Matt Kelly
25 October 2024
Next week… Feargal Sharkey guest edits The New European
The special issue will focus squarely on the appalling state of Britain’s waterways, the result of an absolute scandal of our times; the privatisation of the water companies
Read the full article23 October 2024
The story of Chris Kaba’s killing is now clearer. Except on the BBC News website
The weighting of a story about the Croydon man shot by police is all wrong
Read the full article08 July 2022
Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev: The questions that must still be answered
Another scandal over Boris Johnson's Premiership is simmering and threatens to boil over. And this time it's a matter of national security.
Read the full article27 June 2022
We’re hiring!
We're looking for an experienced commissioning editor to join the TNE team ... maybe it's you?
Read the full article20 June 2022
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Read the full article15 December 2021
The New European’s Person of The Year: Richard Ratcliffe
For those human qualities - bravery, loyalty, integrity, intelligence, sacrifice - he demonstrated in defiance of a political system in which those same qualities are so conspicuously absent.
Read the full article09 December 2021
Boris Johnson’s journalistic past is the root cause of his coming political demise
A career learning how to get away with it in UK newspapers was poor training for telling lies as a Prime Minister
Read the full article08 December 2021
Boris Johnson: Our part in his downfall. 25 New European front pages charting the career of Britain’s worst-ever PM
We had his number from the start. Here are the front pages that prove it
Read the full article08 December 2021
This week’s front page: An apology
Don't laugh. The sight of someone called Allegra laughing it up about cheese and wine on a day that 608 people were drawing their last breaths in UK hospitals from Coronavirus should make us all sick.
Read the full article02 December 2021
Where’s a Michael Heseltine when you really need one?
Hezza helped save Liverpool because he knew the point of power: Doing stuff, not just saying stuff.
Read the full article25 November 2021
Now we’ve all got buyer’s remorse
Bizarre events followed our publication of the “buyer’s remorse” story last week. Editor-in-chief MATT KELLY brings you up to speed.
Read the full article24 November 2021
Nadine Dorries will decide Channel 4’s future. She doesn’t even know how it’s funded.
10 November 2021
Boris Johnson is a coward in charge of a bunch of B-list politicians unworthy of us.
Talent in politics has never been so thin. The effects are manifest. When will people actually notice?
Read the full article02 November 2021
There are reasons to boycott Morrisons. Their daft anti-EU chicken label isn’t one of them
As Twitter goes full-on berserko over the "non-EU salt and pepper" crisis, the fact that shoppers and staff at the supermarket are about to be stuffed appears to have been forgotten
Read the full article25 October 2021
Dear Nadine Dorries, shut up.
The culture secretary's recent fury against the BBC’s Nick Robinson won't win her any favours with the public.
Read the full article11 October 2021
Book review: Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis. Something special to chew over.
A beautiful book about an extraordinary obsession with a piece of used chewing gum
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05 October 2021
It’s all THEIR fault! We have a government in denial and a nation in trouble
The PM has been wildly blaming others for the causes of the country’s crises. But this misdiagnosis only guarantees more pain.
Read the full article27 September 2021
They said calling the public stupid was wrong. Until the public started panic-buying petrol.
Get your story straight, chaps. Either the public is infallible .. or they're not.
Read the full article24 September 2021
The built-in middle-class media bias is bad for Britain
Why getting kids from poor backgrounds into journalism is a priority
Read the full article23 September 2021
The supermarket that won the Cold War
MATT KELLY on how the West triumphed over the Soviets in a campaign fought in the aisles and check-outs.
Read the full article22 September 2021
Doesn’t matter which side of the Brexit fence you sat on, it’s perfectly okay to be angry about Boris Johnson
Using the pandemic as a cover story for Britain's post-Brexit woes is contemptible
Read the full article13 September 2021
Sorry, but Emma Raducanu simply isn’t yours to parade as a good immigrant
Holding up this brilliant young player as an example of good, liberal immigration policies is dumb and dehumanising
Read the full article11 August 2021
Welcome to The New European’s new website
Since 2016, The New European's award-winning newspaper has been the torchbearer for pan-European comment and insight on how our continent can be a better place for all. Now we've got a website to match.
Read the full article28 April 2021
The moral of the story? Don’t make an approval-junkie lying journo the PM
21 April 2021
How this Liverpool fan came close to quitting over the European Super League
15 April 2021
PRINCE PHILIP: Why this Danish, Greek, German immigrant epitomised Britain
24 June 2020
Four years on, The New European will keep asking the questions that matter
08 August 2019
James O’Brien: It feels like Britain got what it deserved with Boris Johnson
