The New World

President Donald Trump has announced a bold new approach to the USA’s energy crisis: sleep.

In his impassioned, promise-heavy speech to the Labour Party conference, Andy Burnham doubled down on his commitment to make housing a key priority.

PICK OF THE WEEK Digger (general release) In the third act of Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eighth feature film, the initially enigmatic Kenny (Jesse Plemons) makes a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it allusion to Neil Postman’s seminal work of cultural analysis, Amusing…

When authors publish a new novel, they tend to promote it at bookshop events amidst hastily assembled fold-out chairs, with perhaps the non-fiction table shoved temporarily to one side to accommodate the small but engaged audience.

Metaphors don’t come more obvious than the moment Mitch McConnell, the former Senate majority leader and one of the most consequential political figures in America, was wheeled in to congress after a mysterious three-month absence.

People love lists: this is a fact beyond dispute.

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative party, recently sat down for a pre-conference interview with the ConservativeHome website.

Much has been written in the past couple of days about Andy Burnham raising the prospect of a manifesto promise to hold a second Brexit referendum, or an outright pledge to rejoin the European Union.

Though it is true that all political careers ultimately end in failure, as the saying goes, those seeking to reach high office should also be careful not to peak too early.

A former student, referred to as Jane Doe to protect her anonymity, has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that she was drugged and gang-raped by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University.

The New Statesman continues to stagger on – with newly reported figures showing that the one-time “house organ of the Labour Party” remains, in terms of finances at least, as firmly in the red as ever.

Some writers look more like writers than other writers, and Patrick deWitt looks more writerly than most.

There was something different about this year’s Labour conference.

Come data centres rain on Slough, it isn’t fit for humans now.

Just how hard up are UKIP, the far right party which inexplicably still exists a decade after Nigel Farage cleared off, eventually to launch the Brexit Party then Reform?

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less,” said Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s novel Through the Looking-Glass.

Awkward times for Reform, who have discovered that even Sir Jim Ratcliffe – the Manchester United co-owner known for his intemperate attacks on immigrants – doesn’t want to be associated with them.

“Suicidal empathy” has been having a moment.

Bev Turner, GB News’s extremely well-remunerated woman in Washington, is coming home – just as the hard right channel reports another whopping loss.

The latest subject of the eternal culture wars engulfing the Conservatives, Reform and the right wing press in the absence of anything else going on is… Labradors.

I won’t lie; not all of the 500 editions of this magazine have been the wellsprings of optimism and hope we would have wanted them to be.

“Everything’s led to this,” said Tom Cruise, sitting down for a rare interview with GQ to publicise his new film, Digger – out on October 2, his first original, non-franchise role in years – an absurdist black comedy in which he plays the eccentric oil ma…

In the early months of 1919, the French painter Henri Matisse visited Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his friend living out his last days at Les Collettes, in Cagnes-sur-Mer, near Nice.

How does one extricate a historical account of a crime and all that led up to it from a biography of the perpetrator?

In Danny Boyle’s Ink, which opened the Venice Film Festival this year, Rupert Murdoch’s first Sun editor, Larry Lamb, is played by super dishy Jack O’Connell, 36, whereas the 58-year-old Guy Pearce plays Murdoch with stick-insect charm.

We think we know how the 1960s changed Britain: the Beatles, miniskirts, the World Cup and sexual intercourse in 1963.

It’s 36 degrees in Paris and, post-lunch, we’re Lime-biking back over the Seine towards our hotel, searching for the perfect jambon-beurre along the way.

“Have your best baby”, the company Nucleus Genomics advises.

Tim Bradford’s cartoon: If politicians were dogs

October 13, 1958 – October 2, 2018 Two girls are leafing through their father’s passport, sitting on the floor of his musty office, surrounded by old newspapers and magazines.

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Statement of Interest (Or ‘Nothing to See Here’)

People who work in academic linguistics are very aware that non-linguists are inclined to come up with fanciful, supposedly “common sense” explanations for linguistic phenomena which have no real basis in fact.

Modern Toss’s Tossary: Button clutterist

Suella Braverman, she would like us to know, is “not English”.

“Holidays are to be taken – and enjoyed,” declared the dictatorial memo from my employer decades ago.

“The Democrats are talking about how they’re working so hard to get millions of votes from Americans living overseas,” president Trump posted to his Truth Social platform on September 23, 2023.

Things feel very different for a Brit visiting Brussels these days.

At the party to celebrate our 100th edition, held in July 2018 on the rather grand terrace of the National Liberal Club overlooking the Thames, our dear late friend Bonnie Greer spoke about what was special about this curious title we had created together.

Imagine two hypothetical situations.

In Europe and North America, the initial outbreak of fascism is usually treated as a rupture or aberration that interrupted an otherwise progressive civilisational project based on liberal democracy and free markets.

There’s a new “rising star” on Italy’s political stage who’s more dangerous than Giorgia Meloni.

The bad blood between Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner, the Time Warner CEO, started during the 1983 Sydney to Hobart sailing race.

Re: “The decline of the Daily Mail” by James Ball, TNW #499 Here’s a great intellectual debate – did the Daily Mail drive the views of its readers, or did it reflect the views of its readers?

We won’t lie.

There was a moment, about 50 minutes into Andy Burnham’s first speech to the Labour Party Conference as its leader, when he simply stopped speaking.

The following is the transcript of a speech by Prime Minister Andy Burnham at the Labour Party Conference 2026 in Liverpool, September 29, 2026.

Time to puncture Reform’s bubble.

After Donald Trump tried to ban the media organisations he hates the most – CNN, MS NOW and Politico – from the White House, there was surprise when Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News joined other US broadcasters in a boycott.

Min Jin Lee admits to being a “slow processor” in an era of hot takes.

Was it not remarkable how quickly, and how vehemently, Nigel Farage and his Reform ragbag of MPs reacted to Andy Burnham’s announcement of a new National Centre for Information Defence – “to detect, attribute and disrupt hostile state information attacks.