Steve Anglesey
12 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
Read the full article17 August 2024
The Brexit problems lining up for Starmer
New polls suggest support for the PM’s softly-softly stance on Europe – but for how long?
Read the full article09 August 2024
How Robert Jenrick stopped the riots
An extraordinary claim about the Brexiteer who wants to lead the Tories
Read the full article03 August 2024
Labour blow a big chance on youth mobility
The government says it’s levelling with us on the economy - so why not on the truth about a scheme demonised by Brexiteers?
Read the full article31 July 2024
A new low for Farage
His ill-informed, self-aggrandising, flame-fanning Southport video is beneath contempt
Read the full article27 July 2024
Nigel Farage MP is even worse than you thought
Clacton’s elected representative will spend the next five years dogwhistling about people who don't live there
Read the full article20 July 2024
The war against tethered bottle caps
They help the environment, but Brexiteers hate them because the idea came from the EU
Read the full article12 July 2024
Never mind the football.. let’s celebrate the end of Brexit omerta
Labour’s first steps at moving closer to the EU are welcome, and vital to counter Nigel Farage
Read the full article05 July 2024
Were you up for Rees-Mogg?
A raft of big-name Brexiteers lost their seats as Labour won a landslide victory
Read the full article04 July 2024
The nightmare is over
Fourteen years of Conservative disasters come to an end as Keir Starmer prepares to enter No.10
Read the full article04 July 2024
The big 2024 election quiz
How much do you remember about the campaign? Take our test and find out…
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