Macron wobbles on the tightrope
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/tom-parry-macron-the-true-radical/
Published: September 7, 2024 23:00
He was the future once, but now French voters are heading for the extremes
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You can get by without this revival of The Real Thing
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/you-can-get-by-without-this-revival-of-the-real-thing/
Published: September 7, 2024 23:00
Tom Stoppard’s play now seems irredeemably dated
It’s time to build jails
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-labour-its-time-to-build-jails/
Published: September 7, 2024 07:14
Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so
Is Badenoch ditching Brexit?
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/is-badenoch-ditching-brexit/
Published: September 6, 2024 23:00
The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it
At last, truth in the Commons over Brexit
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/jonty-bloom-at-last-truth-in-the-commons-over-brexit/
Published: September 6, 2024 23:00
Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point
Michel Barnier: a Macronic miscalculation
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/marie-le-conte-michel-barnier-a-macronic-miscalculation/
Published: September 5, 2024 15:15
The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure
Rats in a Sack: The mystery of Robert Jenrick’s baseball cap
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rats-in-a-sack-the-mystery-of-robert-jenricks-baseball-cap/
Published: September 4, 2024 23:00
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Jonathan Gullis, Mel Stride and more
PMQs Review: Starmer’s honeymoon is over, after one and a fifth Liz Trusses
Published: September 4, 2024 13:51
There were difficult questions today for the prime minister, even if Keir Starmer kept forgetting who that was
Killed by greed and deregulation
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/grenfell-tower-killed-by-greed-and-deregulation/
Published: September 4, 2024 11:26
The Grenfell inquiry report is damning and heartbreaking
Tugendhat would be the least worst Tory leader
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/jonty-bloom-tugendhat-would-be-the-least-worst-tory-leader/
Published: September 4, 2024 08:55
… And that’s why he almost certainly has no chance as the Conservatives start voting
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Slow Horses is the perfect spy thriller for Brexit Britain
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s streaming, cinema and books
Framing Starmer
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/framing-starmer-steve-richards/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher
Fathoming the mysteries of the Palio
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/fathoming-the-mysteries-of-the-palio/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round
Multicultural Man: On coping with grief
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/will-self-on-coping-with-grief/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
For secular people, death places the sort of minor inconveniences which, for the most part, irradiate our mundane lives, in a savage sort of proportion
Day trips to hell
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/day-trips-to-hell/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
What is behind the rise in Spain of dark tourism, the trend for visiting places associated with tragedy?
Slovakia’s summer of protests and politics
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/slovakias-summer-of-protests-and-politics/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
The country has seen months of increasing political tensions paired with rising temperatures
Mind your Ps and Ts
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/mind-your-ps-and-ts/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
What do you get when you mix Ancient Greek with Scottish Gaelic? An almost flightless mountain bird
Everyday philosophy: The thinking behind Starmer’s smoking ban
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/everyday-philosophy-the-thinking-behind-starmers-smoking-ban/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed
How the Express keeps on digging
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-the-express-keeps-on-digging-liz-gerard/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration
Trump’s holy war
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/trumps-holy-war-matthew-dancona/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
The Republican presidential nominee has claimed to have divine protection – but there is a violent threat behind his ‘God whistles’
Britain: Unarmed and dangerous
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/britain-unarmed-and-dangerous-luke-mcgee/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them
A problem like Maria
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/a-problem-like-maria/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival
Reeves needs to be a bit braver with her accounts
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting
Spending time with the oatmilk elite in Brussels
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/spending-time-with-the-oatmilk-elite-in-brussels/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Without a dominant culture, it appears everyone can fit in in Brussels
Lie of the week: “Labour promised to keep energy prices frozen.”
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/lie-of-the-week-labour-promised-to-keep-energy-prices-frozen/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Josh Barrie on food: Kouign-amann is the best thing since sliced bread
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
There are some foods that work to a near-unfathomable degree. This is that: a total, unadulterated masterstroke of a lunch
Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: On Hold
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/nic-auburys-4-line-poem-on-hold/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
How to build Scotland’s new government
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-to-build-scotlands-new-government/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down
Plinths of darkness
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/plinths-of-darkness/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history
Elisabeth of Austria: The idiosyncratic empress entirely unsuited to the role
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/empress-elisabeth-of-austria-great-european-lives/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
One of the first women of celebrity in the modern sense of the word, Elisabeth of Austria was a gifted, vibrant woman imprisoned by contemporary etiquette
The promise Starmer should have broken
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-promise-starmer-should-have-broken-james-ball/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union
Dilettante: The joyful nostalgia of band reunions
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/dilettante-the-joyful-nostalgia-of-band-reunions/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
I may not be a fan of Oasis, but people’s excitement about their reunion is infectious
Alastair Campbell’s diary: Scottish independence has lost its salience
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
The issue was conspicuously absent from speeches at the SNP conference
A memorial and a shrine in Spain
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/a-memorial-and-a-shrine-in-spain/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo
Critical Mass: Will there ever be a nuclear fusion breakthrough?
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/critical-mass-on-nuclear-fusion-philip-ball/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Fusion won’t arrive soon enough to solve global warming but it could become a commercial reality in the second half of the century
Letters: Let’s hope Putin’s pride comes before a fall
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/letters-lets-hope-putins-pride-comes-before-a-fall/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
The idea of a Trump victory that forces Ukraine to settle with Putin is too vile to contemplate
The case for land tax
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-case-for-land-tax-jonty-bloom/
Published: September 3, 2024 23:00
Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up
Cartoon: Is everyone going to see Oasis?
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/tim-bradford-cartoon-is-everyone-going-to-see-oasis/
Published: September 3, 2024 08:52
It’s time for Mandrake to say goodbye
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/its-time-for-mandrake-to-say-goodbye/
Published: September 2, 2024 23:00
After 25 years, our diarist lays to rest the nation’s most feared and revered diary column
The online threat is real and existential
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-online-threat-is-real-and-existential/
Published: September 2, 2024 23:00
Unless we act now, it will be used in the destruction of our democracy
Germansplaining: What’s behind AfD’s election surge?
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/tanit-koch-germansplaining-whats-behind-afds-election-surge/
Published: September 2, 2024 10:32
German voters are not becoming extremists. They are just fed up
It’s time for a progressive alliance on electoral reform
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/its-time-for-a-progressive-alliance-on-electoral-reform/
Published: September 1, 2024 23:00
Labour should work with the Lib Dems and Greens to help stop polarisation and public apathy
Labour’s new smoking ban is cliched nannyism
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/labours-new-smoking-ban-is-cliched-nannyism/
Published: August 31, 2024 23:00
There is no good reason for banning cigarettes outside pubs while allowing them on the pavement next door
Is this why Starmer is blocking Rejoin?
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/is-this-why-starmer-is-blocking-rejoin/
Published: August 31, 2024 23:00
Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?
Closing Time gives you hope for theatre’s future
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/closing-time-gives-you-hope-for-theatres-future/
Published: August 31, 2024 23:00
The third Death of England play is funny and dazzling.. even watching its audience is a joy