The New World

When Donald Trump banned three outlets – CNN, Politico and MS Now – from covering the White House for reasons he is yet to articulate, the rest of the broadcast news media was quick to swing behind them in a rare show of solidarity.

Whatever happened to Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Deacon?

George Galloway has thrown his ubiquitous hat into the ring for next month’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election – although residents of the constituency shouldn’t expect a knock on the door from him any time soon.

With the Liberal Democrat conference seeing the first public airings of long-bubbling concerns about Ed Davey’s leadership among frustrated footsoldiers, the question lurks: who might succeed him?

American politics loves a bogeyman.

You might not have noticed, but we are now at the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Global Financial Crisis.

Lauren Boebert, Republican Congresswoman for Colorado and ardent Trump supporter, is one of Capitol Hill’s most vocal advocates of family values, frowning at the peccadilloes of colleagues and this summer attacking Major League Baseball for being “gay”.

Tim McNally, chairman of Piddington Parish Council, has become a star of global media over the past week after his tiny village voted in a referendum to leave the UK in protest at plans to move 1,250 asylum seekers into a disused Ministry of Defence site…

“Dear viewer, I know you are wonderful, clever people and will remain loyal to GB News,” said Jacob Rees-Mogg on Friday night, staring down the barrel of the camera to those watching his State of the Nation show.

The conditions look ideal for the Democrats to win big in America’s mid-term elections.

Odd, now, to watch Tess Daly announce the winners of the first series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004.

When the most milquetoast man in the artistic universe ends up in the middle of a political shitstorm, you know things have gone badly wrong.

In the strange interregnum between the completion and publication of a book, a writer runs a gamut of heightened emotions.

PICK OF THE WEEK Slow Horses (Apple TV) Spooks now occupy the commanding heights of British culture.

All documentaries are fake to a greater or lesser extent.

Film festivals have become battlegrounds of political discourse.

Who will be the new leader of Reform in Wales after a week in Cardiff Bay chaotic even by that party’s standards?

Liz Truss this week declared an interest in running for office once more – but until that day comes she’s happily not short of a few quid thanks to her mayfly-like period as prime minister.

For the Kremlin, the ritual of Russia’s upcoming parliamentary elections sends a message: despite years of crushing sanctions and battlefield losses, business continues as usual.

When is a member of something not a member?

The Trump administration operates largely devoid of a sense of irony.

It really is a shame that there’s no obvious equivalent for “be careful what you wish for” in French, as my brain cried out for one earlier today.

Cancel the babysitter: the live event of 2027 has been cancelled almost as soon as it was announced.

When, in 2002, Theresa May told the Conservatives they were increasingly viewed by the public as “the nasty party”, it was as a warning.

Writing about her fellow Chicagoan James Baldwin in one of the many fine columns she wrote for this magazine over many years, Bonnie Greer said this: “There is in him, too, this driving, passionate, urgent search: for our common humanity.

Before we boarded Air Force One for the flight back to Washington, Trump ambled over from his limousine, “The Beast”, to talk to us under the wing of the plane.

Donald Trump flew to Ireland in his Qatari gifted Air Force One to attend the Irish Open at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Co.

Good news – if you or anyone you know has ever engaged in acts of bestiality, you are not prevented from joining the ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Donald Trump Jr’s father could not, for matters of vital national interest, be at his wedding when he got hitched on a luxurious private island in the Bahamas earlier this year.

Alex Gibney is at the centre of a storm.

Sculpted from more than 30 hours of long-forgotten Betamax video footage, the behind-the-scenes documentary Queer Edward II graced the Venice Film Festival last week, exactly 35 years after the very film it chronicles swanned on to the Lido.

In the autumn of 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his cluttered London lab after a long summer holiday.

A plume of chimney smoke curls up elegantly into the still evening air.

November 7, 1927 – September 19, 2013 The giggling in the Nintendo offices stopped suddenly when Hiroshi Yamauchi walked in to see one of his employees using a mechanical hand to grab objects from a colleague’s desk.

The name of Camelot has come down to us as the appellation of the legendary seat of the equally legendary court of King Arthur.

Obviously, you know there is a lot that happens in Westminster that never makes it out of the political bubble.

Modern Toss’s Tossary: Network shit-throbber

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: New English Patriots

Martin Rowson’s cartoon: LADS!!

Tim Bradford’s cartoon: The War on Ed Miliband

You would imagine that the people who came to an event to launch a book about the war in Ukraine, at which I interviewed the author, would in the main be politically engaged and well-informed.

Send for the electricians!

The philosopher Slavoj Žižek is sitting in the heat of the hottest Italian summer calling the director of the new documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias “a fucking bitch”.

In her book Prophecy, Carissa Véliz argues that predictions about the future, particularly in the area of AI, are rarely neutral: they are often ways of nudging us towards a desired course of action.

Re: “As I was saying to George Clooney just the other day,” by Emily Maitlis, TNW #497 So pleased to see some more diversity among TNW’s writers.

Last week, “President” Donald J Trump promised a Republican convention that every American adult would receive $5,000 if the Republicans win November’s mid-terms, a plan that is as uncontroversially legal as it is definitely real.

The British Nigerian writer Chidera Eggerue, more popularly known as “The Slumflower”, has gone viral many times over the last decade for her contentious dating advice for straight people.

A tiny remote community in north-east Greenland is blocking a potentially huge oil project.

Poor old Vladimir Vladimirovich.

In its mysterious wisdom, the sovereign of Sachsen-Anhalt has spoken.