Steve Anglesey
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Editor of The New World
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WATCH 📺 Political editor @jamesrball.com explain why some universities across the country could face bankruptcies next year
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December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
WATCH 📺 Political editor @jamesrball.com explain why some universities across the country could face bankruptcies next year
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How it started/ How it's going
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
How it started/ How it's going
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Your festive edition and TV guide is here 🎄
Feast your eyes on a tumultuous schedule, not unlike the year itself. Plus brilliant writing from all of your favourite columnists at The New World. Enjoy!
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Feast your eyes on a tumultuous schedule, not unlike the year itself. Plus brilliant writing from all of your favourite columnists at The New World. Enjoy!
🗞️ Grab a copy at your local newsstand or subscribe
🔗 buff.ly/NWZsnYW
December 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Your festive edition and TV guide is here 🎄
Feast your eyes on a tumultuous schedule, not unlike the year itself. Plus brilliant writing from all of your favourite columnists at The New World. Enjoy!
🗞️ Grab a copy at your local newsstand or subscribe
🔗 buff.ly/NWZsnYW
Feast your eyes on a tumultuous schedule, not unlike the year itself. Plus brilliant writing from all of your favourite columnists at The New World. Enjoy!
🗞️ Grab a copy at your local newsstand or subscribe
🔗 buff.ly/NWZsnYW
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If only Brexit had been done properly, it would have been marvellous!
Yet Brexiters never explain what doing it properly would have looked like. Funny that.
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Yet Brexiters never explain what doing it properly would have looked like. Funny that.
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Paul Marshall rewrites Brexit history
The GB News and Spectator owner says he always knew there would be short-term economic downsides to Brexit. He kept that quiet
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December 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
If only Brexit had been done properly, it would have been marvellous!
Yet Brexiters never explain what doing it properly would have looked like. Funny that.
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Yet Brexiters never explain what doing it properly would have looked like. Funny that.
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Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers - and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU
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The ghosts of Brexit past return to wail about Erasmus
Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers - and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU
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December 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers - and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU
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Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
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Morning, shwmae, I wrote a review of 2026 for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social which you can read here:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
Twelve angry months
Flags waved, Trump ranted and raved, an ex-royal was depraved and the PM looked like he couldn’t be saved. It’s been one hell of a year
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December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Morning, shwmae, I wrote a review of 2026 for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social which you can read here:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
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The Two Matts Podcast 🎙️ When are we going to take anti-semitism seriously (and actually do something about it?)
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When are we going to take anti-semitism seriously (and actually do something about it?)
The Matts explore the issues thrown up by the dreadful massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach this week. When is a protest actually an act of violence? Why do we
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December 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Two Matts Podcast 🎙️ When are we going to take anti-semitism seriously (and actually do something about it?)
Listen now 🎧 buff.ly/G3dlXg8
Listen now 🎧 buff.ly/G3dlXg8
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For a while, I collected the worst jokes UK political correspondents ascribed to MPs, especially those sent via WhatsApp.
Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.
Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
For a while, I collected the worst jokes UK political correspondents ascribed to MPs, especially those sent via WhatsApp.
Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.
Because I despise you, I'm migrating the thread here, starting with this absolute *shiter* from 2022, so we can share in the horror together. Please send me the worst you have.
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December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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“Al Ahmed’s parents – who had themselves arrived in Australia just months ago, an example of the kind of “chain migration” right wingers so often decry – explained their son’s motivations. He couldn’t stand to do nothing as he saw people suffering, and did what he could to stop it, they said.”
Bondi Beach and the politics of meeting hate with hate
Politicians and activists must do better than using slaughter to justify their points of view
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December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Al Ahmed’s parents – who had themselves arrived in Australia just months ago, an example of the kind of “chain migration” right wingers so often decry – explained their son’s motivations. He couldn’t stand to do nothing as he saw people suffering, and did what he could to stop it, they said.”
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I wrote about the Brits who affect to despise migration, and go and live in an autocracy where’s there no income tax.
