Summer 2026: When the climate crisis came home

Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable

Anyone connected with the Trump disaster should be beatable in 2028 – but they are making the VP look like the safest choice

Just because it worked in the big city, doesn’t mean it’s going to work across the north. If you want to understand the problem, just go to County Durham

Hollywood used to understand desire. Now even its sex comedies are embarrassed about the bedroom

The best political performers are the ones who convince us there’s no performance at all

There’s a golden rule that you don’t plug someone else’s book when your own one is out. But there are some times when you have to make an exception

Tragedy captures how far elite institutions remain from treating ethnic diversity as simply normal

The revenue from Murdoch’s Australian newspapers was once so huge it launched a media empire – but now, the money comes from a different source

A shop in the US put up a sign banning influencers and the response made it all the more clear that it is absolutely time to ban influencers

The cockroach demonstrations are bigger than anything Modi has seen before. He has already made concessions. But he will have to go much further

The pristine Italian lake is now threatened by an invasive species, some of which grow to nearly 3m in length. No one wants to eat them – so what do you do?

When a subsidised theatre set aside time for Black families, its critics jumped in – and that may have been the desired effect

It was once a great search engine. But then along came AI, and that was that

Write to letters@thenewworld.co.uk to have your views voiced in the magazine

Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable

His nebulous prettification plans ignore reality – and he should be focused on bigger things

Anyone connected with the Trump disaster should be beatable in 2028 – but they are making the VP look like the safest choice

Capped fares for donkey rides, yachting with oligarchs and Lib Den log flumes: How Britain’s political class have been spending the season

The pastel-toned social media trend is popular even with progressive women. But there’s a dark side to the oven-fresh bakes and homegrown veg

The New World’s writers give travel tips for getting to the parts of Europe others cannot reach

Just because it worked in the big city, doesn’t mean it’s going to work across the north. If you want to understand the problem, just go to County Durham

Seventeen reasons to be cheerful about our terrifyingly intense summer

Hollywood used to understand desire. Now even its sex comedies are embarrassed about the bedroom

Silent as a child, she was feted by Warhol and the press before vanishing at the height of her fame

Most music biographies are lazy and rubbish. Here are 10 exceptions

Seven decades after she faced the hangman, the author of a new novel argues that the attitudes behind her execution have not disappeared

From an actor in a bag to brutal Japan and Britain’s privatisation rip-off, here’s what belongs in your suitcase

The worst response to her story is voyeurism. The second worst is pretending there is nothing to see

Felix Hartlaub’s scathing notes on ‘one fanatic and a heap of ingratiating rubber dwarves’ may have got him killed

If you finish a novel and you haven’t posted about it, have you really read it at all?

There needs to be much stricter controls on who can access the genetic data of viruses. AI is making that situation all the more urgent

Dominic Sessa is formidable in the biopic about the making of a celebrity chef

He built a global philosophy of physical freedom – but demanded absolute commitment

The newspaper was just one of many quickly taking down badly dated material in the wake of Jason Arday’s death

It may be axeing a third of its staff, but the channel can still afford to spend £32,000 on two new coffee machines

The broadcaster posted an umbrella emoji as he mocked those predicting a scorching summer

As the fifth heatwave in four months blasts Britain, even Nigel Farage’s climate science deniers are struggling

At least one couple have found Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s informed analysis the perfect soundtrack to, er, discussing Uganda

Younger people now tend to pronounce it Low-es-toft, but Low-st’f is historically accurate

If you pick a lane at the lido then you need to move at the right speed – and if not, then what on earth are you thinking?