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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3h

The right wing channel neglected to tell its viewers Kieran Mishchuk wasn't actually a local resident

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GB News's random local was a Reform councillor

The right wing channel neglected to tell its viewers Kieran Mishchuk wasn't actually a local resident

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 5h

Our next edition is on sale now including an exhaustive investigation into the influence of one man in British society - Paul Marshall. It’s a must read if you want to understand the forces behind the rise of Nigel Farage and the British right.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 7h

My latest column for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is based on the recent meeting at the Royal Society celebrating 50 years of the Turing Test, at which several folks suggested it was time to retire it.
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Was the Turing Test always meaningless?

A meeting to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Alan Turing’s famous paper drew a fairly unanimous judgment from the expert speakers

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 7h

A clownish spy scandal has shown up the severe shortcomings of British security, and given the Labour government an even bigger Chinese problem

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Tinker, tailor, China, farce

A clownish spy scandal has shown up the severe shortcomings of British security, and given the Labour government an even bigger Chinese problem

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 9h

Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it

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Alastair Campbell's diary: Why Trump should never be given the Nobel peace prize

Peace is not just about bombs falling silent, but the humanity that goes into maintaining it

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 11h

🗞️ Our latest issue is on sale: The Power Broker - A Special Report

Featuring: @jamesrball.com, @editormattkelly.bsky.social, @rostaylor.bsky.social, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, nigelwarburton.bsky.social and more

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

Jung Chang on her family’s painful history with the communist regime – and her sequel to the bestselling Wild Swans

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Jung Chang: ‘If I set foot in China now, I’d end up in prison’

Jung Chang on her family’s painful history with the communist regime – and her sequel to the bestselling Wild Swans

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

The magazine appropriated one of its most famous contributors for its new column. Not everyone was delighted

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Statesman's new gossip column launch doesn't go without a Hitch

The magazine appropriated one of its most famous contributors for its new column. Not everyone was delighted

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has forged a peace in Gaza – but his inability to influence Israel has undermined the US’s reputation and weakened its global alliances

✏️ Andy Owen

Supporting Netanyahu has damaged America

Trump has forged a peace in Gaza – but his inability to influence Israel has undermined the US’s reputation and weakened its global alliances

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

For my generation, the internet meant connection. Now it only means division

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Denmark’s social media ban for kids is a tragedy. But it’s right

For my generation, the internet meant connection. Now it only means division

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

SPECIAL REPORT 🚨 The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s most influential non-politician

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

Questions abound about what senior party figures knew, and when, about the disgraced former Welsh leader’s links to Vladimir Putin's regime

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What's the real story behind Nathan Gill, Reform and Russia?

Questions abound about what senior party figures knew, and when, about the disgraced former Welsh leader’s links to Vladimir Putin's regime

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

Just when America most needs dissenting voices, the comedian is retiring from his brilliant WTF podcast after 16 years

✏️ John Bleasdale

What the f**k will Marc Maron do next?

Just when America most needs dissenting voices, the comedian is retiring from his brilliant WTF podcast after 16 years

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

Arresting a student for holding a copy of The New World shows how Britain’s crackdown on Palestine Action has become absurd and dangerous

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End this stupid Palestine Action ban now

Arresting a student for holding a copy of The New World shows how Britain’s crackdown on Palestine Action has become absurd and dangerous

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

In an attempt to control the flow of information, the rulers of Afghanistan plunged the country into darkness. That decision has backfired

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When the Taliban shut off the internet

In an attempt to control the flow of information, the rulers of Afghanistan plunged the country into darkness. That decision has backfired

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

Blaming Reform’s leader for impending tax cuts only makes sense if you push the UK closer to the EU, too

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Labour’s overdue war on Farage and Brexit has arrived. Here’s how to fight it

Blaming Reform’s leader for impending tax cuts only makes sense if you push the UK closer to the EU, too

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2d

The police – Metropolitan officers supported by British Transport Police – told Luka he was being arrested under Section 13 of the UK Terrorism Act 2000

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Meet Luka, the man arrested for terrorism for holding up The New World

Exclusive: We track down the student whose arrest exposes absurdity of Palestine Action’s proscription

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

✏️ Deborah Nash

Diamonds, silk and the guillotine

The V&A’s new exhibition shows Marie Antoinette as both icon and casualty of luxury

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

Ignored at home, female artists from Australia and New Zealand came to Europe and forged their own daring style

✏️ Florence Hallett

The triumph of ‘nobody’s darlings’

Ignored at home, female artists from Australia and New Zealand came to Europe and forged their own daring style

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

Editor-at-large Matthew d'Ancona discusses his latest piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on Trump's deal between Hamas and Israel. Comment your thoughts below 👇

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

The country is teaching its people a version of the past in which China is always the victim. The consequences of that could be highly dangerous

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China’s new dark history

The country is teaching its people a version of the past in which China is always the victim. The consequences of that could be highly dangerous

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

A bullying autocrat has succeeded where years of calm diplomacy failed. Progressives must ask why

✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

It had to be Trump.. and that’s embarrassing

A bullying autocrat has succeeded where years of calm diplomacy failed. Progressives must ask why

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3d

The recent parliamentary election result was not a show of support for PAS but instead one for Europe - and against Russia

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The battle for Moldova’s soul

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d

The Conservative big beast delivered a stinging attack on Reform at a fringe meeting, and called for Britain to rejoin the EU

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While Jenrick defended his own racist language, Heseltine was schooling the Tories on fascism, Farage and Brexit

The Conservative big beast delivered a stinging attack on Reform at a fringe meeting, and called for Britain to rejoin the EU

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d

No sovereignty, no law, no dignity. The strip deserves a future free of both Hamas and Israel

✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

A Gaza peace built on sand

No sovereignty, no law, no dignity. The strip deserves a future free of both Hamas and Israel

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