NEW EUROPEAN

JULY 22. 2025

Has TikTok killed the critic?

Culture is increasingly filtered through social media – do we need critics any more?

Taking a tour through the sidestreets of your mind

A book that goes from Berlin to Bogotá on a hallucinatory walk through space, time, and memory

Nigel Farage, judge dreadful

Nigel Farage’s Trumpian ‘crackdown on crime’ is farcical, unworkable… and deeply, deeply dangerous

Everyday philosophy: We’re missing the bigger picture behind Sycamore Gap

If its value was that it was greatly appreciated by so many people, do the individual trees being felled largely unseen in Brazilian rainforests count for less?

Alastair Campbell’s diary: Notes from Brixton prison

The problem with Britain’s justice system is that incarceration is more than a punishment – it destroys lives

Germansplaining: The British media are wrong – Germany is not Trumpified

The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

Nerd’s Eye View: 13 things you need to know about beavers

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

Letter of the week: How can we make European leaders speak up on Gaza?

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

The brutal beauty of Brazil’s boom

In the first half of the 20th century, the country enjoyed a social and cultural renaissance. A group of photographers were there to document it

Rachel Reeves’s very bad idea

The post-2008 financial rules are there for a very good reason. Taking them apart would give our Gordon Gekkos free rein

AI versus the universities

How can you test students if their work is being churned out by artificial intelligence?

When John Le Carré went to Panama

The spy turned novelist arrived in search of new plots and left with an understanding that eludes some natives

Where have all the migrants gone?

Trump’s policies have reduced the desperate stream of people trying to reach the US through Central America to a trickle

Jeremy Deller takes art on the march

The artist has taken his two-year project around the UK to the nation’s public spaces – but he has come to understand the one line that art cannot cross