The New World

The Right Way, a 100-page policy document produced by the Conservatives ahead of their party conference this week, was stark: at nigh-on £1 trillion, the UK’s route to achieving net zero carbon emissions was far too high.

“Trump may just have found his next Karoline Leavitt” ran a headline in the Daily Telegraph this week as the paper cheered one of the replacements for Donald Trump’s über-loyal former press secretary – a woman who would have gladly championed the slaughter

“If a man is enjoying your beauty, your youth, and your time, and isn’t providing anything for you, then he’s a gold digger.”

Self-styled US ‘war secretary’ Pete Hegseth, a heavy drinker in his pre-White House days to the extent that in early 2023 he got through three gin and tonics at a weekday breakfast meeting, continues to claim that he has given up alcohol.

The result of a by-election can often feel like an anticlimax.

The debate about joining the European Union is now a very real one – and the pro-Brexit media and its faux-academic experts are behaving with all the unhinged fervour you might have expected.

Voters don’t usually take kindly to being told what to do, especially when the government fails to offer any enticing alternatives to their existing behaviour.

This was it.

She has no diplomatic experience and doesn’t speak Greek – but Kimberly Guilfoyle is a former Fox News presenter and ex-fiancée of Donald Trump Jr, and in MAGA World that was enough to qualify her for the plum role of US ambassador to Greece.

When, two years ago, the BBC broadcast a documentary and published an article detailing allegations of sexual misconduct, misogyny and workplace bullying against PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband, it provoked a scandal.

Australia settled in to watch the Aussie rules football Grand Final on September 26 and a pre-match concert by Kylie Minogue – a week after three women were killed in what police euphemistically call “domestic violence-related incidents”.

They say local media is dying, but Bournemouth Daily Echo editor Toby Granville has found an ingenious way to keep his publication in the public eye: platform a far right vigilante group.

Since it was revealed that GB News’ youthful extremist Tom Harwood is being shipped off to replace Bev Turner in the channel’s Washington DC office, viewers have been biting their nails about which fresh-faced young man could possibly fill his shoes.

In the summer of 1996, Suella Braverman made her way to Heathfield School, in Pinner, to receive her GCSE results.

Social media influencer Alix Earle made headlines this week after declaring that she has never read a book.

A press notice at Conservative party conference grabbed headlines today, as it set out ambitious plans for a £10bn national defensive missile shield over Britain.

Is it me, or are we drowning in dicks?

Horror auteur Mike Flanagan, famous for a run of Netflix hits including The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Fall of the House of Usher, has made his much-anticipated jump to Prime Video with his adaptation of Stephen King’s Carri…

Why must it be so dull?

In her excellent podcast, The Courage to Speak, actor and impact coach Leonie Mellinger talks to people from the arts, sport, campaigning and politics to discover what it takes to dare to stand up for what you believe.

Every so often for the past several years now, the tech infosphere spawns another warning that internet security is about to be trashed by quantum computing.

Re: “You got us this far.

Donald Trump loathes the BBC.

Tim Bradford’s cartoon: Notes to the Voters from Labour Prime Ministers

In recent weeks I’ve had many messages from voice actors.

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Good News!

Modern Toss’s Tossary: Scumcestor

May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985 A Sunday evening in October 1938 and there is breaking news on the radio.

Lake Ontario is so wide that you can only see from one side to the other with difficulty.

The lanyards for the Labour and Tory Party conferences have arrived and are swinging hopefully from the fridge.

In the Autumn of 2024, a far right group appeared online calling itself Direct Action.

MEMO FROM THE OFFICE OF LEADER KEMI BADENOCH BCC: ALL STAFF, POLICY UNIT, CCHQ Everyone (and Minty!)

Last week’s Labour conference can easily be divided into two eras – Before and After.

I would love to reach a point where we no longer need Black History Month, where Black lives are so thoroughly woven into how Britain understands itself that setting aside October feels unnecessary.

Even if you’re not into football, bear with me.

Vladimir Putin this week announced an increase in Russia’s defence forces to just shy of 2.5 million personnel.

“Yes, yes!”

At 10am on Tuesday September 22, farmers across England logged on to a government website to get their share of £233m in environmental funding.

The Argentinian president, Javier Milei, was in a serious mood when he recently brought up the issue of the Falkland Islands.

Last weekend, 1800 self-selected and therefore completely unaccountable members of the Green Party of England and Wales decided to declare that Zionism equals racism.

When the death of Jeffrey Archer was announced on Monday night, most new organisations were careful to balance the best-selling author and former senior Tory’s achievements with his disgrace.

At a campaign rally on Monday night, the president of the United States set out perhaps the most innovative foreign policy suggestion ever proposed by a leader of the US – that a foreign power should be allowed to blow the place up.

Everyone hates Meta, right?

Over the past few months, this government has sometimes resembled one of those old disaster movies.

Milestones matter.

Andy Burnham should beware what he wishes for.

I was once asked, as a recent transplant to England, if I had any experience as an activist.

Young Joseph Boam is unaccountably still viewed as a rising star of Reform, despite being sacked as Leicestershire county council’s deputy leader for being hopeless, then posting “I STAND WITH ICE” on his X account following the fatal shooting of 37-year-…

The Financial Times’s weekly How To Spend It supplement, aimed at the very rich, is always an eye-popping read for those of lesser means – notably its celebrity Q&A feature, The Aesthete.

There is little shortage of complete arses and total bums in Reform – but one councillor has taken things too far.