believes<\/a> it\u2019s this metric that Starmer has to reverse if he is to defeat Reform in four years \u2013 but their lack of candour before the election has set them up to fail:<\/p>\n\u201cThey didn\u2019t front up with voters about the tough trade-offs facing the country; or that the City-powered economic boom of the 2000s is not going to be easily or quickly come by again; and that the economic reality of an ageing population makes today\u2019s fiscal problems look like child\u2019s play. They came in promising sunlit uplands, but all they\u2019ve got to deliver is incrementalism.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of our team took a week off and came back yesterday, amazed at how quickly the world moves.<\/p>\n
\u201cA plane crash in India, Israel at war with Iran, Los Angeles rioting against Trump\u2026 I\u2019m going to think twice before going on holiday again any time soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The world is moving at an unprecedented pace. We\u2019re doing our level best to keep up\u2014and to keep you, dear reader, engaged in the consequences.<\/p>\n
Matthew d\u2019Ancona tackles the disorder in America:<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocracy dies in darkness, but it also dies under arc lights,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n
The events in the States over the past couple of weeks \u2013 the riots, Musk\u2019s isolation, the bizarre military parade for the Dear Leader\u2019s birthday \u2013 all tend towards one conclusion: an autocracy has descended.<\/p>\n
Michael Donald, one of the UK\u2019s greatest portrait photographers, meets Sean Scully\u2014one of our most successful living British abstract painters. It\u2019s an enthralling meeting of creative minds, with Michael trying to understand what it is about abstract art that can either pass you by or move you to tears. Sean\u2019s story is extraordinary\u2014growing up in real poverty in north London before making it big in the art world. Michael\u2019s words are profound and revealing. It\u2019s my must-read of the week.<\/p>\n
Finally, our digital editor Eleanor Longman-Rood revisits Jacqueline Harpman\u2019s belated literary sensation: I Who Have Never Known Men. This extraordinary novel has an even more extraordinary backstory\u2014published in 1995, it vanished into obscurity until it was reissued and took BookTok (an enormous social media gathering of book lovers) by storm. No surprise, since it is a real tale of our times. Gen Z\u2019s Handmaid\u2019s Tale, as Eleanor memorably describes it. It\u2019s a gem of a story within our superbly curated collection of arts and culture articles in this week\u2019s The New World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a few days, it will be nine years since the event that changed most of our lives.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114701327672678421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}