George Monaghan
@georgemonaghan.bsky.social
Not an island 😎 Editorial assistant at New Statesman. Peaceable Land out every Sunday morning peaceableland.substack.com
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:
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:
"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!
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:
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!
In Peaceable Land this week I wrote about the immaculate conceptions of P.G. Wodehouse
June 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
In Peaceable Land this week I wrote about the immaculate conceptions of P.G. Wodehouse
“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
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
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...
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...
May 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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...
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...
April 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This, published yesterday, remains a lazy and cheap innuendo
April 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This, published yesterday, remains a lazy and cheap innuendo
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!
Oh well I wasn't alone - Henry James was with me!
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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!
Oh well I wasn't alone - Henry James was with me!
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.
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.
January 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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.
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.
So pleased to be on the front page of my fav mag on my fav day! Merry xmas everybody :)
December 25, 2024 at 8:42 AM
So pleased to be on the front page of my fav mag on my fav day! Merry xmas everybody :)