The New World

We open to a tight shot of a bird of prey, caged, staring into the camera lens as it bounces rhythmically against the flank of a horse in full gallop.

To some, she is the exalted Uberfrau of the right-wing cause: the all-American woman sent from heaven to defeat woke liberals with her large breasts.

His crypto chums may have just stumped up £72 million for his party but a new stock exchange filing reveals Reform leader Nigel Farage isn’t taking his eye off his own crypto dealmaking.

‘SPECIAL REPORT’, blazed the Mail on Sunday on July 5 this year, over the bylines of reporters Glen Owen and Eirian Jane Prosser.

Reform has long been very clear on one of its core policy commitments – to pull Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the court whose judgments are legally binding on its members.

On this much all reasonable people can surely agree: we cannot have black-uniformed mobs threatening to blockade port towns, or anywhere else for that matter.

Persevilience: The word the world needs now is the title of Alastair Campbell’s new book.

Might we be about to see the second coming of Liz Truss?

At least one of Reform’s megabucks donors isn’t enjoying the scrutiny which comes from handing tens of millions of pounds to a political party.

While much of the political world was fretting over the impact of two unaccountable crypto billionaires buying Reform for a total of £72 million, the right wing papers had no such qualms: it was unabashed great news.

We have an AI problem.

If Reform is allowed to keep its new £72m war chest of new donations, how much impact will it have on how people vote?

September 6, 2026 is a date that could mark a turning point in German history, of a similar order to November 9, 1989, the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

PICK OF THE WEEK The Bayeux Tapestry (British Museum, London, until July 11) Beholding the great embroidery – nine-and-half centuries after its creation and eight years since Emmanuel Macron first suggested it be loaned to this country – I understood fina…

Over the past couple of years, the Daily Telegraph has been very exercised about nepo babies – children of famous or wealthy people – who benefit from family connections to get ahead.

Donald Trump’s absurd plan to give every American adult a $5,000 cheque, so long as the Republicans triumph in November’s midterm elections, has been described as unprecedented.

If you’re prepared to waste hours for a pastry because TikTok told you to, you need to have a word with yourself.

What made Robert Jenrick complain about “suicidal empathy” in a Telegraph article about benefit reform?

For all the horrors of fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue, it used to provide something to the ordinary worker.

Twenty five years is perhaps the first major milestone at which an entire generation can have been born, raised and come of age in the time since an event.

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You know you have gone through the looking glass when MAGA’s former conspiracy-theorist-in-chief Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to be the grown-up in the room.

A number of figures on the hard right of British politics have been getting exercised this week by a photograph of a flag fluttering above Cardiff Castle.

Say what you like about the ancient Roman elite, but they made being rich sound fun.

It has taken the world 25 years to come full circle from the horror of 9/11.

Nothing I have read this year has infiltrated my thoughts as constantly as Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter.

“Britain is no longer a safe haven for women and girls,” announced Reform MP Sarah Pochin last August.

Just days after an anti-migrant protest erupted in Portsmouth following the arrival of a boat carrying migrants, a mob last night descended on a hotel in the city amid reports it was housing asylum seekers.

Welcome to the wonderful world of political non-donations So you’re in the age-old position of wanting to give Reform money but not wanting to give Reform money.

It is with some regret that Rats in a Sack has to report that one of the great political duos of our time has come to an end – Tim Montgomerie and Nigel Farage have gone their separate ways.

Tim Bradford’s cartoon: Bayeux Tapestry 2026

Martin Rowson’s cartoon: Ninja!

Swingers is one of the least sexy and most explicit podcasts I’ve ever listened to.

“TURNS OUT, YOU can just dress like that all the time if you want, and no one can actually stop you.

For various reasons that will become clear, this week’s column is devoted to the importance of books.

“Sometimes an intermission is part of the music,” Bill Evans’s mother (Laurie Metcalf) tells him.

Modern Toss’s Tossary: Spit riffling

You may have noticed during the men’s football World Cup in summer that the Spanish national anthem has no words.

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Unreading Age

In the acknowledgements to his 2013 novel An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris thanked his long-suffering wife for sharing a home over the years with “successive waves of Nazis, codebreakers, KGB men, hedge-fund managers, ghostwriters and assorted ancient…

The phrase “The end of history” is the one everyone links with Francis Fukuyama’s name, and thinks they understand on first hearing.

On June 16, 1943, a classically trained musician named Noor Inayat Khan arrived in occupied France to start life as a secret agent.

Being a particle physicist must sometimes feel like I imagine it feels to support certain football teams (hello, Spurs fans).

Re: “Is the future communist?”

The country’s financial collapse was inevitable: massive public spending, far outstripping income; excessively generous pensions; ineffective tax collection and government accounts, which could be interpreted as either inept or deliberately misleading.

More than 80 years since the end of the second world war and nearly 40 since the Wall came down, you’d expect the question of Raubkunst – Nazi-looted art – to be largely solved.

I’m working in the shop unpacking boxes when a very thin woman in black leggings and a Barbour jacket has her partner carry in five bin bags of clothes and rich-person accessories like diving-holiday duffel bags and a Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection tote.

Is artificial intelligence the 21st-century version of the dotcom crash?

“Give yourself the opportunity to enjoy an unforgettable experience with us!”

Looking out of a FlixBus window on the Moldova-Ukraine checkpoint, I see a blonde-haired girl dancing in front of her bemused mother.