You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

I have annexed The country Whose resources I wanted And which you Were probably Hoping I could identify a giraffe It was the best clock Anybody drew I like McDonald's Hey look, a bird

The November 2026 Grand Theft Auto launch is set to warp the economics of the entertainment industry like little else before it ✏️ Matt Muir

Nothing has been quite the same in the decade since he made his final transformation. Except, that is, our appreciation of his genius ✏️ Paul Morley

🗞️ Our latest issue is now on sale - 2026: year of the great reckoning Featuring Paul Morley, Matthew d'Ancona, @johnkampfner.bsky.social, Paola Totaro, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @jamesrball.com and more Get 10 weeks for £10: buff.ly/yexUlEP

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How it started/ How it's going

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

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. www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Rejoining the reciprocal study scheme has infuriated Brexiteers - and given new impetus to calls for a full return to the EU ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

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

Morning, shwmae, I wrote a review of 2026 for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social which you can read here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

The Two Matts Podcast 🎙️ When are we going to take anti-semitism seriously (and actually do something about it?) Listen now 🎧 buff.ly/G3dlXg8

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.

“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.”

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...

National Rally’s Jordan Bardella is no backer of Frexit, despite meeting Nigel Farage in London ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

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. Tune in 🎧: buff.ly/za3cAd6

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

"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.

Completely untrue, but judged worthy of publishing by the Daily Express

“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.”

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

RIP Martin Parr. Jason Solomons wrote this lovely tribute for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social earlier this year www.thenewworld.co.uk/jason-solomo...

Subscribers are queuing up to criticise an article that called leaving the EU “an unmitigated economic failure” ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

“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...

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

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...

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Aren’t we all, pal.

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

‘Tories will always let you down’ says Farage, as his party collects more Tories ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Book review 📚 At 86, @margaretatwood.bsky.social has finally written a memoir, and it’s everything you’d want it to be ✏️ Katherine Cooper

A personal account of my relationship to Leatherface and the lads. From @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/john-bleasda...

Linklater’s film takes on thwarted love and the pain of looming obsolescence. It was easily my favourite from this year's London Film Festival ✏️ Matthew d'Ancona

As we suggested in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social’s diary last week – Polanski sparked rumours he was considering a Walthamstow run after being increasingly active in Stow Facebook groups (and having been accused of going low while doing so). www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

INTERVIEW 🎤 “I do have beef with people who use their money and power and influence to try to make lives worse for people” - Naomi Alderman ✏️ @jamesrball.com

Former Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard seems to have changed his tune despite revelations about Reform’s leader ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Headline of the day www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for EU negotiations, points the way to a showdown that would make Farage squirm ✏️ @sanglesey.bsky.social

I'm sure the fact that every person named bar the PM is either black, a woman or both is just one of those massive, mysterious coincidences.

‘I released the budget 35 minutes ago’

BBC DOSSIER UPDATE 🔔 Michael Prescott endured a grilling so light it could barely be called a defrosting, and yet he still seemed confused and largely out of his depth ✏️ @jamesrball.com

BREAKING 🚨 New crisis for the BBC as @rutgerbregman.com accuses them of censoring anti-Trump quote in his Reith Lectures ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

The newspaper and the columnist have both lashed out at the capital, one after an unlikely day trip and the other following a utensil dispute ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

The offer being pushed on Kyiv forces huge compromises and restrictions on Ukraine, but nothing on Russia. For that reason alone it is bound to fail ✏️ Nina Kuryata

Happy Boris Johnson could urinate through my mam’s letterbox and I’d still vote for him Day to all who celebrate

When it comes to Russian interference, Bill Browder, the US investor and prominent anti-Putin activist, believes the media has barely scratched the surface ✏️ Eleanor Longman-Rood