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How well would you fare driving around Europe? Put your knowledge of European road signs to the test with this mulitple choice quiz

Hollie McNish is a poet based between London, Cambridge and Glasgow. She has two poetry collections, Cherry Pie and Papers, and an album, Versus. In 2016, Blackfriars published Nobody Told Me. In 2017, Picador will publish her third poetry collection, as yet untitled. Her work is currently being featured on television as part of a […]

The best European TV series you can watch on the small screen right now – Walter Iuzzolino picks the 6 essential European dramas available to stream now https://twitter.com/WalterPresents/status/785410829474758656 We live in the golden age of serial scripted TV: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, House of Cards… the most compelling and beautifully crafted stories of recent times […]

Already firm favourites with board game geeks across Europe, we pick 5 of the best board games guaranteed to make you obsessed with table-top-gaming https://www.instagram.com/p/BEl3AEMSJHD/ CATAN (Klaus Teuber, 1995) Arguably the Citizen Kane of board-games, The Settlers Of Catan proved that the table-top experience could be enjoyable and positive for all players, regardless of whether […]

MPs should stop being so timid, they have a duty to seek a reverse of direction, whatever happened in June’s referendum, says Steve Richards https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/787005271688306688?lang=en What is astonishing is not how little we know about what Brexit will mean but how much. What we know is bleak. Already we have discovered how market sensitive the […]

In this authoritative essay, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock outlines six tests the Government must pass, to avoid a disastrous Brexit – and delivers some harsh truths to his own party If everything goes according to Theresa May’s plan, Britain will leave the European Union in less than 30 months. The British people have voted and, […]

Look who’s rattled now! Matt Kelly calls out the lies and hyperbole of the Brexit big names Hate crimes to rise by 41%according to new Home Office figures – Credit: Archant The opening sentence of David Davis’ statement to the House of Commons this week contained three falsehoods. Not bad for a sentence just 14 […]

It was only a mumble during the debate, but it spoke volumes about what Donald Trump knew he could get away with in the current political climate: ‘That makes me smart,’ he’d said. Hillary Clinton had just hit him with what seemed like a zinger about tax. Evidence suggested he wasn’t paying what he should. […]

The leader of the Liberal Democrats answered your questions in a Q&A session in Norwich. Tim Farron took part in a debate at Archant’s headquarters in Norwich, where the pop-up newspaper The New European is being published. The event follows Archant’s question and answer events with former prime minister David Cameron, and leading Brexit campaigner […]

Don’t believe the doom mongers. London clubland is in rude health, 
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for it XOYO, London – Credit: Archant British clubbing is world famous. For decades thousands have flocked from around Europe to visit London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and beyond to experience our nation’s unrivalled penchant for hedonism. Make no […]

London nightlife may have taken a hit with Fabric’s closure, but after-hours clubbing in London does still exist – here are 8 dance music clubs that celebrate electronic music and warehouse party raving London clubland – Credit: Archant XOYO 32-37 Cowper Street, London EC2A 4AP XOYO’s residents, including Heidi, Scuba and Oneman, are each invited […]

Jack Monroe shares her Polski sklep shopping list and favourite Polish recipes The first time I noticed my local Polski Sklep was in 2013, in Southend-on-Sea. I was a local paper journalist, sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a small bedroom that I ate, worked and slept in, with my son occupying the […]

Jack Monroe shares her recipe for Polish stuffed potato dumplings Ingredients 200g mushrooms 200g sauerkraut 30g butter 200g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting few pinches of salt 1 tbsp vegetable oil 120ml warm water Method 1. first sift the flour into a mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle. add the salt, oil […]

Try Jack Monroe’s take on the classic Polish soup, packed with beetroot, greens and crunchy cucumber Ingredients 3 beetroots 500ml water A stock cube (chicken, fish, beef and an egg) 2 free range eggs Cucumber Half a small onion 100 ml natural yoghurt Method 1. Slice the tops off your beetroot and the leaves if […]

Our newspapers have decided that celebrities should be seen and not heard, says Liz Gerard Freedom of speech is to be cherished. If someone wants to tell all about their three-in-a-bed experience with a celebrity, they should be allowed to – regardless of any consequences for the celebrity’s children. So say the Mail, Sun, Telegraph, […]

You don’t need to listen to Clinton and Trump debate one another. All you need to know, you can learn from their body language, Bonnie Greer writes I knew right away that the best way to watch the debate between former First Lady, former two-term Senator from New York and former Secretary of State Hillary […]

