Happy weekend from the Telegraph!

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

Why is Lord Glasman talking nonsense on my TV again? www.thenewworld.co.uk/steve-angles...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw

JD Vance, Feb 2025: "In Britain, and across Europe, free speech I fear is in retreat. In Washington, there is a new sheriff in town and under Donald Trump's leadership we may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it." www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Royal Society president Sir Adrian Smith: “I am sure that many of you will share my concern at the events of the last week and the growing tendency to resort to the language of violence…including, unfortunately, an address to the recent London rally from a Fellow of the Royal Society.”

It will be tough, but I imagine Britain will muddle through somehow without Sarah Vine

Brilliant and heartbreaking, by John Bleasdale for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

Lost for words at this Jonathan Sacerdoti piece in the Spectator

“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”

Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.

Maybe I’d feel more willing to help if they didn’t look so daft. And they really do look very daft indeed ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

an absolute disgrace and any serious media outlet would say so out loud

What Lucy Connolly wrote was vile and inhumane. Parading her at Reform conference is a huge error of judgement by Nigel Farage - speculated about in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on August 22 without believing it would actually happen

"Only twice, exactly two decades apart, has Nigel Farage been so comprehensively dismantled in front of the cameras that his face took on the topography of a man chewing tin-foil." ✏️ Matt Kelly

Nigel 'free speech' Farage banned @thenewworldmag.bsky.social from attending Reform's conference. They don’t like critical journalism. If you do, then help us do more of it by subscribing. www.thenewworld.co.uk/subscribe/

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass

Nicotine-stained snowflake Nigel Farage, currently in the US proclaiming that the UK is restricting free speech, has just banned our New World mag from attending Reform's conference after we criticised him. Irony.

well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him

The man who would be PM has already spent a decade getting much of what he wanted - and none of it has worked ✏️ @jamesrball.com

This is superb

Why xenophobes love flags - my latest Philosopher at Large column @TheNewWorldmag www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...

Anti-vaccine lies mean the disease is now spreading in Britain, the US and around the world. And this is just the start ✏️ Philip Ball buff.ly/b7vaVdT

The Daily Mail charted the hate-tweet childminder’s release from jail as if it were her long walk to a glass of Whispering Angel ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Many asylum seekers are Christians, and more devout than the average tribal UK “I go on Christmas” light Christians

On the Daily Mail's abysmal coverage of Lucy Connolly's release, aka The Long Walk to a Glass Of Whispering Angel www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

You might need to work until you’re 67/68. But will anyone let you?

I went to Swindon to meet XTC with photographer Kevin Cummins. The band took us to the park and showed us various landmarks from their youth - a boating lake, a bandstand, and so on. "Fuck me," said Kevin to one of the band. "You've led a boring life."

Of all the things that have happened to us in 35 years, hearing Winona Ryder say Saint Etienne "totally rescued me while I was going through a hard time" is up there. Bless her. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjX...

If it's true that Labour wants to fight the next election on the basis of "Look, it's us or the far right", as Macron did, then they're going to have to start explicitly denouncing the far right, as Macron does

you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do

This is briliant, by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

This is great, by @jamesrball.com www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...

The EU’s new travel rules look suspiciously like the ones he’d approve for Britain - so naturally, he’s against them ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

Is Nigel Farage already the prime minister? By me for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/steve-angles...

Europe is falling behind in key strategic areas. In The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social, I make the case for a stronger, centrally coordinated European industrial strategy – backed by the ECB – to bring us up to speed Read it here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-bali-tr...

The new movement is claiming 700,000 signups – and a fair proportion of those will have a very different view of the EU than its joint-leader @sanglesey.bsky.social

Farage's lies, and how to combat them. Brilliant by Matt d'Ancona www.thenewworld.co.uk/matthew-danc...

lol

Gary Lineker's first interview since leaving the BBC www.thenewworld.co.uk/gary-lineker...

Will MAGA throw Trump out of the White House? By @jamesball.bsky.social for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-h...

Why Bologna is the best film festival you've never heard of, by the excellent John Bleasdale www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-best-fil...

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

The rent-a-gob Spectator columnist has proposed dropping a nuclear bomb on Glastonbury despite preaching free speech for Tommy Robinson ✏️ Rats in a Sack