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We rank 6 of the losers, fiends and bonkers Brexiteers of another crazy seven days on Planet Brexit 6. Peter Whittle The front runner to land the coveted title of UKIP leader (after successfully leading Chelsea to Premier League glory, previous leader Paul Nuttall is understood to be joining Barcelona), Whittle could yet change his […]

Ahead of the Lions rugby game, our Editor at Large considers patience, dreaming and winning the bigger fight – Brexit Forgive me if this is already out of date. I know some of you rush to the newsagent first thing Friday morning, so excited are you to get your hands on the one newspaper prepared […]

That’s 52 issues – not bad for a newspaper that was initially supposed to run for just four-weeks when we launched in July 2016. To celebrate our birthday, you can expect another great issue packed with news, Brexit analysis and brilliant features on art, culture, film and food. In this week’s issue: 1. Steve Richards […]

Where can I buy The New European? What stories are in the latest issue of The New European? https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/883257636589895680 The New European turned one this week – that’s 52 issues – despite initially only planning for a four-week run when we launched in July 2016. To celebrate our birthday, you can expect another great issue […]

Reactions and analysis from Question Time July 08 .

Britain’s media should fall into line and back Brexit – according to Liam Fox. Speaking in the House of Commons the International Trade Secretary said the BBC and other organisations preferred to see ‘Britain fail than see Brexit succeed’. But veteran Labour MP and Europhile Barry Sheerman hit back calling the attack ‘silly ‘ and […]

Europe’s chief negotiator has sent a stinging warning to Britain over Brexit and asked the question: ‘Why don’t you understand?’ Michel Barnier told a European Union committee Britain will not enjoy frictionless trade with former EU partners after Brexit and the full benefits of the single market will cease. He added that there will be […]

There is anger in the UK’s aerospace industry at the government’s dereliction of duty over such a thriving sector Some people go to Paris to buy beautiful clothes, others go to stock up on jets. There was some good news out of this month’s Paris Air Show for the British aerospace sector, with UK manufacturers […]

A poignant review of artist Khadija Saye who was among the victims of the Grenfell tragedy Khadija Saye, Sothiou 2017 – Credit: Archant The photographic prints of Khadija Saye have what can best be described as a kind of powerfully transgressive, tumultuous quiet. This is mixed with something spiritual, almost ritualistic. The Crowned explores the […]

We chart the rise of Corbyn from Labour leadership candidate to pulling in the crowds at Glastonbury Festival June 2015 Jeremy Corbyn secures a spot on the ballot paper to find a replacement for Ed Miliband as Labour leader just two minutes before the deadline closes. He reaches the threshold of nominations from MP thanks […]

Centrists are desperately hoping for the emergence of a Macron-like leader in the UK. It won’t happen, and wouldn’t work anyway Amongst a certain section of the liberal commentariat, an idea is starting to catch on. Dismayed to have ceded control of the Labour Party to an Jeremy Corbyn’s economically left wing faction and horrified […]

The Aesthetes were the men and women behind the world’s first youth cult ‘ The Toilette of Salome II ‘ – Aubrey Beardsley ‘s illustration for ‘ Salome ‘ (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) – Credit: Getty Images The Aesthetic Movement is the only British-born art movement to properly influence the whole world in almost […]

The Daily Express and Daily Mail battled hard to prise Britain from the EU – a year on they are still fighting ‘Thwart’ is not a headline word. It is ugly. It is quite hard to say. It isn’t a word people tend to use in general conversation. But in the months after the EU […]

If next week’s G20 summit in Hamburg were a political beauty pageant, Donald Trump, the man who owned the Miss Universe franchise for 20 years, would prefer to stay at home. But when you’re the President of the United States, and the most unpopular populist on the planet, that’s not an option. So Hamburg is […]

Jeremy Corbyn mocked Theresa May’s deal with the DUP during PMQs claiming she found £1 billion to save her own job yet was snubbing public sector workers. https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/882572733271482368 During a robust and tetchy clash at the dispatch box the Labour leader said: ‘The Prime Minister found £1 billion to keep her own job … why […]

When American rock met European art – a bizarre chapter in rock history to which countless other acts, from David Bowie onwards, owe a debt of gratitude. Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images As a solo act Alice Cooper is known as a golf-playing born-again Christian, a preacher’s son who played […]

