Matt Kelly
03 December 2025
My picks of the week: Farage, Palestinian protests and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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My picks of the week: How will AI change journalism?
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Journalism’s race to the bottom
For decades, the reporting of race and ethnicity has been banned unless strictly relevant to the story. All of a sudden that’s changed. Why?
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My picks of the week: Reform's Kent catastrophe, Hitler's DNA and defending the BBC
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My picks of the week: American Nazis, Mamdani and inside the mind of a 16-year-old
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We’re turning the page on division
The New World believes in the power of words, and of reading – which is why we're launching Read Against Racism
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My picks of the week: Elon Musk, the hatred Kool Aid and reading against racism
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My picks of the week: Prince Andrew, student socialism and entering the age of charlatans
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My picks of the week: Paul Marshall, Trump and why the Palestine Action ban must end
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End this stupid Palestine Action ban now
Arresting a student for holding a copy of The New World shows how Britain’s crackdown on Palestine Action has become absurd and dangerous
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Meet Luka, the man arrested for terrorism for holding up The New World
Exclusive: We track down the student whose arrest exposes absurdity of Palestine Action’s proscription
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Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British
This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging
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My picks of the week: Starmer's London problem, antisemitism in Britain and why we're addicted to everything
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My picks of the week: Palestine Action, quack healthcare and David Bowie’s shoes
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My picks of the week: MAGA's holy war, terminal irony and Robert Redford
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My picks of the week: Tommy Robinson, why retirement isn't working and AI pop
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Not “patriots” but followers of a far-right criminal low-life thug
Tommy Robinson does not love Britain. He despises everything it represents. Why won’t others say that so clearly?
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My picks of the week: How to beat Reform
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Two speeches, 20 years apart, show Starmer how to tackle Farage
Farage’s political gameplan has one key weakness that Starmer needs to exploit ruthlessly
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My picks of the week: Tommy Robinson, oil painting and Alastair Campbell's diary from Singapore
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There is no plan to rescue Seattle’s Fenty Folders
Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin, is posing a health crisis in the US. But the Trump administration are happy to pretend it isn't happening
Read the full article27 August 2025
My picks of the week: The problem with university, xenophobes and Seattle's homelessness crisis
Forget Sleepless in Seattle, after a recent trip, our editor-in-chief believes it’s the homeless in Seattle that define it now
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My picks of the week: Gary Lineker on speaking his truth
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Gary Lineker: ‘I’m not antisemitic. I’m anti the killing of children’
In an exclusive interview, Gary Lineker talks to Matt Kelly about the war in Gaza, his exit from the BBC, and life as a podcasting media mogul
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My picks of the week: Yvette Cooper has opened the door to Nigel Farage
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Scandal as UK police threaten Palestinian protesters
Video shows how Yvette Cooper’s proscription order against Palestine Action has given licence for thought crime interrogations by cops
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Matt Kelly’s picks of the week: Ozempic, Gaza and Anthony Bourdain
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My picks of the week: Oasis, Keir Starmer and the best films of the 21st century
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My picks of the week: Gaza, Glastonbury and understanding Giorgia Meloni
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Meanwhile, in Gaza…
Hundreds of thousands of children face famine, betrayed by our leaders with their silence
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Art by royal appointment
Tracey Emin fails to inspire but there are saving graces at this year’s Summer Exhibition
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My picks of the week: Donald Trump, weapons grade narcissism and Gen Z's rot race
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