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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 14h

It's 19 years since I first presented a podcast. They're still booming – but who gets the money? And is the audio-only pod on its way out?

I talked to industry experts about the future of the podcast for
@thenewworldmag.bsky.social.

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Have we reached peak podcast?

The old models aren’t working like they used to – it’s time for something different

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 2d

"Brexit must be destroyed".
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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

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 babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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

In her closing speech to conference today, the Tory leader presented herself as a sensible fiscal Conservative. But she is something very different

✏️ Jay Elwes

Kemi Badenoch: the pseudo-conservative

In her closing speech to conference today, the Tory leader presented herself as a sensible fiscal Conservative. But she is something very different

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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 7d

100% right, by @ianwinwood.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/ian-winwood-...

Gary Neville’s detractors are pathetic

The former footballer who removed a union flag is now a target of the hypocritical right

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 7d

The New World editor/founder Matt Kelly: "The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents up and down the country, but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law." www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

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

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 8d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 7d

Ludicrous and dangerous

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 8d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 8d

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

✏️ Kieran Connell

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 8d

A perfect reply to the revolting Robert Jenrick, by @kieranconnell.bsky.social
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What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8d

This is one of the issues London Labour insiders raised with me in this piece on Labour & London – Labour is taking the votes of the capital for granted, and is about to impose major local government austerity on councils who were hard hit first time round.

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

It struck me that Yarvin had next to no idea how we would actually get from the democracies we have now, to the monarchy he thinks would be better

✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Alastair Campbell's diary: Don't take Curtis Yarvin seriously

Yarvin believes liberal democracy has failed and that monarchy should replace it. He just has absolutely no idea how to achieve this

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 12d

She was appointed to the Lords by Cameron and used that position to profiteer during the Covid pandemic. How could this have happened?

✏️ Patience Wheatcroft

Michelle Mone: the embodiment of British corruption

She was appointed to the Lords by Cameron and used that position to profiteer during the Covid pandemic. How could this have happened?

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 13d

People in their early 20s are growing up with no jobs, no help and no prospects. That is a problem for us all

✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

Does Gen Z have a future?

People in their early 20s are growing up with no jobs, no help and no prospects. That is a problem for us all

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 13d

We don’t yet know the motive behind today’s killings outside a synagogue. But there are some horrific facts - and Britain must face them

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Killings in Manchester: has Britain ignored anti-Semitism?

We don’t yet know the motive behind today’s killings outside a synagogue. But there are some horrific facts - and Britain must face them

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 14d

A £122m High Court ruling went against the peer's firm less than 24 hours after she was making legal threats against chancellor Rachel Reeves

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Baroness Bra gets something else to Mone about

A £122m High Court ruling went against the peer's firm less than 24 hours after she was making legal threats against chancellor Rachel Reeves

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 15d

Sensational and deeply cerebral, Paul Thomas Anderson’s tenth feature film is a stone-cold masterpiece

✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

Matthew d'Ancona's culture: Why One Battle After Another must win Best Picture

Sensational and deeply cerebral, Paul Thomas Anderson’s tenth feature film is a stone-cold masterpiece

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 14d

Where @thenewworldmag.bsky.social leads…back in August, we wrote about how many of the immigration issues Nigel Farage complains about were the result of policies he advocated. Now both Ed Davey *and* Keir Starmer are saying the same.

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For a decade, Farage has largely got what he wanted, and none of it has worked. Brexit has been a deadweight, dragging down the UK’s already sluggish growth. The vaunted points-based immigration system didn’t reduce numbers, because the UK has disastrous skills shortages. Johnson’s Brexit deal fuelled the small boats crisis that Farage seized upon to get to his current political popularity.

Farage has danced around any kind of responsibility for the consequences of his actions, or for his own inability to understand how policy on immigration – his number one issue – actually works.

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 17d

Is there really much gain for Labour in getting rid of one dour, bespectacled white man with little of interest to say on Brexit, and replacing him with another?

✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

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Does Andy Burnham want to rejoin the EU?

The Labour leadership candidate has taken every Brexit position possible. Now it’s time for him to spell things out

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 18d

Just an hour across the water is a city with a completely different history and culture. But how much longer can it last?

✏️ Cindy Sui

How to escape from Hong Kong

Just an hour across the water is a city with a completely different history and culture. But how much longer can it last?

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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 19d

Excellent insight here on how Starmer could ask for (and get) more from the EU

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 19d

A thaw in UK relations and fear of Trump’s America has Brussels eager to forge closer links

✏️ @lukemcgee.bsky.social

EU insiders want Starmer to ramp up his Brexit reset

A thaw in UK relations and fear of Trump’s America has Brussels eager to forge closer links

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 21d

I reviewed ITVX's The Hack for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social – a great story that didn't need to try so hard

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What The Hack lacks

Mr Bates vs The Post Office touched a nerve among the public with its revelation of the suffering of ordinary people who lost everything. ITV’s new drama lacks suitably likeable victims

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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 25d

Happy weekend from the Telegraph!