NEW EUROPEAN

JULY 29. 2025

Hear the paintings sing: the art of Emily Kam Kngwarray

The Aboriginal artist’s vibrant works celebrate ancestral land, culture and a deep connection to nature

Everyday philosophy: Does everything come down to luck?

There is a difference between riding your luck and being lucky, just ask Leah Williamson and the Lionesses

Wrapped in resistance: the story of the sari

The sari is given a radical reimagining in a bold Birmingham exhibition

Arvo Pärt’s angel music

The most-performed living composer celebrates his 90th birthday

Nerd’s Eye View: 12 things you need to know about the Strait of Hormuz

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Why we need to be more chill about language change

It appears that our vocabulary is entrained with the Zeitgeist, whether we like it or not

Letter of the week: Why Starmer must be tougher with the media

Write to letters@thenewworld. co. uk to have your views voiced in the magazine

Mussolini’s secret bunker

Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there

Sandie Peggie and the dangers of gender groupthink

A female nurse in Scotland became the focus of a witch hunt that shows how Britain’s institutions have become overcome by an elite ideology

Alastair Campbell’s diary: My date with Ghislaine Maxwell

If you had said to me then she might end up attached to a powerful man, able to build and exploit connections wherever he found them, I could well have seen how it may happen

We’ve been living in a fantasy world for centuries

The meanings of fancy and fantasy have diverged rather considerably over the centuries, just as the spellings have also changed

Meet Claude, the $14bn AI that thinks it wears a tie

Artificial intelligence makes more and more of our decisions. But two examples show it remains untrustworthy – and sometimes downright bizarre

Farage’s firestarter politics

A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

Grand designs: Britain’s forgotten housing revolution

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right