How to shout at the NHS
I had a large wound with a machine attached to it, but for some reason the doctors couldn’t help. I was assertive and received help – but it shouldn’t have to be that way
Politics
Alan Rusbridger Joins The New World as Editor-at-Large
One of the most influential figures in modern journalism joins the magazine as Editor-at-Large
Nigel Farage is hopelessly out of touch with public opinion
He’s doing well in the polls, but most people in Britain disagree with almost everything that the Reform leader actually thinks
Robert Jenrick, the hollow man
This opportunistic ‘saviour’ could kill off the Tories completely
Why I took a ‘fucking bitch’ banner to the Renee Good vigil
I thought I’d have to explain why I wanted it printed – instead, the shop owner gave me a discount
Twitter: the website that makes you sick
X has been terminally polluted by Elon Musk to the point of making us nauseous
Fault! Berlin’s mayor played tennis during the city’s blackout
Locals are blaming Kai Wegner for poor service after he crossed the line by taking on his girlfriend while 45,000 homes were without power
Venezuela: where even a text message can land you in jail
Maduro may be in a US prison, but a mob of intelligence officers and paramilitaries are setting up roadblocks and dragging victims off the streets to make sure people understand – his political project still holds power
Can MAGA tech firm Palantir be trusted to run Britain’s data?
It’s wildly overvalued, politically extreme and puts Trump first – but somehow has £1bn of deals to run Britain’s tech infrastructure
The largest fascist rally held in Europe since WW2
A Croatian rock singer is using Nazi salutes to gee up his crowd. Even worse, the prime minister is apparently a fan
How to stop AI slop from killing the internet
Legislation or an unexpected saviour could help – but the tech giants will try to crush them
Trump’s dark age of spectacle and power
A president without decency or any interest in policy runs America like a TV show: gripping its audience with shocks, suspense and relentless action
Letter of the week: Forget Britishness, we need to be more European
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The press that thinks it’s the opposition
Westminster journalists are having a tantrum over No 10 briefings. But the real problems are their right wing bias and focus on gossip over policy
It’s time for a European army
Keir Starmer wants Britain to get closer to the EU. The war in Ukraine and Trump’s military posturing put European security at the heart of that realignment
The only path to Iranian revolution
The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack
Is there a future for British pubs?
The government’s business rates u-turn has brought temporary relief, but long-term trends suggest thousands more locals – especially in rural areas – will go
In Greenland, the threat of Trump hangs over us like Covid
The uncertainty of the plague years are back in the form of the US president, and we are left wondering who wants to help us
Starmer, the wrong man to reverse Brexit
Farage and Badenoch’s attacks on a weakened PM underline that he’s not the messenger to deliver a customs union or even a second referendum
Brigitte Macron’s difficult court victory
Online trolls who claimed the French president’s wife was secretly a man, have been convicted in a Paris court. Does that mean misgendering someone – including trans people – now means jail time?
ICE are now murdering people in the street
The shooting dead of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is the fault of Trump, Noem, and the bullshit conspiratorial ecosystem they’ve built around themselves
Europe still doesn’t trust Britain
Former Brussels foreign minister Cathy Ashton says the union would be ‘insane’ to take back the UK without consensus that we wouldn’t leave again
When America lost a nuclear bomb in Greenland
In 1968, a US bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Greenland. That time the bombs didn’t detonate and there was no catastrophe. But the nation now faces a new US threat and the outcome could be much worse
Why I don’t have a favourite philosopher
I’m an admirer of John Stuart Mill, David Hume and Diogenes the Cynic. The problem is, I cannot endorse any one of them without reservation
Letter of the week: Bombastic and self-obsessed, Trump is the west’s downfall
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Maia Sandu, the leader who stood up to Putin
The president of Moldova saw off a vicious campaign from Russia by educating the public about the threat and mobilising them against it. Would we do the same here?
The case for a new Britishness
The social contract must be revitalised or populists will replace it with something much worse. That means citizenship should involve allegiance to a shared way of life
The case for a firework-free zone
Some Germans revel in a state of emergency during the new year’s celebrations. Should their lawlessness restrict responsible fireworks enthusiasts’ fun?
