The ‘too long, didn’t read’ here is: Andy Burnham isn’t going to blow up the gilts market. www.ft.com/content/8aa0...

This is Labour’s last chance to see off the threat of a 2029 Farage victory. There is one piece of advice that the next PM needs to hear ✏️ Paul Mason ( @paulmason.bsky.social )

If you can’t tell a political story about the future, then what, really, are you asking people to vote for? ✏️ Jay Elwes ( @jayelwes.bsky.social )

As yet another PM heads for disaster, we see the familiar tragic figure of the person who thinks they’re one thing when they are really another. This happens to be the theme of my new novel — I wrote about it for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-wh...

You need to be the right kind of deluded to write a book. If you are the wrong sort – sorry – you’re heading for disaster ✏️ Jay Elwes ( @jayelwes.bsky.social )

If you’re looking for the age-group that’s become dangerously radicalised, and has spread disinformation and populist hate online, the culprit is not the under-16s. It’s their grandparents ✏️ Matt Muir

It turns out that writing a book takes about two years, which is quite a lot of intense, solitary time. The best thing is ending up with something I did not plan and that I never could have planned. There’s something comfortingly non-deterministic about that. Perhaps there’s hope for us after all.

Should this mark the extreme extent of a bubble, let no one say there weren't some absolutely gigantic red flags www.ft.com/content/9528...

I have written about the tragic murder of Henry Nowak, his family's dignified response, the political responses and the risk of zero-sum conflict between majority and minority groups for the New World www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

this is going to go on all summer, isn't it

Every pleasure is a guilty pleasure if you were raised catholic enough

Ooo: openai.com/index/model-...

Presumably if you are shop that’s being forced to sell certain things at a discount, you simply won’t sell those things any more

If Tommy Robinson couldn’t pull together these events without wealthy Americans, how much support does he have, really? If he can’t pull together even a basic idea of what his rally stands for, what’s the point of it all? ✏️ @jamesrball.com

In a Vanity Fair interview, the star footballer said he was worried by the rise of the hard right. The result was a wave of race-baiting, and the return of the big Le Pen lie: that unless you’re white, you’re not really French ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

America is not immune to the economic damage from the energy price shock that president Trump has unleashed ✏️ Duncan Weldon

It will be hideously expensive, will exclude whole sections of the US public and be largely inaccessible to foreigners – a perfect Trumpian tournament ✏️ Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

Stagflation www.economist.com/britain/2026...

"Thirty-four years on, the Sun is surely setting, just like its proprietor. Its readership is much diminished, its political power is all but used up, and it doesn’t even make money any more… "Stop to think for a moment: what’s the last Sun front page that you can actually remember?"

On the whole “nuclear dust” thing — for someone so fond of UFC, I’m surprised he can’t get his head round UF6.

The super rich are becoming increasingly influential in British politics. The PM has already set a limit on foreign donations, but it doesn’t go far enough. It’s time to take the final step ✏️ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

Samuel Beckett’s 120th birthday today. Aside from being a punishingly brilliant writer, he also pointed out that TS Eliot only included the “S” so that his name didn’t spell “toilet” backwards.

It’s very, very good. And quite alarming. The response would be heartbreaking if Goodwin deserved a single scintilla of your sympathy.

Haunted by that very strange, very rich man who thinks that introspection didn’t exist 400 years ago, and by the thought that someone out there might actually have believed him.

For Trump to stand a chance at the mid-terms, he needs to win over independents. But they hate him – and their dislike is only growing ✏️Peter Kellner

@richlusc.bsky.social Hey Richard- If you could poss email at address I sent earlier that’d be great. Cheers j

@richlusc.bsky.social Hi Richard — Jay Elwes here, calling from the new world mag in London. Can you drop me an email at [email protected]. Wanted to put an idea to you for a piece. Cheers j

“The Twitter madness is feeding back into the newspapers because these columnists are terminally online. They are obsessed with things that most people outside of Twitter don’t really care about and it’s a doom loop, isn’t it? And then it sets the agenda for what everybody else is talking about.”

What is it with the US having incidents in gulfs?

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Alan Rusbridger will be talking us through this story on LBC at 12.30. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

The team at @thenewworldmag.bsky.social have made this free to read – but it took a team of 20+ to assemble the dossier here. It's already had results: the PM's had to respond to the interview at PMQs. If you want to help fund work like this, there's a £1 introductory subscription offer.

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As Reform’s agenda has become better known, and more voters become aware of its weak record in running county councils, it has lost a chunk of last year’s converts ✏️ Peter Kellner

Ok, look, that movie “One battle after another”? Total mess. Sorry but it is.

The oil supply has gone and with an economy in ruins, Cubans are now struggling to eat. US sanctions are pushing the Caribbean nation towards catastrophe ✏️ @harrietbarber.bsky.social

Their mud-slinging over Iran shows that Farage, Badenoch and the Mail prefer to side with US extremists than back their own country ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

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Oil at $108 and rising.

The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse in Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous ✏️ Jay Elwes

The US secretary of war insulted the American dead, attacked the press and released one of the most stupid pieces of propaganda ever made. ✏️ Jay Elwes

The Minnesota bloodbath was all his idea. For now, he’s safely in the White House – but one day he could make a very useful scapegoat ✏️ Nicky Woolf

Retaliation is structurally embedded in the Islamic Republic’s doctrine of deterrence. The only uncertainty is its scale – and how many borders it will cross ✏️ Lynne O'Donnell

As Merz arrives at the White House, the first European leader to do so since the start of the Mideast crisis, the lose-lose politics of dealing with Trump open.substack.com/pub/thenewwo...

The US is pulling back from Europe. If it withdraws its nuclear umbrella, that will leave the continent dangerously exposed. It is time to plan for that scenario ✏️ Tom Arms

We know what happens when the US breaks something and then walks away. The result is catastrophe. The problem is, Trump doesn’t really care Full article 🔗 buff.ly/Bh6oI0g @paulmason.bsky.social

“Kush” had notoriously arranged for a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in the election contributions case against him. Now he has been rehabilitated as Trump’s ambassador to France ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social