Steve Anglesey
12 February 2025
Sergio Leone’s big dreams
A sumptuously illustrated book of interviews with the director reveals his extraordinary love of the monumental
Read the full article08 February 2025
Fixing Brexit can help Labour defeat Reform
If coupled with actual delivery of better arrangements with the EU, Reform’s weakness on Brexit is fertile ground
Read the full article30 January 2025
Five years after we left the EU, a damning poll shows up one crazy Brexit prediction
Rupert Lowe’s 2020 claim that "Remainers will disappear" now looks farcical as only 30% say we were right to leave
Read the full article25 January 2025
Brexit’s failure and Trump’s fury have turned the tide for the UK and EU
Two new polls show Britons are now firmly aligned with Europe, not the USA
Read the full article16 January 2025
Badenoch blows her chance to say something interesting about Brexit
The Tory leader’s big speech was long on waffle and light on content – and it gives Keir Starmer a free run at fixing their mess
Read the full article10 January 2025
Does this development mean Starmer is secretly planning to Rejoin?
Mark Francois has sounded the Brexit betrayal claxon over a big change at the Foreign Office
Read the full article03 January 2025
Wait until Elon Musk works out what’s really hurting investment in Britain
Brexit, not Keir Starmer’s policies, are causing a lack of confidence among investors
Read the full article21 December 2024
Reform shamed by their sick attempt to weaponise Magdeburg
Nigel Farage rushed to judgement again - and got it wrong again
Read the full article20 December 2024
Nigel Farage has just made his first huge mistake
Reform’s leader will regret his dalliance with Elon Musk – even if it nets him $100m
Read the full article18 December 2024
The big quiz of the year
Test yourself on what you remember about 2024
Read the full article12 December 2024
Five years after Get Brexit Done, Labour are starting to Get Brexit Gone
On the anniversary of Johnson’s landslide, the UK/EU thaw is beginning to bring results
Read the full article06 December 2024
How Barnier’s fall shows Farage is wrong about the NHS
Reform’s leader has been touting a French-style health system that is coming under increasing pressure
Read the full article28 November 2024
The net migration figures show how Brexit has failed
Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage won a referendum on the lie that leaving the EU would control immigration
Read the full article27 November 2024
Carsten Höller’s bored games
The German artist returns with a playful book that shakes things up by bringing the surreal into the everyday
Read the full article22 November 2024
Hard cheese: How Brexit made British cheesemakers miss out at awards
Red tape stopped up to 250 UK cheeses from making it to the judging in Portugal
Read the full article20 November 2024
Darkness on the edge of town
Two stunning exhibitions at the Helmut Newton Foundation celebrate the great photographer and the city he escaped from
Read the full article15 November 2024
Meet the Trump Brexiteer who thinks washing your hands is woke
Dominic Cummings has praised Pete Hegseth – but America's extremist future defence secretary could help push Britain back towards the EU
Read the full article09 November 2024
Trump gives Starmer an open goal on Brexit
If the prime minister doesn’t act now, chances are he never will
Read the full article06 November 2024
Small mercies: How to feel less depressed about Trump’s win
The news from across the Atlantic is brutal. But all is not quite lost
Read the full article05 November 2024
A special issue of the New European is coming this Friday
We’re on newsstands and through subscribers’ doors a day later than usual because of the US election
Read the full article02 November 2024
Is this the craziest defence of Brexit you’ve ever heard?
One Leaver says she’s still glad she voted for it... but there’s a good reason for that
Read the full article26 October 2024
How Boris Johnson pushed the Brexit irony meter into overdrive
Alanis Morissette would be proud of this list of disasters
Read the full article11 October 2024
Is Brexit really worth nine out of 10?
Boris Johnson sounded more unhinged than unleashed while defending his pet project
Read the full article05 October 2024
What about the giant hole in the roof, Keir?
A summit that avoids obvious solutions and kicks the can down the road instead? That sounds strangely familiar…
Read the full article27 September 2024
Gove’s Brexit lies pay off
Instead of being shamed and forgotten, the former Tory minister is quids-in as new editor of the Spectator
Read the full article21 September 2024
Reform’s conference was both dull and deranged
Covid conspiracies, rambling speeches and dog whistles expose Nigel Farage’s party as a deeply weird rabble
Read the full article20 September 2024
A final Brexit disaster from Lettuce Liz Truss
A Border Force blunder by the former PM is claimed to have cost Britain another £250m
Read the full article07 September 2024
Is Badenoch ditching Brexit?
The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it
Read the full article01 September 2024
Is this why Starmer is blocking Rejoin?
Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?
Read the full article27 August 2024
Sven: a football gent hammered by the press
The late Sven-Göran Eriksson faced scepticism and downright xenophobia from the British press but always remained a true gentleman of football
Read the full article25 August 2024
Look! Over there! Nigel Farage wants to talk about this instead of the riots!
Reform’s leader is keen to discuss a referendum on the ECHR instead. Surely it can’t be a distraction tactic?
Read the full article19 August 2024
The king is dead
The brilliant, troubling Alain Delon was at his most electric when doing nothing other than staring blankly back at us
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