"He ought, of course, to be a political pariah. And yet, somehow, he haunts us still, a one-man exhibit of a political culture in poor shape." By @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
Martin Amis tribute from @MatthewdAncona: "We live in an age of stultified self-censorship, monstrously enforced by social media; of writing that is the carbon-based version of ChatGPT. In the sharpest imaginable contrast, Amis ran towards gunfire" theneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
"For the truly deranged, of course, there’s always the option of president Johnson, the boy who wanted to be “world king”. And if that doesn’t focus your mind this coronation weekend, I don’t know what will." By @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
Britain has been changed for the worse – but not for ever, writes @MatthewdAncona. And with the right gameplan, and determination not to relitigate 2016, a better country can emerge theneweuropean.co.uk
Decades from now, this once-in-a-lifetime series will still be watched as a cultural artefact of a particular moment in history by @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
Britain needs a bolder Keir Starmer who will challenge the home secretary over her shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric By @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
NEWS! We're delighted to announce that Matthew d'Ancona - ex-editor of Tortoise Media and The Spectator - joins the New European as editor-at-large from next week. @MatthewdAncona will write a weekly column and, coming soon, host a new TNE podcast. t.co
@TheNewEuropean8 years ago
RT @mk1969: Tomorrow @TheNewEuropean features @MatthewdAncona's brilliant book Post-Truth. But whose lying mouth is on our cover? (see my pinned tweet)
In an age of stultified self-censorship and blandness, we have lost an author who always ran towards gunfire By @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
"How will we know when Suella Braverman's gone too far on immigration? When Tommy Robinson calls for a cooling off period??" @MatthewdAncona on in this week's column: theneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
Dominic Raab’s pathetic conspiracy theories are yet another example of how the Conservative edifice continues to crumble By @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean2 years ago
"Are Hugh Grant and Emma Watson really running Britain into the ground? Maybe it helps the populist right and their cheerleaders to believe such nonsense." By @MatthewdAnconatheneweuropean.co.uk
@TheNewEuropean5 years ago
Picasso’s Guernica is to the horror of war what Munch’s The Scream is to the agony of private terror. Read @MatthewdAncona’s Slow Review for @tortoise. buff.ly
