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You don’t need to negotiate with anyone, and if you suddenly decide that whatever plans you made before leaving no longer suit you then you can change your mind

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Dilettante: Why it's better to travel alone

You don’t need to negotiate with anyone, and if you suddenly decide that whatever plans you made before leaving no longer suit you then you can change your mind

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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 · 7h

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

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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 · 8h

Correction: this was British Transport Police

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

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

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Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: The Smashing Machine's Dwayne Johnson is nothing short of a revelation

The former professional wrestler has proved himself a screen performer to be taken very seriously indeed

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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 · 16h

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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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 · 23h

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

“I think it’s fair to say,” he paused, “that 80% of the world’s problems” are caused by old men who fear death and won’t let go.

✏️ Eleanor Longman-Rood

Could Obama restore my hope in politics?

Hosted by David Olusoga, the former president tackled everything from AI to political violence. The only elephant in the room was Donald Trump

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

In a recent intervention Jenrick announced that, in his view, all Tory candidates should pledge to support leaving the European convention on human rights, or stand down

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Robert Jenrick, the hollow man

He heads into the Conservative conference as the stricken party’s likely next leader. But this opportunistic ‘saviour’ could kill off the Tories completely

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

The party cannot stay in power without dominating in the capital – party insiders are now worried the city is about to slip from the government’s grasp

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Labour’s London problem

The party cannot stay in power without dominating in the capital – party insiders are now worried the city is about to slip from the government’s grasp

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

The former political editor's YouTube show is struggling to pull in the viewers

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Sun fails to sell Cole to Washington

The former political editor's YouTube show is struggling to pull in the viewers

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

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

✏️ 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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Months after insisting it would be easy to slash spending, the party's flagship authority is set to hike council tax

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Reform finding local government more taxing than it thought

Months after insisting it would be easy to slash spending, the party's flagship authority is set to hike council tax

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

Q&A 🎤 The Matts discuss what the case is for Keir Starmer leading Labour into the next general election, whether we should be preparing for authoritarianism in the UK and if the sight of a Metropolitan police officer makes them feel safe or not

Listen here 🎧 buff.ly/gDMbeMu

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

Brexit, as in so many cases, must carry much of the blame. It was the issue that made Farage and helped destroy the Tories

✏️ Patience Wheatcroft

A Reform merger would be extinction for the Tories

Farage is only interested in a reverse takeover. Kemi Badenoch must resist – and find a way to rouse her rabble

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Pete Keeley MD ANT @petekeeley1.bsky.social · 2d

Loved the new @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Jesus Christ Kinski. You can read my review in an upcoming issue of @thenewworldmag.bsky.social . My first published book review @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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

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

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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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Labour’s plans have caused huge controversy. But ‘100% digital’ Estonia shows how e-government can save time and money for ordinary people

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Estonia, the country that’s doing digital ID cards right

Labour’s plans have caused huge controversy. But ‘100% digital’ Estonia shows how e-government can save time and money for ordinary people

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

The journalist rubbished as "absurd" racism allegations which he himself first reported

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Michael Crick u-turns on Farage

The journalist rubbished as "absurd" racism allegations which he himself first reported

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

One way to sense if a city is in decline is if its dancefloors are depleting, as is the case in Kenya’s capital

✏️ Morris Kiruga

Nairobi’s vanishing dancefloors

One way to sense if a city is in decline is if its dancefloors are depleting, as is the case in Kenya’s capital

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

This is a deeply unpopular government facing an insurgent far right without much of a plan as to how to fight that battle in the long-term

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Keir Starmer has finally found his bite

A so-so speech soared when the PM went for Farage. The start of a fightback, or too little, too late?

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

NERDS EYE VIEW 👉 @jonnelledge.bsky.social on 17 things you need to know about bears 🐻

Nerd’s Eye View: 17 things you need to know about bears

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

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The Conservative leader has been talking down her shadow cabinet rival just days before their party conference

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Badenoch v Jenrick gets catty

The Conservative leader has been talking down her shadow cabinet rival just days before their party conference

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