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Matt Kelly

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Editor-in-Chief at The New European

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  • 1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly

    In a plastic folder in my study, I have three copies of the first-ever edition of the New European. Not quite hermetically sealed, but kept from direct sunlight to avoid what the book trade calls foxing or fading. As historical documents go, they may not be the Gettysburg Address or the handwritten lyrics to Yesterday, but I did once see a copy for sale on eBay for fifteen quid.

  • 1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly

    “All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool attacker was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British,” so tweeted “Parody Keir Starmer” on X last night, after social media’s reaction to the awful incident in which dozens were injured but — so far at least — miraculously nobody was killed. The point was well made.

  • 2 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly

    I don’t remember much from the post-Covid fortnight in the Caribbean that cost the price of a small car, apart from how wildly overrated Barbados is. But the three days, twenty-five years ago, that my wife and I spent hauling our arses through the Lake District on a wild camping trip in preparation for a longer Alpine adventure — that, I remember almost everything about.

  • 1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly

    There are two sides to Misan Harriman. The self-taught photographer who rose to become one of the world’s most sought-after chroniclers of fashion and celebrity; the first black man to shoot a Vogue cover; friend and photographer to the stars, including Harry and Meghan, Tom Cruise, Rihanna and Stormzy; and since 2021, the chair of London’s Southbank Centre. That’s one side.

  • 2 months ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly

    Maoz Inon, a 50-year-old Israeli, speaks first. His farmer parents Bilha and Yakovi burned to death in their home in the village of Netiv HaAsara on the northern border of the Gaza Strip. They were two of 20 residents murdered by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Aziz Abu Sarah, a 45-year-old Palestinian, follows. During the first Intifada, when Aziz was 10, his elder brother Tayseer was arrested by the Israeli Defence Force for throwing stones.

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