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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Such happy, happy memories… www.thenewworld.co.uk/jay-elwes-tw...
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Twenty years on from the start of the financial crisis, is it happening again?
If anything, the situation now looks worse than it did back in the run-up to the last crash. And this time round, who would lead the global response?
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Frank Ramsey now on the wall along with the portraits of other former fellows of @kingscollege.bsky.social I am proud to have advocated for this recent addition
Wall of black and white photo portraits
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Peter Kellner says it would be a triumph for Burnham and disaster for Polanski if Lab holds Holborn & St Pancras www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the roving uniformed thuggish gangs in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I lived through the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. But as the twin towers fell I was far from both countries, among the people who would become its new victims ✏️ Lynne O'Donnell
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Twenty-five years later, these are the new victims of the 9/11 wars
I lived through the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. But as the twin towers fell I was far from both countries, among the people who would become its new victims
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ref Dover and Portsmouth, should you have the appetite for learning about the (new, same as the old) fash over breakfast
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As an author and a mother, this resonates.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Today’s question: why does the moon cover the sun so perfectly? How is it that both celestial bodies appear to us as exactly the same size?
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Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I wrote about the weird and vaguely-psychotic test you're asked to take when being recruited by Steven Bartlett - this is quite fun, even if I do say so myself: www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-muir-ap...
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Applying for a job with Steven Bartlett – very odd and very revealing
The podcaster and digital marketing man has an unusual hiring style, during which a candidate will learn just as much about him as he does about them
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Farage: literally a “has bin”.
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Emma-Kate Symons @eksymons.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
As thousands die in France's deadly hot summer, and after years of climate scepticism and obstruction, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has cynically reinvented itself as the party of cooling. It now calls for a national AC plan and the tactic could help drive it to power. @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The ‘too long, didn’t read’ here is: Andy Burnham isn’t going to blow up the gilts market. www.ft.com/content/8aa0...
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Gilt investors shouldn’t think so much about British politics
The risks of decisions in Westminster are overplayed compared with global turmoil
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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 )
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A message to the next PM – to avoid Starmer’s fate, concentrate on defence
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
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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 )
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This is why Starmer had to go
If you can’t tell a political story about the future, then what, really, are you asking people to vote for?
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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...
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What writing a novel taught me about Liz Truss
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
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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 )
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What writing a novel taught me about Liz Truss
You need to be the right kind of deluded to write a book. If you get the wrong sort – sorry – you’re heading for disaster
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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
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Don’t ban kids from social media – the real problem are the over-60s
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
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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.
A copy of South Island Place, a novel by Jay Elwes
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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...
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Nigel Farage and the politics of murder
The brutal killing of Henry Nowak has been seized upon by Farage as a means of political self-promotion. But if he and the hard right push the idea of an inter-ethnic conflict, they could crack apart ...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this is going to go on all summer, isn't it
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Every pleasure is a guilty pleasure if you were raised catholic enough
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ooo: openai.com/index/model-...
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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
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Tommy Robinson’s pointless, confused, US-funded march
If the hard right rabble rouser has to cross the Atlantic for financial backing, what does that say about his level of support in Britain?
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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
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The far right declares war on Kylian Mbappé
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…
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/05/2026
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.
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Tommy Robinson’s pointless, confused, US-funded march
If the hard right rabble rouser has to cross the Atlantic for financial backing, what does that say about his level of support in Britain?
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
America is not immune to the economic damage from the energy price shock that president Trump has unleashed ✏️ Duncan Weldon
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The US economy cannot escape the Iran war, no matter what Trump says
It may be self-sufficient in energy, but America can’t shut itself off from the global economy. As a result, the president’s war of choice in the middle east is about to make everything a lot more…
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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
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The most unwelcoming, expensive World Cup in history
It will be hideously expensive, will exclude whole sections of the US public and be largely inaccessible to foreigners – a perfect Trumpian tournament
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Stagflation www.economist.com/britain/2026...
Chart from The Economist showing an increase in deer populations in Britain from 1995 to 2025
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/04/2026
"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?"
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The Sun lost £53m last year - and this is what will happen to it when Murdoch is gone
It was Britain's most influential paper. Now it's barely in the national conversation
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
On the whole “nuclear dust” thing — for someone so fond of UFC, I’m surprised he can’t get his head round UF6.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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
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Super-rich donors are distorting UK politics. Why won’t Starmer fix it?
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
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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.
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It’s very, very good. And quite alarming. The response would be heartbreaking if Goodwin deserved a single scintilla of your sympathy.
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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
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Polls: Americans hate Trump, his war and what he’s doing to the US
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
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@richlusc.bsky.social Hey Richard- If you could poss email at address I sent earlier that’d be great. Cheers j
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@richlusc.bsky.social Hi Richard — Jay Elwes here, calling from the new world mag in London. Can you drop me an email at jayelwes@gmail.com. Wanted to put an idea to you for a piece. Cheers j
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/03/2026
“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.”
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James O’Brien says the press have gone mad – and it’s worse than you think
The LBC host on how Brexit logic is making papers defend Trump on Iran – because ‘they’d rather look ridiculous than admit they’re wrong’
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
What is it with the US having incidents in gulfs?
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/03/2026
weeeeee the Outsiders Arts Club website has been updated - do have a look if you want to find out about our next date and when the tickets will be on sale, and you can also have a look at some of the pieces we'll have for sale on the night: outsidersartsclub.com
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Alan Rusbridger will be talking us through this story on LBC at 12.30. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...
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GB News Scandal: The dossier
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Twenty journalists analysed 15 hours of television – none of which complied with Ofcom’s regulations. These are their findings
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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...
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Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/03/2026
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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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 🚨 Read Alan Rusbridger's report on how GB News effectively became Reform TV @arusbridger.bsky.social FREE TO READ 🔓️ buff.ly/VKnNVEU
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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
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It’s official: Reform has slumped in the polls
Prime minister Farage? The danger has receded… for the moment.
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Jay @jayelwes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Ok, look, that movie “One battle after another”? Total mess. Sorry but it is.
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