Iran really does have a lot of oil, doesn’t it?

I reported back in *August 2024* that Goodwin had left the university of Kent. And that the supposed emeritus title he used was nothing of the sort. Since then he’s only hid a part-time title from a private for-profit university. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

“This post-modern swerve was remarkable because until then the idea of truth as a subjective variable had been associated with the left. But now it crossed over to the radical right where a new breed of po-mo populist was beginning to say idiotic things” www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ho...

“We actively take on the world as it is,” said Carney, “not wait around for a world we wish it to be.” The lesson is that “the middle powers must act together, because if we’re not on the table, we’re on the menu.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ca...

All those years at Goldman would have imprinted in Carney’s mind that the point of rules is not the rules themselves, but their outcome. A lawyer like Starmer would see it very differently — the law is everything. Carney’s outlook is much colder, more pragmatic. www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ca...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Time to start thinking seriously about what that post-American world might actually look like @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ca...

That was my thought too. Still, it does maybe explain why the government is caught off guard by *everything*.

The Liz Truss Show, the former PM’s new weekly YouTube series, makes QAnon feel like the Periodic Table, writes Alan Rusbridger

Fair bit of ‘Europe should sell US debt and equity holdings’ about today. Sell to who?

The only appropriate response is to nationalise his golf courses, on the basis that they are crucial for our national security.

Ahem. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m...

"The US has never had a rival like China: its equal or more in technology, trade and military power." Bronwen Maddox on the challenge posed to the US by China's rise to power. Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/4pHKSpH

People talk about the right side of history - everyone living is currently on the right side of history (it is behind them, where it should be). One day, everyone living will be on the wrong side of history (they will be dead and part of it). Thank you for coming to my brutally materialist TED talk.

Sounds like £30m for Cornish Lithium there.

“Having someone like Robbie Gibb on the board is like a wolf in a sheep-pen. In some ways, it’s not his fault. It’s in his nature. He’s doing what he believes to be right. The real problem is the absolute lack of pushback from a weak chairman [Shah] and other board members.”

opening moves in Gilt yields across the curve sending a clear signal to Reeves and Starmer that their latest nonsense is about as wrong as it could be:

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“The symbolism of the moment is hard to beat. At a time when Trump is not just demonising immigrants, but harassing them and sending masked goons to kidnap them from the street, America’s greatest city – and Trump’s hometown – has elected a Muslim immigrant to run it.”

"The idea of the gradual, the subtle and the consensual has gone from world affairs, replaced by the sudden, the belligerent and the shocking. Which makes the liberal promise of the Blair-Clinton era feel even more like a faraway dream." Vale liberal democracy? Read ⤵️ by @jayelwes.bsky.social

Have you noticed that something very unusual has happened to us in the past decade or so? Here’s my attempt to explain why: www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ho...

if you fancy a distraction from [gestures at everything]! I've got a fun column out in the New World, in the paper and online, on my increasingly doomed attempts at becoming a film buff: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Russia bought themselves a senior member of the Reform party to do their bidding. He’s been found guilty – why does no one seem to care? ✏️ Patience Wheatcroft

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

Timeline Exchange began 632am on 17th Oct. Deportation exchange an hour or two later Sultana challenged it 3pm on 17/10 Bridget Phillipson did so at 645pm, and Mehdi Hasan 7pm At 730am on 18/10 Sultana noted no lobby journalist had challenged it in those first 24 hours Calgie apology 1pm 18/10

“We do not know what the motives are behind this attack. But then if there are people out there who want to kill your friends, their motives are irrelevant.” Powerful piece by @jayelwes.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-ki...

A very moving piece of writing by @jayelwes.bsky.social in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

A reminder that no one knows who did this or why.

A belligerent and terrifyingly effective liar, Leavitt isn’t just Trump’s press secretary – she’s the very embodiment of his media strategy. But signs of strain are beginning to show... ✏️ Nicky Woolf

One for you @raskin.house.gov ?

"we have actually banned @jamesrball.com from the conference"

"In his opening remarks, Democrat Jamie Raskin dismissed Farage as a “far-right, pro-Putin politician”, who “calls England an authoritarian regime while saying that Vladimir Putin is the world leader he admires the most”."

Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

Free speech for me. You, on the other hand… www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderators off platforms. This can’t go on ✏️ @jamesrball.com

it’s a game where you can waive the rules for your buddies, but ruthlessly enforce the letter of the law on your enemies. It’s Trump all over. ✏️ @jayelwes.bsky.social

Why the world needs debate @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/nigel-warbur...

Like the hapless Fantasia character, Donald Trump has learned that wielding the axe without experience, humility and understanding ends in chaos ✏️ @moisesnaim.bsky.social 🔓Free to read www.thenewworld.co.uk/moises-naim-...

All those tanks being shipped into Washington DC — I do hope that, after this weekend parade, they’re shipped out again. I really, really hope they are.

All those people who’ve been banging on about free speech for so many years — how remarkably silent they are. bsky.app/profile/moth...

RIP Sly. X open.spotify.com/track/4WyVRn...

When the facts change: www.ft.com/content/a9b5...

I wrote about Ukraine's view of the summer offensive for @theneweuropean.bsky.social www.theneweuropean.co.uk/luke-mcgee-u...

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