Steve Anglesey
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When political leaders get compared to military ones, they are usuallly “lucky generals” or the type “fighting the last war”. Burnham is currently the former, but may yet end up as the latter….https://app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/160367/content.html
Is Andy Burnham just a lucky general?
The PM has made a winning start, but he’s had help from his enemies – and he may already be fighting the wrong battles
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Folks going to @edfringe.bsky.social looking for something to see alongside morning coffee should book into @4hundredblows.bsky.social’s brilliant spoken word show based on his book The Umbrella Man & Other Stories.The perfect way to start your day www.thespaceuk.com/shows/2026/t... #edinburghfringe
The Umbrella Man: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination (Martin Fitzgerald)
Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be on Main Street - crowds fifty deep, a blizzard of ticker tape. A few blocks away in Dealey Plaza, the scene is quieter: a handful ...
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Fantastic piece on Julian Schnabel by John Bleasdale "Coming to the interview, I was worried because I wasn’t that keen on the film, but fortunately it turns out that Schnabel likes it enough for the two of us." www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...
The unshakeable confidence of Julian Schnabel
The painter-turned-director’s In the Hand of Dante has divided critics. Luckily, he thinks it’s a masterpiece
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The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social
Jah Wobble on Lydon, Farage and why punk couldn’t happen now
The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby
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Usually I’m paywalled, but today you can feast on all my work for the New World for free.
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · last wk.Our journalism is still FREE to read today 💡 If you've been curious but haven't taken the plunge, now's the time! 🌐 buff.ly/097WE5f
It's free to read @thenewworldmag.bsky.social this weekend. Here are 10 good reasons why you should: 1) A deeply weird and frightening 48 hours with Liz Truss and Nigel Farage, by James Ball www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-d...
Deeply odd, deeply scary: My 48 hours with Truss, Farage and the new right
The first CPAC GB conference was chaotic, confused and sparsely attended – but also a harbinger of danger to come
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The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social
Jah Wobble on Lydon, Farage and why punk couldn’t happen now
The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby
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Interviewed the great @jahwobble.bsky.social, who explained why being in PiL was like living in Withnail & I and why 2026 feels like an episode of Minder www.thenewworld.co.uk/steve-angles...
Jah Wobble on Lydon, Farage and why punk couldn’t happen now
The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby
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He’s consistently brilliant and consistently under-rated - and The Odyssey is another reminder to enjoy greatness while it lasts. ✏️ John Bleasdale
This is Christopher Nolan’s world, and we’re lucky to live in it
He’s consistently brilliant and consistently under-rated - and The Odyssey is another reminder to enjoy greatness while it lasts.
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It’d be boring if all the critics agreed, wouldn’t it? Guardian loved Ann Droid. U thought it was sinister.
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2w agoThe sitcom about a robot carer is a strange and melancholy affair ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social
When you're being arrested for trafficking and child sex offences at 6pm, but are due on stage as the genie at the Joe Longthorne Theatre at 7pm.
blippy@blippy.bsky.social · 3w agothose pants are insane wtf
The first CPAC GB conference was chaotic, confused and sparsely attended - but also a harbinger of danger to come ✏️@jamesrball.com
Deeply odd, deeply scary: My 48 hours with Truss, Farage and the new right
The first CPAC GB conference was chaotic, confused and sparsely attended - but also a harbinger of danger to come
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I did not love Ann Droid, the strange, melancholy new BBC sitcom about a robot carer. But I’ve seen rave reviews elsewhere … www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...
The trouble with Diane Morgan’s Ann Droid
The sitcom about a robot carer is a strange and melancholy affair
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Sometimes when I’m trudging through the newspapers’ output, I see patterns. And then I forcefully turn them into an analogy about a TV show that is very old at this point.
The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 3w agoAttacks on the PM-in-waiting as a 1970s throwback speak volumes about a print media trapped in nostalgia ✏️ @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer! ✏️ @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Farage The Movie: The world’s most persecuted man
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer!
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How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age ✏️ John Osborne
The night New York discovered Frida Kahlo
How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age
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FARAGE THE MOVIE A Bad Boys of Brexit production. In association with Harborne Industries and George Cottrell Productions. “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an anti-establishment politician.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
Farage The Movie: The world’s most persecuted man
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer!
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"The reality is that any search for a left-wing answer to Joe Rogan is doomed, because it’s looking for the wrong thing. Joe Rogan emerged as a phenomenon, a product of his time and his fanbase. Trying to focus group the traits that make him a marketable product is to miss the point entirely."
The democrats have screwed up – big time
They picked Graham Platner as a candidate in Maine because he was a bit like Joe Rogan. But it didn’t work. In fact, it was a complete catastrophe
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I used to pray for days of 30-degree temperatures. But this year, something has shifted ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
Dilettante: How I learned to hate the great British heatwave
I used to pray for days of 30-degree temperatures. But this year, something has shifted
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NEW EPISODE 🚨 The Matts are joined by James Ball and Lucy Reade, hosts of The New World’s new podcast Touching Grass - the internet culture podcast. If you like The Two Matts, you’ll love this Tune in 🎧 buff.ly/JbXJbiZ
Treatment is simple. A one-joke clown is standing in the town's by-election. Defeat him. Man bursts into tears, says, "But doctor
Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated
"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
I wrote for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about why Burnham's focus on the domestic might be exactly the right approach when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
How should Burnham treat Trump? Try ignoring him
The temptation is to either flatter Trump or fight him. The best course is to do neither
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