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George Monaghan

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Not an island 😎 Editorial assistant at New Statesman. Peaceable Land out every Sunday morning peaceableland.substack.com

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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What a great interview by @georgemonaghan.bsky.social on the joys and agonies of being the internet's biggest book critic:
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Meet Jack Edwards, the world's most powerful literary critic
Jack Edwards shapes the online world’s reading habits from BookTok. But can he handle his success?
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The English have begun to hate Weekend Report: The rise of Anglo Saxon Nationalism
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The English have begun to hate
The online anti-immigration movement has discovered a buried form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism
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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
'The word novel means new. It’s a really simple action, it’s really clear and it’s really powerful.' Charlie Porter talks to @georgemonaghan.bsky.social about his brilliant, #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlisted, novel, Nova Scotia House www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Charlie Porter: “Every word is tested”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on active reader engagement, the UK Aids memorial and learning to make pastry.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
For a while, before the violence and shouts of “Heil fucking Hitler”, it felt like a nationalist street party. Tommy Robinson's day of rage: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
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Tommy Robinson’s day of rage
The Unite the Kingdom protest in London quickly became something much grimmer than a nationalist street party.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
THE FIGHT BACK by Andrew Marr Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on. This week's cover. Read on below:
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Was fun joining Niall Paterson of @news.sky.com and @georgemonaghan.bsky.social last week, to talk about working with the ever energetic @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @londonassembly.bsky.social. podfollow.com/skynewsdaily
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Sky News Daily
The Sky News Daily podcast with Niall Paterson brings a deeper look at the big stories - with Sky News correspondents and expert guests.Every night at 5pm, Niall is joined by the correspondents we hav...
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
In the @newstatesman.com: History will be written by the scrollers. It will anoint no anachronisms. Great move of Yvette Cooper to have a go at TikTok. Makes a fellow think - perhaps time to get sigma at vertical video and devious griddies!
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The Online Safety Act humiliates us all. Labour should not expose its public to extortion and shame. It is way off-mission. PS don't call people Jimmy Savile! In @newstatesman.com:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The landlord stranglehold. How will Generation Rent ever find a home? @georgemonaghan.bsky.social‬
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The landlord stranglehold
How will Generation Rent ever find a home?
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"Lofty views have long moved thoughtful souls to reflect on their property portfolios. ...Everything the light touched was a landlord's." The landlord sranglehold!
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“You’re headed for a catastrophe,” she said. I told her I felt it was the kind of catastrophe I didn’t want to avoid. She went back to Montpellier and I went back to Pablo. Really pleased that yday's post about Francois Gilot and Picasso has become my most liked ever! dunno why!
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🚨SOME PERSONAL NEWS🚨 I have learned how to edit the below type of screenshot in order to promote my self-compiled self-published ebook of my writings from the last 12 months. Cover and contents in replies, link in bio. Thanks all :)
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Whoever smelt it dealt it! That new odor is a £295 Pride and Prejudice perfume, on sale only at Harrods. Freya Graham was at the launch breakfast for a lively write-up that I am pleased to have seen through. Smells like Jane Austen:
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Had an interesting afternoon at the Palestine Action protest today. The first time I have been asked "Are you a terrorist, sir?"
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Really pleased to have blown past 250 subscribers on Peaceable Land🤠 An editor explained a rejection: ‘I like it but how many of us can there be? 500 in the whole world?’ Halfway there!
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A great piece by @georgemonaghan.bsky.social for @newstatesman.com including a mention for @markhussey.bsky.social's 'Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel', which is out now! #booksky #woolf
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It's Dalloway Day folks, and one hundred years since publication. So pleased to have written about Virginia Woolf in the NS on such a great day:
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life. 📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: We are all Mrs Dalloway now
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We are all Mrs Dalloway now
For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Really pleased to be in today among several writers I admire and plenty of Addison Rae!
