Nigel Farage’s close friend was recruited and paid by Moscow - we should not be surprised if there are others ✏️ Arthur Snell

Confiscating jewellery and scrapping refugees’ right to secure status won’t solve anything ✏️ @stellacreasy.bsky.social

Middleland is part elegy, part memoir – and reveals the isolation of a politician too thoughtful for his time ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

It may lack the innovation of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, but James Vanderbilt’s compelling film still makes for essential watching today ✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

I'm always shocked to my core when I remember that only relatively few people consistently care about rape and sexual assault ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

A harsh, intrusive Danish-style immigration system won’t win right wing votes for Labour and will enrage the party’s traditional supporters. When will this government learn? ✏️ @jamesrball.com

US investment firm RedBird was all set to finally buy the title - until the culture secretary said it would need to go through a public inquiry ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

The Tory peer and self-styled "Brain of Brexit" has explicitly drawn a link between people’s racial heritage and violent crime ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

It has caused a full-scale diplomatic row between the BBC and the US government, and is now at the heart of a potential billion-dollar lawsuit that could threaten the BBC’s very future ✏️ @jamesrball.com

If I were in charge of those daft headlines, I would personally ask: have men ruined the workplace? I don’t actually believe that they have but well, if the New York Times can do it… ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

In my pre-enlightened days, I joined a Billy Joel fan club. When I left the piano man behind, his life descended into despair ✏️ Dale Shaw

We’re not alone: the whole developed world is mired in stagnation and high debt. But our borrowing costs are highest because our system cracked first and – though few people want to think about it – we are a multinational state ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

I would argue that the real current scandal for which the BBC should be held to account is its role in over-promoting a ragbag of right wing MPs who are front of the queue for its destruction ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Labour is terrible at coups: its rule book is set up in such a way that makes them harder, and the party’s MPs have lacked the killer instinct ✏️ @jamesrball.com

Sally Wainwright’s punk requiem for the invisible offers a loud argument that rage can bring change ✏️ @jamieklingler.bsky.social

The reluctance of ministers to take responsibility when things go wrong has also had a pernicious effect on the civil service which seeps down through the ranks ✏️ Patience Wheatcroft

The president's favourite British presenter pitched him a series of less-than-penetrating questions in a rambling interview

Nigel Farage's party is going ahead with council tax premiums on second homes despite having previously decried them as "madness" ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Jeffrey Epstein knew “how dirty Donald is”. It is becoming increasingly difficult for Trump to hide it from his core supporters ✏️ Jay Elwes

Reeling from the Panorama crisis and with the future of its news operation threatened by AI that tells us only what we want to hear, it’s vital to have a national broadcaster that tells us what we need to know ✏️ Jessica Cecil

🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws

Little @thenewworldmag.bsky.social diary scoop – word on the street is Lisa Nandy’s intervention sunk the Telegraph sale to Redbird. Meaning the Labour culture secretary has defended the Telegraph’s independence more fiercely than the BBC’s this week… www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Paris was attacked at its ❤️ on Nov 13, 2015. Islamic State terrorists murdered 90 at the Bataclan concert hall, as coordinated shootings+bombings at cafés and Stade de 🇫🇷 brought the death toll to 132, in France's bloodiest night since WW2. An incredibly moving new series tells 7 survivors' stories⤵️

Ten years on, a new drama shows how seven hostages came face-to-face with death ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social

Whether criticising our institutions, sucking up to the US or fleeing for warmer climes, it turns out that the Brexiteers don’t seem to love the UK after all ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/steve-angles...

"The smoking gun quote that brought down two of the most senior editors at the BBC was itself misleadingly edited. But unlike the BBC’s edits – which at least accurately conveyed the overall impression of the march – Prescott’s edits gave a false impression of the comments." 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws

Laura Anne Jones is to be handed a two-week suspension from the Senedd following an investigation into offensive comments ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

A speech last night in London showed how the PM can stand up to Trump and make clear that the UK’s public broadcaster will not be pushed around ✏️ Céline Etheridge

Wolfgang Flür, once part of the band’s classic line-up, on putting humanity into electronic music ✏️ Jeremy Blackmore

@thenewworldmag.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report. It's certainly pots, not quite kettles, as James Ball's excellent piece points out www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

EXCLUSIVE 🚨 A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself ✏️ @jamesrball.com

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The Telegraph columnist, rumoured to be on her way out, spread fake news about crime figures on GB News ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Like Trump, the chancellor has also been redecorating. His, however, is less golden glitter, more a nod to history ✏️ Tanit Koch

The Matts join the fray on chaos at the BBC... then they are joined by Jo Bartosch, co-author of Pornocracy, an argument about the evils of pornography in today’s world Tune into the full episode 🎧 buff.ly/oMFmgYm

We have never paid so much tax and received so little in return. Worst of all, no one in Whitehall or Downing street, will ever take the blame ✏️ Patience Wheatcroft

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Inside story 🚨 No 10’s briefings about a plot against the prime minister are the work of his unpopular chief of staff ✏️ @jamesrball.com Read story 👉 buff.ly/hubhVNL

Fuentes is a racist, a Holocaust denier and an admirer of Hitler – and he is now on the verge of the US political mainstream ✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

One was expected to depart soon, amid suggestions of a job at the Premier League, while the other felt her position was untenable ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Digital mystics are flooding TikTok and Etsy – and with religion fading and loneliness rising, they’re filling a spiritual vacuum ✏️ Olive Pometsey

At the next election, 16-year-olds will be able to vote for the first time ever. If politicians don’t help them now, despair will push them into the arms of populists ✏️ Peter Hyman & Shuab Gamote

Britain’s political elite has a reflexive reaction to avoid saying anything about flags, poppies, or patriotism that might even slightly upset the Daily Mail or Nigel Farage ✏️ @jamesrball.com

If Reform gets into power, Britain will face an immediate, devastating fiscal crisis ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

The party supports freedom of speech - but one Reform council cabinet member is unhappy with claims about a conflict of interest being aired ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

The symptoms of the menopause are often severe and help can be thin on the ground. Well done Wes Streeting for finally doing something about it ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

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The architect of Boris Johnson's botched Brexit deal has been appointed director-general of the right wing think tank ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Letter of the week 💌 Nigel Farage, the biggest charlatan of all