Editor at large THE NEW WORLD; Contributing Editor, @prospect_uk; Podcast @the2Matts with Matt Kelly Thurs/Sun. Visiting research fellow @QMUL
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RIP John Edward William d’Ancona CB (May 28, 1935-June 24, 2019). Beloved husband, father, grandfather, public servant, footballer, and patriot. He played for Newcastle and rose to the heights of Whitehall. But love of family came first. There was nobody like you, Dad. Thank you.
Q&A: Is John Healey's big day going to be a great big nothingburger?
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Fatherland is a memorable film about a master we’ve neglected
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Pawel Pawlikowski’s exquisite portrait of Thomas Mann, FATHERLAND, leads this week's culture picks in @TheNewWorldmag
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The PM’s first budget must show the meaning behind his mantra – by challenging us to be citizens rather than impatient observers
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What do the riots in France really signal? And what do they mean for liberal societies under strain?
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Really important piece
Welcome to the new global order of the two AI empires. My latest for @ForeignAffairs with @ericschmidt and Lisa Klaassen.
Burnham's idea of "hope" is radically different to - and has deeper roots than - Blair's focus upon "progress"
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Well said @RMCunliffe
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“I am a Jewish woman being called antisemitic. I don’t think you would sit here & lecture somebody of any other religion or race on what counted as bigotry or racism towards them in the way you have explicitly called me antisemitic..I don’t think you would do that
Q&A: How big a threat to the UK is Le Pen? What's going on at Faber with Sally Rooney? Plus: the Matts invent words...
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In his new book Signs from the Future, the great philosopher decodes today’s chaos and warns of worse to come
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Slavoj Žižek's fine new book SIGNS FROM THE FUTURE leads this week's culture picks in @TheNewWorldmag
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END TIMES FASCISM by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor - my review for @ChurchTimes
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Putin is the big winner in Trump's shameful betrayal of Ukraine
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Our next edition is on sale! 🔥
Read @MatthewdAncona on Trump's snuff politics and the very public execution of American values. Plus, @campbellclaret on Kellyanne Conway 🇺🇸
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Hegseth and Trump are “making the provision of death porn at global scale a function of US statecraft: clippable, meme-ready, a disgusting feast for AI and sadistic voyeurism”. Read this anatomy of a public execution. ✍️@MatthewdAncona @TheNewWorldmag app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/…
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Someone who really read everything Lewis ever wrote would have remembered that he said, "nothing can be more disastrous than the view that the cinema can and should replace popular written fiction. The elements which it excludes are precisely those which give the untrained mind its only access to the imaginative world. There is death in the camera."
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I heard an American podcaster say of the botched lethal injection execution: "If she likes Jesus so much, go meet him." @MatthewdAncona Trump’s snuff politics is a new low in American cruelty thenewworld.co.uk/matthew-da…
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Many creatives talk dismissively of "AI slop". But the "slop" is increasingly winning literary prizes. If the creative industries are to flourish in the future, they have to stop hiding behind these sorts of out-of-date dismissals.
Exclusive: Another prestigious award has gone to a writer who seems to have used AI as the crisis of trust in the literary world intensifies, @vauhinivara reports: theatlantic.com/books/2026/1…
Pete Hegseth’s plan to live-stream an execution marks a terrible convergence of ancestral barbarism with hyper-modern entertainment culture
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Q&A: Is this end for Zack Polanski? What is going on in France? Plus: the greatest ever political speeches
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