Jay Elwes
06 March 2026
The White House press office has totally lost its mind
The US secretary of war insulted the American dead, attacked the press and released one of the most stupid pieces of propaganda ever made.
Read the full article05 March 2026
Iran, Trump and the US right’s post-modern swerve
Somewhere along the line, the American right became detached from the importance of “truth”, and we all know whose fault that is. But how did it happen?
Read the full article04 March 2026
Iran War: Trump has now sealed his own fate
The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse of Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous
Read the full article19 February 2026
Hello America – this is what accountability looks like
The powerful sociopaths who gathered around Epstein, who attended his parties and wrote him crawling emails asking for favours, need to be held accountable. The UK is starting out on that process. America – now it’s your turn
Read the full article18 February 2026
Trump’s next victim: the US economy
With his own man as chair of the Federal Reserve, and infuriated by the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs, the president might now seek to manipulate the currency for political ends
Read the full article21 January 2026
Carney gets it. Starmer doesn’t. The world has changed utterly
Canada’s PM has finally told the world what it needed to hear about Trump and the future
Read the full article14 January 2026
The sport that’s both popular and unpopular, all at the same time
Rugby internationals in England sell tens of thousands of tickets, but almost no one follows the game at club level. What’s going on?
Read the full article25 December 2025
A look back at 2025: the year in ten articles
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
Read the full article13 November 2025
The Epstein files could see MAGA turn on Trump
Jeffrey Epstein knew “how dirty Donald is”. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Trump to hide it from his core supporters
Read the full article29 October 2025
Has politics driven us all insane?
The political culture of the west has sunk into a new era of cynicism, contradiction and outright political delusion. But we didn’t fall into it – we were pushed
Read the full article08 October 2025
Kemi Badenoch: the pseudo-conservative
In her closing speech to conference today, the Tory leader presented herself as a sensible fiscal Conservative. But she is something very different
Read the full article02 October 2025
Killings in Manchester: has Britain ignored antisemitism?
We don’t yet know the motive behind the killings outside a synagogue. But there are some horrific facts – and Britain must face them
Read the full article23 April 2025
The fall of Saigon, 50 years on
Half a century ago, a humiliated America scrambled out of a losing war. But parallels with Ukraine show little has changed
Read the full article03 April 2025
Liberation Day was Trump’s Liz Truss moment
The US president has relentlessly attacked the institutions of American life. But there is one thing that he cannot defeat, because if it falls, it will take him – and the US – down with it
Read the full article25 March 2025
Why do they hate us so much?
Trump and all his Maga disciples see Europe as little more than a parasite – how did it all go so wrong?
Read the full article01 March 2025
A political catastrophe on live TV
The Trump Zelensky disaster was unbearable to watch and revealed the inescapable fact about Trump – and the US
Read the full article19 February 2025
Are we all screwed?
Two new books on the current threat to western democracy come to very different conclusions about who’s to blame and what to do about it
Read the full article21 January 2025
The silliness of evil
Donald Trump is a ridiculous, laughable figure – but behind the showmanship and the foreground noise is something profoundly dangerous
Read the full article11 January 2025
Social media: the tool of a new, aggressive US foreign policy
Musk has used his social media platform as a lever to break into German and UK politics. But Zuckerberg’s changes at Facebook are even more insidious
Read the full article09 January 2025
Why Donald Trump wants Greenland
He wants it for the same reason Putin wants Ukraine
Read the full article20 November 2024
The killing field: Where Berlin confronts its Nazi past
An empty square in the centre of the German capital gives a warning from the recent past
Read the full article06 November 2024
What does Trump’s victory mean?
The result of the US election contains one clear message for Britain – and for Starmer
Read the full article30 October 2024
Just don’t eat the Bude mussels
Decades ago, holidaymakers in Bude knew that when you went in the sea, you kept your mouth shut. Today, that rule is back
Read the full article15 October 2024
It’s time for MPs to get off Twitter
The social media platform has become so vile and corrupted that no politician should be anywhere near it
Read the full article21 September 2024
How to spot a culture war
In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”
Read the full article11 September 2024
The presidential debate: Harris wins
She wiped the floor with him. But Trump is still very dangerous
Read the full article11 September 2024
Forgetting the lessons of 1945
Our deepest political divide is between those who recall the dangers of nationalism and those who see it as a vehicle for self-promotion
Read the full article31 July 2024
Donald Trump, asshole in one
What the golf-mad presidential frontrunner’s game says about him
Read the full article18 April 2024
Hypocrisy of the Sunak kind
The PM used Angela Rayner as a weapon while knowing about allegations over Mark Menzies
Read the full article17 April 2024
Big rouble in little Britain
A flood of Russian money has undeniably corrupted British politics – but to what extent? It is now time for an inquiry to find out
Read the full article17 January 2024
When Putin’s enforcers go on holiday
The Rajapaksa government may have gone, but Sri Lanka is still happy to welcome Moscow’s money
Read the full article22 November 2023
The surreal party: Ken Clarke on how the Tories lost their marbles
The Conservatives are obsessed with ‘tedious nonsense’ in ‘the worst political period in my lifetime’, says the party grandee
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