The New World

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The Daily Star, publication of the Covid inquiry report might have reminded people, had a pretty good pandemic before delighting Britain with its Liz Truss lettuce.

There was a general agreement in the British press that one line from Prince Harry’s 40-minute interview with GQ was the story.

GB News is in no serious danger of picking up an award for journalism any time soon.

The great flaw in the government’s plan to tackle Britain’s spiralling NEET crisis — the young people not in education, employment or training — is that it seems to rest on a rather optimistic assumption.

Tim Bradford: Donald Trump Crazy Words Bingo

The video opens with a woman running away from an ICE enforcement officer, then cuts to a Black man called Pynk Beard.

Tickets for The Popinjay Cavalier, billed as “a swashbuckling comedy written by Quentin Tarantino” and now confirmed to be starring Sacha Baron Cohen, will go on sale soon before its West End opening in 2027.

Martin Rowson’s cartoon: Learn to throw your voice!

I was lucky enough to witness the group Holy Holy recently at Manchester’s Ritz.

The great literary love of DJ Taylor’s life is George Orwell.

Fifty years ago, Stephen Hawking published one of his most celebrated papers.

June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952 It was after 11pm in the Cocoanut Grove on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles on leap day 1940 when Bob Hope got up to speak.

I’ve spent many years collecting strange and obscure phrases from around the world.

To two of my favourite cities last week, Edinburgh and Dublin, and though the trips were for different reasons, a link emerged.

I didn’t know what to expect as I walked into the Institut Français last week, ready to spend a full six-hour day in its in-house cinema.

75,000 years ago a Neanderthal died a violent death.

Modern Toss’s Tossary: Commemorhea

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Sinking

Defence secretary Wes Streeting is down as a speaker on my UK politics panel at the wonderfully boutique Cliveden Literary Festival.

John Healey faces a ghastly dilemma, worsened by the fact that it is of his own making.

Re: “Trump’s snuff politics is a new low in American cruelty,” by Matthew d’Ancona, TNW #502 These people are acting in opposition to every step forward humanity has made.

Last week, India’s Supreme Court agreed to hear a simple demand made by an opposition politician: let someone independent check the voter list.

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For creatures of habit, the European Union must be a source of endless comfort.

A series of events in early October 2026 shook the parameters of the Trump-Putin-Zelensky triangle.

Before we are all engulfed by fevered speculation about the budget – what Saul Bellow called “crisis chatter” – let us draw breath and consider the idea that Andy Burnham has made the organising principle of his political offer: hope.

The moniker most commonly attached to me during my years in active political and government service was “spin doctor”.

My mother died suddenly in her 80s, and though I am glad she went without pain or even a full day’s illness, I will always regret that her death came so quickly that I did not see her in time to say all the things I think it is important to say before som…

The 37 buildings that make up the abandoned scam compound on the Cambodia-Vietnam border appear to have been ransacked.

Channel 4’s undercover investigation about the racist, misogynistic views of many senior Reform councillors was damning – but readers of Britain’s right wing media could be forgiven for either being totally ignorant of it or believing it was an establishm…

Chances are you didn’t read Liz Truss’s debut book Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons from the Only Conservative in the Room, published in April 2024.

Andy Burnham’s ambition to reset relations with Brussels comes at a significant moment.

Last month, Rats in a Sack exclusively revealed that GB News had quietly taken steps to expand its own operations – by branching out into music radio.

“Huge congratulations from everyone at Reform UK to Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott on their marriage yesterday,” posted the party on X at the weekend, celebrating their deputy leader getting hitched to its favourite journalist.

When Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was asked at a town hall meeting in Caro at the weekend whether he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, his answer could not have been any more unambiguous.

How goes Donald Trump’s war on democracy and free speech at home and abroad?

Back in 2019, then Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, double-jobbing as a presenter on cabbie’s favourite LBC, was delighted when a caller phoned in to thank him for his sterling work wrenching Britain out of the EU.

The BBC’s Newsnight has been on the wane for some time, its budget being slashed and its team of specialist correspondents axed as it pivoted to a late-night debate show.

I have just inhaled the fourth series of Blue Lights, the acclaimed, award-winning BBC police procedural drama set in Northern Ireland.

“This, gentlemen, is my profound conviction: I believe that we are at this moment sleeping on a volcano.”

After almost a week of buildup, ITV finally aired its 100-minute exposé Undercover: A Year in Reform on Sunday evening.

When in late 1966, LIFE magazine photo-journalist Chuck Rapoport all but imposed himself upon the colliery village of Aberfan as it began the agonising shift from shock to grief in the aftermath of losing a generation of its children to industrial disaste…

Jim O’Neill is the former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, former Tory peer and up until recently was an economic advisor to prime minister Andy Burnham.

PICK OF THE WEEK Signs from the Future by Slavoj Žižek (Bloomsbury Academic) “To know what to do today, we must learn to read signs from the future”: thus does the great Slovenian philosopher, critic and theorist frame his latest collection of essays on e…

Just under a year ago Brazil’s former president, the radical right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, was jailed after trying to burn off his ankle monitor with a soldering iron.

To anyone not paying close attention, the announcement of a new vaccine trial in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau sounds like it must be a rare piece of good news against an often-bleak backdrop.

There’s a scene in Blue Velvet when Jeffrey and Sandy are walking down the street late one evening in the small, quiet town of Lumberton.

ITV’s undercover investigation into racism and sexism has led to the resignations and suspensions of a number of Reform councillors – but even before that, the party hit a notable milestone this week.

It is with much regret that Rats in a Sack must announce that it has happened again – the mainstream media has smeared Reform by filming things which senior members have said and then playing them out on television.