Politics

When it’s freezing and dark, there’s only one thing Icelanders want to do – take all their clothes off and jump in an outdoor pool

Elephants have been trampling and eating crops planted by Kenyan farmers, and gamekeepers have been looking for a solution. Then someone noticed that elephants don’t like bees

The challenge for my country is to get rid of the networks of patronage and power that are all controlled by the old. We need to become a country of the young

MAGA’s youth wing gathered for a weekend-long event in Arizona. Proceedings were overshadowed by arguments over a notorious neo-Nazi

Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale – some of teenage girls – and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will

Trump’s raid on Caracas gives the US control of Venezuelan oil, and shows that America is now a nation that acts without restraint. The lessons for Britain, and Europe, could not be any clearer

Maduro was a foul dictator. But what happens next could be as bad - or worse

Putin and Trump want to destroy liberal democracy. Only Europe now stands in their way. Can the continent hold out against the twin threats from east and west?

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Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win an election – his and Rama Duwaji’s story mirrors the city they now represent

With a media landscape tightly controlled by Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling party, students are keeping the fight for democracy alive in Belgrade

Armed only with pistols and faced with an overwhelming number of Hamas attackers, Remo El-Hozayel rescued hundreds from the Nova Festival massacre

While Britain struggles to open new factories, Beijing is looking to a future of flying cars. How can Europe emulate what its rival intends, and do it better?

If 2026 is to improve on 2025, the UK must start behaving like a serious country at long last

The coming year will be full of intrigue, but the aftermath of the local elections will be the moment Labour rebels will try to oust the PM. Who can replace him?

As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise?

No parties will accompany the 10-year anniversary of the EU referendum - but better times could lie ahead

Here are some suggestions for Starmer, Badenoch and Farage, which might help them – and us – to have a happier 2026

Labour's gamble believes that AI will steer everything in future. The risk of being left behind is too existential not to gamble

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

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

In the months leading up to the holy festival in Bangladesh, bombs have been going off at Christian sites, and nobody knows why

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

Decisions made in Beijing have caused immense suffering for the Chinese people. It’s time to understand the mistakes of the past, or risk falling into ignorance

Western leaders and diplomats have spent huge amounts of political capital on Gaza and Ukraine – but not on Sudan. Even now, the slaughter goes on, but where is the response?

The government thinks neurological conditions are being “over-pathologised” and the Tories that mental health diagnoses are costing too much money in benefits payments. Why are they so clueless?

Immigration crackdowns are cutting revenues from overseas students - and now some institutions are on the brink

The Erasmus scheme allowed millions of UK students to broaden their horizons – and also their private lives

Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers - and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU

A hard core of American Catholic ultra-conservatives look at the White House and like what they see. The new man in the Vatican takes a different view

Most politicians remain oblivious to the threat, especially on the left. But they must realise Putin could do to us what he’s done to Ukraine, without firing a shot

A Scottish geologist made a discovery that altered the way we see ourselves, and our planet. And yet his name is widely forgotten