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Dubai: a safe space for hypocrisy
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
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December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wrote about the Brits who affect to despise migration, and go and live in an autocracy where’s there no income tax.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
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National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is no backer of Frexit, despite meeting Nigel Farage in London
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France’s far right president-in-waiting wants Britain to rejoin the EU
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is no backer of Frexit, despite meeting Nigel Farage in London
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December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is no backer of Frexit, despite meeting Nigel Farage in London
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NEW EPISODE 🎙️ The Matts are joined by New World contributing editor and columnist @paulmason.bsky.social to understand just how far-reaching the consequences of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy document are.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW EPISODE 🎙️ The Matts are joined by New World contributing editor and columnist @paulmason.bsky.social to understand just how far-reaching the consequences of the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy document are.
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Tune in 🎧: buff.ly/za3cAd6
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The right wing tabloid hack used a GB News slot to repeat a notorious conspiracy theory about the Duchess of Sussex
✏️ Rats in a Sack
✏️ Rats in a Sack
Carole Malone and the burden of proof
The right wing tabloid hack used a GB News slot to repeat a notorious conspiracy theory about the Duchess of Sussex
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December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The right wing tabloid hack used a GB News slot to repeat a notorious conspiracy theory about the Duchess of Sussex
✏️ Rats in a Sack
✏️ Rats in a Sack
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"Incidentally, in the 1960s and 1970s, when net migration was running at minus 50,000 a year, more than 85% of Britons still thought immigration was too high."
Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.
Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.
Nerd's Eye View: 11 things you need to know about immigration
Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
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December 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Incidentally, in the 1960s and 1970s, when net migration was running at minus 50,000 a year, more than 85% of Britons still thought immigration was too high."
Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.
Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.
Completely untrue, but judged worthy of publishing by the Daily Express
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Completely untrue, but judged worthy of publishing by the Daily Express
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“If the Liz Truss Show is the “home of the counter-revolution” then the British establishment can rest easy. Truss’s opening monologue is delivered with all the verve and passion of a minimum wage hotel worker explaining at check-in where breakfast is served and how to find the elevators.”
Why are we funding pathetic, vengeful Liz Truss to lie about Britain?
The failed PM gets £115,000 of taxpayer money per year to spread poison about the UK on her new online show
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December 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“If the Liz Truss Show is the “home of the counter-revolution” then the British establishment can rest easy. Truss’s opening monologue is delivered with all the verve and passion of a minimum wage hotel worker explaining at check-in where breakfast is served and how to find the elevators.”
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Quite simply, Parr invented a political, humanist and instantly accessible photographic language which confronted the absurdity of working class life but also its kitsch, mischief and its tenderness
✏️ Jason Solomons
✏️ Jason Solomons
Martin Parr, the people's photographer
A new film celebrates Martin Parr, recorder of the mischief and tenderness of British working class life
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December 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Quite simply, Parr invented a political, humanist and instantly accessible photographic language which confronted the absurdity of working class life but also its kitsch, mischief and its tenderness
✏️ Jason Solomons
✏️ Jason Solomons
RIP Martin Parr. Jason Solomons wrote this lovely tribute for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social earlier this year
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Martin Parr, the people's photographer
A new film celebrates Martin Parr, recorder of the mischief and tenderness of British working class life
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
RIP Martin Parr. Jason Solomons wrote this lovely tribute for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social earlier this year
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jason-solomo...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jason-solomo...
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Subscribers are queuing up to criticise an article that called leaving the EU “an unmitigated economic failure”
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The Telegraph suddenly told the truth about Brexit and its readers lost their minds
Subscribers are queuing up to criticise an article that called leaving the EU “an unmitigated economic failure”
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December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Subscribers are queuing up to criticise an article that called leaving the EU “an unmitigated economic failure”
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“Let’s just be blunt, shall we? I do not give a flying fuck what you listened to on Spotify this year, and nor does anyone else.”
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Please shut up about your Spotify Wrapped
In fact, it’s a total abomination, dreamed up by the company’s marketing department as a way of appealing to your inner narcissist
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December 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“Let’s just be blunt, shall we? I do not give a flying fuck what you listened to on Spotify this year, and nor does anyone else.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-y...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-y...
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
Quality Street (play) - Wikipedia
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December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...