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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 […]

It took me quarter of a century but this year, at long last, I managed to extract Britain from the EU. Hallelujah! I am guilty of gross exaggeration of course, but as a friend put it: ‘No Alan Sked no Ukip; no Ukip no referendum; no referendum no Brexit’. By deciding on my own in […]

‘The Premier League is a world league that just happens to be played on our shores. The clubs are owned by Russians, Chinese, Americans, the Middle East. The managers and players and TV audience come from all over. It’s no longer the English league full of British players that we grew up watching.’ To fans […]

It seems an absurd issue to be dominating discussion in the lead up to an election, but debates over swimwear and the role of the state in governing what individuals may wear are a barometer of a divided France. Although the country’s high court has now stuck down the so-called ‘burkini bans’, images of a […]

‘Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters.’ Those were the words of Hillary Clinton as she called out her Republican rival for the way his campaign is stirring up discord, division and hatred. His has been one characterised by the dog whistle effect – the way in […]

The Vote Leave campaign was without doubt the most cynical, opportunistic and dishonest political operation of my lifetime. The sickly concoction of invented statistics, warped facts and impossible promises was enough to make anyone feel queasy. Tragically, they won the referendum. But all that means is that pro-Europeans should redouble their efforts to hold these […]

Last month, Donald Trump named an unlikely new head for his presidential campaign: Stephen Bannon, executive chairman at the Breitbart News Network, which is probably best known as a leading voice of the dopey, oleaginous lump of outright neofascism and joking-but-not-really-joking meme-based irony that calls itself the alt-right. Breitbart’s website in the US is home […]

The Norway model – of life outside the EU – is one that excites many Brexiteers, and comforts many Remainers. But here, Anne Elizabeth Stie and Jarle Trondal, two of the country’s leading political experts, explain why the Nordic nation is on a path that may satisfy neither side – one that relegates its politicians […]

The London media recently converged on my home city of Sunderland, choosing it as the idea place to rake through the ashes of the post-Brexit fallout. After all, the city’s shock 61pc Leave result was the first real signifier that David Cameron’s gamble was about to seriously backfire. A couple of weeks ago, I inexplicably […]

It’s nine o’clock, family viewing primetime, and I’m watching a young woman bare her huge, surgically-enhanced breasts while she pole-dances for an enthralled roofer who we’re asked to believe is a rising star. He wasn’t before the current barrelscraping series of Celebrity Big Brother. But he is now. Call it the reality TV effect. Warhol […]

When William Hague became Foreign Secretary in 2010 he grandly announced that he would transform the Foreign and Commonwealth Office into a giant trade promotion bureau as the business of diplomacy would henceforth be business. Ambassadors who had turned their embassies into exhibition centres for British goods – the sight of a Range Rover in […]

The hottest book in America right now is a memoir by Silicon Valley executive J. D. Vance. It’s called: Hillbilly Elegy. It is the poignant and eye-opening memoir of a son of what are called in the US ‘white trash’; ‘rednecks’; ‘hillbillies’. They are the descendants of the Scotch/Irish-people who came to America as indentured […]

Aged 13 and newly converted to vegetarianism, the discovery of The Smiths’ album Meat is Murder was genuinely revelatory for me. It kickstarted a nearly 10-year-long obsession with Morrissey, the band’s charismatic and pugnacious lead singer – an obsession that carried on well into my early-20s. Until last year I continued to travel up and […]