George Monaghan
@georgemonaghan.bsky.social
Not an island 😎 Editorial assistant at New Statesman. Peaceable Land out every Sunday morning peaceableland.substack.com
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The English have begun to hate
Weekend Report: The rise of Anglo Saxon Nationalism
Weekend Report: The rise of Anglo Saxon Nationalism
The English have begun to hate
The online anti-immigration movement has discovered a buried form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The English have begun to hate
Weekend Report: The rise of Anglo Saxon Nationalism
Weekend Report: The rise of Anglo Saxon Nationalism
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'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...
Charlie Porter talks to @georgemonaghan.bsky.social about his brilliant, #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlisted, novel, Nova Scotia House
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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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October 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
'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...
Charlie Porter talks to @georgemonaghan.bsky.social about his brilliant, #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlisted, novel, Nova Scotia House
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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...
Tommy Robinson's day of rage:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Tommy Robinson’s day of rage
The Unite the Kingdom protest in London quickly became something much grimmer than a nationalist street party.
www.newstatesman.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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...
Tommy Robinson's day of rage:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
THE FIGHT BACK by Andrew Marr
Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on.
This week's cover. Read on below:
Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on.
This week's cover. Read on below:
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THE FIGHT BACK by Andrew Marr
Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on.
This week's cover. Read on below:
Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on.
This week's cover. Read on below:
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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.
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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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September 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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.
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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!
Makes a fellow think - perhaps time to get sigma at vertical video and devious griddies!
August 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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!
Makes a fellow think - perhaps time to get sigma at vertical video and devious griddies!
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:
In @newstatesman.com:
August 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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:
In @newstatesman.com:
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The landlord stranglehold. How will Generation Rent ever find a home? @georgemonaghan.bsky.social
The landlord stranglehold
How will Generation Rent ever find a home?
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July 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The landlord stranglehold. How will Generation Rent ever find a home? @georgemonaghan.bsky.social
"Lofty views have long moved thoughtful souls to reflect on their property portfolios. ...Everything the light touched was a landlord's."
The landlord sranglehold!
The landlord sranglehold!
July 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"Lofty views have long moved thoughtful souls to reflect on their property portfolios. ...Everything the light touched was a landlord's."
The landlord sranglehold!
The landlord sranglehold!
“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!
Really pleased that yday's post about Francois Gilot and Picasso has become my most liked ever! dunno why!
July 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“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!
Really pleased that yday's post about Francois Gilot and Picasso has become my most liked ever! dunno why!
🚨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 :)
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 :)
July 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚨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 :)
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 :)
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:
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:
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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:
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:
Had an interesting afternoon at the Palestine Action protest today. The first time I have been asked "Are you a terrorist, sir?"
June 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Had an interesting afternoon at the Palestine Action protest today. The first time I have been asked "Are you a terrorist, sir?"
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!
An editor explained a rejection: ‘I like it but how many of us can there be? 500 in the whole world?’
Halfway there!
June 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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!
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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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
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
📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: We are all Mrs Dalloway now
We are all Mrs Dalloway now
For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.
www.newstatesman.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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
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:
So pleased to have written about Virginia Woolf in the NS on such a great day:
June 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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:
So pleased to have written about Virginia Woolf in the NS on such a great day:
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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
📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: We are all Mrs Dalloway now
We are all Mrs Dalloway now
For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.
www.newstatesman.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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
📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: We are all Mrs Dalloway now
Really pleased to be in today among several writers I admire and plenty of Addison Rae!
June 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Really pleased to be in today among several writers I admire and plenty of Addison Rae!
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
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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...
The revenge of the young male novelist
Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?
www.newstatesman.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
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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"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
📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: The revenge of the young male novelist
The revenge of the young male novelist
Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?
www.newstatesman.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"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
📕 @georgemonaghan.bsky.social: The revenge of the young male novelist
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
― P.G. Wodehouse
June 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse
― P.G. Wodehouse
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:
As new episodes of Clarkson's Farm come out today, a reflection in the NS on the complicated sunset of Jeremy Clarkson:
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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:
As new episodes of Clarkson's Farm come out today, a reflection in the NS on the complicated sunset of Jeremy Clarkson:
So pleased to be listed, for my first time ever, on Arts & Letters Daily! It's a great day
May 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
So pleased to be listed, for my first time ever, on Arts & Letters Daily! It's a great day
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“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
🗣️ @georgemonaghan.bsky.social meets Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane: “Come and meet this incredible tree”
The bestselling writer asks: can a forest think? Is a river alive?
www.newstatesman.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“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
🗣️ @georgemonaghan.bsky.social meets Robert Macfarlane
I loved meeting @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for the @newstatesman.com's weeekend interview
TW: man-eating carps
TW: man-eating carps
May 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I loved meeting @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for the @newstatesman.com's weeekend interview
TW: man-eating carps
TW: man-eating carps