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George Monaghan
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George Monaghan
@GMonaghan1998
Junior commissioning editor at the New Statesman. Peaceable Land out every Sunday morning.
- You can see why RF Kuang sells so much. I’ve reviewed her new book Katabasis, out today:
- Fun times in the Saturday Read - the Inbetweeners and Gladstone's bad rizz
- And Donald Davie on John Clare in next week’s archive - never a better time to subscribe! Ps always feel free to send in requestsAmazing - Philip Larkin reviews Tennyson's collected poems. Reprinted in the New Statesman newstatesman.com/archive/2025/1…
- 🚨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 :)
- 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:
- I bowled down to Westminster this morning to write up Nick Clegg's speech, and even got to speak to him :)
- Come on Labour. Polish off the bleak grey rock: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of art. Don't bang up Graham Linehan for online comments.
- Brace yourself first... then get this down. A scary prognosis.DOOM LOOP by @AndrewMarr9 Why no politician can get Britain out of this mess The postwar British political establishment is collapsing. The Conservatives threw themselves into a death spiral last year, though it had been a long time in the making. Now in government, Labour is
- So happy w this!Calling it today that Ben Markovits’s The Rest of Our Lives is the rightful winner of this year’s Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes!
- Fun archive this week -- Clive James on Brezhnev!
- Two big banging pieces doing loads of traffic this morning! Start the week with a splash of voicey prose! Only in the NS!
- Not just a cool scene report - also a clear and fascinating view of what works in politics now. Worth combing through. It's a new world!"The capital of capitalism now has a socialist mayor." 🌎 @freddiejh8: How Zohran Mamdani won New York newstatesman.com/international-…
