Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Ian Winwood

    On a sun-kissed day in central London, I went on what certain commentators and politicians would call a hate march. With the Thames to their left and the Palace of Westminster up ahead, thousands of people from all over the country were streaming across Hungerford Bridge to protest against bloodshed in a foreign land; to boo the Israeli government and to cheer Gaza. There were half a million there, said the organisers. The Met Police said it was more like 20,000.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ian Winwood

    7 hours agoThe 'Late Show' host wasn't having any of it. Taylor Swift has become the latest celebrity for Donald Trump to have a tantrum about, and Stephen Colbert isn't having any of it. During Monday's Late Show, the host brought up a recent Truth Social post in which the President of the United States wrote …

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood

    At the midpoint of a set that at times tested the boundaries of endurance, on Monday night at the Royal Albert Hall, Daryl Hall played a yawningly indifferent version of Walking in Between Raindrops, a yacht-rock lowlight from his most recent album, D. At its eventual end, with something like chutzpah, he looked at the audience and said, "I can tell that you liked that one". Not where I was sitting, they didn't.

  • 1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood

    The singer-songwriter on growing up in poverty, selling millions of records, and her battles with the rats of New YorkAs the eldest of four children, at age six, Suzanne Vega used to look after her baby brother while her mother took her middle siblings out shopping for groceries at stores local to the family home on the East Side of Manhattan. On such occasions, she'd receive warnings of the dangers posed by the city's most tenacious residents.

  • 1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Ian Winwood

    Neil Oliver recently posed a question to his more than half a million followers on X. “That Britain and Europe have been made the world’s toilets is beyond dispute,” he wrote. “The question is by whom, and why?” Unwilling to leave things at that, a few hours later he added, “Obviously I know.”  Well of course, “obviously”.