Thanks so much Anoosh :)

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?

What a great interview by @georgemonaghan.bsky.social on the joys and agonies of being the internet's biggest book critic:

The English have begun to hate The online anti-immigration movement has discovered a buried form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism

The English have begun to hate

Weekend Report: The rise of Anglo Saxon Nationalism

Charlie Porter: “Every word is tested” The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on active reader engagement, the UK Aids memorial and learning to make pastry.

'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...

Tommy Robinson’s day of rage The Unite the Kingdom protest in London quickly became something much grimmer than a nationalist street party.

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...

Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on Labour has shuffled to the right. Will it be enough to save Starmer from his enemies?

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THE FIGHT BACK by Andrew Marr

Farage rises. Burnham watches. But Starmer fights on.

This week's cover. Read on below:

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...

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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The revolution will be TikTokked Yvette Cooper is wise to aim her media strategy at the dominant modes of our day.

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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!

The Online Safety Act humiliates us all For too many adults, age requirements amount to a ban.

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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:

The landlord stranglehold How will Generation Rent ever find a home?

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!

“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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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 :)

Smells like Jane Austen A Harrods-only Pride and Prejudice perfume profanes our greatest novelist.

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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:

Welcome to hot Palestine Action summer Proscribing the group may only increase its popularity.

here goes...
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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!

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:

We are all Mrs Dalloway now For Virginia Woolf, stream of consciousness was a method. Now, it’s a way of life.

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

Really pleased to be in today among several writers I admire and plenty of Addison Rae!

The revenge of the young male novelist Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?

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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The revenge of the young male novelist Can good writing solve our crisis of masculinity?

"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

PL49 - Hero The immaculate conceptions of P.G. Wodehouse

Link here, peaceableland.substack.com/p/pl45-hero-...

In Peaceable Land this week I wrote about the immaculate conceptions of P.G. Wodehouse