This sounds crazy, but our politicians need a pay rise
The current system attracts incompetent chancers. The answer is a Westminster that’s smaller and better rewarded
Nerd’s Eye View: 14 things you need to know about Venezuela
Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
Here comes the Taiwanese indie boom
Living so close to a huge unfriendly neighbour has made our politics intense – but it has also done the same for our music culture
If you want to understand Iceland, go to the swimming pool
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
To bee, or not to bee? The African elephant question
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
Bangladesh still isn’t working
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
Welcome to the American nightmare
MAGA’s youth wing gathered for a weekend-long event in Arizona. Proceedings were overshadowed by arguments over a notorious neo-Nazi
Shut down Musk’s AI porn
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
The lesson of Maduro’s abduction: Europe must unite, or die
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
Trump’s deadly game of risk in Venezuela
Maduro was a foul dictator. But what happens next could be as bad – or worse
2026: Democracy’s last stand
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?
Letter of the Week: The New World provides informed journalism without the misery
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The first couple of New York City
Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win an election – his and Rama Duwaji’s story mirrors the city they now represent
Serbia: a land of protests, paranoia.. and Del-Boy Trotter
With a media landscape tightly controlled by Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling party, students are keeping the fight for democracy alive in Belgrade
Germansplaining: The accidental hero of October 7
Armed only with pistols and faced with an overwhelming number of Hamas attackers, Remo El-Hozayel rescued hundreds from the Nova Festival massacre
How China plans to eat the west
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?
A new year’s resolution to keep: get rid of Brexit
If 2026 is to improve on 2025, the UK must start behaving like a serious country at long last
The May elections will be Starmer’s cliffhanger moment
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?
The beginning of the end for Donald Trump?
As his poll ratings tank ahead of November’s midterms, splits are emerging in his MAGA movement. Can the Democrats unite and capitalise?
Next June 23, how will you mark Brexit’s decade of decay?
No parties will accompany the 10-year anniversary of the EU referendum – but better times could lie ahead
I don’t need New Year’s resolutions, but our politicians do
Here are some suggestions for Starmer, Badenoch and Farage, which might help them – and us – to have a happier 2026
The power politics of AI
Labour’s gamble believes that AI will steer everything in future. The risk of being left behind is too existential not to gamble
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
Putin is out to destroy the UK and Europe. If we don’t accept that, we’re doomed
The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this
When the lights of Christmas are an act of resistance
In the months leading up to the holy festival in Bangladesh, bombs have been going off at Christian sites, and nobody knows why
2026 will be the year of Trump, war and chaos
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
China must confront its own history
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
A journey into Sudan’s forgotten war
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?
I am autistic – and this is what Wes Streeting just doesn’t understand
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?
Is 2026 the year that Britain’s universities go bankrupt?
Immigration crackdowns are cutting revenues from overseas students – and now some institutions are on the brink
The most libidinous plan the EU ever created
The Erasmus scheme allowed millions of UK students to broaden their horizons – and also their private lives
The ghosts of Brexit past return to wail about Erasmus
Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers – and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU
The pope vs MAGA
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
We are Putin’s next target
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
How the world forgot James Hutton
A Scottish geologist made a discovery that altered the way we see ourselves, and our planet. And yet his name is widely forgotten
Why are they such damned liars?
Everyone knows No 10 briefs against members of the cabinet, but Starmer told the Commons it doesn’t. That, in a nutshell, is why political trust is dying out
Twelve angry months
Flags waved, Trump ranted and raved, an ex-royal was depraved and the PM looked like he couldn’t be saved. It’s been one hell of a year
The year in pictures
A turbulent 2025 unfolded in striking contrasts – from apocalyptic climate disasters and surging global protests to the ever-present threat of war
Letter of the week: The unshakable courage of Virginia Giuffre
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Citizen Trump and the battle for Hollywood
The president is moving beyond politics – and seeking to claim control of what Americans watch
Why Nigel Farage is our Rat of the Year
The Reform leader has beaten off stiff opposition to be named the very worst of Westminster in 2025
The war on veggie burgers
French right wing MEPs are leading a campaign to ban words like ‘steak’ and ‘sausage’ from vegan food
Rats in a Sack Quiz of 2025
How much do you remember about what has been a political 12 months to forget?
