JULY 30. 2025

The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence

Israel’s main justification for its starvation of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

Another of Farage’s MPs probed by standards chief: er, Nigel Farage

Parliament's standards commissioner has announced he is looking into a possible rules breach by the Reform leader

Lionesses get the reception Boris Johnson refused

England's Euros-winning squad have made it to Downing Street after the former prime minister declined to offer an invite three years ago

Meet the new face of Reform in Wales

Laura Anne Jones, Nigel Farage's first member of the Senedd, has an uncanny ability for making headlines. Just not good ones

The General sleeps

As former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari’s death is mourned with official reverence, a generation remembers the eight years that drove them out.

Will Gaza Ever Know a Real Ceasefire, or Just a Pause Before the Next Bomb?

What does hope mean when your city is flattened and everyone you know is slowly starving?

The Philippine Missile Crisis: U. S. Deployed Arms to the Philippines and No One Noticed But China

The U. S. deployment of missiles in the Philippines is an escalation that has angered China and could come back to bite Filipinos most of all.

International Law Now Demands Climate Action—and It’s Actually a Huge Deal

The International Court of Justice’s landmark ruling shifts the obligation of climate action from moral appeal to legal duty.

GIJN Reporting Guide for Landfill Methane Emissions and Solutions

This GIJN guide offers reporting best practices, key resources as well as what questions to ask when investigating methane emissions from landfills and how to reduce them.

JULY 29. 2025

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

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

Welcome to the future of dating

A whole new wave of apps offers a whole new world of opportunity

The revenge of Alice Cooper

As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

Germansplaining: Summer holidays, Germany’s hot topic

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

The parallel geography of violence in Mexico

In Sinaloa, the threat of death and chaos hangs in the air as the brutal cartel war shows little sign of abating

Arvo Pärt’s angel music

The most-performed living composer celebrates his 90th birthday

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

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