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As England’s assault on rugby’s greatest prize steps up a gear, RICHARD LUCK reveals the small – but significant – role he played in 2003’s successful campaign. Marginal gains… ask Sir Clive Woodward (or better still, read Alison Kervin’s biography) and you’ll find that these were the key to England’s success in the 2003 Rugby […]

A Brexit Party MEP has been showcased in a government ‘Brexit readiness’ video – just days after he mocked the idea of Brexit preparations to a party rally. Is your business ready for Brexit? Watch the video below to see the preparations that @hformanandson have taken?? Find out more??https://t.co/r0vzP1RQQ2 pic.twitter.com/2IIHZ9UQA5— HM Government London & South […]

Readers demand politicians stop listening to just the 17.4 million and start listening to the millions that didn’t vote for Brexit. It is quite impossible to keep count of the number of times pro-Brexit MPs have referred to the 17.4 million who voted to leave the EU. Do any of them give a toss for […]

A comedian has ripped apart minister Liz Truss’ cringeworthy radio interview with Radio 5 Live presenter Emma Barnett. Michael Spicer has made a name for himself pretending to be an adviser feeding lines to politicians in a separate room as they are interviewed. One particular interview to have captured the attention of social media was […]

Readers argue that, ahead of a general election, parliament must defend its actions to avoid Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson controlling the narrative. The dog-whistle slogans which the Cummings-Gove-Johnson triumvirate used to distort the case for Brexit are being lined up ready for the next election. By defining all parliamentary opposition as Remainers intent on […]

As a New European reader, you probably reckon you keep a close eye on the continent’s news. Test yourself with our quiz… Think you’re on top of what’s been going on across Europe in the past seven days? Take The New European’s tricky quiz and find out just how much of a Europhile you are…

Aoife Duffin delivers a haunting mixture of fragility and defiance in this ‘stunning production’. Theatre is about melting the ice within, of awakening dormant cells, of making us more fully alive, more fully human, at once more individual and more connected to each other. I wish I’d written that, but it was in fact Franz […]

AMANDA CHETWYND-COWIESON reflects on polling which shows the public would rather a People’s Vote over trusting the politicians with a final decision on Brexit. It’s widely accepted that our society and our politics has never been more divided. Not only is the current situation deeply damaging to the general mood of the country, it’s creating […]

What’s your take on the events of the week? Let us know your views on the key questions that have emerged for Remainers this week, on everything from caretaker PMs to the week’s worst gaffe. Got other views? Email us at letters@theneweuropean.co.uk

The government has submitted evidence to Scotland’s highest civil court claiming the prime minister will comply with MP’s demands to send a letter requesting a Brexit extension if a deal is not agreed by October 19th. SNP MP Joanna Cherry and Lawyer Jolyon Maugham. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire. – Credit: PA Documents submitted to the […]

The businesswoman caught up in gossip about Boris Johnson’s personal life has claimed that the pair never had an affair – and she invited him over because she was fed up with all of his technology-related emails. Speaking to the Mirror, she said accusations about favouritism from the then mayor of London was “crap” and […]

An exasperated journalist clashed with what he called a ‘vacuous talking head’ on TV after it was suggested that we stop ‘clutching our pearls’ over the Good Friday Agreement. Panellist and OpenDemocracy editor Peter Geogeghan lost his patience with Spiked writer and commentator Ella Whelan for offering what he termed “panglossian nonsense” as justification for […]

Boris Johnson is making the same mistakes as Theresa May by putting himself in the pocket of the DUP – a party which does not speak for all of Northern Ireland, a former secretary of state has warned. Lord Hain said he was not surprised at the Irish government’s rejection of the prime minister’s Brexit […]

Former Tory leadership candidate Rory Stewart has quit the Conservative Party to run as an independent candidate in the London mayoral election. The former cabinet minister was among the 21 rebels who had the whip removed by Boris Johnson when he defied him in the Commons by backing a move designed to block a no-deal […]

