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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 6d

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

✏️ @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 · 1h

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 · 3h

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 · 18h

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 · 20h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

The Jewish suitcase is back in the hall

After Manchester, many British Jews are asking why they should remain in a country where they feel despised

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

The PM was right to call Reform’s leave to remain policy racist – but he will regret it

✏️ @sonia-sodha.bsky.social

Farage, racism, and the truth about Reform

The PM was right to call Reform’s leave to remain policy racist – but he will regret it

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

Funeral laws in Germany have long been a model of order and control. But one state’s reform could change the way the nation mourns

✏️ Tanit Koch

Is this the death knell for Germany’s rigid funeral laws?

Funeral laws in Germany have long been a model of order and control. But one state’s reform could change the way the nation mourns

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

In Farage and Badenoch's eyes, is even paying taxes in Britain good enough for EU nationals like me?

✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

The unsettling state of settled status

In Farage and Badenoch's eyes, is even paying taxes in Britain good enough for EU nationals like me?

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

There is, so far, no philosophical consensus about how we should go about our lives. We have to keep thinking for ourselves

✏️ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

Everyday philosophy: Philosophers can't tell you how to live

There is, so far, no philosophical consensus about how we should go about our lives. We have to keep thinking for ourselves

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

Editor-in-chief Matt Kelly speaks to the student Luka, who was arrested for terrorism for holding up a copy of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. Comment your thoughts below 👇

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

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

✏️ @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 · 3d

The ambitious shadow justice secretary described his father - a successful company chairman - as a gas fitter

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Robert Jenrick gives his dad a demotion

The ambitious shadow justice secretary described his father - a successful company chairman - as a gas fitter

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Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social · 5d

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is hugely welcome. But it is only a first step and leaves Gazans with no agency, and no tangible path to stabilisation, as I explain here... 1/
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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 · 4d

Leaving the ECHR would revive damaging wars with Brussels that Badenoch’s supporters don’t want

✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

Even Tory voters think delusional Kemi is wrong about Brexit

Leaving the ECHR would revive damaging wars with Brussels that Badenoch’s supporters don’t want

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

If you want to understand the true depths of Labour’s electoral challenge, pay a visit to Hampstead

✏️ @tombaldwin66.bsky.social

Starmer’s problem isn’t just Reform

If you want to understand the true depths of Labour’s electoral challenge, pay a visit to Hampstead

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