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

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 · 5h

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

✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

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 · 7h

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

✏️ @jamesrball.com
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 21h

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

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

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

✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

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 · 1d

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

✏️ @lynneodonnell.bsky.social

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 · 1d

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

✏️ Jonty Bloom

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 · 1d

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

✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

✏️ Cindy Sui

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

✏️ Sophie Watson

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The battle for Moldova’s soul

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

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

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

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 · 3d

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

On @moisesnaim.bsky.social's new book: Thirty pages in, I even switched off my phone, to prevent unwanted distraction or temptation to find out what fresh madness Donald Trump had inflicted on the world.

✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Alastair Campbell’s diary: How to spot the charlatans

Moisés Naím’s new book unpacks how these snake-oil shysters deceive the public

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

The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law

✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social

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 · 3d

Research shows that listening to a novel is just as good for our brains as leafing through one

✏️ Dale Shaw

Will audiobooks kill reading?

Research shows that listening to a novel is just as good for our brains as leafing through one. Now sales are outperforming every other sector of publishing

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

Meet the Tory pro-incest campaigner

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Meet the Tory pro-incest campaigner

The Times failed to spot the ‘colourful’ background of a Conservative Party member it interviewed at conference

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

It is extraordinary to report that, in 2025, the Jewish suitcase is back in the hall, waiting for the moment of sudden flight. I feel nothing but shame

✏️ Matthew d'Ancona