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Dire midterm polls, sackings, a dodgy deal with Putin... all looks bad for the president. But he might take the US down with him ✏️ Nicky Woolf

"The experience of reading BANK JOB is like nothing so much as hearing the ravings of someone who is furious at her smoke alarm for burning down her house. Time and again, Truss gets confused about basic facts, the passage of time, and the basics of how cause-and-effect works."

This is great, because most parents think of their children as callous dullards who hate animals, so it's really picked out the traits that makes her daughter unique, here.

Driving through the US southern states on a Harley-Davidson offers lessons in hospitality - and also in why so many vote against their own best interests ✏️ Guy Kiddey

Very surprised more people aren't watching* this excellent podcast! Brings me up to date with vital/trivial interweb trends so I can embarrass my children ❤️ *they are probably listening while doing cool things, but then they miss @jamesrball.com's cat joining in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUJz...

"If the RNLI finds you drowning at sea, would Nigel Farage prefer for them to ask for you to produce your passport before they fish you out of the water? If you’re unfortunate enough to be drowning without the correct identification to hand, should they leave you to drown?"

It doesn’t belong to cowboys or Trump – it’s diverse, funny, rebellious and brilliant ✏️ David Quantick

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Interview 🎤 The PM’s former advisor isn’t convinced by the bargain the AI companies are offering. They stand to make trillions: but what do we get in return? ✏️ Jay Elwes

ITV’s documentary reveals the party as a hotbed of racists baying for concentration camps and executions ✏️ @jamesrball.com

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The president shared a quote claiming the actor had said he was "a great friend and an even better president". Except it wasn't true ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Patriot is a tapestry of bilious grievance from a politician whose star is very much declining ✏️ Ian Winwood

The Tory leader bizarrely compared Andy Burnham to one of Britain’s most beloved characters. Why? ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.

Aaron Sorkin’s film is gripping and scary, yet the Facebook founder and his toxic legacy remain untouchable ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona 🔗 buff.ly/0nzb2MV

Patriot is a tapestry of bilious grievance from a politician whose star is very much declining ✏️ Ian Winwood

Emily St John Mandel’s new novel Exit Party is set in a future of mistrust, surveillance and civil war. So why is she still optimistic? ✏️ Nick Duerden

The former PM’s new book might have a point about cooperation, but it’s both turgid and naive ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

Cash, corruption and institutional failures allowed the sex offender to prey on women at his Virgin Islands base ✏️ @maitlis.bsky.social

I wish Gordon Brown’s new book were not so dull. But a couple of heartfelt passages aside, I’m afraid it is. And given what a clever, experienced man he is, that’s an awful pity. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-g...

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

David Kynaston’s new book shows how the Beatles, Carnaby Street and Geoff Hurst obscured years of decline, racism and repression ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

📝 FULL TRANSCRIPT “We will hope again.” Andy Burnham has delivered his first Labour conference speech as Prime Minister. Read the speech in full — from Brexit and Europe to housing, social care and the future of the Union

Andy Burnham has just delivered his first speech as leader at the Labour Party Conference, and perhaps the most consequential British political speech in decades. Comment your thoughts below! 🚨 The New World is FREE until the end of 30th September. 🔗 Take a look around our website. Link in bio

Alex Gibney’s documentary Knife shows the “wounded happiness” of a writer returning in triumph to the venue where he was nearly killed ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona 🔗 buff.ly/4vZv1Pk

Weeks of what looks like blatant lawbreaking have finally resulted in an arrest. But the home secretary seems happy to look elsewhere ✏️ @jamesrball.com

🚨I got to interview Danny Tommo for The New Yorker. "I try to explain the Redcrosse Knight, a man of flawed virtue who must endure spiritual collapse before defeating his dragon. 'He sounds decent. But in my one, the dragon is the RNLI, yeah?'" www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

"The Mail has no obvious route back to the kind of dominant position it once held. The business model that made it a giant no longer works. Print is diminishing, its website is adrift, and the brand no longer speaks to the modern right"

"Shabana Mahmood is the cabinet minister responsible for the UK’s policing and its national security – as well, of course, as managing the country’s borders…I include this reminder because Mahmood increasingly seems to be operating under the assumption that her job only concerns the latter."

"The early days of Andy Burnham’s government have made Starmer’s look positively energetic: a PM who usually loves nothing more than being on camera has studiously avoided saying a word as he loses control of law and order in Britain, and his home secretary seems determined to appease the thugs."

Its strident right wing views have dominated British discourse for years – and it seemed set to rule the digital age too. But suddenly, it is struggling to find its place in a new Britain and a changed world ✏️ @jamesrball.com

Michael Gove finally gets to be PM in a reality show about a Russian attack on the UK that feels like a campaign for public support for defence spending ✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social

"Labour is bad, the Conservatives are good, and we’re not sure about Reform. Crime is terrifying, but we want every gruesome detail about it. Hot tubs are a menace. And, wherever possible, we want a nice photo of a lady in a dress, please. That’s just the Daily Mail way."

You might think The Wargame is a reality TV show where you get to see Michael Gove pretending to be PM. But that’s the bait. It could have been funded by the MoD. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-s...

My review of Sky’s The Wargame. It’s not really about how Michael Gove would govern in a crisis. It’s propaganda - maybe prescient, but propaganda nonetheless. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-s...

Now, imagine the response to a column asking why a Premier League team has a Jewish supporters group.

Strictly feels more modern with this presenting team, which is something of an achievement for a show whose aesthetic has barely altered in 22 years. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

Controversial, dizzyingly erudite and defiantly European, is the world finally catching up with the Slovenian thinker? ✏️ @www.johnbleasdale.com

When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.

Teases out how Trumpism, the Rapture and AI cohere in parts of the American mind. For those who want to understand why America has gone down the path to fascism, this is a compelling polemic. Review of Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-a...

'Suicidal empathy' is a new buzzword on the far right, but where did it come from and how does it fit into the MAGA worldview? www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-t...

The latest far right theory turns compassion into weakness and cruelty into common sense ✏️ Ros Taylor

I just can't stop getting these exclusives! "The first rule of fundraising for Reform is simple: don’t give Reform a donation. Give them some money which performs all the functions of a donation while avoiding the emotional baggage of calling it one." www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

"When police, electoral officials, Parliament and the press are all sniffing around, it gets very difficult to convince new donors that it’s a good time to part with their cash." www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-f...