Bonnie Greer has been credited with the most powerful statement of BBC’s Question Time last night when she pointed out Ireland owed the UK absolutely nothing in the Brexit negotiations. Appearing on the programme alongside Nadhim Zahawi, Sarah Jones, Anand Menon, and Melanie Phillips, the TNE columnist was listening to some of the panellists effectively […]

TNE columnist Bonnier Greer has been praised for calling out a man in the Question Time audience who has denied that foreigners have it bad living in the UK. An audience member on BBC’s Question Time questions Bonnie Greer. Photograph: BBC. – Credit: Archant The powerful moment happened after Bonnie Greer – a TNE columnist […]

On a nationwide speaking tour, GAVIN ESLER has encountered many examples of the UK’s recent history being reinvented. The cobbled Mermaid Street in Rye, East Sussex, where Gavin Esler witnessed the “normalisation of lying”. Picture: Getty Images. – Credit: Getty Images The small town of Rye on the south coast is an English jewel. Just […]

Some in the City of London may not deserve to be tainted by an apparent conspiracy that would dwarf Watergate. Former chancellor Phillip Hammond – Credit: PA Wire/PA Images On the surface of it, the story is devastating. The prime minister is accused of working with shadowy business figures to deliver disaster capitalism in its […]

It will be curtains for the president if Michigan recognises him as a danger to national security, according to BONNIE GREER. One possible reason that speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced that she now supports a narrow impeachment enquiry in the matter of the possible Trump shakedown of Ukraine is this: Michigan is ready. […]

The toxic twins are being met with increasingly defiant opposition – and it’s working, says MITCH BENN. Last week, I took to Twitter to express what is, these days, an unusual statement to be heard coming from the likes of me; I said I was proud of Britain. My specific point was this: just now, […]

Campaigners have lost a legal battle they fear could harm the chances of EU citizens applying for ‘settled status’ in the UK. The organisation, The3Million, had brought a High Court challenge over new laws preventing EU citizens living in the UK from finding out what data the Home Office holds on them. The group – […]

Dominic Cummings should not be permitted to roam freely around the Palace of Westminster, according to a senior Tory peer. In a letter to the speakers of both houses of parliament, Lord Hayward has called for Boris Johnson’s senior adviser to lose his pass for the building. His demand comes just six months after Cummings […]

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has criticised Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals, before claiming that the British people want Brexit stopped. Leo Varadkar said Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan “falls short in a number of aspects” while his deputy Simon Coveney said “if that is the final proposal, there will be no deal”. Varadkar said he could […]

Let’s keep Boris on the hook and force him to back down from his ‘do or die’ pledge, argues MICHAEL WHITE. I know it’s not just me, so I assume you have noticed eerily disturbing parallels emerging between Donald Trump’s political flight path and that of our own Trump Mini-Me as beleaguered Britain flies into […]

Jeremy Corbyn has said that no Labour MP should be willing to support Boris Johnson’s ‘reckless’ Brexit proposals. Speaking in the Commons, Corbyn said the PM’s plan amounted to a “rehashed version” of previously rejected proposals which “put the Good Friday Agreement at risk and would trigger a race to the bottom on rights and […]

A new YouGov poll has found that the public want to have a final say on Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals rather than leaving the politicians to make a decision. If the prime minister tries to leave the EU without a deal there is a majority for a People’s Vote of more than two to one. […]

The Tory party chairman is far from living up to his name, says STEVE ANGLESEY. Michael Gove hailed Boris Johnson as the “Pep Guardiola of British polotics”. Picture: Jack Taylor/Getty Images – Credit: Getty Images The concept of nominative determinism – the idea that people gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names – […]

The chairman of the Commons Brexit Select Committee has accused the prime minister of abandoning the UK’s commitment to the Good Friday Agreement. Standing up in the House of Commons, Labour MP Hilary Benn said that the UK government has committed itself to “no checks and controls” anywhere in Ireland. He said: “For the last […]