George Monaghan
@GMonaghan1998
Editorial assistant at the New Statesman. Peaceable Land out every Sunday morning.
In July 2024 leading Conservatives met for the first shadow cabinet after their election defeat. In comments later leaked to the Times on July 9th Kemi Badenoch ripped into Rishi Sunak over his D-Day gaffe and called his PPS a “buffoon”. On July 10th Badenoch called the leak…
"You are a serious person who does big things"
KEMI ISN'T WORKING by @Will___lloyd Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into…
There are pieces which 'go live'. And there are pieces which detonate! Six thousand relentless words of the above generation's fizziest talent on one of the country's most powerful people!
KEMI ISN'T WORKING by @Will___lloyd Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into…
KEMI ISN'T WORKING by @Will___lloyd Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into…
Inside this week’s cover story: 💥 Tories discuss whether or not Badenoch is an “anchor baby” 💥 Badenoch’s alleged Scottish speech aides from Fraser Nelson to Niall Ferguson 💥 Badenoch’s 2022 leadership speech delayed - by a Deliveroo McDonalds breakfast order 💥 Badenoch’s…
KEMI ISN'T WORKING by @Will___lloyd Inside the Conservative Party they know it will take more than a reshuffle to solve their problems. Kemi Badenoch struggles in her everyday job as Leader of the Opposition: avoiding the media, doomscrolling on her iPad and disappearing into…
Hombre reading the mag a few rows ahead of me at this talk has just skipped my page 😭😭😭 stings more than i thought it would!!
Not all, but some writers still believe the novel has powers of moral clarification. So it was never going to be long before one was set in the new world epicentre of clashing sympathies. Art in the wreckage of Gaza:
This week’s PL, trying to explain why I love Catch-22 so much. Brute, dumbfounded hysteria.
Intrepid, brilliant piece!
They admire Melania Trump for her reticence, but their real heroine is Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s feisty 27-year-old press secretary. @lilymayaisaacs meets America’s daughters 👇 buff.ly/jcx6W7O
Amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill will water down meaningful reform that is needed if we are to build 1.5 million homes this Parliament, and risk disappointing the millions of young voters who voted Labour in 2024 to solve the housing crisis. 2/
This is imperative. Morally.
Pensioners need a Summer Cool Payment newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
“I have no ideological position on this conflict. I approach it simply as a lawyer and a historian. But I sometimes wonder what Israel’s defenders would regard as unacceptable, if the current level of Israeli violence in Gaza is not enough. This is not self-defence. It is not…
“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!