From George Osborne at the Evening Standard to Ed Miliband at Radio 2, fallen politicians are finding new platforms. A poster criticising George Osborne’s position as the editor of the London Evening Standard outside the newspaper offices. – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images One of the features of the ITV election night was former chancellor, George […]

Never mind the Tour de France – we pick Europe’s 10 greatest cycle rides Tour de France (Robert Calin) – Credit: Archant Texel, Netherlands (Karsten Wurth) – Credit: Archant Tuscany (Rowan Heuvel) – Credit: Archant Luberon, Provence – Credit: Archant Paris, France (Willian West) – Credit: Archant Mayrhofen, Austria (Linas Barn) – Credit: Archant Electric […]

The flames might be out in Grenfell Tower but the pain is still searing – conspiracy theories have taken hold of the shell-shocked community The people of Grenfell Tower say that the bodies of the victims have been recovered. Only body parts are left in the wreckage now. But still they are baffled why the […]

The Royal College of Midwives believes the threat of leaving the EU is already damaging maternity services With Brexit talks now under way, the breezy promises made by the Leave campaign last year are beginning to be tested by cold, hard reality. One of those tests is the impact of Hard Brexit on the NHS. […]

A new Brexit Minister called for the European Union to be ‘torn down’ in a speech to a right-wing think tank. https://youtu.be/CjvE5GDxke0 Steve Baker told the Libertarian Alliance: ‘I think UKIP and the Better Off Out campaign lack ambition. I think the European Union needs to be wholly torn down.’ (03:37) He added that the […]

Trump is the person with no credentials who talks back to the PhDs, and the big journalists, and the pollsters who just don’t get it. He’s Mr Tell-It-Like-It-Is. Forget about ‘Left’ and ‘Right’. It’s all about ‘Kaboom!’ Take the last US Presidential election . How could Donald Trump, born a millionaire who then became a […]

Has Sunderland changed its mind on Brexit? We visit the city which led the charge for Leave and finds its still-burning rage is directed at cuts, rather than Brussels Children play in the back alley of their homes in Peterlee – Credit: Getty Images Do you remember the Mackem Roar? Not the noise made by […]

The only thing that might restore our standing is a leader who is prepared to say what needs to be done – changing our mind on Brexit – and then leading the country through that process. TNE Cartoons – Credit: Archant It is pretty remarkable the extent to which people in foreign countries – Trump’s […]

To oppose extremism, European Muslims must speak up and be heard by those in power Finsbury Park Mosque used to be a fixture on the front pages and bulletin headlines a few years back. The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 generously provided a pulpit for Abu Hamza, the ranting, zealous self-proclaimed imam of that […]

What led to the devastating loss of life at Grenfell Tower? A former Trading Standards professional examines where decisions made by cuts may have contributed to the causes of the fire. It would be no understatement to say that I am angry about the Grenfell Tower disaster. As each day passes and more information about […]

Labour risk alienating the party’s Remain-backing voters after shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth claimed there was ‘no appetite’ for a second Brexit referendum. In appears the party is now set to back a much harder form of Brexit in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn cementing his power at the top of the party after the […]

Career Brexiteer Boris Johnson backs Theresa May’s EU plan ‘100%’ despite claims he could welcome a softening on the Prime Minister’s ‘red lines’ for negotiations. It comes after Brexit Secretary David Davis’s former chief of staff James Chapman claimed May’s insistence on leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ‘hamstrung’ his […]

Less than two weeks after blowing £130 million on an election which served nobody’s interest but theirs, the Tories somehow laid hands on another BILLION. When you’ve been in the entertainment business since your early 20s (and your early 20s are a dim memory receding even more quickly than your hairline) you never know what […]

The Brexit vote has divided us in a new way between the Optimists and the Pessimists. Just to complicate things, both tendencies exist in both Remain and Leave. Now that they’ve finally started a year after David Cameron’s ill-fated referendum gamble, how have the Brexit negotiations been for you? I feel strangely relieved, as if […]

It doesn’t have to be this way Since the Coalition government took power in 2010, we’ve been told that austerity is a necessity rather than a choice. After the financial crash, drastic efforts were made to reduce public spending. The slashing of education, healthcare, social care, in-work and out-of-work benefits and transport – to name […]

We pick the most wrong and unstable Leavers of the week 10. HUGH WHITTOW The Daily Express editor was forced to remove a poll asking readers which way they would vote in a new referendum from his paper’s website after it began to show a clear majority for Remain. By the time the article disappeared, […]