48 essential European sayings that all citizens of nowhere will love Finnish: ‘Let me show you where a chicken pees from’ (Let me show you how it’s done) Icelandic: ‘I’ve got a fly in my head’ (I’ve had an idea) Italian: ‘You wanted the bike, now ride it’ (The Italian version of ‘you’ve made your […]

The Scottish position post-Brexit remains very different from that of Westminster, but no less confused, says Maurice Smith Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has adopted a new twin-track approach to the coming Brexit negotiations, urging Prime Minister Theresa May to stick to the promise of full consultation as she prepares to engage the European Union […]

We are seen as a cold-hearted country not pulling our weight, says leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron I am proud of my country. But I hate it when my government makes me ashamed. So it made my blood boil to see Theresa May at the UN refugee summit in New York, refusing to […]

PR guru Mike Hind went viral with a blog post on the Remain campaign’s failings. Now he’s canvassed the industry on how to win over the 52% in the long battle ahead ‘You lost. Get over it. The people have spoken and we voted to LEAVE. That’s democracy.’ ‘Ah, but the people are stupid and […]

A poisonous smokescreen is being put up around the democratic debate in the aftermath of the referendum. This smokescreen is a nasty attempt to divert attention away from the fact that the referendum – a vote contrived to unite a divided Tory party – has instead left the entire nation divided. At a time of […]

It’s the world of news where VR has, perhaps, the capacity to make the greatest impact, says Editor of The New European, Matt Kelly It’s not just the world of gaming that has the potential to be turned upside down by virtual reality technology. Innovators in the fields of sports broadcasting – watch the game […]

Our trust in government is eroding, says Parmy Olson We view our government with healthy scepticism. We have a vigorous press, with more than a good handful of newspapers competing with one another to skewer the latest politician for misspeaking or (as recent events have suggested) cavorting with a couple of rent boys. That this […]

The ex-pat family who have taken the ultimate step, but becoming French citizens hasn’t been easy, admits Howard Johnson. I came face to face with the man trying to wreck my life – the man who ultimately made me want to become French – on May 16 this year. I know the date because it […]

Student bodies are carving out small but significant spaces in which nobody is automatically entitled to a stage on which to trumpet their views – even if this upsets and offends them. Student activists are under fire for curtailing freedom of speech at our universities. Highbrow papers sternly warn of a generation of ‘snowflake students’ […]

So Jeremy Corbyn was, entirely un-unexpectedly, re-elected leader of the Labour Party and was feted (and immortalised in verse) by an adoring membership in my old hometown of Liverpool. Like most politically unaffiliated liberal intellectual smart-arses, I am unsure how I feel about this. The major objection one encounters to The Corbyn Project is his […]

Universities have much to gain from membership of the European Union and precious little to look forward to as a result of Brexit, says Martin McQuillan https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/781146810563829760 University Vice Chancellors are not by nature an outspoken bunch. When it comes to government policy they tend not to voice their concerns in public. Rather, they prefer […]

Never mind the politics of migration, Bonnie Greer gives a deeply personal reflection of the hope and promise it represents 4/16/1944-Italy: Sgt. Charles Glasco, Westchester, PA (l) and Sgt. Audrey Barnes, Chicago, IL, read mail from home in their cave shelters on the Anzio beachhead in Italy. The cave shelters are a refuge against enemy […]

In the wake of the Sam Allardyce scandal, we take a look back at 48 moments of football manager madness 1) Christoph Daum – Germany (almost) 2000. Daum was tipped to become manager of the German national team – until press reports he had engaged in cocaine-fuelled 48 times football managers made you question their […]

Put Cate Blanchett and Keira Knightley together and you can bet the tabloids will be there. Add Kit Harington and Chiwetel Ejiofor in a one-off video special and it becomes irresistible. https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/777834732667232256 Unless they are calling for more compassion in the treatment of refugees. The four stars have been filmed reading a poem to support […]

Looking at this tweet which just went out the other day, I was reminded of that undoubtedly hot night just this past August in Mississippi, when Nigel Farage strode out on to the stage of a Donald Trump rally. https://twitter.com/prweekuknews/status/775295684178247680 This was one of modern politics’ most beautifully symmetrical moments. Here they were – the […]

It seems to me that certain Brexit supporters presume that they have first dibs on patriotism: an automatic unchallenged monopoly when it comes to being proud to be British; to feeling, as the dictionary definition has it, ‘vigorous support for one’s country’? https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/777984435568476160 In some quarters, this is commonly even unthinkingly accepted as hard incontrovertible […]