JULY 2. 2025

Andy Beckett: An Efficient Man

Now that the war is so long ago, the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious. ..

Tareq Baconi: Short Cuts

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is. ..

Patricia Lockwood: Arrayed in Shining Scales

I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was. ..

Michael Gove and Sarah Vine: the political Prince Andrew and Fergie?

A Spectator reader made an unwelcome comparison to the "model divorced couple" at an event about living with politicians

Madaniaao: Answering the wrong question of the Sudanese Revolution

Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees built new forms of power, but without rupture, the old order reassembled itself.

They Went to Get Flour With Their Mother in Gaza. “She Came Back in a White Shroud. ”

A brother and sister went with their mother to get food at a U. S. aid site in Rafah. Israeli forces shot her before their eyes.

Climate tipping point warning from 'Great Dying'

New fossils from Earth’s most famous extinction show climate tipping point was crossed.

Gaia Complex: Why Earth Is Not a Superorganism

Earth is not a single, giant organism. It's vastly more complex.

From Ant Colonies to Gaia: The Myth of the Superorganism

Instead of exhibiting characteristics as a unified whole, Earth represents a vastly more complex—and less coordinated—system.

Attapeu’s new city pillar: worship, develop, unite!

Enshrining spiritual, political and economic powers in Southern Laos

Uncovering the Hidden Environmental Impact of an Industrial-scale Hog Farm

An award-winning project exposed how a US-governor's pig farming company polluted groundwater, revealing issues of political influence and regulatory neglect.

JULY 1. 2025

Ange Postecoglou: a moving family history

The Australian football manager's name tells of his family’s history of relocating

Dilettante: Why I’m rooting for Zohran Mamdani

A politician my age is actually being taken seriously, and potentially welcomed into a position of power

The deadly old men who rule half the world

In a draining digital age of new problems and new tech, the planet’s most powerful leaders are all in their 70s – and increasingly at war with reality

The car-crash cost of Farageonomics

The Reform Party has finally come up with some policies – and they would wreck the UK’s fragile economy

Nerd’s Eye View: 14 things you need to know about the Chagos Islands

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

Letter of the week: Farage has forced Britain into a post-truth world

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

What the hell do we do with Canary Wharf?

Finance companies have moved out and the empty buildings aren’t suitable for homes. Is a community-focused redevelopment the way forward?

The silent threat of China

Beijing will have watched the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, and will have learned a dangerous lesson

Giorgia Meloni: An idiot or political mastermind?

Her autobiography shows that the western queen of the far right is almost impossible to pin down