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1 week ago | 
thenewworld.co.uk | Matt Kelly
In a few days, it will be nine years since the event that changed most of our lives. Where were you that morning, when you were trying to work out just what the hell had happened to Britain now that we had voted to leave the EU? Hard to believe Brexit is entering its 10th year. Harder yet to believe that the shifty salesman who sold it to Britain is now one of the most popular politicians in the country. But that’s the phenomenon that is Nigel Farage.
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1 month 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 As historical documents go, they may not be the Gettysburg Address or the handwritten lyrics to Yesterday, but I did once see a copy for sale on eBay for fifteen quid.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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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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Feb 4, 2025 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly
The New European is the fastest-growing political/cultural periodical in the UK. We want to keep it that way and are looking for a HEAD OF AUDIENCE to join our team. This senior role is a mish-mash of digital marketing and commercial skills, with a bit of editorial nous thrown in. Some of these skills you will already possess, others you will develop. A willingness to experiment and learn is essential. This is definitely a job for a doer as well as a thinker.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly
Last night’s BBC Question Time squaring-off between Alastair Campbell and Nigel Farage turned out, instead, to be a battle between one red jumper and one red jacket. The red jacket belonged to a woman, a pensioner, whose view of immigration dove-tailed neatly with Farage’s narrative; dismissive, ignorant and bigoted. “I don’t believe in any asylum.” Nor did she pity the refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. “Too much is made of it,” she said.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly
I’m taking a backseat next week as editor-in-chief, handing over the job of editing your favourite newspaper to a man I think it’s safe to say we have all come to admire, Feargal Sharkey. Feargal has campaigned tirelessly for years to bring the issue of our filthy waterways to the front pages. Well, now he’s got his own front page to play with.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly
The acquittal of armed police officer Martyn Blake for the murder of Chris Kaba was, yesterday morning, the focus of intense national debate. But it was a debate based on incomplete evidence. Absent from that debate – due to reporting restrictions imposed by the Old Bailey judge – was one critical fact. It’s a fact that changed everything. The fact is this: a week before he was shot and killed, Kaba, 24, had been filmed shooting someone in a nightclub in the feet and legs.
