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@JonnElledge
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author, columnist, bestselling author (seriously). @newstatesman @theneweuropean @ohgodwhatnowpod. barely here these days, fewer nazis on bluesky.
east end innit
Joined February 2009
bloody hell I'm on a list with Sally Rooney.
Presenting our Foyles Book of the Year 2024 shortlist: whittled down from the past year of bookish excellence—a bookshelf full of essential reading, from established writers and new voices alike, defining this year in books. Behold the shortlistees…
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"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened.". This week's NS column asks: how can you have progressive politics without any sense of progress? .
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From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
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"Self-nomination automatically disqualifies the nominee, apparently. So that’s me stuffed." Last week's Nerd's Eye View column for the New World concerned the Nobel Prize.
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Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news
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"Probably food poisoning, but I find the implication he just stuffed his face with eels until he literally died both amusing and, frankly, relatable.". Eels, moles, cocaine and morphine: some noteworthy British monarch deaths.
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Also! Whatever happened to the Near East? And the lightning map of the world.
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"People will want someone to blame. In all probability, that’s going to be the government. But that probability becomes certainty, if ministers don’t offer up an alternative.". The case for making Jeremy Hunt the new Liam Byrne.
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RT @NewStatesman: I'm on Mounjaro, and not afraid to say it, writes @JonnElledge. Enough of the weird embarrassment about the medication, a….
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Enough of the weird embarrassment about the medication, already.
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"Many people prefer not to talk about it. That’s their choice, but – well, bugger that. I’m on it, I’ve had blessedly few side effects, and I feel absolutely no shame about any of it.". It finally happened: I wrote about being on weight loss jabs.
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Enough of the weird embarrassment about the medication, already.
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"However partial it is, I’m sure this understanding of how the names were chosen will be very comforting should any of these exercises end up going a bit Able Archer 83 on us.". Some notes on NATO naming conventions.
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Another newsletter with a self-indulgent personal opening, on truth and authorship. Also this week: some notes on NATO naming conventions.
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RT @OhGodWhatNowPod: 🚌 Your hometime listening! 🚉 The commentariat talk up a Farage government, a new party of the Left (SPLITTERS!!) and w….
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"All this is all very enjoyable. What worries me is the suspicion that those running the Labour party might be laughing along.". Written one of those columns that'll get everyone mad at me at once I like to throw out there once in a while.
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In Zack Polanski and Zarah Sultana, voters might soon have other places to go.
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RT @NewStatesman: “Worry about the centre, the left have nowhere else to go” may have been a viable strategy when the left did have nowhere….
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In Zack Polanski and Zarah Sultana, voters might soon have other places to go.
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"Mr A has a problem: he struggles to cross the road without nearly getting mown down, in a surprisingly slapstick fashion.". Some notes on a forgotten British filmmaker.
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Very much enjoyed reviewing a year of Starmergeddon on last Thursday's Politics Uncensored, with Zoe Grunewald and Ali Milani.
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"One critic of the deal was recovering Conservative leadership contender James Cleverly. This is from some perspectives odd, as he did much of the work on it himself.". This week's nerd's eye view column is about the Chagos Islands.
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RT @paulpowlesland: I recently got stopped & ticketed by the City of London Police for, & I kid you not, “cycling no handed”. Even though i….
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"I don’t like it – not because measuring from a memorial to a king so unpleasant we cut his head off is bad, though I’m not wild about that either, but because to me there are too many ways in which this just feels wrong.".
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