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Get your pens out for the lads, all the young dudes are back in town and time, I've piled in on literary man! Read six really charming new novels for this. A rich few weeks of inner life. Link below: Revenge of the Young Male Novelist www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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The revenge of the young male novelist
Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"However greatly exaggerated the death (or murder, or suicide) of literary man has been, for two months at least it seems all the young dudes are back in town." 📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: The revenge of the young male novelist
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The revenge of the young male novelist
Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” ― P.G. Wodehouse
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
To be an everyman without being a nothingman is quite something, man. As new episodes of Clarkson's Farm come out today, a reflection in the NS on the complicated sunset of Jeremy Clarkson:
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So pleased to be listed, for my first time ever, on Arts & Letters Daily! It's a great day
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
“It’s been the work of many hands and many years to create this crisis, and it will be the work of many hands and many years to undo it.” 🗣️ @georgemonaghan.bsky.social meets Robert Macfarlane
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Robert Macfarlane: “Come and meet this incredible tree”
The bestselling writer asks: can a forest think? Is a river alive?
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I loved meeting @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for the @newstatesman.com's weeekend interview TW: man-eating carps
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"No one agrees with Nick. Not anymore. Cleggmania ended not with an assassination, but by self-slaughter." 🖊️ @georgemonaghan.bsky.social‬: Can you ever forgive Nick Clegg?
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Can you ever forgive Nick Clegg?
The 2010 election’s favourite politician has returned from Silicon Valley with a message for Britain.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Here goes folks the The Booker Prizes International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, for novels translated to English, ranked! Even if the 'actual prize' is being awarded on Tuesday and I'm not invited...
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This, published yesterday, remains a lazy and cheap innuendo
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Keats dies at 25. Fitzgerald starts writing Gatsby at 27. The narrator calls 26 the first year 'too old to lie to myself and call it honor'.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Uh oh haha
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The landscape of contemporary masculinity – sex-obsessed and porn-addled – is not one Gareth Southgate can speak to. 🖊️ @georgemonaghan.bsky.social
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Down with the “positive male role model”
The landscape of contemporary masculinity – sex-obsessed and porn-addled – is not one Gareth Southgate can speak to.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I went to see a new singer called Gracie Abrams at the O2 last night
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I staggered my invitations to Rye so it wouldn't be awkward if too many people said yes. Then literally no one wanted to go. Oh well I wasn't alone - Henry James was with me!
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
So pleased to have my meeting with Andrew Roberts out as the special thirtieth issue of my newsletter! peaceableland.substack.com/p/pl30-a-cer...
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PL30: A certain greatness
Meeting Lord Roberts
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Orwell is not Saint George! A cold early rise and a fairly abject ‘sorry but could you take a photo of me with this statue’ on Sunday morning for the sake of this post, but pleased it's out and was today listed on RealClearBooks.
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This week's cover: Messiah Complex A special issue on the second coming of Donald Trump, featuring Tina Brown, Jason Cowley, Thomas Piketty & Michael Sandel. Plus: - The fragile future of the Middle East - Prince Harry vs Murdoch - Who owns London? - Gatsby at 100
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Orwell is not Saint George! A cold early rise and a fairly abject ‘sorry but could you take a photo of me with this statue’ on Sunday morning for the sake of this post, but pleased it's out and was today listed on RealClearBooks.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The realest moments might be those we will always remember. But they might be those we never will at all. Or so I groped, at least, in this weekend’s PL. peaceableland.substack.com/p/peaceable-...
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Peaceable Land 28 - Lost Kept Time
Sorting the clippings for that NS article on the novelist James Salter, I noticed that there occur in his work two different, in fact opposing, ideas as to what in life is realest and truest.
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
So pleased to be on the front page of my fav mag on my fav day! Merry xmas everybody :)
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George Monaghan @georgemonaghan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
So pleased to have this out! I love these films and I love Christmas!
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
James Salter’s machismo myth The all-action American novelist is praised for his virile heroics – but it was his instinct for “the feminine” that gave his books beauty and depth. By @georgemonaghan.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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James Salter’s machismo myth
The all-action American novelist is praised for his virile heroics – but it was his instinct for “the feminine” that gave his books beauty and depth.
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