News Europe News Opinion Arts & Culture Subscribe Podcasts

The English language's U-turn

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1874

Language | Opinion

Peter Trudgill

Author Picture Icon
How English, having spread one way around the world, suddenly reversed direction
First Minister and SNP party leader Nicola Sturgeon delivers a speech

Reader Letters | Opinion

Why can't the English see what the Scots and Welsh can?

Reader Letters

Author Picture Icon
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive to cast their vote

Reader Letters | Opinion

Labour should never have swallowed the Brexit pill

Reader Letters

Author Picture Icon
Astronaut Sergei Krikalev Returns to Earth (Photo by Georges DeKeerle/Sygma via Getty Images)

Arts & Culture | Opinion

The man the Soviet Union left in space

Mick O'Hare

Logo Icon
Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves

Labour Party

Rachel Reeves promoted to shadow chancellor in Labour reshuffle

Jonathon Read

Author Picture Icon
The New European's podcast is available every Friday morning

Podcast

Podcast: The Jersey stand-off, Labour woes and the DUP election

The New European

Logo Icon
A fishing boat in the harbour at St Helier, on the Channel Island of Jersey

Reader Letters | Opinion

Brexiteers overplayed their hand trying to take back control of waters

Reader Letters

Author Picture Icon
Pencil Slot Ad December 2020 - Desktop and Mobile
Boris Johnson, Gisela Stuart and Douglas Carswell address the people of Stafford in Market Square during the Vote Leave...

Rejoin | Opinion

Election results demonstrate why rejoining EU is a long way off

Reader Letters

Author Picture Icon
Cabinet secretary Simon Case walks through Westminster

Brexit | Opinion

How the civil service is trying to take back control after Brexit

Lionel Barber

Author Picture Icon

Become a Supporter

The New European is proud of its journalism and we hope you are proud of it too. We believe our voice is important - both in representing the pro-EU perspective and also to help rebalance the right wing extremes of much of the UK national press. If you value what we are doing, you can help us by making a contribution to the cost of our journalism.

Become a Supporter
ALBA party leader Alex Salmond in Ellon as votes continue to be counted for the Scottish Parliamentary Elections

Alba Party

Alex Salmond fails in bid to return as an MSP

The New European

Logo Icon
Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, of The Goon Show in the early 1950s

Arts & Culture | Opinion

The mental health turmoil behind The Goon Show

Benjamin Ivry

Logo Icon
Keir Starmer (right) with Labour's Metro Mayor Andy Burnham and deputy leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner

Reader Letters | Opinion

Labour loyalists need to let Keir Starmer get on with the job

Reader Letters

Author Picture Icon
Albert Camus, on a visit to London in 1952

Arts & Culture | Opinion

The decline of French intellectualism

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Logo Icon
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) and French president Emmanuel Macron watch a flypast of the Red

Brexit

UK to increase diplomatic efforts with France over Brexit fishing rights

Adrian Zorzut

Author Picture Icon
Jonathon Seed

Local Elections 2021

Conservative PCC candidate disbarred after driving offence emerges

The New European

Logo Icon
David Cameron outside Downing Street

Local Elections 2021

Labour gain seat from Tories in David Cameron's backyard

Jonathon Read

Author Picture Icon
Labour's Tracy Brabin during the count for the West Yorkshire Mayoral election in Leeds

Local Elections 2021

Labour MP Tracy Brabin elected as first West Yorkshire mayor

The New European

Logo Icon

Latest Brexit News

UK to increase diplomatic efforts with France over Brexit fishing rights

Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) and French president Emmanuel Macron watch a flypast of the Red

Adrian Zorzut

Author Picture Icon
Diplomatic efforts with France will be stepped up to prevent a repeat of the Jersey fishing dispute.
Cabinet secretary Simon Case walks through Westminster

How the civil service is trying to take back control after Brexit

Lionel Barber

Author Picture Icon
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (right) welcomes US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken (left), arrivi

US secretary of state says US-UK free trade deal will take ‘some time’...

Adrian Zorzut

Author Picture Icon
(left to right) ERG members Owen Paterson, Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis, Mark Francois and Steve Baker in Whitehall

Post-Brexit EU worker exodus hits restaurants and pubs

Steve Anglesey

Author Picture Icon
EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier walks back to his hotel in Westminster after leaving meetings o

Brexit talks with Britain were plagued by 'Tory quarrels and low blows',...

Adrian Zorzut

Author Picture Icon
Read More
The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Willem van der Meer in Delft

Arts & Culture | Opinion

Scents and sensibility: Art you can smell

Richard Holledge

person
A German flag is flown in a sports stadium

Language | Opinion

How equality is changing the German language

Tanit Koch

Author Picture Icon
Boris Johnson on his mobile phone, while mayor of London, in 2009

Opinion | Opinion

Why Boris Johnson's phone habits should ring alarm bells

Alastair Campbell

Author Picture Icon
Son Heung-Min of Tottenham Hotspur is consoled by Ilkay Gündogan and Phil Foden

Football | Opinion

The photograph that shows football is about more than just money

Rob Hughes

Author Picture Icon
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme, The Andrew Marr Show

Michael Gove

Lack of SNP majority shows Scotland is not agitating for indyref2 – Gove

The New European

Logo Icon
Labour's Dan Norris celebrating with his dog Angel after being elected West of England mayor

Local Elections 2021

Labour dominates mayoral elections with 10 wins in 12 contests declared...

The New European

Logo Icon
Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer works on a train as he travels across England

Sunday Shows

Keir Starmer to carry out Labour reshuffle after election fallout

The New European

Logo Icon
A man watches mass cremations in a disused granite quarry repurposed to cremate the Covid dead in Bengaluru, India

Coronavirus | Opinion

The cynical case for aid that even our cynical leaders can't seem to grasp

James Ball

Author Picture Icon

Most Read

San Cristobal de las Casas. Mexico. Central America. America. (Photo by: Riccardo Lombardo/REDA&CO/U

Arts & Culture | Opinion

Could Mexican Coke spark a new Coca-Cola cold war?

Will Self

Author Picture Icon
Dense crowds in the customs hall at Heathrow

Coronavirus | Opinion

A view from inside the Heathrow petri dish

Geoff McDonald

Logo Icon
Labour's Sadiq Khan arriving at City Hall, London, for the declaration of Mayor of London

Local Elections 2021

Sadiq Khan re-elected as London mayor as Laurence Fox loses £10k deposit

Jonathon Read

Author Picture Icon
Astronaut Sergei Krikalev Returns to Earth (Photo by Georges DeKeerle/Sygma via Getty Images)

Arts & Culture | Opinion

The man the Soviet Union left in space

Mick O'Hare

Logo Icon

Don't Miss

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov

Elections | Opinion

Is the end finally nigh for EU's most notorious leader?

Paul Knott

Author Picture Icon
Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Jacksons Wharf in Hartlepool, County Durham

Reader Letters | Opinion

Boris Johnson is making the UK a laughing stock

Reader Letters

Author Picture Icon
Michael Gove, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, arrives in D

Mandrake

The reverse Midas touch of Michael Gove

Tim Walker

Author Picture Icon
Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer and Labour Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner (far right) during a visit to Birmingham

Labour Party

Angela Rayner sacked as Labour Party chair following poor election results

Jonathon Read

Author Picture Icon

Become a Supporter

The New European is proud of its journalism and we hope you are proud of it too. We believe our voice is important - both in representing the pro-EU perspective and also to help rebalance the right wing extremes of much of the UK national press. If you value what we are doing, you can help us by making a contribution to the cost of our journalism.

Become a Supporter