country’s problems
Germansplaining: The madness of King Ludwig
The eccentric monarch’s fantastical Bavarian castles, once dismissed as kitsch, have finally gained Unesco World Heritage status
Letter of the Week: Silencing protest won’t help Palestinians
Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine
Sizzling while Rome burns
Extreme summer heat, driven by climate change, is putting off tourists and having a devastating effect on the Eternal City’s economy
How Merz talks his way up in the polls
The chancellor’s straight-talking has, unexpectedly, boosted his popularity
My struggle with Mein Kampf
The world of extremism has moved on during the past 100 years – but the core ideas of Hitler’s book have not gone away
Is Meloni now leaning to the left?
Like right wingers everywhere, the Italian government hates immigrants – it also can’t carry on without them. Which means only one thing
Sizzling while Rome burns
Extreme summer heat, driven by climate change, is putting off tourists and having a devastating effect on the Eternal City’s economy
Come to Kerry and escape the heatwave
The cool, damp climate of the south-west of Ireland has become a surprising summer refuge for weary travellers escaping the heat of Europe
The price of saving Italian risotto
After two years of droughts, farmers are being forced to find new, innovative ways to grow ingredients for the classic Italian dish
Britain is not ready for heatwaves – and it’s our fault
It’s time for the country to change its entire approach to the weather
Climate change will burn the insurance markets
As temperatures rise and insurance markets get spooked, voters and populist politicians still want to spend less on the environment
What to do with the climate crisis free-riders
The human cost of air pollution is too high to ignore. But, how do we tackle those individuals who won’t change their ways?
Reform and the missing link
It seems some of the party’s most prominent members aren’t especially tech savvy
Social media is dead – you just haven’t noticed
A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end
Wetherspoon serves up its revenge cold
The Brexit-supporting pub chain has published a 20-page magazine detailing all the times it’s been unfairly maligned in the media
Exclusive: the Southport riots and Twitter’s failure
A new investigation shows how the moderating system on the social media network broke down at the worst possible time
Elon Musk’s AI Hitler problem
The techbro entrepreneur was worried that Grok, his AI system, was turning into a lefty, so he fiddled about to make it more right wing. The results were terrifying
Do you find this photo boring?
Of course you do – and that’s leading us towards quite a serious economic misunderstanding
She was murdered, but couldn’t be silenced
Mark Gatiss, the most bookish man on the box
Jen Calleja, the punk-rock translator
Meet Zack Polanski, Britain’s first eco-populist
Can you ever truly understand an artist?
The president who stood up to Putin
Helen Lewis: ‘Is Musk a genius? Look at his tweets’
