Matt Kelly
05 September 2025
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
Read the full article03 September 2025
My picks of the week: Tommy Robinson, oil painting and Alastair Campbell's diary from Singapore
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Read the full article03 September 2025
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
Read the full article31 July 2025
My picks of the week: Gary Lineker on speaking his truth
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Read the full article29 July 2025
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
Read the full article23 July 2025
My picks of the week: Yvette Cooper has opened the door to Nigel Farage
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Read the full article17 July 2025
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
Read the full article16 July 2025
Matt Kelly’s picks of the week: Ozempic, Gaza and Anthony Bourdain
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Read the full article09 July 2025
My picks of the week: Oasis, Keir Starmer and the best films of the 21st century
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Read the full article02 July 2025
My picks of the week: Gaza, Glastonbury and understanding Giorgia Meloni
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Read the full article30 June 2025
Meanwhile, in Gaza…
Hundreds of thousands of children face famine, betrayed by our leaders with their silence
Read the full article25 June 2025
My picks of the week: Donald Trump, weapons grade narcissism and Gen Z's rot race
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Read the full article25 June 2025
Art by royal appointment
Tracey Emin fails to inspire but there are saving graces at this year’s Summer Exhibition
Read the full article18 June 2025
My picks of the week: Sean Scully, Brexit's 10th year and the death of democracy
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Read the full article11 June 2025
My picks of the week: William F Buckley, a new Netflix boxset and a great cosmopolitan
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Read the full article05 June 2025
Why The New European is becoming The New World
After 9 years and 437 issues of what was meant to be a 4-week pop-up paper, our publication is turning a new page
Read the full article28 May 2025
Our new world demands vision. Does Starmer have one?
The PM has been a disappointment so far. Now he must make voters choose between Farage’s view of the past, and his own view of the future
Read the full article27 May 2025
“White British” gives the game away about racism in the UK
The reaction to the shocking car attack in Liverpool tells us so much about ourselves
Read the full article22 May 2025
Wild camping is a holiday for the soul, and now it’s legal
Landowners' pitch to ban enjoyment of the great outdoors is rightly slapped down by Supreme Court
Read the full article09 April 2025
Misan Harriman: A lens on a world in protest
The photographer’s images command attention – whether capturing the fiery passion of an activist rallying a crowd or the powerful, expressive gaze of a lone protester
Read the full article04 April 2025
Two men trying to lead the Middle East to peace
An Israeli and a Palestinian are turning their grief into a call for an end to violence. Is it pointless?
Read the full article06 January 2025
Starmer slaps down Musk and points the finger at Badenoch
The PM’s response to the far right billionaire was overdue… but near-perfect
Read the full article03 January 2025
Keir Starmer must slap Elon Musk down – before someone gets killed
This deranged, disgusting attack on Jess Phillips deserves a public rebuke, not just behind-the-scenes diplomacy
Read the full article06 December 2024
Question Time was a microcosm of the coming battle for Britain’s place in the world
Between the woman in the red jacket and the man in the red jumper, it was the audience who stole the show in the big face-off between Alastair Campbell and Nigel Farage
Read the full article25 October 2024
Next week… Feargal Sharkey guest edits The New European
The special issue will focus squarely on the appalling state of Britain’s waterways, the result of an absolute scandal of our times; the privatisation of the water companies
Read the full article23 October 2024
The story of Chris Kaba’s killing is now clearer. Except on the BBC News website
The weighting of a story about the Croydon man shot by police is all wrong
Read the full article08 July 2022
Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev: The questions that must still be answered
Another scandal over Boris Johnson's Premiership is simmering and threatens to boil over. And this time it's a matter of national security.
Read the full article27 June 2022
We’re hiring!
We're looking for an experienced commissioning editor to join the TNE team ... maybe it's you?
Read the full article20 June 2022
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The New European has a unique opportunity for readers to invest in our future
Read the full article15 December 2021
The New European’s Person of The Year: Richard Ratcliffe
For those human qualities - bravery, loyalty, integrity, intelligence, sacrifice - he demonstrated in defiance of a political system in which those same qualities are so conspicuously absent.
Read the full article09 December 2021
Boris Johnson’s journalistic past is the root cause of his coming political demise
A career learning how to get away with it in UK newspapers was poor training for telling lies as a Prime Minister
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