American civilisation is at risk – but I’m still going
If they check my social media posts at the border, I might well be on the first plane back, which tells you Trump’s talk about free speech is nothing but a sham
Hey Donald Trump, why did you cancel our party?
Every year the president hosts a White House reception for the Washington press pack. This year he’s cancelled it, which perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise
The whole of South Africa is currently shut down
If you really want to understand this country and who we are, you need to come here in December
The murder of Jews on Bondi Beach: a product of a world saturated in images of annihilation
After the murder of Jewish Australians on Bondi beach, the instinct is to use grief as a way to bolster preconceived arguments. But certainty itself carries its own dangers
Reform’s Bonnie Blue Christmas
An endorsement from the porn star underlines the hypocrisy at the heart of Nigel Farage’s party
Bondi Beach and the politics of meeting hate with hate
Politicians and activists must do better than using slaughter to justify their points of view
Tommy Robinson’s gospel of hate
His motives for calling on religion look less like a personal awakening and more a cynical marketing ploy
Brigitte Macron’s nasty little words
Non-French speakers don’t fully understand the phrase “sales connes”. But we do, which makes the president’s wife using it even more awful
Greece’s falling population
You can’t convince people to have more babies through tax cuts – so how do you reverse a falling birthrate?
Dubai: a safe space for hypocrisy
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
Mar-a-Lago Face: the new Trump uniform
If you want to get near the US president, your face has to fit. And if it doesn’t, sorry – it’s time to go under the knife
France’s far right president-in-waiting wants Britain to rejoin the EU
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is no backer of Frexit, despite meeting Nigel Farage in London
Trump’s far east peace plan has collapsed
The president said he had brokered a peace between the Thai and Cambodian governments. As ever, with the US president, the truth is very different
Sorry Aussie kids – you have been permanently logged out of your account
Young people got depressed, anxious and led astray long before social media arrived. So is the new ban in Australia really going to do any good? And if so, how will we be able to tell?
Reform’s Kent crack-up is getting even worse
Expelled councillors claim they were bullied and harassed – and that a fire service row put local people at risk
Why Virginia Giuffre is our Person of the Year
The pain she suffered at the hands of powerful men was ultimately too much to bear, but 2025 will be remembered as the year of her vengeance
The empty theatre of Keminism
Badenoch may suddenly have a spring in her step, but her snark and stunts reveal a lack of serious ideas
Letter of the week: The government’s complacency over Farage is ridiculous
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Our politicians should be more like Peter Malinauskas
On political funding and social media, Malinauskas has shown real leadership. Our government should take note
My electric dream in Kathmandu
People around here think that if you drive an electric vehicle, you’re likely to end up either on fire, or in a nightmarish traffic accident. But attitudes are changing
Inside the Labour grudge match
A hit job on Keir Starmer does no one any favours – but shows how the party’s old grievances have led to its failure in power
If your town became a volcano, would you ever go back?
Two years ago, it happened to the people of Grindavík in Iceland – and yet today, the lights flicker and the boats put out to sea
Israeli investors get a cold reception in Athens
The Greek capital has experienced an influx of Israeli investment in property – but the graffiti around town suggests severe local antipathy
Donald Trump takes on history – and loses
An attempt to remove the stories of Black GIs from a second world war cemetery in the Netherlands ran into stiff resistance
A letter to Donald Trump, from London
You don’t seem to like London very much, or our mayor. But people around here live longer than Americans, and we’re much less likely to get murdered. As for your Sharia law claims – have you ever actually been here?
How the Tories will put Farage in No 10
Reform needs a pact to reach Downing Street – and the Conservatives are desperate enough to hand it to them
An anti-Brexit majority of eight million
The British electorate are now overwhelmingly pro-remain. And yet the europhobes still argue the votes of the dead count for more than the views of the young
Why are we funding pathetic, vengeful Liz Truss to lie about Britain?
The failed PM gets £115,000 of taxpayer money per year to spread poison about the UK on her new online show
Trump’s new war on Europe
A new strategy statement from the US makes clear that America is imploding, and that its main enemies are not Russia or China but Europe’s democracies