JULY 23. 2025

Blue-Green Algae May Offer Clean Alternatives for Fashion Industry

Small organisms called cyanobacteria could make for big fashion solutions, from eco-friendly dyes to plastic alternatives.

Inside the Cross-Border Network Exposing the Environmental Crisis Facing Africa’s Longest River

Co-founded by two journalists, InfoNile has grown into a sprawling ecosystem of cross-border investigations, multimedia storytelling, and data-driven reporting across the Nile Basin's 11 countries.

Brexit trade meetings remain a state secret

Secrecy maintained over the extent to which Britain is willing to abandon environmental and consumer protections to secure trade deals after Brexit.

JULY 22. 2025

Working with gold in India has lost its glister

Without structural support, the country’s living tradition of artisanal goldwork teeters on the edge of extinction

Farmers with their finger on the pulse

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

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

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

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 best hospital in the world

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

Matt Kelly’s picks of the week: Farage, Coldplay and the Epstein files

Our founder and editor-in-chief’s weekly highlights from the magazine

Licence to kill a franchise

Daniel Craig’s 007 is dead, yet James Bond will return. Can Amazon revive him without ruining everything?

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

Becoming vexed by vanishing vocabulary

Spelling pronunciations in general are steadily becoming part of our linguistic landscape

Nigel Farage, judge dreadful

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

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

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

Arresting an Argentinian icon

In accelerating the charges laid against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Javier Milei created a new national myth

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

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

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