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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely think someone should bring back Friends Reunited. No AI slop, no algorighmic engagement-bait, just 24/7 1980s school nostalgia.

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

🚨A Message from our editor-in-chief Matt Kelly

Read full story: buff.ly/dY1tJVa

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

🚨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 · 15h

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 · 7h

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

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Steve Anglesey @sanglesey.bsky.social · 8h

Ludicrous and dangerous

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 15h

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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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 15h

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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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 2d

That's a fantastic book.

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 2d

DIARY MILK

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 4d

It’s like we’ve decided as a nation that politics is something that happens every five years, and the messy bits in between are irrelevant and can safely be ignored…

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 5d

“We do not know what the motives are behind this attack. But then if there are people out there who want to kill your friends, their motives are irrelevant.”

Powerful piece by @jayelwes.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ki...

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

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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

This week’s cover story 👉 SIGN OF THE TIMES | Frances Kelly is arrested for breaking Britain’s dumbest law

🔗 Read the full story: buff.ly/BE58Wag
🗞️ Get your copy from a local newsstand from Thursday 2nd October

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 7d

Every time I hear the phrase 'fighting age', I substitute it for 'working age' - because it's actually true.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7d

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 7d

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.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-n...

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 · 7d

A so-so speech soared when the PM went for Farage. The start of a fightback, or too little, too late? Watch @jamesrball.com on Keir Starmer's speech plus read the full story online 👇

buff.ly/nxzDBtH

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 7d

I urge everyone to read this - it’s absolutely brilliant.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7d

got a big profile of Robert Jenrick - and, I guess, the modern Conservative party - in this week's New World! out in print and online here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 7d

“We aren’t racists”, cry the party who not only invited Lucy Connolly, convicted for inciting racially motivated violence, to its conference, but interviewed her on stage, chat show style, as if she was the most heroic freedom fighter the world has ever seen.

Sod off, racists.

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 8d

Good stuff.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8d

OK, this was great. "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of their colour of their skin… that people who lived here for generations, are our neighbours... if you say they should note be deported, we will fight you with everything we have."

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 8d

Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 10d

The Times, Britain’s self-styled paper of record, decided this story wasn’t worth mentioning. But they had plenty of room for a speculative poll, four years before the election, anointing Farage our next PM.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 11d

So good. RIP

Stephe Harrop @stepheharrop.bsky.social · 11d

In memory of the great poet Tony Harrison, my own school of eloquence.

Image c/o library.leeds.ac.uk/special-coll...

Draft text of Tony Harrison's poem 'Them & [uz]', with phonetics handwritten on a typewrittten page.

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 12d

In 2016, Farage said: "I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long.”

Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 12d

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15d

2 frame line drawn comic by Amii @Amiiillustrates

1. Older man with his arms crossed saying "Autism didn't exist in my day" to a younger person
2. Older man returns to his hobby of miniature railway saying "Now get out, you know it's my train time"

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Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social · 16d

"I"m Brian, and so are my shareholders"

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